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  Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, testified June 4 at a U.S. Senate Budget Committee hearing on the impact of Student Loan Debt on Borrowers and the Economy. Vedder is also director of  the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a Washington-based research organization […]

Five Ohio University undergraduate students are in Cambodia this summer in a student-faculty collaborative “externship” project call “Imagining International Justice in Post-Genocide Cambodia.” The students are working with various organizations through partnerships with the Ohio University Center for Law, Justice & Culture. Ohio University has a strong history of Southeast Asian […]

During the reign of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979) up to a quarter of Cambodia’s population was killed through torture, execution, forced labor, and starvation. Two of the most infamous sites of torture and execution in Phnom Penh, Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek, remain today as sites of memory. Five Ohio […]

Dr. Cynthia Anderson, Associate Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, was elected to serve on the Rural Sociological Society 2014 Council. The Rural Sociological Society is a professional social science association that promotes the generation, application, and dissemination of sociological knowledge. The Society seeks to enhance the quality of rural […]

Ohio University has awarded History Ph.D. students Brad Eidahl and Seth Givens each a $6,000 Student Enhancement Award to assist dissertation research. Eidahl is writing his dissertation, “Writing the Resistance: The Rise and Fall of APSI and Chile’s Opposition Press,” under the direction of Dr. Patrick Barr-Melej, Associate Professor of […]

The History Graduate Student Association at Ohio University organizes the annual Graduate Student Research Conference each spring, attracting participants from history graduate programs around the country. The next history conference is Feb. 6-7, 2015, at which alumni are invited to speak and students from universities around the country present papers.

Two College of Arts & Sciences students were awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for summer 2014. Lincoln Caldwell ’16, an Anthropology major, received a scholarship to study in China. Victoria Ream ’15, a Sociology-Criminology major, received a scholarship to study in Spain. The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program […]