In the News

Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, writes in the Athens News that the department is proud of its early commitment to the study of African history. This year, Ohio University’s African Studies Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The university developed a tradition that I might […]

Dr. Cory Crawford, Assistant Professor of Classics and World Religions, and Dr. Deborah Thorne, Associate Professor of Sociology, were honored March 10 as two of the four new the University Professor Awardees. Thorne is a two-time recipient of the award, as reported in The Post. “I’m in a department of fantastic […]

Ohio University alum Dr. David W. Ewing ’85PhD has been named the new vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Bethany College, reports the Wheeling, WV, Intelligencer. Ewing earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the College of Arts & Sciences in 1985. Ewing will begin serving the […]

Ohio University alum Tim Pritchard ’10 will be a featured presenter at the May 4 Herb Faire, hosted by the Herb Society of the Preble County (OH) Historical Society. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Biology from the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology in the College of Arts & […]

Dr. Tadeusz Malinski, Marvin White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was quoted in a column on “FDA suppresses concerns about Indian generics” by Roger Bate at the American Enterprise Institute. “Are American patients taking unsafe medicines from Asia? Even posing that question is leading to unusually public […]

Sometime this spring, a gas cloud called G2 will come perilously close to a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics, talks about the “Front-row Seat for a Black-Hole Feeding Frenzy” in his Columbus Dispatch column. “It is a well-established […]

Ohio University alum Cara Dingus Brook was the keynote speaker at the annual Women’s Conference at Ohio University Southern. Brook is a Lawrence County native and current President and CEO of the Foundation for Appalachia Ohio. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 2002 and a Master of Public Administration degree […]