Students in the News

“Something strange happened to Donte Foster last season. For the first time in his life, sports didn’t come easy,” writes Jason Arkley in the Athens Messenger. But now Forster, a Sociology-Criminology major in the College of Arts & Sciences, goes into his last semester at Ohio University healthy. And his […]

“Scioto County residents will want to pay attention to the 2013 edition (of Phil Steele’s preseason report) as former Portsmouth gridiron great John Prior ’14, currently a redshirt senior offensive lineman at Ohio University, is among the numerous football players to grab Steele’s attention enough for recognition in his magazine,” […]

Three Ohio University student-athletes majoring in Sociology with an emphasis in Criminology—John Prior ’14, Jon Lechner ’14, and Donte Foster ’14—were named to the 2013 Phil Steele Preseason Mid-American Conference All-League football team. The Preseason All-MAC team appeared in the magazine that hit newsstands June 18. Prior, an offensive lineman, […]

“A new plan B: Relocate American cities” in response to climate change, writes Alex Slaymaker, an Ohio University student majoring in Environmental Planning and policy with a minor in Geography, in the June 19 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Voices of Tomorrow series. “The time will come when many Americans, […]

“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 […]

“Hannah Boesinger, a 2013 Hudson graduate, decided to continue her academic and basketball careers at Ohio University in Athens last month,” the Hudson Tub-Times reported June 16. Boesinger originally signed a national letter of intent to attend Youngstown State University last fall. When she signed at Youngstown State, she planned […]