Archive for April, 2018

Political Science graduate student Fatma Jabbari recently presented a paper on “The Discursive Production of Citizenship and Social Identity in Textbooks: The Case of Tunisia,” at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco April 4-7. Jabbari’s paper, connected to her thesis project on the Arab uprising in Tunisia, involved […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a Forbes column headlined “The Case Against Free College Tuition.” Two highly contradictory happenings have occurred over the past year. On the one hand, published research increasingly suggests that the high returns on investments in higher education are minimally […]

A four-year study of the state’s bobcat population for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, by Dr. Viorel Popescu, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University, was discussed at a meeting at ODNR headquarters on April 12, says a KATV story headlined “Polarizing plan would potentially allow bobcat trapping […]

  by Aissatou Boye, ’20 I am a sophomore at Ohio University, majoring in Sociology-Criminology and African American Studies, also pursuing a Certificate in Law, Justice and Culture. In early April, I visited the Career and Leadership Development Center on the fifth floor of Baker University Center. The CLDC is […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, and two students helped staff the American Society of Plant Biologists booth at the USA Science & Engineering Festival April 7-8 in Washington, D.C. The festival is the nation’s largest celebration of STEM, with more than 350,000 attendees. At the ASPB […]

Note: This course has been canceled. Are you a home brewer? Ohio University is offering a Brewing Science Short Course, July 9-13, that leads up to the start of Ohio Brew Week. Register online. Amateur beer enthusiasts will get a working knowledge of the brewing science fundamentals, practical brewing experiences, […]

Dr. Susan Burgess, Professor of Political Science, was among three people interviewed by WOUB’s Spectrum on “what it really means to be a ‘Progressive Democrat’ in 2018. We hear from Dennis Kucinich who labels himself a progressive after a long and controversial life in politics. He was a young mayor […]