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Pete Kotses ties indicator line on a tree branch in the woods

Fast-tracking Trail Building

June 8, 2019 3 min

��Ƶ students join forces with the Wayne National Forest, providing essential data for the proposed 88-mile Baileys Trail System. In a cross-disciplinary effort, students contribute to environmental surveys and research on ecotourism marketing, accelerating the trail planning process and fostering regional economic development and community connectivity.

Art as Landscape

June 8, 2019 2 min

Andrea Frohne, an associate professor of art history, discusses her career exploring the visual landscape of African culture and her book on New York City’s African Burial Ground. She shares personal insights, from early memories to favorite smells.

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.

Better Together

March 6, 2019 2 min

��Ƶ encourages students to integrate bystander intervention techniques, supported by Better Bystanders' Four D's of Intervention, fostering a safer and more supportive community.

A place to gather

October 17, 2018 3 min

Francine Childs, HON ’97, EMERT ’05, is many things to many people. ��Ƶ’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.”

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 ��Ƶ’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.

Writing with resolve

July 25, 2018 2 min

Kelly Sundberg’s sunny demeanor belies the turbulence she experienced for almost 10 years that began in her mid-twenties.

Thomas Suddes, MA '02, CERT, PHD '09; Howard Wilkinson; and Trista Thurston, BSJ '16, serve as panelists for the conference's topic, "The Regional News Media During the Presidential Election of 2016."

Daring to dialogue

May 14, 2018 3 min

A conference about peace typically invites panelists from war-torn countries or populations clashing overseas. This year, OHIO’s Baker Peace Conference (BPC)—a 30-year leader in international peacekeeping discourse—addressed divisions felt on our own soil, among communities separated by mere miles.

Difficult dialogues

May 14, 2018 2 min

OHIO’s George Washington Forum exemplifies a strategic pathway established by OHIO President M. Duane Nellis: “Becoming a place where dialogue and rigorous, civil debate are institutional hallmarks.” Founded in 2009, the effort, supported by alumni and friends, foundations, and corporations, provides space on campus for this dialogue to occur.

Food for thought

December 18, 2017 4 min

Jack Demain stands at a table in the basement of United Campus Ministry and begins chopping a head of green cabbage, which he then massages in front of an attentive audience of about two dozen people, mostly ��Ƶ students. They’ve come to this presentation on fermented foods to learn how to make sauerkraut, part of a collaboration between the Athens Vegan Cooking Workshop and the student group Food Matters at ��Ƶ.

Landmarks bit by bit

November 18, 2015 6 min

Molecular biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, OHIO’s only Nobel Prize winner, answers questions about science and his role in it.

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