Stories tagged with: Ohio Today - Winter 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Best threads
December 18, 2017 In job interviews and in life, confidence is key. One of the more effective ways to feel your best is to look your best, and that includes rocking a sharp outfit. OHIO’s Career & Leadership Development Center’s (CLDC) Career Closet supplies free professional attire for students entering interviews so they look hip and swish for that all-important first impression. It’s housed at the CLDC’s Baker University Center office. Head to toe interview ensembles are at the ready, and more than 20 students used the service last year.
A healthy perspective
December 18, 2017 Ohio University has a culture of doing. Bobcats don’t like to sit on the sidelines—they’d rather go out into the world, see for themselves, and figure out if they can make a difference. OHIO’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) gives students a way to turn this hunger to do good into acts of goodwill.
Always home at OHIO
December 17, 2017 The narrow, twisting two-lane roads between Canton, Ohio, where I was born and raised, and Athens, Ohio, where I lived for nine years, became an important lifeline for me between ages 18 and 27. Long before there were any major highways between the two places, I travelled back and forth between them, through small towns such as Zoar and New Philadelphia, Newcomerstown and Cambridge, and Zanesville and Glouster and Chauncey. I knew these winding roads by heart. I could drive them in my sleep, and sometimes thought I had.
The power of a shared story
December 17, 2017 “It is powerful to share a story,” said self-recognized ambassador for literacy Julie Francis. “Reading a story aloud takes people on a journey together.”
A friend to remember
December 17, 2017 This homage to the late Ohio University Professor Emeritus of History Gifford Doxsee by Michael Brant illustrates the powerful connection OHIO students often make with exceptional faculty.
Mary Manusos: Art as response to our world
December 14, 2017 A lifetime spent responding sensitively and vigorously to the world around her, Ohio University Professor Emerita of Art Mary Manusos taught printmaking to generations of budding artists in the Seigfred Hall print shops.
EXCLUSIVE: Good call
December 14, 2017 When a February 2017 fire ripped through the Carriage Hill Apartments—home to Ohio University students and Athens residents alike—Baker University Center served as a donation center for clothes, food, and other basic resources. Post-crisis, leftover canned food remained, giving life to the Baker University Center Food Pantry.
A peek inside ‘Prof’
December 12, 2017
Geoffrey Dabelko is a renowned expert on security and the environment. He researches and draws connections between the environment, health, population, conflict, and security for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars. As professor, director of Environmental Studies, and associate dean at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs, Dabelko teaches courses on natural resources, conflict and peacebuilding, and environmental leadership. But he doesn’t do this work of global good only from his office at The Ridges. His love for adventure takes him to the Balkans, California, Washington, D.C., and beyond.
