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Ashley Howell, a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology, was awarded the Donald Clippinger Graduate Fellowship for the 2015-16 school year. Her project is on “Testing anxiety-related mechanisms of threat interpretation bias and Pavlovian-conditioned fear generalization under conditions of logical ambiguity: A de novo stimulus discrimination paradigm.” How are we able […]

Maggie Messitt, an English doctoral student in the Creative Writing non-fiction program, was awarded the John Cady Fellowship for the 2015-16 school year. Her project—”Art(i)fact: An Atlas of my Search“—is the story of her aunt, a missing person, and the journey to find her. In 2009, my aunt, an artist, […]

Graduate student Sarah Minor won first place in Hotel Amerika’s TransGenre Writing Contest for her essay “Nest.” Minor is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing nonfiction program in the English Department at Ohio University. Her work will be published in Hotel Amerika Volume 14, coming Winter 2016. About Hotel […]

From Compass “It’s a little horrifying,” joked Commencement speaker Thomas Vander Ven during the May 1 Graduate Commencement at Ohio University. “I’m live in concert at The Convo.” Vander Ven had the graduates laughing as he delivered one-liners and his Top Eight pieces of advice: Tell your mentors what they […]

From Compass Dr. Samuel Crowl, Ohio University Trustee Professor of English, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Ohio University’s May 2 afternoon Commencement ceremony. Crowl was also the commencement speaker, and he touched upon the history of Ohio University and how alumni carry on the traditions set forth […]

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture announces that Ohio University alumni R. Marc. Kantrowitz, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, has been selected as a Glidden Visiting Professor in Fall 2015 by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost. Kantrowitz earned a B.A. degree in History […]

By Ellie Koewler ’15 Dr. Elliot Abrams and Dr. AnnCorinne Freter-Abrams, two professors of Anthropology, are retiring at the end of this semester and entering semi-retirement. Abrams earned a B.A. Anthropology from SUNY-Buffalo, and a master’s and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. His areas of specialization include Mesoamerican Archaeology, Ohio […]