College of Arts and Sciences Stories

Mike Kline’s wife Stephanie Kline, left, OHIO Zanesville employee Mary Lou Wilson (center) and Mike Kline at the 50th anniversary celebration for Ohio University Zanesville.

Ohio University Zanesville campus professor Mike Kline leaves legacy

July 22, 2021 6 min

When history professor Mike Kline passed away at age 80 on June 30, copies of his “15 Great Truths of Learning” started showing up on alumni social posts.

Summer Law & Trial Institute student Kareena Phagoo cross examines Danica Nelson as Judge Saunders presides.

Alumni, legal community help give high school students hands-on experience in Summer Law & Trial Institute

July 21, 2021 9 min

Twenty high school students from Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania got to try their hands at a career in law through the 2021 Summer Law & Trial Institute at Ohio University.

Data science graphic on age-adjusted death rates

New data science course gives students skills to explore real-world issues

July 15, 2021 2 min

Ohio University offers a new course this fall designed to give students in any major the skills they need to ask questions and explore problems using data.

Brian Collins dives into ancient Sanskrit poem and comes up with - a modern plotline?

July 15, 2021 5 min

How does a non-traditional college student end up a preeminent scholar decoding an ancient Indian myth about a Hindu god with a resemblance to Oedipus?

Sarah Welch to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

July 9, 2021 7 min

Ohio University alumna Sarah Welch ’16 is headed to Washington, D.C., where she'll clerk for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

OHIO experts discuss severe weather and climate

July 8, 2021 1 min

Ohio University meteorology professors in the College of Arts and Sciences discussed severe weather development and how climate impacts it in the latest Ask the Experts livestream.

OHIO professor Snell receives NSF grant to transform the model for examining climate change and forests

July 7, 2021 3 min

Dr. Rebecca Snell will construct a new way to predict how forests might respond to climate change thanks to a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant designed for potentially transformative research.

Ghirmai Negash talks about censorship and liberation, the life of an African writer

July 7, 2021 7 min

For many African writers, censorship can entail a lived experience as well as a current threat, even for those who emigrated to the United States.

OHIO physicists are getting even closer to the Big Bang, thanks to a new way to examine light from the past

July 1, 2021 6 min

Ohio University physicists are using data from 20 years of ground-based observations of the night sky from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to tackle a fundamental physics question.

99 inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, 7 receive Wolfe Awards

June 28, 2021 8 min

Ninety-nine highly accomplished juniors and seniors were inducted into Ohio University's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, and seven students shared the Thomas A. Wolfe Award.

Sabrina Curran and Claire Terhune work on a lab table covered with fossils

Curran searches for clues to human dispersal into Europe along the Danube River

June 28, 2021 5 min

Early human ancestors 2 million years ago would have found a hospitable environment to enter Europe through southern Romania along the Danube River and its tributaries, says an OHIO anthropologist.

Schoen will help elevate humanities in new Ping Institute professorship

June 18, 2021 7 min

Dr. Brian Schoen brings his expertise to his new role as the James Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Professor of the Charles J. Ping Institute for Teaching of the Humanities.

Emma Rice poses for a picture in the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), with the number 13 out of 30 total circuitries needed to build GRETA (Gamma Ray Energy Tracking Array)

OHIO Goldwater Scholar studies nuclear physics in national California lab

June 16, 2021 5 min

Ohio University student Emma Rice, an upcoming senior and physics major in the Honors Tutorial College, was recently named a 2021 Goldwater Scholar for her physics research.

Six Ohio University students, five alumni and professor selected as Fulbright Scholars

May 26, 2021 7 min

Six OHIO students, five alumni and a professor have been selected as recipients for the Fulbright Program.

Two pictures side by side, one of Dr. Nathaniel Szewczyk and the other of Dr. Sarah Wyatt in her lab.

Tiny seedlings and 3 million worms: Two OHIO experiments headed to International Space Station on June 3

May 26, 2021 6 min

When NASA's SpaceX Commercial Resupply Mission-22 launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 3, it will carry two Ohio University experiments to the International Space Station.

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