College of Arts and Sciences Stories

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Halloween

The evolution of 'Spooky Season'

Take a deeper dive into spooky season, and learn more about its origins and evolution, with College of Arts and Sciences Professor Brian Collins in the latest episode of OHIO’s “Ask the Experts” podcast.

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Faculty awards

Julie Roche named 2025 Fellow of the American Physical Society

Julie Roche, professor of physics at Ohio University, has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), one of the highest honors in the field of physics.

Global Occult
Faculty Experts

A Spooky Season Special: The popular course that's providing OHIO students with a global look at the supernatural

In the midst of spooky season, one Ohio University class is summoning more than just Halloween spirit – it’s also proven so popular with students in recent years that it’s grown to become a favorite fall semester course amongst those eager to study the supernatural within an academic setting in which all perspectives are welcomed.

International Education Week virtual
Global Workforce Readiness

International Education Week 2025 to focus on Global Workforce Readiness

OHIO will celebrate International Education Week on Nov. 13-21. Nominations for this year's Awards for Excellence in Global Engagement recipients are being accepted through Nov. 3, 2025.

Rufus the Bobcat rides in the Homecoming Parade
Homecoming 2025

Back home again

Welcoming Bobcats of all ages back to campus, OHIO's 2025 Homecoming celebrations featured a series of spirited and memorable events.

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Student Experiences

OHIO students invited to participate in Meal with a Mentor Program

This initiative is designed to help students connect with OHIO alumni and peers who share similar academic and career interests—all over a free, casual meal.

Gracie Vaughn, Alli Mancz and Sydney Roseberry
Student Experiences

Ohio University geography students share internship experiences

OHIO students learned about internship opportunities and other programs available to them at a special event in November, and also heard from fellow students about their internship experiences.

Science Cafe - Zombies: Distorted Reflections of the Human Mind - Wednesday, Oct. 29, 5 p.m., Baker Center Front Room - Free Coffee First 50 People,  Presented by Fred Drogula and Mary Kate Hurley
OHIO Events

OHIO professors to spread bites of zombie knowledge at Oct. 29 Science Café-Humanities Café

At the Wednesday, Oct. 29 event, OHIO faculty members Mary Kate Hurley and Fred Drogula will show how zombie stories can be used to explore important shifts in human thinking over the centuries.

Mark LeBar
OHIO Events

OHIO community invited to Philosophy Forum Lecture on ‘Justice as a Virtue and its Challenges’ on Oct. 23

All students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to the special presentation by respected author and philosophy professor Mark LeBar on Thursday, Oct. 23.

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In the field

Living in the past, learning for the future

Ohio University students gain hands-on experience at the Shoop Paleo-Indian site in Pennsylvania. The field school teaches excavation, artifact analysis and field research while contributing to understanding early human life and migrations.

Tara Zahra
OHIO Events

Costa Lecturer Tara Zahra to speak on ‘Anti-Globalism Then and Now’

Historian Tara Zahra will speak on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Walter Hall 135. All students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to attend the Costa Lecture.

President Lori Stewart Gonzalez speaks before a large crowd, and underneath international flags and the word OHIO at the SISAL Dinner
International Education

Ohio University launches School of International Studies and Languages with global celebration

The school unites four internationally focused units in the College of Arts and Sciences: the Center for International Studies, the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Modern Languages, and the Ohio Program of Intensive English.

Left: a man with glasses and business professional attire inspects scientific equipment on a rooftop overlooking Ohio University’s West Green. Right:  a man in casual attire stands partway up a weather tower, addressing a group of elementary school students
Anniversaries

Weathering It All

This student-centered lab has provided local forecasting since 1984.

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Faculty Research

Understanding the Past

New discoveries by OHIO researchers are changing history as we know it.

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Faculty News

New Faculty to Fuel Research

Meet the 12 faculty who joined Ohio University this fall to help inform its research future.

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