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Bernie Layne ’94MA, who earned a master’s in Sociology from Ohio University, has been named President of the West Virginia Association for Justice. An AP story on the Seattle Post Intelligencer site reports, the Charleston attorney will head the plaintiffs’ group. The organization announced Bernie Layne’s election Friday. Layne is […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University, testified before the Ohio House Ways and Means Committee on a proposed major tax overhaul, as reporter by Jim Provance in the Toledo Blade on June 22. Supporters of the plan, however, argued before the House Ways and Means Committee […]

Ohio University Alum Denise McCory, Dean of Students at Cuyahoga Community College’s Metropolitan Campus, has been named to the ACE Ohio Women’s Network Executive Board, the Cleveland Jewish News reported on June 21. McCory has worked at Tri-C for more than 12 years in positions including assistant dean of students, […]

  Dinty W. Moore, Professor and Director of Creative Writing, has been named the Final Judge for the Indiana Review’s 2013 1/2K Prize. Blogger Paul McVeigh notes: “Dinty W. Moore is author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life, as well as the memoir Between Panic & […]

“On the outskirts of Athens, set back in the woods amid the rugged Appalachian landscape, 10 students from the Ohio University Archaeological Field School led by site director Paul Patton, have slowly been unearthing about 1,100 years of history in the form of a Native-American rock shelter,” Athens News reporter […]

The Navy History and Heritage Command recognized four individuals—one of them a doctoral student in history at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences—on June 17 for works they are proposing to publish that will further the understanding and application of current U.S. Navy strategy through historical context. They will […]

Dr. Steve Miner, Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, presented a paper at a conference on Women in Warfare: From Troy to the Trenches in June at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict […]