College of Arts and Sciences Stories

Payne's Crossing Cemetery

Students, faculty set out to uncover once-thriving Civil War-era African American settlement

All that’s left of Payne’s Crossing, an African American settlement dating back to the 1800s, is remnants of the cemetery? Actually, there’s a lot more to discover about this once-thriving settlement

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Presidential Research Scholars awards program seeks 2022-23 nominations

Ohio University is seeking nominations for its 2022-23 Presidential Research Scholars awards program.

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Students flock to social justice course to learn about social movements and activism

More than 70 students from diverse majors came together in a new course this semester to learn about social justice.

The Ohio University team at Camp Kum Ba Ya

Intern will continue OHIO students’ nature trail work at Kentucky camp

Nine OHIO students traveled with professors Sarah Wyatt and Harvey Ballard to the camp in Marshall County, Kentucky, to lay out and create a nature trail and develop educational activities.

Dr. Tony Vinci

Tony Vinci's apocalypse course takes students beyond the end of the world to find...

Creating this course is Vinci's intellectual reward for earning one of OHIO's University Professor awards for 2022-23.

Kyle Balzer

Kyle Balzer awarded prestigious fellowship at Clements Center for National Security

The Clements Center for National Security awarded a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin to Ohio University doctoral student Kyle Balzer.

Riley Rees

Riley Rees receives Garden Club of America scholarship for summer research on carnation family

OHIO student Riley Rees will research the evolutionary history of carnations through a scholarship from the Garden Club of America.

Chiderah Jessica Chukwuka

Chukwuka explores how coal can strengthen polymers

Chiderah Jessica Chukwuka, found her niche researching the effects of coal as a filler to enhance the properties of phenolic resins. She will present her research at the Student Expo on April 7, 2022.

Kelly Love

Neither wind nor ice could stop Kelly Love's fieldwork

Kelly Love, a graduate student in the M.S. in Environmental Studies program, is looking at different methods to determine the health of an ecosystem.

Emily Marino

What Emily Marino didn't expect to find in the lab

From Emily Marino's first day as a Bobcat, she knew she would be spending a lot of time in a lab, conducting experiments, and writing her Honors Tutorial College senior thesis.

Vanessa Obenewaa Antwi Doe

Vanessa Obenewaa Antwi Doe studies effect of second-hand clothing market on Ghanaian seamstresses

Vanessa Obenewaa Antwi Doe will talk about her research, "Implications of fast fashion’s second-hand clothing market on seamstresses in the Ghanaian Textile Industry," at the Student Expo on April 7.

Lynden Caldwell

Students search for linguistic answers in Southern Ohio Language Project

All five linguistics students have dug their roots into the Southern Ohio Language Project as a way to gather information and study how area residents use language.

Center for International Studies students pose for a photo at Commencement.

OHIO community to celebrate international students who are graduating this spring

Spring 2022 commencement will mark the culmination of a truly remarkable academic journey for Ohio University students.

Riley Sombathy is shown looking into a microscope

Riley Sombathy studies rings in dinosaur legs to see how they grew

Riley Sombathy says nothing is more exciting than when he looks into the microscope and the rings appear on the slice of ancient Allosaurus bone.

Alexis Karolin at the Mahn Center in Alden Library

Alexis Karolin is documenting Asian American and Pacific Islanders’ history as it happens

Alexis Karolin is carving out a portion of her Honors Tutorial College senior thesis into a project that she'll present at the Student Expo on April 7.

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