Place Based Programs & Resources

Archives & Special Collections collects, preserves, and makes available primary source resources for a variety of experiential learning opportunities. Across the collecting areas: Ohio University Archives, Rare Books, Manuscript Collections, and the Documentary Photography Archive, we provide primary source and visual literacy instruction focused on encouraging critical thinking and inquiry through hands-on engagement with original materials and through supportive group discussions. Opportunities exist for topic or theme specific sessions or general introductions to archival and special collections materials, behind-the-scenes tours, or workshops (zine-making, cursive, artists’ books, etc.). We also welcome your ideas! Learn more on the OHIO Archives Blog (most posts by OHIO students), the Digital Archives, and through digital exhibits.

Contact Information:

Miriam Intrator, Head of Archives & Special Collections and Rare Book Librarian, intrator@ohio.edu 

The mission of the Stevens Center for Literacy and STEM Education is to advance the fields of literacy and STEM Education through research, teaching, and outreach collaboratives. The Stevens Center seeks to create more innovative, responsive, and inclusive literacy and STEM learning opportunities for individuals across the lifespan. Green STEM Camp, a unique summer program offered through The Patton College of Education's Stevens Center for Literacy and STEM Education, is designed to educate and empower children and youth ages 7-11 about environmental conservation and climate change.

The OHIO Student Farm features student gardens, a tunnel for year-round growing, and field plots. The farm is located at 338 W. State St., Athens, OH 45701. The facility encompasses approximately two acres of planted space, mostly vegetables, and some small grains. The garden also has a variety of perennials, including grapes, hops, rhubarb, blueberries, strawberries, horseradish, and of course, lots of bamboo. Herbs and a selection of medicinal plants and planted for teaching use.

The high tunnel is 30 feet wide and 96 feet long, with approximately 3,000 square feet. The tunnel enables student to raise lettuce, broccoli, onions, cauliflower, peas and beets in the cooler months, and then follow in the warmer months with peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers and seed crop broccoli.

In the OHIO Student Farm, students and faculty do both a spring-summer garden plan and an extensive fall garden as well.

In addition to classes that specifically use the garden as a resource, it also is used as a destination for learning communities, such as UC 1900. And it is a place where students can fulfill community service hours, if they choose to do so.

For more information, contact Dr. David Rosenthal.

The Kennedy Museum of Art is an integral part of the educational, research, and public service missions of Ohio University. The purpose of the Kennedy Museum of Art is to enhance the intellectual and cultural life of Ohio University and the region through quality national and international exhibitions, collection-based research, and diverse formal and informal learning opportunities. The Kennedy Museum of Art exercises its public trust by focusing its collections on those works of art that it has the resources and capabilities to house, preserve, study and exhibit.

As an academic museum with a teaching mission, the Museum provides Ohio University students, faculty and staff, as well as the greater community, with engaging and thought provoking encounters. Exhibitions, programs and events are designed to acknowledge that art is best experienced when presented in a contextual and interdisciplinary environment. To that end, the Museum serves as a learning laboratory for Ohio University, community schools and visitors.

The Ohio University Innovation Center is an internationally acclaimed business incubator that provides resources and guidance to startup companies located in Athens and the surrounding region. In its custom-built and newly renovated 36,000 square foot facility, the Innovation Center is a key player in fueling the economic development of Southeast Ohio. The center supports its clients with a considerable range of resources via onsite client membership, which includes professional office space, laboratories, conference and meeting spaces, access to an expansive network of public and private business industry experts, a fully-equipped business center, and onsite parking.

The 4,576 square-foot greenhouse and 1,250 square-foot headhouse and storage area were erected in 1972, with the adjacent 1-acre garden starting in 1979.

The mission of the greenhouse and instructional garden is to provide a plant collection that serves the interest of Environmental & Plant Biology students, faculty, and staff as well as other interested academic units.

In addition, the facilities provide an opportunity for outreach to the community of Athens. The plant collections demonstrate taxonomic diversity including economically important plants, succulents, and epiphytes.

What is a Makerspace? A Makerspace is a collaborative workspace for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses high tech to no tech tools. These spaces are open to adolescents, adults, students, and entrepreneurs and have a variety of maker equipment including 3D printers, laser cutters, cnc machines, soldering irons and even sewing machines with the end goal of building community and innovation through making.

CoLab’s mission is to enable and empower students to live and grow through creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Through this, we hope to achieve a more connected and innovation-focused community that creates with the goal of changing the world.

Ohio University’s School of Theater is built around experience, where committed faculty artist mentors encourage the exploration and tenacity that develops bold artists with unique voices. To truly thrive in the theater, one must explore the space, take risks while simultaneously feeling safe, and immerse oneself in the art that happens in front of the curtain and the operations behind it.