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The Wealth and Poverty theme is sponsoring two field trips in March to help OHIO students and faculty members “get to know their community better.”  The first one is to visit African immigrant communities in Columbus on Saturday, March 18, while the second one is to see mining towns in […]

Rachel Terman, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University, presents “Class Identity, Experiences, and Intersections among Young College-educated People in West Virginia” at the 40th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference later this month in Blacksburg, Virginia. Terman’s areas of specialization include rural sociology, Appalachian […]

Emily (Mowry) Lanzer ’95, ’96M has been a police officer for the City of Worthington, a suburb of Columbus, for the last 19 years. She has been a detective for eight of those years, alternating between the Detective Bureau and the Patrol Bureau. After graduating with her B.A. in Sociology-Criminology […]

Lauren (Szejk) McAndrews ’86 is Vice President Environmental Affairs and Sustainability and Assistant General Counsel at Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, a large specialty materials manufacturer. In this role she is responsible for environmental compliance of all their operations around the globe and for implementing the company’s inaugural sustainability program, which addresses […]

  Interested in the criminal justice system? An online Summer course asks students to decide Supreme Court cases and explore the criminal justice system. SOC 2600: Criminal Justice Class Number 3426 May 8 through June 24, 2017 Instructor: Rebecca Collins Students in the course will: Learn the history of criminal […]

The Psychology Colloquium series presents Dr. Sarah Gaither on “Diverse Perspectives: Contexts and Social Identities” on Friday, March 17, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 102. Gaither is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. Prior to starting at Duke, she was a Provost’s […]

After graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University with a B.A. in Anthropology, with a minor in Philosophy and a certificate in War and Peace, Ron Hedrick ’12 ’15M decided to take a year off to travel/backpack before returning to Athens to earn an M.A. in […]