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Ohio University alum Alison Bridge ’02, who majored in Sociology-Criminology in the College of Arts & Sciences, was featured in an Oxford (OH) Press article about her work at the Talawanda School District. Alison Bridge is a Talawanda graduate who has returned to the school district to “remove the non-cognitive […]

A column by Alex Newman in the New American  quotes from a New York Times Dec. 6 column by Dr. Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Ohio University. “It is ironic that in today’s South Africa, there is an increasingly vocal segment of black South […]

Robin Scott Fisher ’76M, ’79PhD, who earned degrees in Psychology from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, died Nov. 11 after a career as an internationally known neuroscientist at UCLA. Robin Scott Fisher, an internationally known UCLA neuroscientist and anatomist who made seminal contributions to understanding the development […]

France 24 quotes a Twitter post by Dr. Brandon Kendhammer, Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences, in a story about the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, recently designated a terrorist organization by the United States. Very little is known about the finances […]

In the Dec. 6 edition of Conversations from Studio B, Kelee Riesbeck interviews Dr. Brian Collins of Classics and World Religions on how technology inhibits the in-depth studies of humanities and cultures among younger generations. Collins, the Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religions and Philosophy, also discusses the Hindu […]

Dr. Scott Carnicom ’95, an Ohio University College of Arts & Science alum who majored in Psychology, has been named the founding dean of the College of Natural, Behavioral and Health Sciences at Lock Haven University, reports Gant Daily. Carnicom graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta […]

“Like compulsive Las Vegas gamblers, many university presidents like to make big bets hoping for large payoffs. And like most gamblers, they usually lose,” writes Dr. Richard Vedder in a Dec. 2 Fiscal Times column. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of […]