Stories from October 2017

OHIO’s Combat Veterans Club helps put elementary students on a path to academic success

4 min

Oct 19, 2017 By Juli Holbert When members of Ohio University’s Combat Veterans Club (OUCVC) aren’t working in their Baker University Center office, organizing group enrichment events or spending ...

Ohio EPA issues 2017 Encouraging Environmental Excellence Award to Ohio University

3 min

Oct 19, 2017 From staff reports Ohio University President M. Duane Nellis announced today that OHIO has received the Ohio EPA’s 2017 Encouraging Environmental Excellence (E3) Award. Ohio Univers...

Free bicycle valet parking available near Peden Stadium during October 21 OHIO Football game

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Oct 19, 2017 From staff reports This Saturday, October 21, the community is encouraged to ride their bicycles to Peden Stadium for the 2 p.m. OHIO football game against Kent State; OHIO’s free Bo...

President Nellis announces strategic pathways for Ohio University’s future during investiture address

7 min

Oct 19, 2017 From staff reports The Ohio University Board of Trustees welcomed delegates from higher education institutions around the world to campus Wednesday afternoon as students, faculty, st...

Ohio University Presents the 2017-2018 Presidential Leaders at Inauguration

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Oct 18, 2017 From staff reports During his investiture speech in the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium, Ohio University President M. Duane Nellis spoke about 26 students who will be ...

San Francisco alumni run to fund blood cancer research

2 min

Oct 18, 2017 By Julie Ciotola In September, nearly 50 Bobcats and friends laced up their running shoes for the second annual Bobcats by the Bay 5k in San Francisco. The race, hosted by OHIO’s San...

OHIO, Leipzig, Hong Kong Baptist students map out future message for OHIO to international students

5 min

Oct 17, 2017 Jim Sabin It took Marie Schuster all of five days to feel perfectly at home at Ohio University. That’s why she and a group of students from Germany’s Leipzig University and Hong Kong...

Fossil discovery from Tanzania reveals ancient bobcat-sized carnivore

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Oct 17, 2017 From staff reports Paleontologists from Ohio University have discovered a new species of extinct meat-eating mammal that lived alongside the oldest-known apes and Old World monkeys. ...

Getting to know Coach Zack Pollock

4 min

Oct 16, 2017 Christine Shaw We asked Coach Pollock a few questions to get to know a little about him and why he accepted the position of coach for the Tracer Baseball program. Why is having athle...

Newmark Foundation grant to enable research by IWMF and TrollBusters on online harassment of female journalists in U.S.

3 min

Oct 16, 2017 From staff reports The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) has just received a grant from the Craig Newmark Foundation to conduct research in the United States on online ha...

OHIO astrophysicist contributes to discovery of neutron star merger

4 min

Oct 16, 2017 From staff reports Ohio University astrophysicist Dr. Ryan Chornock is part of a large international team of scientists that reported a major new discovery about the cosmos today. Si...

iCUE Spotlight: Oct. 16-22, 2017

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Oct 16, 2017 By Carlie Meyers Welcome to Week 8 of fall semester, Bobcats! It's a truly historic week because it is officially Inauguration Week for Dr. M. Duane Nellis. Be sure to attend the cer...

Meet Rusty Thomas, September Classified Employee of the Month

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Oct 16, 2017 Compiled by George E. Mauzy Jr. Compass features a Q&A with the non-bargaining Classified Employee of the Month. Each month, Classified Senate selects an employee to acknowledge and ...

Exhibition reception, lecture, panel discussion and community-sponsored Confederate flag hanging performance by artist John Sims

5 min

Oct 16, 2017 From staff reports Ohio University presents visiting artist John Sims, in conjunction with the Kennedy Museum of Art’s exhibition “Expression and Repression: Contemporary Art Censors...

Intramural sports to include wheelchair basketball – open to all ability levels

2 min

Oct 16, 2017 By Juli Holbert Ohio University’s Department of Campus Recreation is preparing to launch its Fall II Intramural Sports Season, which, for the first time ever, will include wheelchair...
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