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“Armored dinosaurs breathed through ‘Krazy Straws,’” LiveScience reporter Stephanie Pappas writes about a presentation by Ohio University Biological Sciences doctoral student Jason Bourke. The dinosaurs lacked respiratory turbinates, structures in the nasal cavity that warm and humidify the air coming in, and had to find a new way to do […]

The Chillicothe Gazette writes about Ohio University alum Karen Harper ’67 returning to Chillicothe, the setting for her best-selling novels, for a reading. Harper earned a B.A. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. CHILLICOTHE – A New York Times bestselling author from Columbus whose […]

Dr. Ayesha Hardison is the Fall 2014 Langston Hughes Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas. Hardison is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, where she teaches courses in African American literature. Her first book, Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (American Literatures […]

The BBC Newshour interviewed Ohio University alum Dr. Adam Cathcart about North Korea this week. Cathcart is a Lecturer in Chinese History at the University of Leeds. He earned a music degree at Ohio University, followed by an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History from the College of Arts & […]

The Washington Post quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History, in a pre-election article on “Michelle Obama out in full force for ‘Barack’s last campaign.’” NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Plain-spoken and casual, Michelle Obama took the stage of a high school gymnasium here to rally Democratic voters. “I’m […]

“The new gainful employment rules are out from the U.S. Department of Education and, predictably, nearly everyone is mad,” writes Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a Forbes article on “Gainful Employment Targets For-Profits; Not-For-Profits […]

 By Beth Quitslund, Faculty Senate Chair at Ohio University and a member of the Ohio Faculty Council and Dan E. Krane, chair of the Ohio Faculty Council and a Fellow of the American Council on Education This op-ed appeared in the Dayton Daily News. Public colleges and universities were never […]