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“Stop subsidizing colleges’ 100-year debt binge,” says the headline on Dr. Richard Vedder’s Oct. 30 column from Bloomberg. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences. The Barack Obama administration and Congress purport to […]

The South African blog I Love Books reviewed Dr. Zakes Mda’s book The Sculptors of Mapungubwe on Oct. 15. Mda is a Professor in Ohio University’s Creative Writing: Fiction program in the College of Arts & Sciences Department of English. The narrative centres on the timeless kingdom of Mapungubwe where […]

The Leap Motion bloggers gave a shout out to the new language learning lab in Gordy Hall, dubbed the holodeck. At Ohio University’s Athens campus, there’s a room where students can travel virtually anywhere on Earth. Popularly known as the “Holodeck,” it uses projectors, Google Earth, and the Leap Motion […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences. co-authored with Ken Blackwell a column on “Cincinnati Must Face the Crisis that Sealed Detroit’s Fate” Nov. 1 at Townhall.com. Cincinnati and Detroit are separated by barely more than 250 miles – a five-hour drive […]

The News-Gazette of East Central Illinois reports that Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences alum Dr. Tara Riddle ’11PhD joined the staff at Carle. The Carle Foundation Hospital is in Urbana, IL. “Riddle, who joined the neuropsychology department, earned a doctorate in clinic psychology at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. […]

“At one point in his career, Howard Dewald utilized chaos theory — a complex mathematical principle in which a small change at the beginning of an event could drastically change the outcome,” writes Will Drabold in the Post. “You might claim his new job is just as unpredictable. Dewald, Ohio […]

“The Ohio University Department of Physics and Astronomy 2013 Open House has a packed line-up filled with speakers, activities and events that faculty and staff say are sure to impress,” Post reporter Bianca Hillier reports. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 19, […]