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Thomas: The Voyage Homewards

Thomas: The Voyage Homewards

By Rachel Thomas Honors Tutorial College student studying Classics in Rome Although, while I wandered about in Trastevere, it seemed my journeys would never end, my six weeks roaming soon came to a close. After an intense five weeks spent exploring both in class and out, a brief but intense […]

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August 3, 2013 at 9:55 amIn Class News

Writer’s View from Rural South Africa Wins Duke Award

Writer’s View from Rural South Africa Wins Duke Award

  “In the spring of 2003, Maggie Messitt stood in the centre of Acornhoek, South Africa—a village just over the imaginary line that once legally separated white and black—and saw a world unlike anything she had ever experienced, unlike the white community where she’d recently claimed a tent as her home, unlike […]

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August 2, 2013 at 3:02 pmNews

Taylor Macy: A Wiiiiild Summer Internship

Taylor Macy: A Wiiiiild Summer Internship

By Taylor Macy ’14 Honors Tutorial College and Environmental and Plant Biology Major, Ohio University Summer internship at the Wilds in Cumberland, Ohio Helloooo. I am now a senior (CRAZY) studying Environmental and Plant Biology along with Environmental Studies. I am a Wilds Scholar at a wildlife conservation facility, the […]

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July 30, 2013 at 5:38 pmNews

Graduate College Announces 2012-13 Named Fellowships

June 1, 2012 Each year, the Ohio University Graduate College funds five Named Fellowships (The John Cady Fellowship, The Donald Clippinger Graduate Fellowship, The Claude Kantner Graduate Fellowship, The Anthony Trisolini Graduate Fellowship, and the Graduate College Fellowship). The fellowships are awarded through a competitive nomination basis. Each award provides […]

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July 30, 2013 at 1:11 pmNews

Poston Co-Convenor on First Queer Studies Graduate Student Conference

History graduate student Lance E. Poston was a co-convener, with Dr. Susanne B. Dietzel, of  Ohio University’s First Annual Queer Studies Graduate Student Conference April 18-19, 2013, The LGBT Center advances the diversity mission of Ohio University by providing an environment inclusive and supportive of sexual orientation and gender identity or […]

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July 30, 2013 at 12:14 pmNews

Esno Thesis: For Freedom and Free Enterprise: The Origins, Development, and Legacies of Ronald Reagan’s Caribbean Basin Initiative

History graduate student Tyler P. Esno’s master’ thesis on “For Freedom and Free Enterprise: The Origins, Development, and Legacies of Ronald Reagan’s Caribbean Basin Initiative” was published on OhioLINK in 2012. Abstract: In 1982, Ronald Reagan unveiled the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). CBI was an aid, trade, and investment program […]

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July 30, 2013 at 10:53 amNews

Boaler: A trip to Naples Botanical Garden

Boaler: A trip to Naples Botanical Garden

By Julian Boaler ’14 Environmental and Plant Biology Major, Ohio University Summer internship at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami, FL Hi everyone, This past week I was lucky enough to take a visit to Naples Botanical Garden as part of a field trip that Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden […]

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July 23, 2013 at 9:21 pmNews