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26 unusual facts about Ohio University


2006 NIT Season Tip-Off

They became just the third ever so-called "mid-major" to win the event in its 22 year history (the others being UNLV and Ohio), and would be ranked #18 in the next Coaches Top 25 Poll and #19 in the next AP Poll.

Carolyn Cole

She earned her Master of Arts degree from the School of Visual Communication within the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University.

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee

Dr. Lee is originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and is currently on the faculty of the University of South Florida, in Tampa, USA, She received a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan, two masters’ degrees from Ohio University, and a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan.

David K. Wyatt

In October 2005, he sold his library–consisting of roughly 15,000 volumes, many of them in the written in Thai, including Thai royal journals–to the Southeast Asia Collection at Ohio University.

Debbie Phillips

A graduate of Ohio University, Phillips sat on Athens City Council where she chaired the Planning and Development Committee.

FGV Management

It maintains international partnerships with universities in Europe − ISCTE (Lisbon), IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) − and the United States − Ohio University, University of California, The University of Tampa, Columbia Business School and The University of Chicago −, where students can take part in short- and medium-term programs.

Frank Kusch

Kusch has earned a Ph.D from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and a Master's Degree from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Geoffrey Dabelko

Geoffrey D. Dabelko is Professor and Director of Environmental Studies at the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University in Athens, OH.

Jason Farnham

He attended Perry High School in Massillon, Ohio, and graduated from Ohio University with a B.S. in Communications (Audio Production) and a double minor in Music and Spanish.

Josh Hyde

In 2003 Hyde entered the MFA program at Ohio University, working closely under acclaimed Croatian director/producer, Rajko Grlic(Border Post, Josephine, Caruga, Sretno Dijete).

Kō Yamada

He trained in the United States, earning both a Bachelor's degree in photography (1990) and Master of Fine Arts (1993) from Ohio University.

Lawrence Witmer

He is a Professor of Anatomy and a Chang Ying-Chien Professor of Paleontology at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio University.

Manasseh Cutler

Cutler was also a member of the United States House of Representatives and the leading person involved with the founding of Ohio University.

Michael Andrew Kukral

Born in the rural town of Richfield, Ohio to Clarence and Ada (Nemer) Kukral, he first graduated from Ohio University with degrees in Geography, Environmental Science, and Political Science.

Michael C. Finnegan

He spent a year studying at Ohio University School of Law, until the death of his father caused him to return home in order to support his family.

Mike Bohn

He earned a master's degree in sports administration from Ohio University in 1984.

Norwood Teague

Teague graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1988 with a degree in political science, and earned a master's degree in sports administration from Ohio University in 1992.

Ohio University

The College Green features Galbreath Chapel, the spire of which, topped with a brass weather vane, is modeled after that of the portico of Nash's All Souls Church in London.

Vernon Alden, America's youngest college president at the time and a Harvard alumnus, steered the institution's direction and refined its classic profile.

Pamela Shoemaker

Shoemaker holds an M.S. in communications and a B.S.J. in journalism from the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University (1972) and was named the L.J. Hortin Distinguished Alumna in 2006.

Patricia Goedicke

She married in 1956 Victor Goedicke, a professor at Ohio University, where in 1965 she completed her M.A. in creative writing and poetry.

Robert DeMott

DeMott is currently Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, an endowed position he was awarded in 1998.

Ruth-Marion Baruch

Baruch was born in Berlin on June 15, 1922, and later moved to the United States, where she studied photography at Ohio University (receiving an MFA) and at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco.

Walter Luckett

Luckett starred at the prep level for Kolbe High School in his hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut before playing at Ohio University for the Bobcats between 1972–73 and 1974–75.

William Nobrega

A former member of Army Special Forces who handled military operations in Kurdistan, Mr Nobrega's academic background includes a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from Leuven and a bachelor's degree from Ohio University.

Zakes Mda

Most recently, he came to the United States, where he became a professor in the English Department at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.


A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism

For example, the institutions listed for Raymond G. Bohlin, Fazale Rana, and Jonathan Wells, were the University of Texas at Dallas, Ohio University, and the University of California, Berkeley respectively, the schools from which they obtained their Ph.D. degrees.

American Journal of Business

It is currently sponsored by 10 universities accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, including Ball State University, Bowling Green State University, Central Michigan University, Cleveland State University, Miami University, Northern Illinois University, Ohio University, the University of Toledo, the University of Akron, and Western Michigan University.

College Green of Ohio University

Buildings on the historic green are named for figures that played pivotal roles in Ohio University history: Manasseh Cutler, Robert Wilson, William McGuffey, and Vernon Alden to name a few.

Emergency management in American universities

After the devastating Hocking River flood of 1968, Ohio University funded a project to reroute a 5 mile strip of river that would have run through the present day campus.

Frank Crumit

After briefly attending an Indiana military academy, he entered Ohio University and later Ohio State University.

Global Text

In addition to these two institutions, the core team includes Richard Watson also of the University of Georgia, Don McCubbrey of the University of Denver, Wayne Huang from the Ohio University, Franz Lehner from the University of Passau in Germany, Andres Sepulveda from the Universidad de Concepción in Chile, and Negwa Badra from the Ain Shams University in Egypt.

John L. Locke

He received a B. A. in speech communication from Ripon College in 1963, and both an M. A. and a Ph.D. in speech pathology, audiology and speech science from Ohio University in 1965 and 1968 respectively.

Ken Nnamani

He holds both BBA and MBA degrees from the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and has worked for Du Pont De Nemours International and Geneva and Nova Chemicals International as marketing executive and later as a consultant.

Mark Snyder

On December 26, 2009, interim coach Rick Minter led them to a 21–17 victory over the Ohio University Bobcats in Marshall's first bowl game since 2004.

Marshall University

Marshall's biggest rivalries, out of conference, are with Ohio University, Miami University and West Virginia University, while East Carolina University and University of Central Florida have been the biggest rivals in Conference USA.

Rhonda Aldrich

She grew up in Leon, Kansas where she did ballet and drama lessons at a children's theatre in Wichita and graduated from Wichita State University with a bachelor of arts in theatre then graduated from Ohio University with a master of fine arts in acting.

Tom Dandelet

From 1931 to 1934, Dandelet coached at Marshall, where he compiled an 18–16–2 record despite being underfunded and out-manned often in the Buckeye Conference, which included the University of Cincinnati, Ohio University, the University of Dayton, Miami University and Ohio Wesleyan University.