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Arts & Sciences Surpasses Promise Lives Campaign Goal

Dean Bob Frank

Thanks to the generosity of more than 8,500 alumni and friends, Ohio University’s College of Arts and Sciences has surpassed its $15 million Promise Lives Campaign goal – six months ahead of schedule. The Campaign, which continues though June 30, 2015, is securing an unprecedented level of financial support for […]

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January 30, 2015 at 3:49 pmNews

Student Comments on Bedi’s Call for End of Mass Incarceration

Sheila Bedi, a law professor at Northwestern University, wants to end mass incarceration. Photographer: Olivia Wallace

Students for Law, Justice & Culture member Kaleb Carter wrote an engaging opinion piece on issues raised in Professor Sheila Bedi’s talk on mass incarceration last week. His comments appear in the Ohio University online student publication The New Political. When Sheila Bedi mentioned in her Baker Ballroom speech on […]

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January 28, 2015 at 4:48 pmNews

Guest Speaker Calls for End of Current U.S. Criminal Justice System

Guest Speaker Calls for End of Current U.S. Criminal Justice System

Sheila Bedi, clinical associate professor of law at the Northwestern University School of Law, brought a simple message to Ohio University last Thursday evening — end the current prison system and mass incarceration. During her Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Week talk titled “Tearing Down the Walls: The Urgent Human Rights […]

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January 28, 2015 at 4:38 pmNews

Hardison Book Named Outstanding Academic Title by Choice

Hardison Book Named Outstanding Academic Title by Choice

Dr. Ayesha K. Hardison’ book Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature has been named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. Hardison is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. Every year in the January issue, in print and online, Choice publishes a highly selective […]

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January 27, 2015 at 2:53 pmNews Research

Linguistics Grad Students Have Role Teaching Assistants in OPIE

From left to right – OPIE TAs and their mentors: Dana Simoniescu, Michelle Varnye, Richard West, Eric Letronaux, and Becky Challenger

The tandem between the Ohio Program of Intensive English (OPIE) and the Department of Linguistics has an old tradition and a solid foundation. It would not be a mistake to say that the two entities complement each other’s mission through creating various opportunities for OPIE and Linguistics faculty and students […]

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January 27, 2015 at 10:49 amNews

Food Matters Club Shows Chatham Students the Athens Food Scene

Chatham University students tour Athens food infrastructure.

The Ohio University Food Matters student organization hosted a group of graduate students studying in the Food Studies program at Chatham University for a tour of campus and community local food facilities. The Chatham group began with a tour on Friday, Jan. 16, of Ohio University’s West State Street Research […]

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January 27, 2015 at 8:37 amNews

Law, Justice & Culture Certificate Announces 2015 Cohort

Law, Justice & Culture Certificate Announces 2015 Cohort

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture is proud to present this year’s cohort of certificate students in Law, Justice & Culture. “We’re thrilled with this year’s cohort of LJC certificate students,” said Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, the CLJC faculty member who teaches LJC 2000: Core Course in Law, Justice & […]

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January 26, 2015 at 6:26 pmIn Class News