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By Alisa Warren From the Honors Tutorial College Being an international student for the majority of her educational career, Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, emphasizes promoting an appreciation and understanding for diversity in her classrooms. Musaraj is serving her first year as Director of Studies for the Honors […]

By Katarina Hanifan ’20 This past summer, Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, traveled to Tirana and Vlora, Albania for two months for an Ethnographic Research Project: Construction, Speculation and the Mediterranean Dream. This project was funded by the Ohio University Research Committee. Musaraj presented her findings from this […]

Dr. Paul E. Patton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, presented a program about archaeological excavations in Athens County for the OhioHealth O’Bleness SeniorBEAT history group in October. Patton is director of the OHIO Archaeological Field School. Since its founding in 1986, the Field School in Ohio Archaeology has excavated over a […]

Samantha Gogol ’16, Anthropology senior, co-presented a poster with Dr. Sabrina Curran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, at the Paleoecology Symposium Research Workshop held at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in September. Gogol’s poster, “Paleocommunity Analysis of Four Eurasian Pleistocene Sites” presented results demonstrating that modern communities […]

The Ohio University Mock Trial Team competes in the regional American Mock Trial Association contest at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pennsylvania on Feb. 26-28. The Ohio University Mock Trial Team is a new interdisciplinary student organization made up of 19 students interested in law and the legal system. Prospective […]

Ohio University alum Josh McConaughy ’06, Associate Director of Midwest Region for the Archaeological Conservancy, gave a feature presentation on “The Archaeological Conservancy in the Midwest” for Archaeology Month in October at the Athens County Historical Society & Museum. He says his job at the conservancy was a “lucky break” […]

By Cameron Fortin ’16 On a brisk autumn morning, Ohio University students, staff, faculty, and supporters enthusiastically met at the research gardens on West State Street to harvest a plant viewed by most Ohioans as a weed. It fed Ohio Valley residents more than 3,000 years ago, and it has […]