Faculty in the News

Japan’s national daily paper, the Mainichi, noted the involvement of Ohio University and Dr. Chris Thompson in a story headlined “Japanese, int’l students still delivering water, energizing Iwate residents over 7 years on.” Thompson, Associate Professor of Linguistics, is in Japan this fall representing OHIO as the 43rd Kohei Miura […]

The Minneapolis Star Tribune quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in an article headlined “Can the University of Minnesota get a new president for a bargain?” Vedder and Rita Bornstein, president emeritus of Rollins College in Florida and an author of several books on higher education […]

The Associated Press quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, in a Chicago Tribune article headlined “Melania Trump puts on happier face during Africa tour, calls Kavanaugh ‘highly qualified.’” It took Melania Trump’s first big solo international trip for her to show a different side of […]

Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, authored a column in the Columbus Dispatch headlined “Space Force would encourage weaponizing, not exploring, space.” In 1967, several countries, including the United States, signed the Outer Space Treaty, which provided the basic cooperation principles for the human race […]

Dr. Sarah Poggione, Associate Professor & Chair of Political Science at Ohio University, was quoted in a Post article headlined “Election 2018: Is the ‘Blue Wave’ coming to Ohio?” “While I think there is a lot of evidence, even here in Ohio, that there will be a Blue Wave, or at least […]

On the first day of September, in a field of ancient Celtic barrows on the wind-swept north coast of Arthurian Cornwall, Dr. Damian Nance, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences, was named a Bard of the Gorsedh Kernow, which loosely translates as the “throne” or “high seat” of the Celtic […]

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, was part of a Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars panel discussion marking the launch of the History and Public Policy Program’s latest addition to its digital archive: The Emir Farid Chehab Collection. According to a Wilson Center announcement, The Emir […]