Stories tagged with: Magazine Features
Difficult dialogues
May 14, 2018 OHIO’s George Washington Forum exemplifies a strategic pathway established by OHIO President M. Duane Nellis: “Becoming a place where dialogue and rigorous, civil debate are institutional hallmarks.” Founded in 2009, the effort, supported by alumni and friends, foundations, and corporations, provides space on campus for this dialogue to occur.
Daring to dialogue
May 14, 2018 A conference about peace typically invites panelists from war-torn countries or populations clashing overseas. This year, OHIO’s Baker Peace Conference (BPC)—a 30-year leader in international peacekeeping discourse—addressed divisions felt on our own soil, among communities separated by mere miles.
Grace under fire
May 14, 2018
“ I remember hearing your voice guiding me back to reality…I credit your voice as much as any medicine.”
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“My life was forever changed the night that I met you. You told me that I would be okay and I was. …Thank you for believing in me even though you didn’t know me.”
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New book on Voinovich’s legacy
May 10, 2018 “George Voinovich’s extraordinary success as senator, governor, and mayor was due in great part to his being a pioneering master of collaboration. In these times when conflict seems to dominate political dialogue, his wise words extolling the virtues of collaboration are refreshing and illuminating.”—James E. Austin, Harvard Business School
Last word with Mark Weinberg
May 9, 2018 There is no Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs without Mark Weinberg. As the school’s founding dean, Weinberg has overseen the unit’s programs and initiatives since its inception in 1981, when it existed under another name, the Institute for Local Government Administration and Rural Development, or ILGARD.
A healthy perspective
December 18, 2017 Ohio University has a culture of doing. Bobcats don’t like to sit on the sidelines—they’d rather go out into the world, see for themselves, and figure out if they can make a difference. OHIO’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) gives students a way to turn this hunger to do good into acts of goodwill.
Food for thought
December 18, 2017 Jack Demain stands at a table in the basement of United Campus Ministry and begins chopping a head of green cabbage, which he then massages in front of an attentive audience of about two dozen people, mostly Ohio University students. They’ve come to this presentation on fermented foods to learn how to make sauerkraut, part of a collaboration between the Athens Vegan Cooking Workshop and the student group Food Matters at Ohio University.
The power of a shared story
December 17, 2017 “It is powerful to share a story,” said self-recognized ambassador for literacy Julie Francis. “Reading a story aloud takes people on a journey together.”
A peek inside ‘Prof’
December 12, 2017
Geoffrey Dabelko is a renowned expert on security and the environment. He researches and draws connections between the environment, health, population, conflict, and security for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars. As professor, director of Environmental Studies, and associate dean at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs, Dabelko teaches courses on natural resources, conflict and peacebuilding, and environmental leadership. But he doesn’t do this work of global good only from his office at The Ridges. His love for adventure takes him to the Balkans, California, Washington, D.C., and beyond.
You asked, we answered
October 31, 2017 ohiowomen interviews 15 alumnau across America
Dig deep
October 30, 2017 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 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.
Design, build, live
October 12, 2017 Leanne Ford counts going to Ohio University as “one of the top five best decisions” she’s made in her life.
Turning the tide in tech
October 12, 2017 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.
Pete Souza: Behind the images
June 15, 2017 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 Ohio University and deliver his first presentation of work from his past life as the former President Barack Obama’s chief official White House photographer.
