Archive for May, 2014

By Stephanie Dutchen From Perspectives Peer through a telescope and you’ll see a night sky filled with galaxies, gas and dust clouds, planets, pulsars, black holes, and ever more beautiful and strange objects. But this cosmic light show only reveals part of the picture. When you add the masses of […]

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 […]

Gerald Goodwin has been awarded the Baker Peace Fellowship for 2013-14. He is completing his dissertation that focuses on the experiences of African Americans in the military during the Vietnam era (1965-1973) and more specifically the ways in which issues deriving from “race” shaped that experience. His research looks at […]

Classics & World Religion faculty are offering summer courses in Session I and Session II. Many fulfill general education and A&S requirements. Summer Session I New Testament: Four week course, May 12-June 4. Fills Tier 2HL requirement. (CLWR 3320 #6081 New Testament 3 hrs, M, Tu, W, Th 2:00 – […]

“I felt empowered by the first break into the ground. It really felt like I was uncovering the past through my efforts,” says Megan Norris ’14, who spent a month on a dig in Israel in summer 2013. “Every part of the work during the dig felt magical. It was […]