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WOUB quotes College of Arts & Sciences Student Jesper Becholt in a story on Facebook gender options. Becholt is majoring in English and Women’s and Gender Studies. For the last five years of its existence, Facebook has only allowed users to identify as either “male” or “female.” Now, after working […]

Ohio University alum Gary Little ’05MPA is Executive Director of the Tuscarawas County Community Improvement Corporation. Little earned a Master in Public Administration from the College of Arts & Sciences. The Ohio Amish Country Bargain Hunter interviewed him about his roll as overseer of the Tolloty Technology Incubator in New […]

Ohio University alum Ning Zhou ’05M, ’10PhD will receive a 2014 “new investigators award from the American Auditory Society for her research with cochlear implants,” reports East Carolinian reporter Edward Boseman. Zhou, now a faculty member with the department of Health Communication and Science at East Carolina University, earned an […]

The Daily Register reports that Dr. Ronald Stephens, Associate Professor of African American Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, was the guest speaker at the Paint Creek Regular Baptist Church in Gallipolis on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Stephens, an associate professor of African American Studies at Ohio University, […]

The Dayton Daily News reports that an Ohio University alum who studied Journalism and Political Science “is seeing his name added to a law firm’s name.” Law firm Gordon & Rees is adding Southern California partner Michael “Miles” Scully to the firm’s name. Scully was born and raised in Dayton’s […]

WOUB quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, in a story following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union pitch for a nearly 40 percent increase to the national minimum wage. “Economist of all stripes […]

Two writers connected with the Ph.D. program in Creative Writing at Ohio University have published essays in the new anthology, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South & Women Behaving Badly, recently released by In Fact Books.  Author Dorothy Allison writes in her introduction, “The most dangerous stories are […]