Post Tagged with: "in class"

The Law, Justice & Culture Certificate program has 25 students who are learning about law, justice, and culture through interdisciplinary coursework. Olivia Gedeon is a second-year student majoring in Political Science–Pre-Law and Sociology-Criminology. Gedeon began to explore her interests as an undecided student in the Law, Justice, & Culture Learning Community. She got to learn […]

The master’s in Law, Justice & Culture has 19 students, both online and on campus, who are learning about law and society studies. Aliyah Cole is an Ohio University alumna from the Class of 2017. She earned a B.A., double majoring in Psychology and Sociology-Criminology, from the College of Arts […]

Ohio University alumnus Jack Frech, BSED ’72 and M.A. in Political Science ;00, who has more than 40 years of experience working in poverty programs and advocating for poor people in Southeastern Ohio, guest lectured in Dr. Stephen J. Scanlan’s Sociology of Poverty (SOC 3300) class. A long-time Athens resident, […]

Students in Dr. Nicole Kaufman‘s graduate seminar (SOC 6090) wrote op-eds on prisoner reentry and submitted them to newspapers as a course requirement. One student, Maria Funcheon ’18M, who graduated with her M.A. in Sociology in May, just had hers published by Streetvibes Cincinnati. Streetvibes is a social justice-focused paper […]

Ohio University peer leaders will take STEM workshops throughout Athens County in cooperation with the Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery, thanks to a gift from AEP Ohio. The $6,500 gift supports Ohio University’s Peer-Led Community Engagement with Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Program. The funding will help provide stipends […]

Eighteen meteorology students from Ohio University packed their bags and headed west to the Central and Southern Plains’ Tornado Alley. On the trip, students directly observed deep, moist atmospheric convection and its associated phenomena, including single-cell, multi-cell, and supercell storms, which can produce squall lines, hail, lightning, and tornadoes. The […]

WOUB interviewed Dr. Julia Paxton, Professor of Economics at Ohio University, about her Economics of Altruism course for The Kindness Podcast. “One way to be kind is with your wallet, donating to charities and people in need. But giving can get confusing in a hurry if you’re not aware of the economics […]