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“Tylisha Allen, 2014 Asbury Park (NJ) High School valedictorian, has received the Daley Cutler Scholar Award, a four-year undergraduate scholarship to Ohio University,” reports the Asbury Park Press. Allen will study in the College of Arts & Sciences Psychology program. “Allen is an active community volunteer, having served as peer […]

Dr. Steve Miner, Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, was interviewed by Canada’s CTV News Today on April 21 as Vice President Joe Biden was in Kiev for the highest-level visit yet from a U.S. official since the start of the crisis in […]

Dr. Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing: Fiction and Ohio University alum, will receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth College’s commencement in June, reports the Valley News (NH). Dartmouth Now further reports that Mda, a novelist, poet, playwright and professor, will receive a Doctor of Arts. Mda is also an […]

Ohio University alum Donald Heymann ’74 has started a new series on successful business writing, reports PR-Canada.net. Heymann majored in English in the College of Arts & Sciences. Don Heymann Considers Housewives to Wall Street Donald L. Heymann, well known business writer and Adjunct Instructor of Writing at NYU, has […]

While some scholars study the science of structure and organization, Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak is a tear-down-the-walls sort of scholar. She grew up in Poland “behind the Wall,” but as a leading author on transnational feminism, she writes about immigration, borders, and rage in what she calls “noborders scholarship.” In an […]

High in the Rocky Mountains, John Buffington ’15 fell in love with the wolves. Now the Wildlife and Conservation Biology major is sharing his passion through a comic book that he wrote and illustrated called Keyni—The First Walk. “So back in July, while I was interning at the Colorado Wolf […]

Skull Structures of 325-million-year-old Shark Fossil Show Living Sharks are Evolutionarily Advanced The skull of a newly discovered 325-million-year-old shark-like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates—including humans—than do modern sharks, as was previously thought. The new […]