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English Alum Heads to Bogotá on Fulbright Scholarship

Grace Pauley at the at El Cajas National Park outside Cuenca, Ecuador

Ohio University alum Grace Pauley ’16 has earned a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to support her upcoming 10-month research project in Bogotá, Colombia. Pauley, who majored in English and minored in Spanish, finds that the combination of these majors has prepared her for an international research experience. She also has […]

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June 15, 2016 at 9:47 amAlumni News

Alum Talks about his Second Novel, ‘The Salted Air’

Thom Conroy

Manawatu Standard reporter Carly Thomas interviewed Ohio University alum Thom Conroy ’02Ph.D. about his newly released second novel, The Salted Air. Conroy is a senior lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand. He earned a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Being a […]

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June 5, 2016 at 11:39 amAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Two Alumni Discuss Their Young Adult Books at Athens Library, May 7

Two Alumni Discuss Their Young Adult Books at Athens Library, May 7

Meet the Authors features two Ohio University alumni—Cori McCarthy ’05 and Kurt Dinan ’93—at the Athens Public Library on Saturday, May 7,  from 3 to 4 p.m. The young adult writers will talk about and read from their recently released books, McCarthy’s You Were Here and Dinan’s Don’t Get Caught. Books will […]

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May 5, 2016 at 8:52 amEvents

Two Creative Writing Alums Get Ohio Arts Council Excellence Awards

Alison Stine

Two Ohio University alums received Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council for state fiscal year 2016. “Seventy-five (75) $5,000 Individual Excellence Awards were approved totaling $375,000. There were 392 applications received for a total request of $1,960,000,” according to the Ohio Arts Council announcement. “Individual Excellence Awards are […]

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May 4, 2016 at 8:37 amAlumni News

Alum Selected Chief Managing Editor of Cleveland State Law Review

Alum Selected Chief Managing Editor of Cleveland State Law Review

Kerry Barrett ’14 was recently selected to be the Chief Managing Editor of the Cleveland State Law Review for the 2016-17 editorial year. She also recently accepted a summer associate position at the firm of Jones Day at its Cleveland office. After graduating from the College of Arts & Sciences […]

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April 7, 2016 at 11:47 amAlumni

Authors@Alden | English Alum Poet Stanley Plumly, Feb. 2

Stanley Plumly

Ohio University alumnus Dr. Stanley Plumly reads from his latest work, “The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb,” on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in the 1951 Lounge on the fourth floor of Alden Library,   Plumly is Maryland’s award-winning poet laureate and distinguished university professor at the University […]

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February 1, 2016 at 11:45 pmEvents

Reading by English Alum, Athens Poet Laureate Alison Stine, March 3

Alison Stine

The community is invited to meet Athens’ new Poet Laureate, Ohio University alum Alison Stine, and view the Dairy Barn Arts Center’s 2016 OH+5 Exhibition on Thursday March 3, from 5-8 p.m. Admission is free, with a cash bar and hors d’oeuvres. At meet and greet with Stine is at 6:30 […]

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February 1, 2016 at 3:45 pmEvents