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Students browse and shop at Jefferson Hall Marketplace

EXCLUSIVE: Good call

When a February 2017 fire ripped through the Carriage Hill Apartments—home to Ohio University students and Athens residents alike—Baker University Center served as a donation center for clothes, food, and other basic resources. Post-crisis, leftover canned food remained, giving life to the Baker University Center Food Pantry.

Geoffrey Dabelko is a renowned expert on security and the environment

A peek inside ‘Prof’

Geoffrey Dabelko is a renowned expert on security and the environment. He researches and draws connections between the environment, health, population, conflict, and security for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars. As professor, director of Environmental Studies, and associate dean at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs, Dabelko teaches courses on natural resources, conflict and peacebuilding, and environmental leadership. But he doesn’t do this work of global good only from his office at The Ridges. His love for adventure takes him to the Balkans, California, Washington, D.C., and beyond.

You asked, we answered

You asked, we answered

ohiowomen interviews 15 alumnau across America

Though Grasselli Brown retired from Standard Oil Company in 1989, her scientific ambitions and philanthropic support for multiple organizations remains.

Dig deep

When Jeanette Grasselli Brown, BS ’50, HON ’78, embarked on her career with Standard Oil Company in 1950, she had few women to look to for professional advice. Self-taught ambition, determination, and a relentless work ethic formed the foundation of her success.

Distinguished humor

Distinguished humor

The Distinguished Professor Award, OHIO’s highest recognition for faculty, has been bestowed since 1959. Of the fifty-six who have received it, four are women. Judith Yaross Lee, an interdisciplinary Americanist, became the fourth in 2016.

Aiming high

Aiming high

Throughout her twenty-four-year career with the Air Force, Lt. Col. Layla Sweet has aimed high, taking on leadership roles and challenging her minority status as a woman in the military.

Not alone

Not alone

A photo series on the historic Monument Quilt at Peden Stadium

Golden rules

Fifty-four years ago, in 1963, nine fresh-faced, very naïve young women gathered on the third floor of Bryan Hall to claim three very small rooms.

Common ground

Common ground

When Ashley Ferguson, BSJ ’06, and Sam Grier, BSVC ’05, met on a recent late-summer evening in Cincinnati, their first question for each other came naturally and immediately: Who do we both know?

Turning the tide in tech

Turning the tide in tech

The tech industry is male-dominated at best, and a chauvinist hub at worst. At least that’s what headlines churning about Silicon Valley would suggest.

Framing a friendship

Framing a friendship

For the past two years, Ohio University alumnae Joline Atkins, BSC ’91, and Gwen Titley, BSVC ’13, have crisscrossed the borough of Beaver, Pennsylvania, about an hour’s drive northwest of Pittsburgh, filming one hundred episodes of the Beaver County Times’ health-focused video series For the Health of It.

No strangers among Bobcats

No strangers among Bobcats

Alumnae from the 1970s to the 2010s meet for the first time—and learn about the similarities they share beyond being Bobcats.

Design, build, live

Leanne Ford counts going to Ohio University as “one of the top five best decisions” she’s made in her life.

Pete Souza sitting at a table with former colleague Marcia Nighswander, conducting a radio interview

Pete Souza: Behind the images

What’s one of your first stops after spending eight years photographing the leader of the world’s most influential nation? For Pete Souza, it was to return to Ohio University and deliver his first presentation of work from his past life as the former President Barack Obama’s chief official White House photographer.

Tantrum Theater’s outburst

Tantrum Theater’s outburst

OHIO’s new professional theater company invigorates the Central Ohio cultural landscape

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