Just two years after Ohio Wesleyan was selected—one of only 10 colleges and universities in the U.S.—to participate in the International Academic Partners Program (IAPP) in India, a team of seven OWU students spent spring break 2012, in India for a five-day program entitled “Living the Gandhian Philosophy.”
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Jill Shanks Eliot ’59, director of The Imaginating Dramatics Company, has written Kids, Courage, and the Civil War.
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Members of the Ohio Wesleyan community and friends had the opportunity to attend the first Environmental and Natural Resource Symposium on February 27, to hear about and discuss many of the challenges, opportunities, and choices pertaining to energy conservation, as well as innovations in both conventional and alternative energy sources.
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OWU students concluded their two-day Republican Mock Presidential Convention on February 11 by nominating a Mitt Romney-Stephen Colbert ticket.
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Kamila Goldin ’12 placed her black, leather bound journal on the table as we talked. “It’s here if we need it,” she said with a smile. We were about to discuss her recent Theory-to-Practice project, “Cultural Immersion in McLeod Ganj: A Study in Cultural and Political Change.”
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The 2012 Great Decisions series on important global issues of our era will take us from Afghanistan to Mexico, from the energy policy to the new frontier of cybersecurity. The series will examine Indonesia’s prospects for prosperity, Arab upheavals and realignments in the Middle East, how the United States can best promote democracy abroad—and...
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From the Amazon rainforest to the Ohio Wesleyan University Tree House—Melissa Guziak has made the connection.
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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 research on Islamic religious traditions in the secular society of...
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“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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The Ohio Wesleyan University family gathered Tuesday to recognize zoology professor Jed Burtt, recently named the 2011 Ohio Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
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Ohio Wesleyan hosted a luncheon on November 16, to benefit two Kenyan organizations. OWU seniors DeLaine Mayer and Celeste Taylor spearheaded the event.
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“Rock’s Amazing Race,” a collaborative fund-raising campaign and video production created by the Marketing and Communication Office and the Ohio Wesleyan Fund staff, received a Pride of CASE V Gold Award in the category of “Best Program in Engaging an Institution’s CEO in Fundraising.”
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Central Ohio is faring better than many parts of the United States since the height of the recession, but the overall picture for the national and global economies is uncertain at best. Such was the assessment of the panel of economists at Ohio Wesleyan University’s annual Economic Outlook Conference on November 7.
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From July 15 to August 12, Black World Studies professor Ali Skandor and students Megan Bachelder ’13 and DeLaine Mayer ’12 offered children ages 3 to 16, support, education, and hope for the future, however brief the timeframe.
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Ohio Wesleyan University has launched a new admission website, choose.owu.edu, designed to provide a more user-friendly experience for prospective students and their families.
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Complementing the Theory-to-Practice and Travel-Learning components of The OWU Connection, Ohio Wesleyan’s curricular initiative, are the Course Connections networks that launched at the start of fall semester. Simply put, these networks of courses—six starting this year—are designed to enhance students’ understanding by presenting single subjects from a variety of viewpoints, explains OWU’s Dean...
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When OWU’s Kamila Goldin ’13, president of VIVA, the Latin American culture group, describes its raison d’être, she radiates enthusiasm. Part of that organization’s mission is to heighten awareness and understanding of Latin American cultures and issues for members of the OWU community. And when VIVA members spent the noon hour...
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Ohio Wesleyan’s Munch & Mingle is an annual event created by the Alumni Association Board of Directors, with the intent of bringing back to campus, OWU alumni who offer students career advice. This year’s event, scheduled on September 30, during Homecoming & Family Weekend, included 61 students who had pre-registered, and several alumni.
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On September 16, Ohio Wesleyan hosted its first dinner and panel discussion in six years, for members of the Alliance for Black Student Leadership, with more than 120 students and alumni representing six colleges and universities.
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Emma Cherry remembers her father tucking her in at night when she was a little girl. She remembers the light blue pants he wore and the rustling sound of the fabric. She remembers feeling safe and loved.
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