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The Hill quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Michelle Obama is Dem rock star many wish would run for president.” Katherine Jellison, a professor and chairwoman of history at Ohio University, who has studied first ladies, said it speaks to the […]

Graduate student Christine Adams’s essay “Terms of Venery” was selected by judge Carmen Maria Machado as the winner of the Prairie Schooner Creative Nonfiction Contest. Adams is a doctoral student studying nonfiction in Ohio University’s English Department. She will receive a prize of $500, and her essay will appear in […]

Ohio University’s online degree completion Psychology program is ranked eighth among the 2019 Most Affordable Online Colleges for Psychology Degrees, as defined by the SR Education Group. “These are the most affordable colleges and universities offering online bachelor’s degrees in psychology,” says the OnlineU.org website. “All 25 schools have annual […]

Dr. Akil Houston, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Ohio University, was quoted in an article on The Cut headlined “The Complicated Psychology Behind Bee-Stung Lips.” There is a fundamental discord, then, between what is attractive and what is found in nature when it comes to lips. The golden […]

Poet and multidisciplinary artist Dr. Bianca Spriggs kicked off the Ohio Northern University English Department Reading Series on Oct. 11. Spriggs is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University. “Bianca is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist from Kentucky. She is the author of five collections of poems, most recently Black Mermaid (Argus […]

Japan’s national daily paper, the Mainichi, noted the involvement of Ohio University and Dr. Chris Thompson in a story headlined “Japanese, int’l students still delivering water, energizing Iwate residents over 7 years on.” Thompson, Associate Professor of Linguistics, is in Japan this fall representing OHIO as the 43rd Kohei Miura […]

The Minneapolis Star Tribune quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in an article headlined “Can the University of Minnesota get a new president for a bargain?” Vedder and Rita Bornstein, president emeritus of Rollins College in Florida and an author of several books on higher education […]