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Aerial view of Athens from Court Street during the fall

More reasons why Athens ranks as “Best College Small Town”

March 15, 2017 3 min

This year, USA TODAY confirmed what students, faculty, staff, and alumni know—that Athens is the country’s “Best College Small Town.”

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Welcome to the hilltop!

December 21, 2016 3 min

Graduates from ��’s oldest regional campus make their mark in diverse fields ranging from medicine to finance to education and from public service to performing arts to mass communication. Here are examples of leading lights from the Chillicothe Campus since its founding in 1946.

Annie Laurie Cadmus, director of sustainabilty at ��, gives volunteers instructions before painting mile markers on the HockHocking Adena Pathway. © �� / Photo by Kaitlin Owens

Sustaining sustainability at OHIO and beyond

December 21, 2016 3 min

The Office of Sustainability at �� creates opportunities for students to contribute to eco-friendly projects on the Athens Campus. Oftentimes, students approach administrators with concerns but no solutions and become frustrated at resulting roadblocks.

A large group of students dressed in costumes forming a circle train and dancing

Bobcats trip the light fantastic for good cause

December 21, 2016 4 min

Sweat work and legwork raised upward of $40,000 in February at BobcaThon, ��’s second annual dance marathon benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central ��. Green and White faithful put their best foot forward for up to 12 hours.

Spreading healthcare through collaboration

December 19, 2016 5 min

Zelalem Haile, assistant professor of epidemiology in the Department of Social Medicine at OHIO’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine at Dublin, relies on teamwork to advance global health; sexual and reproductive health; and maternal, infant, and child health.

Bobcat and Sloan Visiting Professional markets teamwork

December 19, 2016 3 min

The name Jerry Sloan echoes throughout the hallways of ��. A 1959 graduate of the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, Sloan taught in the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism from 1992 to 2001 and inspired countless students, including Dan Farkas, BSJ ’98, CERT ’98, MBA ’15, now an instructor of strategic communication at OHIO.

Bobcat breakthrough in hepatitis C treatment

September 16, 2016 2 min

Forty-eight weeks is a long time to endure a physically punishing treatment with only a 40 percent success rate. This was the reality for patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV). President and CEO of Achillion Pharmaceuticals and �� alumnus Milind Deshpande, PHD ’87, was determined to create a drug with better outcomes, one that could cut the treatment time and intense side effects experienced by patients.

How not to lay a three-minute egg

June 10, 2016 3 min

Graduate students and doctoral candidates: Ready? Set? Explain your research in lay terms in exactly three minutes!

To find new words, employ the senses

June 9, 2016 2 min

“English is a magpie,” drawled poet Ellen Bryant Voigt in her deep Southern accent, lecturing to an attentive audience about the roots English has in other languages.

Sketching in community murals

March 16, 2016 2 min

The local canvas grows.

Bobcats in recovery

March 5, 2016 11 min

Reinvention isn’t necessarily easy. Breaking an addiction, however, can be even harder. For three Bobcats—Matthew Zacharias, Shelby Delp, and Jerry Thomas—rehabilitating from alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs wouldn’t have been possible without ��’s resources to help reroute their lives.

Intimate images: Joni Kabana

December 14, 2015 1 min

Professional photographer Joni Kabana embodies the adventuresome Bobcat spirit while traveling the world.

Portrait photograph of Laurel Monroe standing at a podium

More OHIO news from the College of Business

November 20, 2015 2 min

Recent news about the �� College of Business.

OHIO honors the Americans With Disabilities Act