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English Professor Dinty W. Moore, Director of Creative Writing at Ohio University, recently judged an international writing contest at Writing for Peace where participants, age 13-19, are asked to write an 800-1000 word essay about a social, political, environmental, or familial challenge faced by individuals within a cultural group, or […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Dr. Tomoyasu Tanaka, age 94, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Ohio University, passed away in May in his native Japan. He was a highly respected theoretical physicist, loving parent to five children, husband, and son. “Professor Tanaka was a wonderful colleague. He was interesting […]

Daniel Keyes, Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio University from 1966-90, passed away on June 15. Keyes arrived at Ellis Hall a year after his first novel—Flowers for Algernon—was published. His story of the mouse named Algernon, a man with an I.Q. of 68, and an experimental procedure to make […]

The Geological Sciences Department was awarded a grant for a new microscope lab from the 1804 Fund for Undergraduate Learning. The grant will allow the department to move the existing lab to a larger classroom, increase the number of workstations, and acquire new reflected light microscopes. The larger lab is […]

Dr. Patrick Barr-Melej, Associate Professor of History, has been elected Vice President of the oldest interdisciplinary social science association in the United States, the Southwestern Social Science Association. He will take his turn as President of the SSSA Council in 2016-17. Founded in 1919, SSSA is the oldest interdisciplinary social […]

By Erica Molfetto From Compass The Baker University Center was buzzing with excitement on Saturday, May 17, for Ohio University’s first-ever Tech Savvy conference. Fifty four middle-school girls from 13 counties in Ohio and West Virginia gathered on campus to learn more about the rewarding careers that math, science and […]

“Who doesn’t love doughnuts? Lunatics, that’s who. Debate over doughnut quality is a serious and sometimes incendiary business. So, we’re adding to the fray with this list of reliable winners and new hotness,” writes USA Today’s Leif Pettersen. USA Today named Brewnuts, owned by Ohio University alum Shelley Fasulko ’03, […]