Archive for December, 2018

Regina Yoong, a Ph.D. student in Literature, published one of her recent poems, a piece titled “Citrus Reticulata 橘子.” The poem closely examines the image of a mandarin orange alongside the speaker’s recollections of her father. Yoong writes near the end of the poem: Unteach me the ways of peeling, […]

by Kristin Distel Ten Ohio University students from Anthropology, Environmental & Plant Biology, and Biological Sciences interned with the Wayne National Forest in summer 2018, marking trails, searching for rare species and habitats, and helping the forest staff prepare for upcoming projects. The partnership between Ohio University’s College of Arts […]

By Aissatou Boye ’20 In early November, Julie Conrad ’04 visited campus for the Sociology Alumni Speaker Series. Conrad currently works as an Operational Risk Advisor for Alliance Data and has experience working with non-violent convicted felons and risk management in different departments. Conrad graduated from Ohio University in 2004 […]

In April Wes Gilkey ’17, ’18M began working as a graduate intern with the Hocking County Sheriff’s Office as a data administrator for the Hocking Overdose Partnership Endeavor, also known as Project HOPE. The HOPE team consists of experts and community leaders from around Hocking County, including representatives from Jobs […]

Dr. Joseph Johnson and a team of researchers from universities, state agencies, and non-governmental organizations in the eastern United States have been awarded a federal grant to expand the Motus Wildlife Tracking System throughout the region. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. Johnson’s lab will be […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a column in Forbes headlined “The Academic Leisure Class: The Underutilization Of College Resources.” Nearly 120 years ago the eccentric sociologist/economist Thorstein Veblen wrote his Theory of the Leisure Class.  A strong case can be made that today, higher education […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in a story in the Texas Monitor headlined “Small private colleges are shrinking and struggling.” Some university finance experts say those cutbacks are indicators of problems endangering small colleges around the country. “You can argue that there has […]