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The Ohio University Bobcats and the Marching 110 made headlines Saturday night. The Bobcats posted their third consecutive win over the Marshall Thundering Herd Sept. 14, winning the “Battle of the Bell” against their long-time rivals from Huntington, WV. And the Marching 110 was lauded for its cover of Ylvis’ […]

Children and families packed the Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery as Alpha Chi Sigma chemistry students brought some of Harry Potter’s magic potions to life—a smoking cauldron, a rocket in a bottle and elephant toothpaste. Story by Katie Hendershot, Compass The Ohio University students reached out to many who may […]

Congrats to Creative Writing alum David Armstrong ’02, ’11M, whose first book, a story collection called Going Anywhere, won the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest and will be published in fall of 2014. He just started “seriously writing short stories” about two years ago, and in the last six months he’s […]

The Governor of Japan’s Iwate Prefecture, which was inundated by the 2011 tsunami and earthquake, said thank you to donors from the United States at a Thank You Tomodachi event in New York Aug. 26 with an evening of celebration and remembrance. The event featured words of gratitude from the Iwate […]

This summer, eight students from Ohio University completed the first ever Linguists Study Abroad program in Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Michelle O’Malley, Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department, developed the program, which focuses on the linguistic and cultural history of Scotland and its ties to Appalachia. “This program was developed as […]

Ohio University professor and alum Dr. Akil Houston has been named to a list of the Top 25 African American Professors in Ohio at Online Schools Ohio, run by StateStats.org. Houston is Assistant Professor of Cultural and Media Studies in the Department of African American Studies in the College of […]

By Tim Smith This Fall the Department of Classics & World Religions is delighted to welcome two new faculty members who will be teaching courses in World Religions. Dr. Brian Collins comes to us most recently from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he had served as a Adjunct […]