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A mentor in her corner

November 15, 2016 4 min

Megan Katchmer entered the OHIO Women’s Center’s Mentoring Program seeking networking and advice on how to stand out to potential employers.

Telling it like it is

November 15, 2016 6 min

The former U.S. surgeon general (who served in that post in the early 1990s) discusses her views on issues such as teen pregnancy as well as the status of health and sex-ed in the U.S. Additional topics encompass the inspirations for her career in medicine and advocacy.

OHIO women and ohiowomen convene in Cleveland, promote leadership

November 12, 2016 4 min

More than 800 women met to connect, dialogue, share experiences, and offer support at the Women’s Leadership Symposium at the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Auditorium in April.

Bobcat breakthrough in hepatitis C treatment

September 16, 2016 2 min

Forty-eight weeks is a long time to endure a physically punishing treatment with only a 40 percent success rate. This was the reality for patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV). President and CEO of Achillion Pharmaceuticals and Ohio University alumnus Milind Deshpande, PHD ’87, was determined to create a drug with better outcomes, one that could cut the treatment time and intense side effects experienced by patients.

OHIO nurtures student ideas during annual innovation contests

August 5, 2016 5 min

Four Ohio University students—all from outside the U.S.— won the University’s internal Scripps Innovation Challenge Pitch Day in March and then the broader Scripps International Innovators Cup in April for their solution to the problem.

Innovation redux

June 13, 2016 8 min

Ohio Today introduced The Big Idea in summer 2009, profiling innovators—experimenters, creators, educators, and inventors—whose ideas took root or took off at Ohio University. Innovation, by definition, means change, so we decided to check in with Bobcats profiled in the issue for an update.

Born into a slum, alumnus emerges as a life-changing innovator

June 11, 2016 9 min

Bobcat thanks OHIO education with helping make a difference in his native Kenyan community.

How not to lay a three-minute egg

June 10, 2016 3 min

Graduate students and doctoral candidates: Ready? Set? Explain your research in lay terms in exactly three minutes!

To find new words, employ the senses

June 9, 2016 2 min

“English is a magpie,” drawled poet Ellen Bryant Voigt in her deep Southern accent, lecturing to an attentive audience about the roots English has in other languages.