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Ohio University alumna Lois Deimel Whealey was recognized for excellence in activism in a Marquis Who’s Who news release. Whealey earned an M.A. in Government in 1975 and a Master of Social Sciences in 2007 from the College of Arts & Sciences at OHIO. ATHENS, Ohio, Jan. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ […]

  Ohio University alumna Anita Kumar was promoted to General Manager of Transition Networks, says a news release by Communications Systems, Inc. Kumar earned an M.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1994 from the College of Arts & Sciences at OHIO. She started at has been with […]

The Athens News quoted Dr. Julia Paxton in a story headlined “Baileys Trail: Opportunities & challenges for Chauncey: Chauncey’s new mayor says trail system can help community, but has fears about gentrification.” Paxton is Professor of Economics at Ohio University. Ohio University economics professor Julia Paxton said last week that […]

BBC Future talks about a study by Dr. Dominik Mischkowski, wondering “whether painkillers (acetaminophen) might be making it harder to experience empathy, in a story headlined “The medications that change who we are.” Mischkowski is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio University. …This is something that Dominik Mischkowski, a pain […]

The Ohio University community mourns alumnus and Professor Emeritus Charles “Phil” Richardson, age 86, who died Dec. 17, 2019, at his home in Athens, Ohio, according to his obituary. Richardson earned two degrees from the College of Arts & Sciences at OHIO—a bachelor’s and master’s in German in 1961 and […]

Ohio University alumna Phyllis Ann (Patterson) Talley of Dublin, Ohio, died Dec. 30 at the age of 91, reports the Roanoke Times. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University in 1950. …A graduate of M&M High School in McConnelsville, Ohio, […]

Dr. Brian Schoen discusses John Brown and the lead-up to his 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry with the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley on Jan. 16, reports the Parkersburg News and Sentinel. Schoen is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. Schoen, associate professor of history at […]