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Dr. Susan Burgess honored during distinguished professor portrait unveiling and lecture

March 5, 2019 5 min

Her recognition was celebrated by the campus community during a Portrait Unveiling and Distinguished Professor Lecture on Feb. 25 in the Baker University Center Ballroom.

Reminder: Ohio facilities conference call is March 7

March 5, 2019 2 min

Updates for the media about OHIO’s capital improvement and other Facilities news.

iCUE Spotlight: March 8-21, 2019

March 5, 2019 3 min

Mar 5, 2019 From staff reports Take a look at the upcoming events on the official OHIO Calendar of University Events. Anyone with an active OHIO ID can log in and complete the form to add events ...

Start Small

March 5, 2019 2 min

"Little Otter Learns to Swim," authored by Artie Knapp, AIS ’04, and illustrated by Guy Hobbs, teaches children the value of persistence in overcoming fears and challenges when acquiring new skills, using North American river otters as inspiration. The book, published by Ohio University Press, also pays tribute to the species and incorporates conservation messages contributed by the River Otter Ecology Project.

How to Live, Be, & Lead

March 5, 2019 2 min

Melinda Tsapatsaris, BSED ’98, applies progressive pedagogy learned from OHIO’s Creating Active and Reflective Educators (CARE) program as the head of school at Westland School in Los Angeles, emphasizing inquiry-based, experiential learning and collaborative teacher-student partnerships in the democratic act of learning.

Compass and OEN emails to take 2019 Spring Break hiatus

March 5, 2019 1 min

Mar 5, 2019 From staff reports In observance of Ohio University's 2019 Spring Break, which will be observed March 11-15, Ohio Employee News (OEN) and Compass emails will not be distributed. The O...

OHIO helps host nationwide gathering on future of fraternity and sorority life

March 5, 2019 3 min

Mar 5, 2019 From staff reports Ohio University, along with other Ohio universities, acted as unofficial hosts for the inaugural national Fraternity and Sorority Life Convening held on Jan. 31 at ...

Dining court information during spring break

March 5, 2019 1 min

Mar 5, 2019 From staff reports Ohio University’s Spring Break is scheduled from March 10 through March 16. All of the residential dining courts operated by OHIO’s Culinary Services will be closed...

Bromley Hall slated for infrastructure upgrade

March 5, 2019 2 min

Mar 5, 2019 From staff reports Bromley Hall will get new a heating and cooling upgrade, among other improvement, as part of an infrastructure project set to begin in March. Located at 35 South Co...

Ohio University researcher Khairul Alam elected Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

March 5, 2019 3 min

Mar 5, 2019 From staff reports The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Dr. Khairul Alam, an Ohio University professor of mechanical engineering in the Russ College of Engineering and Te...

OHIO Ready Staff program welcomes new cohort

March 5, 2019 2 min

Mar 5, 2019 From staff reports OHIO Ready Staff welcomed four new employees in March. Becky Arnold, Kathleen Riggs, Elisabeth Shaner, and Kate Wilkinson are the newest members of the program, run...

PRSSA students host panel to 'make it DIVERSE.'

March 4, 2019 3 min

Mar 4, 2019 From staff reports Members of the Athens community and diversity experts from the communications field discussed the lack of diversity and inclusion in the communications industry at ...

University Update

Call for applications for Kohei Miura Professorship

March 4, 2019 2 min

Mar 4, 2019 From staff reports Ohio University’s Chubu University Relations Committee (CRC) is currently accepting applications for the 2020 Kohei Miura Visiting Professorship, named in honor of ...

New bioethics lecture series kicks off March 28 with keynote speaker Bruce Jennings

March 4, 2019 4 min

Mar 4, 2019 By Joe Higgins The Jennifer Horner Lecture in Bioethics Series will debut on March 28 from 10:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Ohio University’s Grover Center in rooms E234 and E238 featuring a l...

Chuck D of Public Enemy to keynote second annual Ohio University Music Industry Summit

March 4, 2019 3 min

Mar 4, 2019 From staff reports Legendary rap icon Chuck D from Public Enemy will headline the second annual Ohio University Music Industry Summit, which features more than six hours of panels and...