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Adapted from Compass story by Angela Woodward Three College of Arts & Sciences faculty are the advisers to the Margaret Boyd Scholars Program as its kicks off its fourth cohort. Launched in 2013, the Margaret Boyd Scholars Program serves as Ohio University’s first and only women’s scholars program. The four-year […]

It’s not too late to join the adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland this summer! Study the linguistic and cultural history of the Celts and the Scots who settled Appalachia and contributed to the lifestyle, the dialect, the place and family names and so much more we enjoy today, says Dr. Michelle O’Malley, […]

Two mountain ranges on two continents. Facing many of the same 2st century issues. This September, four professors from Ohio University will travel to the Carpathians/Appalachians International Conference 2013 at  the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU) in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. The journey to the Carpathians will take place from Sept. […]

This summer, eight students from Ohio University completed the first ever Linguists Study Abroad program in Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Michelle O’Malley, Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department, developed the program, which focuses on the linguistic and cultural history of Scotland and its ties to Appalachia. “This program was developed as […]

  “Learning a new language can be a challenge, as new vocabulary and grammatical rules can be hard for some people to grasp. To address this issue, several linguistics graduate students are examining how a person’s working memory capacity, which is how well a person can process and retain knowledge, […]