Post Tagged with: "alumni in the news"

Award-Winning Poet Roy Bentley reads from Starlight Taxi on Oct. 31, at 7 p.m., at the Athens Public Library. Roy Bentley ’79, ’81MA has won 11 major awards for his poetry over the past 27 years of his career as a professional poet. Now he has a new cycle of […]

Timothy Schmitt, an Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences alum who majored in Geography, was named among 10 young professionals expected to contribute to in Lansing, Mich., over the next 10 years. Schmitt is a community development analyst for the City of East Lansing. He graduated from Ohio University with […]

The Athens Messenger interviewed College of Arts & Sciences alum Ed Newman ’81, ’03M for its series on “Putting Down Roots,” students who came and decided to stay in Athens. Newman “currently serves on the board of the nonprofit Athens County Recycling Centers Inc., is on the Athens Environment and […]

Adam Wroblewski ’11M joins Centron as a Copywriter, the company announced. He earned an M.A. in English Literature from Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, where he also taught writing, literature, and film. “Centron is having a great year in 2013. As our operations continue to grow, we are […]

From Compass On Aug. 7, Ohio University alumna Kat Wargo ’03 and ’04  took on the newly created position of program outreach coordinator for the Ohio University Survivor Advocacy Program (OUSAP) for Meigs and Perry counties, which is funded by a grant from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office as part […]

Congrats to Creative Writing alum David Armstrong ’02, ’11M, whose first book, a story collection called Going Anywhere, won the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest and will be published in fall of 2014. He just started “seriously writing short stories” about two years ago, and in the last six months he’s […]

Did you know that North America was part of an ancient continent called Laurentia that sat near the equator and had a tropical climate? Or that the forerunner to the Appalachian Mountains—called the Taconic Mountains—were forced up about 450 million years ago through tectonic plate movement? As the Taconic Mountains […]