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2018 Leadership Awards Gala celebrates Bobcats who are ‘leading with passion’ (PHOTOS)

April 25, 2018 13 min

Apr 25, 2018 By Angela Woodward; Photos by Evan Leonard Members of the Ohio University community gathered the evening of April 18 for an annual event that celebrates students who exemplify the mi...

Recipients of 2018 Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award honored

April 24, 2018 4 min

Apr 24, 2018 By Emily Baxstrom On Thursday, April 19, four graduate students were presented with the Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award (GAOTA) during the annual ceremony in Alden Libr...

Successful student and busy mom awarded scholarship

April 24, 2018 2 min

Apr 24, 2018 By Mary Van Nostrand Succeeding as a mother and a student keeps Ashley Lewis very busy. She has five children, ages 4 through 19, and she is double majoring in history and middle sch...

Meet April Classified Employee of the Month April Koska

April 24, 2018 3 min

Apr 24, 2018 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 ...

CLDC’s Career Closet expands to larger space, provides students professional attire

April 24, 2018 4 min

Apr 24, 2018 By Juli Holbert As many Ohio University students are preparing to dive into summer internships and employment opportunities, they may want to make one stop before departing the Athen...

29 Park Place to serve as heart of OHIO’s academic engagement efforts

April 23, 2018 4 min

Apr 23, 2018 From staff reports The former presidential residence at 29 Park Place will be repurposed into a communal space designed to raise the profile of academic engagement across Ohio Univer...

Ohio University Art Gallery presents the work of graduate students Sam Briegel, Cassidy Brauner

April 23, 2018 2 min

Apr 23, 2018 From staff reports The Ohio University School of Art + Design presents an exhibition of two M.F.A. candidates, Sam Briegel and Cassidy Brauner, on view May 1–May 9, in the Ohio Unive...

President Nellis announces finalists for OHIO's first-ever Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion

April 23, 2018 2 min

Apr 23, 2018 From staff reports Ohio University President M. Duane Nellis has announced that the University is entering the final stages of its search for OHIO's first-ever Vice President for Div...

University Program Council to host ‘Zoo to yOU’

April 23, 2018 1 min

Apr 23, 2018 From staff reports Ohio University’s University Program Council (UPC) will be hosting “Zoo to yOU” from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, on OHIO’s South Beach. All Ohio University st...

OHIO to join ‘Ghana Meets the World’

April 23, 2018 5 min

Apr 23, 2018 From staff reports Ohio University will join several partners to honor the 25th anniversary of the National Theatre of Ghana with a six-day celebration featuring an international sym...

Kushinda/Ritos de Pasaje celebration to honor graduating multicultural students May 4

April 23, 2018 2 min

Apr 23, 2018 From staff reports Ohio University's Kushinda/Ritos de Pasaje celebration will occur at 7 p.m. Friday, May 4, in Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. A complement to the ...

Dennis Irwin to retire as dean of Russ College of Engineering and Technology

April 22, 2018 3 min

Apr 22, 2018 From staff reports Interim Ohio University Executive Vice President and Provost Elizabeth Sayrs has announced that Dennis Irwin will be retiring as dean of the Fritz J. and Dolores H...

Scott Seaman to retire as dean of Ohio University Libraries

April 20, 2018 2 min

Apr 20, 2018 From staff reports Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Elizabeth Sayrs has announced that Scott Seaman will be retiring as dean of Ohio University Libraries, effective Dec. ...

Campus Climate Task Force subcommittee shares strategy to improve employee compensation

April 20, 2018 4 min

Apr 20, 2018 From staff reports Background In 2014, Ohio University Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit established the Campus Climate Task Force to evaluate information resulting fro...

Ten things you may not know about Alden Library but should (PHOTOS)

April 20, 2018 8 min

Apr 20, 2018 By Erin Franczak Alden Library, a haven for students, faculty and community members alike, has evolved throughout the years in many ways, but has remained the heart of Ohio Universit...