Post Tagged with: "alumni in the news"

“Ohio voters likely will have an opportunity to vote on a state constitutional amendment for equal marriage rights next November. Athens native and Ohio University graduate Ian James ’89, a co-founder of Freedom to Marry Ohio, said Tuesday the group has met its petition threshold for the ballot,” reports the […]

Bad Girl Ventures (BGV) Cleveland, a micro-lending organization that combines financing with education, is helping turn entrepreneurial dreams into a reality for 10 local women entrepreneurs selected as finalists to participate in the organization’s Fall 2013 class. One of the finalists will win a $25,000 business loan at the Dec. […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Ronald L. Lewis ’66 has written the contemporary history of West Virginia University, where he taught history until his retirement in 2008. His newly released book is Aspiring to Greatness: West Virginia University since World War II. Lewis earned a B.A. in Political Science from the […]

An Ohio University alum is one of five professionals who chose an international career to share their knowledge with the at SUNY Cortland campus in a panel presentation on Nov. 6, according to a news release. Michael Goldman ’10 earned a B.S. in Environmental Geography from the College of Arts […]

Ohio University alum John Reinhart ’75 is the new Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Port Authority, according to a VPA news release. The announcement was made Oct. 31 by the VPA’s Board of Commissioners in a special meeting. Reinhart received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science […]

The Bluffton Icon reported that Ohio University alum Julia Shearson ’95M will discuss “her conversion from Catholicism to Islam and the challenging national climate faced by American Muslims” at Bluffton University on Nov. 5. Shearson is Executive Director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Ohio. Her […]

The News-Gazette of East Central Illinois reports that Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences alum Dr. Tara Riddle ’11PhD joined the staff at Carle. The Carle Foundation Hospital is in Urbana, IL. “Riddle, who joined the neuropsychology department, earned a doctorate in clinic psychology at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. […]