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The College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office took third place in the Ohio University Culinary Services’ eighth annual Gingerbread House Decorating Contest in December. It was the college’s third consecutive showing in the top 3. With a theme of “75 Christmases in Oz,” the Arts & Sciences cake featured […]

By Gretchen Gregory From Compass A unique new course is enabling Ohio University students to become philanthropists in a venture designed to teach them ways to effectively contribute to their communities. The Economics of Altruism class, taught by OHIO Associate Professor Dr. Julia Paxton, has partnered with Warren and Doris […]

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of Middle East history at Ohio University, is co-editor of Jadaliyya, which was recently featured in a Chronicle of Higher Education article. Established a few months before the Arab uprisings began, Jadaliyya (the Arabic word for “dialectic”) has become a reference for many professors in […]

 By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy “This experience opened my eyes on the seeing the importance of collaboration between different disciplines.” – Chris Johnson Christopher Johnson, a doctoral student in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and member of the Quantitative Biology Institute at Ohio University, joined doctoral student Daniel […]

By Hailee Tavoian From Compass This spring, the College of Arts & Sciences received a significant gift that will further enhance extra-curricular programming in the Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology program. The alumnus responsible for the gift is no stranger to the field. William C. Byham, 1958 and 1960 graduate of the […]

Four Ohio University entities collaborated to host Ohio University’s D.C. Policy Forum on Nov. 13 in Washington, D.C. The College of Arts & Sciences, the Scripps College of Communication, the Ohio University Alumni Association and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs planned the event, which was held in […]

After more than a year of preparation, Ohio University’s Team Gravitron plants-and-gravity experiment launches for the International Space Station this week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. As the Falcon blasts off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, the Ground Control Team at Ohio University in Athens, […]