Archive for September, 2018

Students from the 2018 Food in Sicily study away spent almost three weeks studying the connection between food and culture on the Mediterranean’s largest island. They perfected pasta-making skills, took turns stirring vats of whey for ricotta and wove braids of mozzarella. They ate their share and then some of […]

Dr. Peter Harrington, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, will present live during the second annual Science of Cannabis Online Symposium on Sept. 27. Harrington will discuss “Chemotyping Cannabis by Spectral Fingerprinting.” “The Science of Cannabis 2018 will bring together expert speakers from established testing companies, academia and, […]

 As the new OHIO Honors Program welcomes its first cohort of students to campus this fall, program administrators are reaching out to ask faculty across the university to contribute to the success of the program by building on their existing courses to develop challenging curricular experiences for Ohio University […]

The American School & University magazine posted an article quoting Dr. Stephen Bergmeier and headlined “Ohio University breaks ground on new Chemistry building” from the Athens News. The Athens News reports that the 69,000-square-foot, three-story classroom facility is being constructed in a former parking lot on the Athens campus. The architects, […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in two stories about higher education affordability. He was quoted in Business Insider for a story about some colleges offering a price-match guarantee headlined “To compete for top students, colleges have borrowed a tactic retailers have been using […]

Dr. Robin Muhammad, Associate Professor and Chair of African American Studies, talked to the Post about “How the Department of African-American Studies plans to celebrate its 50th anniversary.” For the 50th anniversary, she wants the department to continue to do “what it has always done.” She wants to hold film screenings, […]

Derek J. G. Williams, a doctoral student in Creative Writing (poetry), recently published several poems and a book review. Williams’s poem, “Keeping Time,” was published in a recent issue of Pleiades magazine and is available on his website. His poems, “Reinventing Hunger” and “Desert Garden,” appear in the latest issue […]