Archive for October, 2017

Career Corner | Valuable Upcoming Job and Internship Opportunities

Are you looking for an internship in the field of the U.S. foreign policy? Here is an opportunity for summer 2018! Student Internship Program (Unpaid) U.S. Department of State Overseas and Domestic Roles “The U.S. Department of State Student Internship is an unpaid, intensive internship offering U.S. citizen undergraduate and […]

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October 17, 2017 at 10:35 amAnnouncements

Geography Student Gets Career Coaching, Lands McDonald’s Internship

Geography Student Gets Career Coaching, Lands McDonald’s Internship

Geography student Zach Hadley ’19 landed a summer internship in real estate and development with McDonald’s, thanks to some career coaching and resume help from Kacey Schaum. Schaum provides individualized career coaching to College of Arts & Sciences students through the Career and Leadership Development Center. “I came in to […]

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October 17, 2017 at 9:56 amIn Class News

Senior Learns about Community Corrections during Summer Internship

Mackenzie Bibler

Mackenzie Bibler ’18 is a senior studying Sociology-Criminology with a minor in Psychology. She spent Summer 2017 interning at the Adult Parole Authority in her hometown – Athens, Ohio. She shadowed probation officers and support staff two days a week by sitting in on office visits with offenders, attending court […]

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October 17, 2017 at 9:49 amNews

Jellison Named Top Faculty Newsmaker, 14 A&S Faculty Recognized

President M. Duane Nellis and Chief Marketing Officer Renea Morris pose for a photo with this year’s top OHIO faculty newsmakers, Dr. Katherine Jellison, who was featured in 1,031 media reports in calendar year 2016.

From Compass Photos by Ben Siegel Quoted in media around the world during and after the presidential election, Dr. Katherine Jellison was named Ohio University’s top faculty newsmaker of 2016. A professor of history, chair of the Department of History and a three-time Keystroke Catalyst Award winner, Jellison is a […]

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October 17, 2017 at 9:11 amNews

Sociology-Criminology Senior Interns In Court of Common Pleas

Arianna Spalding

Arianna Spalding’17 worked as an intern for the Athens County Court of Common Pleas during the 2016-17 summer session. As a graduating senior with a Sociology-Criminology major and Certificate in Law, Justice and Culture, she was looking for an internship that would give her exposure to the criminal justice system […]

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October 17, 2017 at 8:26 amNews

Moore Talks about Science and Religion with D.C. Media

Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore, Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ohio University, was a featured speaker this past weekend at an event titled “Science & Religion—Exploring the Harmonies: A Media Perspective with Writers and Editors from The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard.”  The event, held at the headquarters of the […]

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October 17, 2017 at 7:25 amFaculty in the News In the News News

Astrophysicist Chornock Contributes to Discovery of Neutron Star Merger

The image sequence above shows infrared imaging from the FLAMINGOS-2 imager and spectrograph for a period of over two weeks. The top row features images in the h-band, a shorter (bluer) wavelength of infrared light. The bottom row focuses mostly on k-band images, which are longer (redder) wavelengths of light. This sequence reveals how the object became redder as it faded from view.
Credit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA/Edo Berger (Harvard), Peter Blanchard (Harvard), Ryan Chornock (Ohio University), Leo Singer (NASA), Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech), Ryan Lau (Caltech) and the GROWTH collaboration, Travis Rector (University of Alaska), Jennifer Miller (Gemini Observatory)

Ohio University astrophysicist Dr. Ryan Chornock is part of a large international team of scientists, called the Dark Energy Survey Team, that reported a major new discovery about the cosmos on Oct. 16. “This is the story of a gold rush in the sky,” said the New York Times news […]

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October 16, 2017 at 3:43 pmNews Research