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Ohio University Eastern and Blame My Roots Fest partnership celebrates alumni, offers music industry employment opportunities

April 22, 2022 Ohio University Eastern has teamed up with the 2022 Blame My Roots Festival to celebrate alumni and extend music-industry employment opportunities to current students as part of its 65th anniversary.

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OHIO students educate the community about green roofs

April 22, 2022 Ohio University students are taking their voices, their models and even coloring books into the local community to demonstrate the benefits of green roofs to area children and families.

Joel Compston is shown putting the finishing touches on a model of a green roof project

OHIO Lancaster Student Awarded the Charles J. Ping Award

March 24, 2022 Ohio University Lancaster student, McKenzie Taylor, was awarded the Charles J. Ping Award.

McKenzie Taylor

MLK event aims to bring community together

March 23, 2022 In memory of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ohio University Southern will host a community discussion of “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” on the anniversary of the Civil Rights leader’s death.

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Southern campus to host virtual poetry reading

March 14, 2022 Ohio University Southern will host a reading featuring the anthology “I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices.” The virtual event will be from 6-8 p.m. April 7, 2022.

I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices

OHIO Lancaster Theatre to bring A Comedy of Tenors to the Wagner Theatre

February 24, 2022 Ohio University Lancaster Theatre is pleased to announce its spring production, "A Comedy of Tenors," the first live production in the Wagner Theatre of 2022.

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16th annual Celebrate Women conference set for March 25

February 15, 2022 Celebrating Resilience and Rejuvenation is the theme of the 16th annual Celebrate Women conference scheduled for March 25, 2022.

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Alumni Spotlight: Sarah Rarick

February 10, 2022 Sarah Rarick graduated from OHIO Lancaster’s early childhood education program in 2015. Rarick is now in her sixth year of teaching and currently teaches third grade for Lancaster City Schools.

Alumni Spotlight, Sarah Rarick, early childhood education 2015

OHIO Lancaster seeking nominations for the Jane Johnsen Women of Vision Award

January 31, 2022 Nominations are open for OHIO Lancaster’s Jane Johnsen Women of Vision Award, part of OHIO Lancaster’s sixteenth annual Celebrate Women conference taking place March 25, 2022.

Jane Johnsen, Women of Vision Award

New art exhibit opens in the Wilkes Gallery

January 31, 2022 What We Leave Behind, a new art exhibit by artist Jennifer Jolley Brown, has opened in the Wilkes Gallery at Ohio University Lancaster.

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Ohio University partners with Jackson County to train community health workers

December 21, 2021 The Jackson County Health Department is working in partnership with OHIO to train and deploy 13 community health workers to address public health concerns and impacts of COVID-19 across 11 counties.

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Child and Family Studies’ Child-Life program offers support to children at vaccine clinics

December 20, 2021 Child and Family Studies’ Child-Life program have been working with the Athens City-County Health Department 5- to 11-year-old child vaccine clinics to help ease the children's anxiety.

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OHIO donates large amount of food to Athens Food Rescue

December 10, 2021 OHIO donated about 1,600 pounds of food to the Athens Food Rescue (AFR) over Thanksgiving break to benefit charities who feed the hungry.

Athens Food Rescue

HTC journalism students work to share information in four Ohio communities

December 8, 2021 OHIO's Honors Tutorial College journalism students mapped, designed and sent to area libraries information as to where to find food, accessible Internet, and reasonable transportation.

Green Drive-In WiFi hotspot sign in grass in front of parking spot

Ohio University awarded INSPIRE Initiative Award from ARC to help provide training and work support to individuals recovering from substance use disorder

November 23, 2021 OHIO was awarded $500,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission to create a series of paths through which individuals in recovery will obtain training and work support.

Aerial view of the Athens campus with the Hocking River on one side and rolling Appalachian hills on the other
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