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By Jeremy Held ’17 HTC Plant Biology Major Hello all! My name is Jeremy Held and I will be a Sophomore this upcoming semester. For my summer internship, I chose the Edge of Appalachia Preserve in Adams County, Ohio. Perhaps the most exciting and vigorous thing I’ve done so far […]

By Evan Apt ’15Summer intern at Fairchild Botanic Gardeninstagram.com/theysayimapt Hello again. For the past two weeks I have been working with the conservation staff at Fairchild Tropical Garden working to rescue endangered plants from an area that is about to cleared for development. I am happy to announce that after three […]

By Evan Apt ’15 Summer intern at Fairchild Botanic Garden instagram.com/theysayimapt Hello, my name is Evan Apt and I am currently a 4th year student at Ohio University.  This summer I decided it was time to get out and explore some of the possibilities for future employment.  Ive always been fascinated by tropical […]

Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History, was recently named an Untenured Fellow in the Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities. Sarr will begin his three-year term as a Ping Fellow in Fall 2014, in recognition of his teaching excellence and his commitment to humanities education […]

Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, and her colleague Emma Hart of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have won an International Research Network Grant from the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. The grant will be used in support of the “Global City: Past and Present” […]

The Department of History welcomes three new faculty members to the Athens campus in Fall 2014. Assistant Professor Ziad Abu-Rish will be teaching courses in Middle Eastern history. Assistant Professor Alec Holcombe will be teaching courses in Southeast Asian history. Visiting Assistant Professor Nicholas Osborne will be teaching courses in […]

Ohio University alum Tynita M. White’s name sits atop the fiscal analysis of Ohio H.B. 557—a bill that designates June 20, 2014, as “Freedom Summer Day.” White is an Ohio Legislative Service Commission Fellow, working in Columbus through December. At OHIO, she majored in Political Science and minored in African […]