Students in the News

The Ohio University Mock Trial Team sent one team to the Franklin County Court of Common pleas to compete in the Ohio State University Scarlet and Gray Invitational. The competition took place on October 27-28. The members were divided into two sides: plaintiff and defense. Over the weekend, each side participated […]

Conservation work by Dr. Viorel Popescu and students in his lab was featured in an Athens News story headlined “‘Snot otter’ or ‘hellbender,’ OU scientists want to save them.” Popescu is Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. Students Matthew Kaunert and Ryan Wagner also were quoted. A group of […]

by Kristin Distel Sarah Minor, Ph.D. candidate in English (nonfiction), recently published an essay, “Foul Chutes,” in Ninth Letter literary magazine. Minor refers to the essay as a “blown up” version of a previously published piece—an essay that examined the history of the laundry chute—which she felt needed revision and […]

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 […]

Derek J. G. Williams, a doctoral student in Creative Writing (poetry), recently published several poems and a book review. Williams’s poem, “Keeping Time,” was published in a recent issue of Pleiades magazine and is available on his website. His poems, “Reinventing Hunger” and “Desert Garden,” appear in the latest issue […]

The work of Hugh Martin, doctoral student in Creative Writing, has been featured on The Kenyon Review‘s website. His poem, “This Morning, We Carry Body Bags,” was selected as a Kenyon Review Weekend Read. Hugh Martin is a veteran of the Iraq War and the author of The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions 2013) and […]

The New Philadelphia (Ohio) Times Reporter reports that Lana Moore received an award in a story headlined “Local 2018 FAO scholarship recipient announced.” Lane Moore, a 2018 graduate of Dover High School, was the Tuscarawas County recipient of this year’s 2018 Foundation for Appalachian Ohio scholarship recently announced. …Moore plans […]