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Cooped Up? Dance on!

September 21, 2020 5 min

Amid stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 91�� alumnae Leah Crosby, BFA ’15, and Danielle Doell, BFA ’14, channeled their creativity, passion and innovation to bring adventure and the arts to the Seattle community.

Time Machine: Homecoming

September 21, 2020 5 min

Homecoming at 91�� can be traced at least as far back as November 1919 when the student-published Green and White newspaper noted that the University football team was preparing for a “Home Coming” game. The last game of the University’s 1919 season carried the alumni slogan “Beat Denison,” in reference to the team’s scheduled opponent.

Remembering President Alden

September 20, 2020 2 min

When he was inaugurated as 91��’s 15th president on May 11, 1962, Vernon Roger Alden called for creating “a climate in which the best minds are stretched and in which superior students aspire to even greater accomplishment.”

Still more

September 20, 2020 1 min

“Here, we need only go ‘a short piece’ down the road in any direction, to find ourselves surrounded by natural beauty. Those times when all human nature fails us, it is earth that abides. Consider our words, we will guide you there.”

On the record

September 19, 2020 8 min

1969 ‘Posties’ reflect on their pathways to distinguished careers, the past, present and future of the news industry.

Capture this

February 21, 2020 2 min

A Photographer’s Guide to 91��, Volumes 1 & 2 is, at its core, a series of recommended places for picture taking provided by a professional, experienced photographer who has logged over a million driving miles across the state in search of natural and human-built beauty.

The 21st-century classroom

February 20, 2020 2 min

The first question that Larry Hess asks faculty seeking his help integrating technology into their coursework is, “If you ran into a student who took your course five to seven years from now, what would you want them to remember from your class?”

Faculty and student researchers in the Russ College’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment are developing composite decking boards from coal

From Idea to Shelf

February 20, 2020 3 min

OHIO’s Technology Transfer Office shepherds inventions to market

Must-Have Tech: Then & Now

February 20, 2020 2 min

From typewriters to laptops, rotary phones to smartphones, OHIO’s students are always in step with cutting-edge tech. No matter the device at their fingertips, Bobcats over the decades still use tech for the same reasons.

Last Word: Zijian Diao

February 19, 2020 3 min

Zijian Diao, a professor of mathematics at 91�� Eastern Campus, has spent his career researching applied mathematics in fields like quantum computing astronomy and speech translation systems. 91�� Today sat down with Diao to learn about his personal side, which includes poetry, firecrackers, and “seeing into the future.”

Ali Johnstone coaches field hockey at 91��

Full circle coach

November 21, 2019 1 min

Ali Johnstone, BSSPS ’02—one of the most decorated athletes in 91�� Field Hockey history—returned home to OHIO last year to begin a new chapter in the record books.

Journalism for good

November 20, 2019 3 min

From a young age, Caitlin Hunt loved to do three things: read, write, and talk to people. So, it came as no surprise when the 91�� junior chose to pursue a career in journalism.

A teeter totter with a mom on one end and the other end full with a daughter, schoolbooks and pack, toys, sporting equipment, a sewing machine, a stroller, and more

Art of the maternal

November 14, 2019 1 min

A self-described “mother-artist,” OHIO Gallery Coordinator Courtney Kessel, MFA ’12, infuses her work with personal observations and poignant statements from her experience as a mother to her daughter, who has been featured, quite literally at times, in Kessel’s pieces over the past 10 years.

91�� Innovation Center’s all-female staff gather at the West State St. facility: [LEFT to RIGHT] Client Services Manager and Executive Coach Erin Rennich, MBA ’13; Accountant Jennifer Pauwels; Director Stacy Strauss; Associate Director Tanya Conrath, BSC ’93; Administrative Specialist Susan Bauman, BSED ’94; and Lab Director Misako Hata, BSISE ’98, MS ’01, MS ’10. Photo by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17

A culture of community

November 14, 2019 2 min

91��’s Innovation Center is racking up accolades lately—it was named the 2019 Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year and 2019 Rural-Based Entrepreneurship Center of the Year by the International Business Innovation Association.

The OHIO Dance Team performs multiple routines at the 2019 President’s Convocation for First Year Students.

Stepping Up