Top stories

• U.S. News ranks Ohio University among best
• Trustees have in-depth discussion on Five-Year Vision Ohio Implementation Plan at retreat
  
• University composting unit rolls into Athens
  
• University share of  capital appropriations bill totals $29 million
• University gift grows by more than $10 million
• Scripps students travel to Guyana to cover international arts fest [Communication]


• OU-COM praised during accreditation evaluation [OU-COM]

Research

• New climate record shows century-long droughts in eastern North America [Research News]


• Fish mating signals may conserve cancer gene [Research News]
  
• Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive [Research News]
  

People

• Brightbill, Wolfort join Board of Trustees
• College of Health and Human Services Dean Gary Neiman to retire in June
  
• Groce named head men's basketball coach [ohiobobcats.com]
• Biancamano to serve as university's general counsel
• Chief of police Martinsen to depart for position closer to home
• Eisenstein named Ohio's 'Voice of the Bobcats' [ohiobobcats.com]

Around campus

• Performing Arts Series offers a year of not-to-be missed events
  
• The Leadership Challenge comes to OHIO Dec. 2-3
  
• Executive Leadership Institute announces fall lineup, encourages university participation
  
• University to host guidance counselors, admissions professionals Sept. 10
• Conference on Critical Geography focuses on societal, environmental injustices  Oct. 3-5
  
• Ombudsman's office moves to Baker Center
  

In memoriam

• University mourns devoted alumna Leona Hughes
• Colleagues remember Professor Emeritus Barry Roth
• Professor Jim Fales remembered as a proponent of 'current and relevant'
• University mourns loss of Russ College student
• University mourns education student

• City moves ahead on Richland intersection project
• Sentence handed down in stray-shot incident from spring 2008
• Taking steps to reduce the university's ecological footprint
  
• Policies detail retirement eligibility, time off