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By Katie Conlon ’16 History HTC and Law, Justice &  Culture Research Externship in Cambodia After my first experience working with the Siem Reap Muslim Community Development Organization (SRMCDO), I returned to Phnom Penh to resume research there. After only a few days, I found myself missing the friends I […]

By Jeremy Held ’17 HTC Plant Biology Major Hello all! My name is Jeremy Held and I will be a Sophomore this upcoming semester. For my summer internship, I chose the Edge of Appalachia Preserve in Adams County, Ohio. Perhaps the most exciting and vigorous thing I’ve done so far […]

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 […]

By Samantha Rommel ’15 Studying Anthropology and Museum Studies Imagining International Justice in Post-Genocide Cambodia It’s been just over two weeks since I took the flight from Phnom Penh to Cincinnati, and I’ve had mixed feelings as I’ve adjusted back to life at home. On one hand, reuniting with family […]

By Natalia Radic From Perspectives Hiking through the trails of Appalachia, Biological Sciences doctoral student Vincent Farallo focuses his attention on the ground, under the leaf litter, in search of small, colorful lungless salamanders. These amphibians live in “microhabitats” of only 1-10 meters squared. Because they breathe through their skin, […]

Five Ohio University undergraduate students are in Cambodia this summer in a student-faculty collaborative “externship” project call “Imagining International Justice in Post-Genocide Cambodia.” The students are working with various organizations through partnerships with the Ohio University Center for Law, Justice & Culture. Ohio University has a strong history of Southeast Asian […]

During the reign of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979) up to a quarter of Cambodia’s population was killed through torture, execution, forced labor, and starvation. Two of the most infamous sites of torture and execution in Phnom Penh, Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek, remain today as sites of memory. Five Ohio […]