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ohiowomen interviews 15 alumnau across America
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.
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.
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.
A photo series on the historic Monument Quilt at Peden Stadium
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.
Leanne Ford counts going to Ohio University as “one of the top five best decisions” she’s made in her life.
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?
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.
For the past two years, Ohio University 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.
Alumnae from the 1970s to the 2010s meet for the first time—and learn about the similarities they share beyond being Bobcats.
