Alumni

The Wealth and Poverty theme at Ohio University presents alum Jennifer Simon on “Finding Pathways Out of Poverty for the Isolated Appalachian” on Thursday, Sept. 27, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Alden 319. Watch live or later on A&S TV. Simon is one of six speakers during “Action on Inequality […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Brent Park, of National Nuclear Security Administration,  on “Science Behind Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security” on Friday, Sept. 28, at 4:10 p.m. in Clippinger Labs 194. Connect with Park on LinkedIn. Park earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 1991 from the College of […]

Generations of geology students at Ohio University have studied the Ames Limestone, the most fossiliferous rock layer in the Athens area, for class field trips and projects. This unit preserves skeletal remains of marine animals—corals, snails, brachiopods, trilobites, sharks— that inhabited a shallow sea that covered Athens about 300 million […]

Snails may be physically rather slow, but the six new species identified by Ohio University researchers put on plenty of evolutionary speed when they had to. Ohio University paleontologists analyzing snail fossils from 24 to 26 million years ago have identified six new species—and published the first documentation of rapid […]

Dr. Daniel Hembree, Professor of Geological Sciences, and former graduate student Jennifer Carnes M.S. ’17 recently published “Response of soils and soil ecosystems to the Pennsylvanian–Permian climate transition in the upper fluvial plain of the Dunkard Basin, southeastern Ohio, USA” in the open access journal Geosciences. In this study, Hembree […]

The Contemporary History Institute congratulates its 2017-18 graduates who earned the graduate Contemporary History Certificate. Ph.D. Graduates Four students earned their doctorates in history and journalism and mass communication. Brad Eidahl, Ph.D. in History (December 2017). Eidahl wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Patrick Barr-Melej, Professor of History, […]

  Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Check out the awesome ways some of Food and Society Certificate recipients are biting into the food system, in Athens, in Columbus, in Washington, New […]