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October 31, 2017 1 min

ohiowomen interviews 15 alumnau across America

Though Grasselli Brown retired from Standard Oil Company in 1989, her scientific ambitions and philanthropic support for multiple organizations remains.

Dig deep

October 30, 2017 3 min

When Jeanette Grasselli Brown, BS ’50, HON ’78, embarked on her career with Standard Oil Company in 1950, she had few women to look to for professional advice. Self-taught ambition, determination, and a relentless work ethic formed the foundation of her success.

Distinguished humor

October 29, 2017 4 min

The Distinguished Professor Award, OHIO’s highest recognition for faculty, has been bestowed since 1959. Of the fifty-six who have received it, four are women. Judith Yaross Lee, an interdisciplinary Americanist, became the fourth in 2016.

Not alone

October 25, 2017 1 min

A photo series on the historic Monument Quilt at Peden Stadium

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.