Archive for March, 2014

Allison Durkee ’13 has already been to the top of the world. At least that’s what the wooden signpost said. “Top of the World Store and Hotel … supplies and gas.” Somewhere in the northern Rockies. But there was no hotel for Durkee and the other students in the geology […]

Ohio University alum Cara Dingus Brook was the keynote speaker at the annual Women’s Conference at Ohio University Southern. Brook is a Lawrence County native and current President and CEO of the Foundation for Appalachia Ohio. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 2002 and a Master of Public Administration degree […]

A letter to the editor in the Athens News proclaimed Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival scored a major coup with writer. “I am truly impressed. The Spring Literary Festival at Ohio University has somehow managed to persuade one of my favorite writers to come to Athens. Rebecca Solnit will be […]

TVNewsCheck reported March 28 that Hearst Television-owned NBC affiliate WGAL Lancaster, PA (DMA 43), has added Meteorologist Ethan Huston to its News 8 Storm Team. Huston is an Ohio University alum with a Minor on Meteorology from the Department of Geography. Huston’s regular schedule has him appearing weekends on WGAL’s 6, 10 […]

Mary “Cassie” Norton ’14, a triple major in English, History and World Religions, is Ohio University’s first member of Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology. Ohio University’s Alpha Lambda Tau chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa was established in February. “Having a Theta Alpha Kappa chapter […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Maxim Pospelov of the University of Waterlooon “Constraining the Dark Sector with BBN and CMB physics” on Friday, March 28, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: Historic examples show that explorations of the “missing mass” and the “origin of mass” problems have led […]

Dr. Daniel Phillips, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, was honored as one of the 2014 Outstanding Referees by the American Physical Society. “Congratulations to Daniel. This is a great acknowledgement for your service to the profession by the editors of Physical Review and Physical Review Letters,” said Dr. David Ingram, […]