Media Contacts
Primary Phone Numbers
Main Office: 740.593.2200
Fax: 740.593.1887
Sally Linder
Senior Director of Media Relations
Office: 740.597.1793
Cell: 740.591.7873
E-mail: linders@ohio.edu
Katharine Quaranta
Media Specialist
Office: 740.593.0858
E-mail: quaranta@ohio.edu
Jennifer Krisch
Media Specialist
Office: 740.597.1939
E-mail: krisch@ohio.edu
George Mauzy
Media Specialist
Office: 740.597.1794
Home: 740.797.3882
E-mail: mauzy@ohio.edu
Satellite News-Gathering Truck
Todd Anderson
Satellite Communications Coordinator
Office: 740.593.1885
Home: 740.698.2725
E-mail: andersok@ohio.edu
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| Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
Waste not that valuable garbage
Ohio University's new in-vessel composting unit, one of only two of its kind on a U.S. campus, will be operational this fall. Here, Mick Harris (front) signals as a crane operator lowers the unit into place.
Photographer: Joshua Armstrong
| Chief of police opts for position closer to home
Ohio University Police Department Chief Mike Martinsen has announced he will leave the university, effective Sept 30, to pursue a new leadership position in the Cincinnati area.
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| Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
Green@work
Offices across campus are working to reduce the university's ecological footprint. Among the proponents is Brian McCoy, who challenges departments to make the switch to more energy efficient light bulbs.
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| Wednesday, August 6, 2008 |
University to host Watch Party for Aug. 18 Conversation on Education
Ohio University's College of Education, Athens County school districts, the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, and Hocking College will host a Watch Party for Gov. Ted Strickland's Aug. 18 Conversation on Education. The event will begin at 4 p.m. in the Baker University Center Ballroom.
| Dino outgrew predators to survive [Research News]
The duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research suggests that it had at least one advantage: It grew to adulthood much faster than its predators, giving it superiority in size.
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Brightbill, Wolfort join Board of Trustees
Gov. Ted Strickland has appointed Ohio University alumni David Brightbill and David Wolfort to the university's Board of Trustees. Brightbill will complete the seven years remaining in the term of Scott Borgemenke, who resigned in April because of an employment change. Wolfort replaces C. David Snyder, whose term ended this year.
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University mourns devoted alumna
Leona Hughes made an impressive mark on her alma mater and its students over the past eight decades. Hughes passed away Thursday in Sarasota, Fla., at the age of 99.
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Regional Campus report explores options
A presentation to the University Academics Committee of the Board of Trustees about the future direction of the regional campuses Thursday spurred lively discussion, stimulated questions and led Trustee and committee chair M. Marnette Perry to comment, "I think this is critically important to our core mission."
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University receives $29M for improvements
On Tuesday, Governor Ted Strickland signed the two-year $1.3 billion capital appropriations budget allocating $29.5 million to Ohio University's main and regional campuses. House Bill 562 allots $495 million -- the largest portion of the capital budget -- to Ohio's public universities and community colleges for fiscal years 2009 and 2010.
| University gift grows by more than $10 million
In January, Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis announced an estimated $80 million gift from the estate of the late Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ of Dayton, Ohio. The value of the estate is now known to be in excess of $91.8 million -- $79.1 million in cash and securities in addition to $12.7 million in property. The proceeds will support engineering education and research at Ohio University. |
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