OWU in the News

James Lloyd ’92

by Ohio Wesleyan University • May 2, 2013

The Olmsted Falls (Ohio) Board of Education votes unanimously to appoint 1992 OWU alumnus as the district’s next superintendent of schools.

OWU Documentary Film Festival

by Ohio Wesleyan University • April 18, 2013

Columbus Dispatch writer Terry Mikesell interviews student Brittany Vickers ’13 with OWU’s Mary Howard and Chuck Della Lana about Ohio Wesleyan’s Ethnographic and Documentary Film and Filmmaking Class.

Eddy Wong ’91

by Ohio Wesleyan University • April 4, 2013

Eddy Wong ’91 member of winning team in SXSW’s Interactive Accelerator Competition.

L. Marshall Washington ’91

by Ohio Wesleyan University • February 28, 2013

L. Marshall Washington ’91 is named the new president of West Virginia’s New River Community and Technical College following a national search.

Stephen F. Tilson ’71

by Ohio Wesleyan University • February 14, 2013

Stephen F. Tilson. (Photo courtesy of Stephen F. Tilson)

Galion, Ohio-based attorney Stephen F. Tilson ’71 becomes president-elect of the Ohio State Bar Foundation, a statewide charity with about $30 million in assets.

Gregory Moore ’76

by Ohio Wesleyan University • January 17, 2013

Not only does Gregory Moore make news as editor of the Denver Post, but the 1976 Ohio Wesleyan University graduate is news. Moore recently was awarded the National Press Foundation’s 2012 Benjamin C. Bradlee Award as Editor of the Year.

Tyler Bryant ’12

by Ohio Wesleyan University • December 12, 2012

OWU alumnus Tyler Bryant, a member of the 2011 OWU men’s soccer national championship team, is named boys soccer coach for the Union-Scioto School District in Chillicothe, Ohio.

OWU Music Professor Discusses ‘5 Musical Ways to Bond with Your Baby’ on MSN Living

by Ohio Wesleyan University • October 22, 2012

Ohio Wesleyan University assistant professor of music Richard Edwards, Ph.D., tells MSN Living.com that “all babies respond to music inherently in very basic ways,” creating opportunities for new parents.

Mark Bunner ’82

by Ohio Wesleyan University • October 12, 2012

Mark Bunner ’82 earns a chief financial officer (CFO) of the year award from Columbus Business First. Bunner is CFO of Dublin, Ohio-based Stanley Steemer International.

Julie Peterson ’07

by Ohio Wesleyan University • September 27, 2012

Julie Peterson ’07 has earned a national award from the Entomological Society of America.

Kristen Lear ’11

by Ohio Wesleyan University • September 13, 2012

Kristen Lear ’11 writes about her Fulbright Scholarship-sponsored research in Australia on the Southern Bent-wing Bat.

Mark Zimmerman ’80

by Ohio Wesleyan University • August 30, 2012

Mark Zimmerman ’80 is named president and CEO of Minnesota-based Itasca Economic Development Corp. (IEDC), effective Aug. 1.

Tom Burns

by Ohio Wesleyan University • August 2, 2012

Professor Tom Burns discusses Perkins Observatory and the “Celebration of the Sun” program with WCMH-NBC4.

Sean Kay

by Ohio Wesleyan University • July 9, 2012

“Both Ireland and Greece offer the world extraordinary human capital, which is being wasted via austerity without simultaneous targeted investments for the future,” Ohio Wesleyan professor Sean Kay writes in The Huffington Post.

Joan McLean

by Ohio Wesleyan University • July 5, 2012

Professor Joan McLean analyzes the Sherrod Brown-Josh Mandel race for the U.S. Senate for ABC News.

Edward Canterbury ’02

by Ohio Wesleyan University • June 29, 2012

Edward Canterbury ’02, Florida Bar board-certified real estate lawyer with Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., recently appointed to the Red Cross Philanthropy Committee for Lee and Collier Counties, Florida.

Kara Trott ’83

by Ohio Wesleyan University • May 31, 2012

Kara Trott ’83, founder, CEO, and majority owner of Quantum Health, discusses being among the 50 fastest-growing businesses owned or led by women, in The Columbus Dispatch.