• Ohio Wesleyan’s unique Theory-to-Practice Grant program allows students to seek university funding to support areas of special interest. Here, students traveled to Bolivia, one of the poorest nations in the world, to examine the challenges facing Bolivia’s fragile ecosystem and its residents. (Photo by Kat Zimmerly ’11.)
  • January 16, 2012: MLK March. (Photo by John Holliger)
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  • OWU men's soccer coach Jay Martin led this year's team to its second national championship, became the winningest coach in men's college soccer, and just earned his third National Coach of the Year award.
  • Pratyush Agarwal ’11.
  • Ohio Wesleyan Awards $89,000 in Theory-to-Practice Grants

    Ohio Wesleyan University students and employees were awarded $89,000 in Theory-to-Practice grants for proposals submitted during the fall cycle. Awards range from supporting a...

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  • A Time for Justice

    Members of the OWU and Delaware communities observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day through programming, events, and performances highlighting the King legacy and supporting...

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  • Ohio Wesleyan Announces Department of Health and Human Kinetics

    Things are on the move for Ohio Wesleyan University’s newly named Department of Health and Human Kinetics—literally.

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  • Ohio Wesleyan Men’s Soccer Coach Jay Martin Named NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year

    “Martin’s third National Coach of the Year award caps a fairy-tale ending to the 2011 season,” according to the official award announcement from the...

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  • Young Alum’s Idea Selected One of Intel’s Top 20

    “I’m interested in becoming a social entrepreneur,” says Pratyush Agarwal ’11. “I want to help people in a way that makes a permanent impact...

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News & Views

A Sustainability Showcase

January 19, 2012
Melissa Guziak ’14 will use an Ohio Wesleyan Theory-to-Practice Grant to help make the Tree House small-living unit more eco-friendly. (Photo by Kathleen Dalton ’13)

From the Amazon rainforest to the Ohio Wesleyan University Tree House—Melissa Guziak has made the connection.
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Ohio Wesleyan Awards $89,000 in Theory-to-Practice Grants

January 19, 2012
Ohio Wesleyan’s unique Theory-to-Practice Grant program allows students to seek university funding to support areas of special interest. Here, students traveled to Bolivia, one of the poorest nations in the world, to examine the challenges facing Bolivia’s fragile ecosystem and its residents. (Photo by Kat Zimmerly ’11.)

Ohio Wesleyan University students and employees were awarded $89,000 in Theory-to-Practice grants for proposals submitted during the fall cycle. Awards range from supporting a service-learning project involving teams of OWU and Japanese students building homes for Habitat for Humanity to faculty and students conducting...
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Young Alum’s Idea Selected One of Intel’s Top 20

January 13, 2012
Pratyush Agarwal ’11.

“I’m interested in becoming a social entrepreneur,” says Pratyush Agarwal ’11. “I want to help people in a way that makes a permanent impact on their lives.”
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Our Town

OWU Alumna to Run Across Palestine, Spend Six Months in West Bank

January 19, 2012
(Photo courtesy of Claire Everhart ’10)

In 2011, Ohio Wesleyan University graduate Claire Everhart ran across Ethiopia, raising money to help build schools. A year later, she’s preparing for another marathon with a mission.
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OWU Book Club

January 19, 2012
(Image courtesy of Jossey-Bass)

Parker Palmer’s recently published book, The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal will be the book d’ jour for the start of Ohio Wesleyan’s new faculty and staff book club, says Lisa Ho, assistant chaplain, who now is reading the book.
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A Time for Justice

January 19, 2012
January 16, 2012: MLK March. (Photo by John Holliger)

Members of the OWU and Delaware communities observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day through programming, events, and performances highlighting the King legacy and supporting the theme of “A Time for Justice.”
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Athletics

Ohio Wesleyan Men’s Soccer Coach Jay Martin Named NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year

January 17, 2012
OWU men's soccer coach Jay Martin led this year's team to its second national championship, became the winningest coach in men's college soccer, and just earned his third National Coach of the Year award.

“Martin’s third National Coach of the Year award caps a fairy-tale ending to the 2011 season,” according to the official award announcement from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
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‘Hoops for Hope’ Increases Cancer Awareness

December 16, 2011
The Ohio Wesleyan women's basketball team will host a 'Hoops for Hope' tournament December 29-30. The event will raise funds for cancer research. (Photo by Doug Sampson)

It is a stark reality, but one in eight women living in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer during her lifetime, and by the end of this year, close to 240,000 new cases will be diagnosed. So when a women’s basketball tournament...
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News Releases

USA TODAY: ‘Lasting Relationships, Legendary Coach Help Ohio Wesleyan Defy the Odds’

January 27, 2012
The Ohio Wesleyan men's soccer team celebrates its second NCAA Division III national championship. (Photo by John Albright)

Besides this past year’s championship, Ohio Wesleyan also won the 1998 national championship. Couple those triumphs with numerous Final Four appearances, yearly All-Americans and countless North Coast Athletic Conference regular season and tournament crowns and the program’s resume screams at recruits.
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Associate Professor Chris Wolverton Comments on E-textbooks in The Chronicle of Higher Education

January 23, 2012
Chris Wolverton

“If there were a way to ‘publish’ a book only targeting my class, by converting those outlines I’ve made into short chapters on each topic, well… Why not?”
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Ohio Wesleyan Professor ‘Jazzes Up’ Training of Classical Musicians

January 23, 2012
Nancy Gamso (Photo by Stephen Pariser)

Watching her music students study and hone their performance skills, Ohio Wesleyan University professor Nancy Gamso, D.M.A., discovered an opportunity to “jazz up” the training of tomorrow’s classical performers.
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Ohio Wesleyan Announces Department of Health and Human Kinetics

January 19, 2012
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Things are on the move for Ohio Wesleyan University’s newly named Department of Health and Human Kinetics—literally.
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