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‘Let’s Stop Apologizing for Being English Majors’

Jarod Anderson

By Jarod Anderson Operations Manager at Columbus State Community College Foundation If I had a nickel for every time I heard English Literature mentioned as one of the least practical majors on news programs, I’d have… well, I don’t know what I’d have. I was an English major. Math really […]

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November 14, 2014 at 10:15 amNews

Math and Political Science Alumni Named to Foundation Board

Janes E. Jones

From Compass Two College of Arts & Sciences alumni are among the new members named to the Ohio University Foundation Board of Trustees. Janis E. Jones ’79 of Westerville, Ohio, earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the College of Arts and Sciences in 1979. From 1993 to 2013 Jones […]

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November 13, 2014 at 10:18 amAlumni News

Kanawha Project on Climate Change Literacy Seeks 15 Faculty Participants

Kanawha Project on Climate Change Literacy Seeks 15 Faculty Participants

University College and the Environmental Studies Program are recruiting 15 faculty and five undergraduate scholars to participate in the Kanawha Project during the 2014-15 academic year. The goal of the project—Advancing Carbon Neutrality: Using the Kanawha Model to Facilitate Climate Change Literacy—is to build climate change literacy to enhance the […]

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November 12, 2014 at 3:31 pmAnnouncements News

Holcomb Awarded Grant to Teach in Summer at University of Colorado, Boulder

Gary Holcomb

Dr. Gary Holcomb, Professor of African American Literature, has been awarded a FIRST (Faculty-In-Residence-Summer-Term) grant by the University of Colorado, Boulder. The University of Colorado’s FIRST is an exclusive program for summer session where some of the best and brightest faculty come to CU from national and international universities such […]

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November 12, 2014 at 12:36 pmNews

OPIE Welcomes New Students from Mexico

OPIE Welcomes New Students from Mexico

By Tanya Dovbnya Ohio Program of Intensive English and A&S International Academic Adviser OPIE Welcomes New Students OPIE welcomes and hosts 28 students from Mexico who come to Ohio University as participants of the Proyecta 100,000 program. It is a student mobility program that aims for academic and cultural exchange between the […]

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November 12, 2014 at 10:11 amNews

Eric Letourneaux Sworn in as a U.S. Citizen

Eric Letourneaux Sworn in as a U.S. Citizen

Eric Letourneaux, Lecturer and Listening & Speaking Skill Coordinator in the Ohio Program of Intensive English, was sworn in as a U.S. citizen on Nov. 8 at the Columbus International Festival, reports the Columbus Dispatch. Eric Letourneaux, 42, came to this country from France to attend graduate school — and […]

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November 11, 2014 at 2:07 pmFaculty in the News In the News News

Storm Chasing Experience Open to Meteorology Students

Storm Chasing Experience Open to Meteorology Students

Open to juniors, seniors and graduate students who are majoring or minoring in meteorology, a real-life Storm Chasing Experience takes place May 5-12 in the Central Plains. After completing coursework on supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes or mesoscale meteorology, students will spend one week traveling around Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas where they […]

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November 11, 2014 at 1:00 pmNews