In the News

“William Z. Slany, a top State Department historian who helped oversee a study in the 1990s that exposed Nazi looting of Jewish property and that led to $8 billion in belated compensation for Holocaust victims and their families, died May 13 at his home in Reston. He was 84,” reported […]

WOUB’s Tom Hudson talked to Ohio University alum Ian James ’89, who earned a B.A. in Political Science from the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences in 1989, in All Things Being Equal. James has been named by Ohio Magazine as one of the “brightest political strategists” in Ohio. […]

Reporter Cory Shaffer of the Sun News captured a poignant story with Ohio University and Athens roots on June 11. Just because he’s going to Yale University this fall doesn’t mean Jeffrey Ding is without gratitude. Ding, who graduated near the top of the class at Strongsville High School June […]

Three Ohio University student-athletes majoring in Sociology with an emphasis in Criminology—John Prior ’14, Jon Lechner ’14, and Donte Foster ’14—were named to the 2013 Phil Steele Preseason Mid-American Conference All-League football team. The Preseason All-MAC team appeared in the magazine that hit newsstands June 18. Prior, an offensive lineman, […]

Governor John Kasich has appointed Ohio University alum Scott R. Williams ’92 and ’95MPA, to the Shawnee State University Board of Trustees for a nine-year term. Williams is from Dublin, OH. Community Common reports: Williams is director of governmental affairs with the Ohio Association of Realtors, a position he has […]

“A new plan B: Relocate American cities” in response to climate change, writes Alex Slaymaker, an Ohio University student majoring in Environmental Planning and policy with a minor in Geography, in the June 19 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Voices of Tomorrow series. “The time will come when many Americans, […]

“Memoir is made of memories, by definition; some theorists assert memoir must be about memory. Yet it’s notable how much Joe Bonomo explores memory and takes it as his subject. His new collection of essays, This Must Be Where My Obsession with Infinity Began, summons and examines a wide range of memories, […]