Post Tagged with: "faculty in the news"

The Athens News covered a debate between Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University and Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, and Political Science alum David Wilhelm ’77. The story was headlined “It’s Clinton (Wilhelm) vs. Trump (Vedder); Designated stand-ins for presidential candidates square […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University and Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, was quoted in an Associated Press article on “Ohio 32: A road of unintended consequences.” Just outside Jackson stands another Rhodes legacy, Ohio Highway 32. It’s a four-lane road he championed […]

Motherboard writer Joel Warner turned to Dr. Thomas Vander Ven, Professor of Sociology, for a first-person story about “the mass-market version of an underground stoner game” in Colorado. Warner explored the game of Zonk, and its potential impact on the cannabis market in Colorado, asking Vander Ven about his research […]

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, was recently quoted in an Al-Ahram Weekly article on the murder of Jordanian writer and activist Nahed Hattar. Hattar was facing criminal charges for “insulting religion” and “sowing sectarian strife” in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan after sharing a cartoon that depicted an […]

The Hill quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History, in a story on “Clinton calls sexism on GOP.” Hillary Clinton is playing the sexist card against Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The Democratic nominee, along with top surrogates and allies, has seized on Trump’s recent comment that Clinton […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Is Miss America still relevant? Definitely, say the contestants.” “Miss America is just not the national event that it once was . . . and it seems that every year there […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University and Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, authored a Forbes column on “A Tale Of Two Universities.” The University of Chicago is a great university, while something called the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (a group of […]