Archive for August, 2019

Ohio University alumni will meet with freshman biology and chemistry students during STEMstart on Aug. 21. STEMstart is a quick start program designed to help science students transition from high school into college-level biology, chemistry and math courses. Students come to Ohio University a week before fall classes. get immersed […]

Ohio University’s Pi Rho/Tau of Ohio Chapter of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society has been named an “Honor Chapter” for its outstanding activities in 2018-19. This is the second consecutive year that Ohio University has received this Sigma Delta Pi award, which was bestowed to only 16 chapters nationwide […]

  Dr. Lowell Eugene Gallaway, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, died on Aug. 13, at age 89. Following service in the U.S. Navy, Gallaway earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Ohio State University and began his academic career at Colorado State University. In 1958, his first academic […]

NASA announced on Aug. 7 that Dr. Sarah Wyatt received an award for plant biology studies, with another spaceflight to the International Space Station in her lab’s future as the United States prepares for  missions to the Moon and Mars. Wyatt’s was one of 15 grants “for new space biology […]

Ohio University alumna Ruth Yenling Ting ’80M made a generous one-time donation to support the Linguistics Department discretionary fund. She remembered that when she was at OHIO, someone donated a large amount of money to help students from Taiwan, and she wanted to return the favor, allowing the Linguistics Department […]

Dr. Jana Houser earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Geography, effective August 2019. Houser has made quite a name for herself with her research on tornado genesis. She won an NSF grant last year, and this academic year saw her research being headlined in The Washington Post and […]

Dr. Donald Miles, Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University, was extensively quoted in a Behemian article headlined “Lizard Vision : Groundbreaking lizard extinction research could predict the wrath of climate change—and what to do about it.” …Sinervo’s frequent research collaborator Donald Miles, a fellow lizard expert and professor at […]