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Ohio University alum Dr. Muhammad Ajmal Khan, a renowned botanist, passed away in May 2019 in Pakistan at the age of 67, according to a Dunya News report. He was the University of Karachi’s vice chancellor. Khan earned a Ph.D. in Botany from the College of Arts & Sciences in […]

Ohio University alum the Rev. Ben Johnson ’97 wrote an op-ed headlined in Eurasia Review headlined “Unitarian Leftist: Socialism Is Not Ethically Superior To Capitalism.” Socialism has made a resurgence in this generation, not least because of its deceptive moral appeal. Secular Millennials join liberal priests, pastors, and rabbis in saying […]

WOUB Digital’s Spectrum interviewed Nobel Prize laureate and Ohio University alumnus Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan in a story headlined “Royal Society President Explains Ribosomes & Charts His Career for Podcast.” Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan, a molecular biologist, is president of the Royal Society in Great Britain, the same organization formerly headed by Sir […]

Ohio University alum Scott Owens ’84 was featured in a Hickory Daily Record story by Mary Canrobert headlined “Like poetry, shop soothes, nourishes and inspires.” He earned an A.B. in English from the Honors Tutorial College at OHIO. Had I been gifted with the skills of a poet, I’d write […]

The Roanoke Times profiles Ohio University alum Carleton Young ’80M in a story headlined “Brothers’ letters from Brandy Station reveal new Civil War insights.” Young earned an M.A. in History from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. In a new book Voices from the Attic: The Williamstown Boys […]

The Washington Post reports on Ohio University alum Stanley Plumly in an obituary headlined “Stanley Plumly, Md. poet laureate who wrote of nature and memory, dies at 79.” Mr. Plumly said his twin obsessions during his youth were basketball and reading. He graduated in 1961 from Wilmington College in Ohio, […]

Ohio University alum Frederick J. Wiecher passed away on April 15, reports the Richland Source. Wiecher earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of Arts & Sciences at OHIO in 1964. Fred was born in Osceola, Arkansas. The family moved throughout the Midwest and Fred was a 1960 graduate of […]