In the News

The Washington Post quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, in a Style section article headlined “A tiny staff. An aide’s abrupt departure. That jacket. Why Melania Trump’s Be Best is off to a slow start.” Katherine Jellison, a history professor at Ohio University, says Be […]

He’s back with another video. This time, Ohio University alum Dr. Rich Constantine is invited to a dance off #inmyfeelings challenge with campers at Caine Halter Family YMCA. Watch Constantine in a dance off with YMCA campers. After a Facebook video titled “In My Fillings” by Constantine racked up more […]

Ohio University alum Morris L. Hawk ’90 is one of four labor and law attorneys joining the firm Roetzel & Andress LPA, according to an announcement. Connect with Hawk on LinkedIn. Hawk earned a B.A. in English from the Honors Tutorial College and a Contemporary History Certificate from the College of Arts & […]

Does Earth have another supercontinent hidden in its geologic history—about 600 million years ago? “It looks like all hell was breaking loose on Earth, and my guess is that Pannotia is at the center of all these weird and wonderful things that were happening at that time,” says Dr. R. Damian Nance, Distinguished […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored an article at Forbes headlined “The Cost Of Neglecting Our History.” As I begin my 54th year of teaching American economic history at Ohio University shortly, I despair how abysmal ignorance of the roots of American economic and political exceptionalism […]

Ohio University alum David Crane was appointed by the United Nation Human Rights Council to chair a three-member Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, according to a UN news announcement. Crane earned a bachelor’s degree in History in 1972 and a master’s in African Studies in 1973. […]

Dr. Mark Lucas, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, helped children to create judo-bots with the Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery in The Plains, according to an Athens Messenger story headlined “Robots battle it out at The Plains Public Library.” THE PLAINS — It was an exciting afternoon at The […]