Post Tagged with: "students in the news"

He Fell in Love with the Wolves

He Fell in Love with the Wolves

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 […]

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April 22, 2014 at 11:52 amIn the News Students in the News

Physics Student Helps Jeff Lab Accelerate Toward 12 Gigaelectronvolts

Physics Student Helps Jeff Lab Accelerate Toward 12 Gigaelectronvolts

Physics & Astronomy graduate student Mongi Dlamini was helping April 1 when “the crown jewel of the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility sparkled its way into a new era,” as Science Daily described it. That day will “forever remain engraved in my mind,” Dlamini says. The accelerator’s […]

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April 15, 2014 at 2:44 pmIn the News Research Students in the News

Class of ’18: Elks Club Winner Plans to Major in Pre-Pharmacy

“The Coshocton Elks Club has named Peyton Bair and Kaitlyn Salmans as teens of the month for January and February,” reports the Coshocton Tribune. “Bair is the daughter of Preston Bair and Amie Bair Hyust. She’s involved with the swim team, National Honor Society, Key Club and art club. She […]

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February 24, 2014 at 4:51 pmIn the News Students in the News

WOUB Quote A&S Student on Facebook Gender Options

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 […]

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February 15, 2014 at 3:14 pmIn the News Students in the News

Alum, Ph.D. Student Featured in Southern Sin Anthology

Alum, Ph.D. Student Featured in Southern Sin Anthology

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 […]

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A&S Student Gets MLK Scholarship in Canton

Ohio University student Josiah James Pugh ’17, a graduate of Tuscarawas Valley High School,was awarded one of three Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. scholarships at the the 22nd annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast at the Alex D. Krassas Event Center in Canton, OH, on Jan. 16, reports the […]

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January 21, 2014 at 8:12 amIn the News Students in the News

Richard Vedder & Christopher Denhart: How the College Bubble Will Pop

Dr. Richard Vedder and Ohio University alum Christopher Denhart published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 8. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. Denhart earned a B.S. in Economics from Ohio University’s College of […]

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