In Class

By Mary Vandeman and Dr. Edna Lima There is no such thing as one-size-fits-all in education. This is why the English Language Improvement Program at OHIO believes in the power of hybrid learning – to offer more than the traditional classroom experience typically provides. “What I love about hybrid learning, […]

Ohio University’s Society of Physics Students recently hosted the 8th annual SPS Research Conference at OHIO’s Athens campus. Eleven undergraduate students presented an overview of their projects undertaken during the previous summer. The topics ranged in scale from supernovae to solar thermal application of electrospinning fibers. The presentations were reviewed […]

By Mercedes Lewis ’19 Sociology and English Creative Writing double major I recently interviewed a Sociology-Criminology major about his post-graduate internship this past fall. Zachary Walden graduated in December 2016 and headed to an internship at the Athens Adult Parole Authority office, where he learned about the day to life […]

by Kristin M. Distel “It’s nice to be well-informed and knowledgeable, but students should explore other options through internships and nonprofits. I’m so glad I did,” says junior Jake McClelland, who worked as a policy intern for Sarah Grace’s state representative campaign during the 2016 election cycle. McClelland notes that […]

By Matt McCullough ’17 Eighteen Ohio University students spent their spring break in the Republic of Ireland as part of the Ireland: Food, Hunger, and Inequality study abroad program, now in its second year. Ireland as an Educational Opportunity The Ireland program is offered through the Sociology & Anthropology Department. […]

By Mary Vandeman After graduating with a B.S. in Geological Sciences, Ohio University alum Brooke Stokes was offered a job as a biologist. She soon realized that the lab setting was not what she enjoyed, so she chose to return to graduate school in the Environmental Studies program in the […]

By Jake Ballas ’19 Dr. Smoki Musaraj and some of her Economic Anthropology students traveled to Appalachia’s own Shagbark Seed & Mill headquarters on Saturday, Nov. 12. I personally enjoyed our fieldtrip to the Shagbark center of operations. The building didn’t have that overpowering “you’re a needle in a haystack” […]