In the News

The Financial Times quotes Dr. Glenn Dutcher, assistant professor of Economics at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Where’s the spark? How lockdown caused a creativity crisis.” In recent years, office design has focused on creating collaborative spaces where people can meet to discuss ideas and hold serendipitous conversations. Yet […]

WTRF quoted Dr. Kevin Spiker in an article headlined “What’s happening in Congress?: The certification of electoral votes explained.” Spiker is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University’s Eastern Campus. “It should be nothing more than simply a formality where quite literally envelopes are opened, votes are announced and those […]

Inside Higher Ed’s Scott McLemee writes about Dr. Brian Collins’ podcast series A Very Square Peg: The Strange and Remarkable Life of the Polymath Robert Eisler in a column called Podcasting a Polymath. …Before expressing enthusiasm, let me admit to a brief period of suspicion. Robert Eisler’s life sounds like […]

The Awate Team published a review of an interview with Dr. Ghirmai Negash on the situation in the Horn of Africa. Negash is Professor of English and Director of the African Studies program at Ohio University. As far as we are concerned, as Professor Ghirmai clearly explained, the key issues […]

The Nation writer Samuel Zipp reviews Dr. Kevin Mattson’s xxx in an article headlined The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk. Mattson’s book begins and ends with Cobain’s death, but it’s really a kind of coda to the larger story he hopes to tell. It’s an indicator of the stakes […]

The Washington Post quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined First lady blasts critics, praises Trump backers’ ‘passion’. Trump’s latest statement is “at least in part a response to Winston-Wolkoff’s op-ed,” says Katherine Jellison, a professor of history at Ohio University who studies […]

Gerry Krzic, director of the Ohio Program of Intensive English (OPIE) at Ohio University, was quoted in a San Diego Union-Tribune story headlined “S. Korea returns a San Diegan’s 40-year-old favor with a COVID ‘survival box’.” “The coffee brings back memories of the people you shared time with,” he said. […]