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On behalf of the Honorary Degree Committee, Dr. Bayyinah S. Jeffries is requesting suggestions from the university community for candidates to receive honorary degrees from Ohio University. Recognition with an Honorary Degree is understood to be a substantial honor. “Honorary Degrees are awarded annually to individuals who have achieved distinction […]

Ohio University President M. Duane Nellis conferred an OHIO Honorary Doctor of Science upon Dr. Robert P. Kirshner. Kirshner is Clowes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University and Chief Program Officer for Science at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, where he leads a team responsible for distributing more […]

Ohio University President M. Duane Nellis conferred an OHIO Honorary Doctor of Science upon Nobel Prize laureate and OHIO alumnus Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan. “A graduate of Ohio University, Venki Ramakrishnan is President of the Royal Society and Group Leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, […]

By Dr. Bayyinah S. Jeffries Chair of the Honorary Degree Committee On behalf of the Honorary Degree committee, I am requesting final suggestions for candidates to receive honorary degrees from Ohio University. Recognition with an Honorary Degree is understood to be a substantial honor. As stated on the Honorary Degree Committee […]

“On a sunny and memorable day in 1979, I stood in the post office in Manchester Center, Vermont, and unwrapped the package containing the advance copy of my first book, Old Yellowstone Days. As I stood there staring at it in wonder, I realized that with its publication I had […]