Archive for May, 2018

From Compass Three College of Arts & Sciences faculty have been named members of the OHIO Challenging Dialogues for Contemporary Issues Task Force, announced by Ohio University President M. Duane Nellis on April 30. The Task Force has been charged with assessing national and world issues sparking civil discourse and working […]

Dr. Sarah Poggione, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science, offered her view of the Ohio Democratic gubernatorial race on NPR radio’s Morning Edition, saying the difference between Richard Cordray and Dennis Kucinich is more about style. The report cited a number of Ohio Democratic insiders who fear the race could […]

Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, wrote an article headlined “Astronomy: Scientists still have a lot to learn about nature” in the May 6 Columbus Dispatch. If I were a new college student, I might be tempted to say that all of physics is understood. This is often […]

Inside Sources quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a May 4 story finance headlined “Economy Adds 164K New Jobs While Unemployment Dips.” The job growth rate bounced back somewhat following a lackluster month by reaching 164,000 new jobs in April, detailed a federal report Friday…. […]

Camp BOOST 2018, a three-week summer camp at Ohio University, is looking for rising first- through seventh-grade students. The camp, which runs Monday-Friday, July 23 to Aug. 10, helps students get a jump start on the school year while providing a fun, social, and recreational environment. “We are looking for all children between the […]

Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor in the History Department, is one of five Spring 2018 awardees of the John C. Baker Fund award. Sarr received $12,000 to support research on his second book project, titled “Liberated Africans (Creoles) of West Africa: The Forster Family of Bathurst (Gambia) and its Diaspora […]

Anna Turner at Outlet on WOUB Digital quotes Dr. Edmond Chang, Assistant Professor of English, in a story headlined “Queer Representation in Video Games.” According to Chang, another one of the reasons queer representation is lacking in gaming is because the structure of the games themselves doesn’t leave much room […]