Archive for February, 2017

Rachel B. Glaser is the author of the books Paulina & Fran (a novel), Pee on Water (short stories), and MOODS (poetry). Glaser, who won the McSweeney’s Amanda Davis Fiction Award in 2013, has been anthologized in 30 Under 30 and New American Stories. Also a visual artist, she studied painting […]

By Megan Reed A chemical engineering professor in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology has received a nearly $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund research that could potentially help mitigate serious diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Dr. Douglas Goetz will […]

University Program Council is a volunteer organization of students who work to bring innovative programs to Ohio University and the surrounding community. “We strive to bring fun, exciting, and entertain programs and events for all members of OHIO. Our events have ranged from our weekly Flavor of the Week to […]

Jenny (Hartzog) Shank ‘12 is the Credit Manager for Milo’s Whole World Gourmet (Vino de Milo and JBs Best). Milo’s is a local business that has been running out of the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet) for nearly 14 years and is planning its own facility in the near […]

Ohio University honored 75 faculty, staff and student inventors for work in areas ranging from wound healing to superconductors during an awards ceremony Feb. 8. The Inventors Dinner recognized individuals who had received a patent, filed for a patent or disclosed a new invention through the university’s Technology Transfer Office, […]

College of Arts & Sciences students took first and second place in the Three Minute Thesis Competition on Feb. 15. The 1st place award of $300 went to Ian Armstrong, a doctoral student in Chemistry & Biochemistry. His talk was on “Constructing new molecular ‘keys’ in the search of treatments […]

by Harlee Rozell ’17 Last summer Dr. Sabrina Curran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, traveled to Romania to continue her research involving the geographical movement of the Homo erectus species, an ancestor of modern humans, during the early Pleistocene. Her interest in this project began in 2008, when she first traveled to […]