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Aiming high

October 25, 2017 1 min

Throughout her twenty-four-year career with the Air Force, Lt. Col. Layla Sweet has aimed high, taking on leadership roles and challenging her minority status as a woman in the military.

Golden rules

October 19, 2017 5 min

Fifty-four years ago, in 1963, nine fresh-faced, very naïve young women gathered on the third floor of Bryan Hall to claim three very small rooms.

Design, build, live

October 12, 2017 3 min

Leanne Ford counts going to ��Ƶ as “one of the top five best decisions” she’s made in her life.

Turning the tide in tech

October 12, 2017 7 min

The tech industry is male-dominated at best, and a chauvinist hub at worst. At least that’s what headlines churning about Silicon Valley would suggest.

Framing a friendship

October 12, 2017 3 min

For the past two years, ��Ƶ alumnae Joline Atkins, BSC ’91, and Gwen Titley, BSVC ’13, have crisscrossed the borough of Beaver, Pennsylvania, about an hour’s drive northwest of Pittsburgh, filming one hundred episodes of the Beaver County Times’ health-focused video series For the Health of It.

No strangers among Bobcats

October 12, 2017 7 min

Alumnae from the 1970s to the 2010s meet for the first time—and learn about the similarities they share beyond being Bobcats.

Common ground

October 12, 2017 4 min

When Ashley Ferguson, BSJ ’06, and Sam Grier, BSVC ’05, met on a recent late-summer evening in Cincinnati, their first question for each other came naturally and immediately: Who do we both know?

Pete Souza sitting at a table with former colleague Marcia Nighswander, conducting a radio interview

Pete Souza: Behind the images

June 15, 2017 1 min

What’s one of your first stops after spending eight years photographing the leader of the world’s most influential nation? For Pete Souza, it was to return to ��Ƶ and deliver his first presentation of work from his past life as the former President Barack Obama’s chief official White House photographer.

Tantrum Theater’s outburst

June 12, 2017 2 min

OHIO’s new professional theater company invigorates the Central ��Ƶ cultural landscape

Covering Trump

June 10, 2017 7 min

There’s a saying in newsrooms: If you’re getting yelled at by a government official, it means you’re doing your job.

Child running in front of a building with a painted mural, with a painter standing on scaffolding in front of it

Art across America

June 5, 2017 2 min

Three alumni artists featured in the print issue of ��Ƶ Today tell the stories behind select pieces of their artwork.

Generosity gets the creative treatment

June 2, 2017 3 min

Creativity is not a word often associated with financial planning. Belpre, ��Ƶ, native and OHIO alumnus Jeffery Chaddock, BSC ’88, and his partner Mark Morrow are determined to change that.

Get creative, be happy

June 2, 2017 5 min

��Ƶ Today asked faculty expert Danny Twilley, Ph.D., senior lecturer of recreation and sports pedagogy in The Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of education, to take a serious look at the creative ways Bobcats have fun. His reflections follow, shedding light on recreation, a crucial element to a full life.

Now we're rolling

June 1, 2017 6 min

There are many ways to move from point A to point B. For commuting to and from work, Athens resident Dave Wooster, BSED ’02, pedals his bike along Athens County’s Hockhocking Adena Bikeway.

The beauty of mathematics

May 31, 2017 1 min

Gurgen (Greg) Hayrapetyan doesn't just teach mathematical concepts by writing formulas on a chalkboard; he’s changing the way people think about the field through creative cultural examples like Legos© and self-driving cars.

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