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“Stop subsidizing colleges’ 100-year debt binge,” says the headline on Dr. Richard Vedder’s Oct. 30 column from Bloomberg. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences. The Barack Obama administration and Congress purport to […]

Ohio University alum John Reinhart ’75 is the new Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Port Authority, according to a VPA news release. The announcement was made Oct. 31 by the VPA’s Board of Commissioners in a special meeting. Reinhart received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science […]

The South African blog I Love Books reviewed Dr. Zakes Mda’s book The Sculptors of Mapungubwe on Oct. 15. Mda is a Professor in Ohio University’s Creative Writing: Fiction program in the College of Arts & Sciences Department of English. The narrative centres on the timeless kingdom of Mapungubwe where […]

The Leap Motion bloggers gave a shout out to the new language learning lab in Gordy Hall, dubbed the holodeck. At Ohio University’s Athens campus, there’s a room where students can travel virtually anywhere on Earth. Popularly known as the “Holodeck,” it uses projectors, Google Earth, and the Leap Motion […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences. co-authored with Ken Blackwell a column on “Cincinnati Must Face the Crisis that Sealed Detroit’s Fate” Nov. 1 at Townhall.com. Cincinnati and Detroit are separated by barely more than 250 miles – a five-hour drive […]

The Bluffton Icon reported that Ohio University alum Julia Shearson ’95M will discuss “her conversion from Catholicism to Islam and the challenging national climate faced by American Muslims” at Bluffton University on Nov. 5. Shearson is Executive Director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Ohio. Her […]

The News-Gazette of East Central Illinois reports that Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences alum Dr. Tara Riddle ’11PhD joined the staff at Carle. The Carle Foundation Hospital is in Urbana, IL. “Riddle, who joined the neuropsychology department, earned a doctorate in clinic psychology at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. […]