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The year 2015 proved a good one for New Ohio Review, the national literary journal of Ohio University’s Creative Writing program. Its contributors secured multiple “Best American” anthology appearances and numerous online recognitions, further evidence that NOR continues to be regarded as a go-to journal for emerging and prestigious writers. […]

Congratulations to Andrew Manigault who was awarded a 2015-16 Winter Unrestricted Travel grant by Psi Chi for his paper titled “Effects of Mindlessness and Rumination in Predicting Cortisol Recovery to an Acute Social-Evaluative Stressor,” which he will present the paper at the SPSP annual convention in San Diego on Jan. […]

In the first grant announcement of its 50th anniversary year, the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded individual creative writing fellowships of $25,000 each to 37 fiction and creative nonfiction writers, including Alison Stine, a 2013 graduate of Ohio University’s Ph.D. program in Creative Writing. “I’m enormously grateful to @NEAarts for supporting […]

Glidden Visiting Professor Marc Kantrowitz spoke to a group of faculty and students on Dec. 3 at a book release for his recently published book, Old Whiskey and Young Women: American True Crime: Tales of Murder, Sex and Scandal. Kantrowitz spoke of infamous deaths and the cases that surrounded them throughout […]

By Kelley Bodwell Ask a room full of writing teachers to name their biggest challenge, and they’ll likely respond with an exhausted sigh, “grading papers.” Despite the long hours required of teachers to give thoughtful feedback, little research has been conducted to determine what types of feedback are most helpful […]

Five teams from around the world—including one from Ohio University—rolled out their prototypes in France as the world awaits the first-ever international molecular nanocar race. Over the next year, the OHIO Bobcat Nano-Wagon Team—along with competitors from France, Germany, Japan and USA/Austria—will get ready to race their nanocars along a […]

Dr. Amritjit Singh gave a keynote address to a gathering of more than 125 Sikhs at a White House celebration of Guru Nanak’s birth-anniversary on Dec. 14. “In recent weeks, tolerance has become the buzzword of public discourses in the United States and elsewhere. Guru Nanak would rather plead for […]