Compiled by Joseph Hughes

Here's a sampling of recent Ohio University mentions in the media:

Ohio University alumna Jeanette Grasselli Brown's inspiring story was the cover feature in the Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine. Grasselli Brown, who graduated summa cum laude from the University in 1950 with a degree in chemistry, blazed a trail for female scientists when the Standard Oil Company, which later became BP America, hired her. Nearly 40 years later, she retired as director of corporate research, in charge of a $100 million budget and 250 employees. "You don't have to be a genius to be in science," she told the paper. "You just have to love it. I loved going to work every day."

Grasselli Brown is just as influential in her retirement. She's a leading advocate for higher education and is an active member of the Cleveland community. The former University trustee is also a frequent benefactor to her alma mater, where she helped begin the Frontiers in Science lecture series. "A lot of what Jenny gives is a kind of optimism and a joy of learning that's contagious," University President Robert Glidden told the Plain Dealer. "And when she gets her mind set on a goal, she is relentless."

With thousands of Ohio University students leaving town after commencement, the City of Athens is taking new steps to keep the area clean. City officials are patrolling Athens, making sure no piles of trash are left out for too long. Ed Newman, the University's refuse and recycling manager, is also keeping the environment in mind, reported the Columbus Dispatch. Last year, his "dumpster diving" team recycled 2,320 tons of trash, reusing an additional 186 tons. "We promote this harmonious scavenger thing," Newman said.

Newman's group recycles CDs, videotapes, carpet, cardboard, cans and coal ash from the campus heating plant. When students moved in this past school year, Newman's team recycled 46.5 tons of cardboard in two days. The University also works with ReUse Industries, which picks up items from off-campus locations and sells them at a thrift store in Albany. Over eight days around move-out last year, the paper reported, ReUse picked up more than 50,000 pounds of material, including computers, tables and unopened food.

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Ohio University alumnus Bob Brenly was quite a success in his rookie year as a Major League Baseball manager, winning the World Series with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Now in his third season, the Coshocton native fondly recalled his University memories on a recent edition of "Tribe Time," the Cleveland Indians' pregame show.

"It was probably the four - well, four-and-a-half - most fun years of my life," Brenly told Andy Baskin. "Athens is a prototypical midwestern college town, with the rolling hills and the red bricks and the trees. It was just a tremendous experience. I learned a lot about life, about what you should and shouldn't do. I met some great people who are still friends to this day."

"Woven Images," a traveling Kennedy Museum of Art exhibition, is drawing praise from the Navajo Times. The show, which features textiles made during the 1960s and 1970s, includes more than 40 textiles. The exhibit also marks the first time several rugs are on display on the Navajo Reservation since they were woven 30 years ago.

"It's good to bring it down to the heart of the Navajo Nation where genuine Navajos can look at it," Robert Johnson, Navajo cultural specialist at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz., told the Times.

The exhibition has been traveling throughout the southwest. It was at the Farmington Museum in New Mexico and is now at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz., and will move onto the Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., next year.

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Ohio University Bobcats basketball star Brandon Hunter was in Chicago recently, trying to improve his NBA Draft potential among 60 top players. Branson Wright of the Cleveland Plain Dealer caught up with Hunter, who is hoping to follow in the Green & White footsteps of Gary Trent, now playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

At 6-6, Hunter is considered a "tweener," perhaps undersized at power forward. "I definitely have something to prove," Hunter told the Plain Dealer. "I just have to go out there and play hard and rebound. I'm just out there playing hard, doing what I can. I just have to go out and play under control, and that's more important than anything."

Hunter, who scored 16 points and tallied five rebounds to lead his predraft camp team to a win, will work out for the Los Angeles Clippers, Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies, Orlando Magic, Utah Jazz and Cleveland Cavaliers.

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The Kennedy Museum of Art's recent exhibition, "Athens Collects," was cited in a Sacramento Bee article about brick enthusiasts, who met in California for a recent International Brick Collectors Association convention. "Brick collectors are common here, because we live in an area where there are a lot of historical brickyards," Museum curator Jennifer McLerran told the Bee. "Brick collectors are really neat people with a great sense of humor."

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Joseph Hughes is a writer with University Communications and Marketing.