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    Medical students practice Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine in Athens Ohio

    Power to the patients

    March 8, 2019 4 min

    Care for medical patients is changing: The one-doctor-knows-all approach is being replaced by the team approach. OHIO’s Heritage College has responded by training its students to embrace the power of team-based practice.
    Buddhist monks work on drawing a mandala

    The making of a mandala

    March 8, 2019 1 min

    Tibetan monks from the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery in Dehradun, India, visited OHIO’s Athens campus in October. In six days, they created an intricate Peace Mandala. Then, on the sixth day, they destroyed it.
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    How to Live, Be, & Lead

    March 5, 2019 2 min

    Melinda Tsapatsaris, BSED ’98, applies progressive pedagogy learned from OHIO’s Creating Active and Reflective Educators (CARE) program as the head of school at Westland School in Los Angeles, emphasizing inquiry-based, experiential learning and collaborative teacher-student partnerships in the democratic act of learning.
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    On Being Heard

    March 1, 2019 3 min

    Ohio Today spoke with Dashiell about her career in journalism and about views on politics, life, and humanity. An excerpt of the interview follows.
    People sit across a sidewalk in protest in 1970

    Voices of change

    October 30, 2018 4 min

    College campuses surge with activism and dialogue when national issues of the day arise, and Ohio University is no exception. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, unrest regarding race, gender, and war shook the small college town in the Appalachian foothills.
    Two women pose together

    In her footsteps

    October 29, 2018 3 min

    Over the past 15 years, two OHIO women have learned from and supported one another and, in recent years, have nurtured their shared Bobcat connection.
    Chemical engineering senior and Society of Women Engineers President Ashley Weitzel helps an Athens-area Girl Scout assemble a Rube Goldberg machine at the groups’ “Buildings, Brains, and Boxes” design contest

    The future (of engineering) is female

    October 28, 2018 4 min

    Ohio University students studying engineering and technology know to expect rigorous coursework and lots of career options. The field’s female students also know to expect a huge gender gap.
    Ohio University class of 1873

    A legacy fulfilled

    October 25, 2018 6 min

    One hundred and fifty years ago, Margaret Boyd stepped onto the Athens campus and into the Ohio University history books as the institution’s first female student.
    A woman sits at the head of a set table

    A place to gather

    October 17, 2018 3 min

    Francine Childs, HON ’97, EMERT ’05, is many things to many people. Ohio University’s first tenured black professor, she’s a stalwart social justice advocate. On campus and in the community, she’s a symbol of perseverance, selflessness, and spunk. To her students, she’s simply “Doc,” or more affectionately, “Mama Childs.”
    Grace Cahill spots birds at Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park—a popular fauna-spotting location—while Lou Duloisy watches Mount Moran emerge from behind the morning fog

    Connecting Mountains

    August 17, 2018 3 min

    Three years ago, Ralph Haberfeld, AB ’69, had an epiphany that has connected two distinct, picturesque places: Athens, Ohio, in the Appalachian foothills, and Jackson Hole, bordering western Wyoming’s Teton peaks.
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    More grit from Gipe

    August 17, 2018 2 min

    Robert Gipe of Harlan, Kentucky, has long advocated for both social justice and the arts in Appalachia.
    JD Kittle, co-founder of Molecular Technologies Laboratories

    Rooted in place

    August 17, 2018 2 min

    The first thing you see in JD Kittle’s office at Ohio University’s Innovation Center is a table. Not the usual kind with four legs, but a narrow board laid horizontally across a small ladder. Utilitarian and practical. Much like Kittle himself.
    Before the epic task of moving the Hocking River took place in 1970, water would course through campus and cause massive flooding.

    We survived!

    August 17, 2018 2 min

    Prior to 1970, when the Hocking River would tumble over its banks, the nearby Athens Campus would be ravaged by the floodwaters. Moving the river in 1970 to its current location—an epic task—removed the annual threat so the Athens Campus could expand. Excerpts of alumni stories about the 1964 and 1968 floods paired with archival and submitted photos follow.
    Kelley Brumfield, BSS ’16, dances with her daughter

    Onward with OMSAR

    August 17, 2018 3 min

    Data shows that multicultural students don’t always thrive on predominantly white campuses, but OHIO’s OMSAR is turning the tide.
    Bobcats from around the globe make the International Street Festival a staple amidst myriad community events that take place spring semester. Photo by Kaitlin Owens, BSVC ’17.

    That extra mile

    August 17, 2018 3 min

    Through resourcefulness, perseverance, and a hand from International Student and Faculty Services, OHIO’s international students thrive.
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