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A Brookings Institution report quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in an article headlined “Betsy DeVos and her cone of silence on for-profit colleges.” Not all that long ago, Republicans believed that career programs that used billions of federal dollars to train college students in specific […]

Ohio University alumni Jen Bauer and Adriane Lam were quoted in a story headlined “Time Scavengers and Science Literacy: 6 Tips for Creating Online Resources ” that appeared on The Bridge: Connecting Science and Policy. Both earned the M.S. in Geology from the College of Arts & Sciences, Bauer in 2014 […]

A study jointly authored by Dr. Robert Klein was quoted in an Iowa Farmer Today story headlined “Rural schools show strong graduation rates.” Klein is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Interim Dean of Ohio University Eastern. More than 25 percent of the public schools in America are rural, with one in […]

The Hill quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Michelle Obama is Dem rock star many wish would run for president.” Katherine Jellison, a professor and chairwoman of history at Ohio University, who has studied first ladies, said it speaks to the […]

Dr. Akil Houston, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Ohio University, was quoted in an article on The Cut headlined “The Complicated Psychology Behind Bee-Stung Lips.” There is a fundamental discord, then, between what is attractive and what is found in nature when it comes to lips. The golden […]

Poet and multidisciplinary artist Dr. Bianca Spriggs kicked off the Ohio Northern University English Department Reading Series on Oct. 11. Spriggs is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University. “Bianca is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist from Kentucky. She is the author of five collections of poems, most recently Black Mermaid (Argus […]

Japan’s national daily paper, the Mainichi, noted the involvement of Ohio University and Dr. Chris Thompson in a story headlined “Japanese, int’l students still delivering water, energizing Iwate residents over 7 years on.” Thompson, Associate Professor of Linguistics, is in Japan this fall representing OHIO as the 43rd Kohei Miura […]