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Notable Alumni | Linguistics Alum Returns to Share Expertise on Reading Comprehension

William Grabe

Editor’s Note: The College of Arts & Sciences launches the Notable Alumni Awards, honoring 37 Notable Alumni in 2017 for broad accomplishments in their careers, a commitment to community service, and valuable contributions to Ohio University, the College of Arts & Sciences, and its students. Dr. William Grabe ’78 Linguistics […]

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October 25, 2017 at 2:18 pmAlumni News

ELIP 1300 Harvests Ideas for Marketing Sustainable Food on Campus

Teammates Risa Shibayama, Austin Hopkins, Sydney Kovach, and Adam Razak check out the student garden area of OHIO’s Plant Biology Learning Gardens

By Dawn Bikowski What do students in the ELIP 1300 Business Relations and Communication Skills have to offer the local food movement or the Ohio University Food Studies theme? Can business students help identify new markets for produce grown at a magical place on campus with a bamboo forest and […]

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October 25, 2017 at 9:39 amIn Class News

Linguistics Students Volunteer with Tsunami Relief in Japan

96-year-old tsunami survivor thanks OHIO students and Iwate Perfectural students and faculty for delivering water.

  Dr. Chris Thompson, Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics, is in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Japan at the beginning of October with the annual Chubu Study Abroad group of Ohio University students. The students are studying Japanese at Chubu University alongside their Iwate Prefectural University partners, who also are delivering water […]

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October 9, 2017 at 8:28 amNews

Ohio Program of Intensive English Celebrates 50th Anniversary

OPIE 50th Anniversary Celebration

The Ohio Program of Intensive English celebrated its 50th Anniversary on Oct. 4 in the Nelson Dining Hall Banquet Room at Ohio University. The event was attended by current and former OPIE faculty members, students and alumni, as well as Ohio University faculty and administrators and members of the Athens […]

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October 6, 2017 at 3:28 pmNews

Linguistics Colloquium | Alum on Foundations of L2 Reading Development, Oct. 27

William Grabe

Linguistics hosts Ohio University alum Dr. William P. Grabe for a talk on “Foundations of L2 Reading Development,” on Friday, Oct 27, from 12:50 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Gordy 301. All faculty and students interested are invited to hear this highly accomplished scholar in the field of applied linguistics. […]

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October 1, 2017 at 5:30 pmEvents

Krzic Gives Lecture on Story of the U.S. Peace Corps in Korea

Dr. Gerry Krzic

Dr. Gerry Krzic gives an invited lecture on “Korean History: The Story of the U.S. Peace Corps in Korea” Sept. 30 at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Washington, D.C. Krzic is Director of Ohio University’s ESL program, called the Ohio Program of Intensive English, which is celebrating […]

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September 29, 2017 at 8:56 amResearch

OPIE Pathway Program: Pawpaw Hike

OPIE Pathway Program: Pawpaw Hike

Students in OPIE’s U.S. Pathway Program had a quintessentially Athens experience when they hiked into the forests surrounding The Ridges on a hunt for pawpaws. Accompanied by OPIE faculty and Dr. Kim Thompson from the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, the students learned how to identify and collect pawpaws, […]

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September 28, 2017 at 12:01 pmNews