Ampersand 2014

AMPERSAND

FALL 2014

THE MAGAZINE FOR HONORS TUTORIAL COLLEGE ALUMNI & FRIENDS

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SCHOLARLY SAMPLE

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A NEW WAY TO TEA CH HEALTH

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LEGAL CAREERS EXPLO RED

INSIDE THIS ISSUE FALL 2014

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ONCA STUDENT PROFILES

NEWS BRIEFS 4 7 8 9 11

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From the Dean Jan Hodson & Kathy White Fund New Faces at HTC ONCA Student Profiles Honorary Alumna

SCHOLARLY SAMPLE

STUDENTS 12 Scholarly Sample 17 Student Internships 18 Research Spans Ozone Levels to Quantum Dots

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OUTSTANDING TUTORS

FACULTY & STAFF 20 A New Way to Teach Health 22 Specialized Seminars 24 Outstanding Tutors

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CLASS OF 2014

ALUMNI & FRIENDS 40 Alumna Profile Laura Brege 42 Alumnus Profile Jonathan Veley 44 Class of 2014 50 With Our Thanks

FROM THE

ON THE COVER Senior HTC Environmental and Plant Biology student Jessica Linder held a research apprenticeship that involved field research to assess the health of local streams and creeks.

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One fundamental theme of an Honors Tutorial College education is faculty mentorship. The close working relationships between students and faculty can lead to impressive results: original research, published works, conference presentations, and often long-lasting friendships.

It strikes us that the potential for student-alumni relationships is equally great. This year, alumni returned to campus for a variety of reasons: a weekend visit, to participate in Pre-Law Day, or for the annual HTC Board of Visitors meeting. When email is ubiquitous and international video calling is as simple as sending a text message, it’s easier than ever to create a meaningful and productive partnership between current students and former ones.

HTC’s expanded digital presence also makes it easier for you to keep tabs on your fellow alumni and the current state of the College. Visit our website at www.ohio.edu/honors, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and join our LinkedIn group. The goal of this magazine is to share the stories of a few students, faculty, and alumni who epitomize the values of HTC at Ohio University, across the nation, and around the world.

Ampersand would not have been possible this year without the hard work of our staff, particularly our Editor-inChief Kate Irby and Creative Director Paula Welling. Additionally, we are very grateful for the guidance and assistance provided by Assistant Dean Cary Frith, a 1992 alumna of HTC Journalism.

Alumni and friends of the College, this is your magazine. If you have feedback or a story idea for us, email us at htcmagazine@gmail.com. Thank you for your continued support.

LEGAL CAREERS EXPLORED

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Legal Careers Explored Learning in the Field Scholarship Matching

MEET THE STAFF Editor-in-Chief Kate Irby Creative Director Paula Welling

Writers Cara Hanson Danielle Keeton-Olsen Sarah-Jane Lorenzo Sophie Mitchem Ben Postlethwait Brian Vadakin

STAFF

Photographer & Illustrators Rachel Ertel Rob Hardin Paula Welling

Sincerely, Brian Vadakin

FROM THE

DEAN

When I applied to become the dean of the Honors Tutorial College in 2009, I did so for three reasons. First, as director of studies for the HTC English program, I loved working with our students and reasoned that, if working with a subset of the College’s students was so incredibly rewarding, then working with all of them would exponentially magnify the accompanying sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. Second, based on my work as a tutor and director of studies I felt a passionate commitment to the College’s mission and wanted to do anything and everything I could to help protect and enact that mission. And finally, I honestly did not think I would get the job! (I’m glad that I was wrong about that last one!)

Five years later, I feel extraordinarily honored to have been reappointed for a second five-year term as the dean of our College and am grateful to have the opportunity to continue doing what I love to do: help our students customize their educational experiences, explore their scholarly and creative interests at their own optimum pace, and create professional relationships with accomplished scholars and artists in their fields. I have

the best, most satisfying job on campus, and I am glad to have the Provost’s support for another term as dean.

In the next few pages, I want to share information about three exciting activities taking place in the College right now. First, I am beginning to enact my vision for the College’s next five years, and I want share my strategic priorities with you here. Second, I am in the process of reorganizing the Board of Visitors in order to position it as an even more effective partner in connecting our alumni with the College. And finally, as the university is approaching the end of the Promise Lives Campaign, I want to share the great news about HTC’s fundraising in support of our students.

As always, please let me know if you have any comments or questions about the information I am presenting here or about anything else related to the College. I look forward to working with you to provide the best possible education for our students in the coming years.

Sincerely, Jeremy W. Webster, Dean webstej1@ohio.edu

STAY CONNECTED WITH THE COLLEGE Don’t forget to “like” HTC on Facebook. Just visit the College’s page at www.facebook.com/ ouhtc to stay in touch with HTC alumni, students, and staff.

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Check out HTC’s YouTube channel, OUHTC, to see videos about College events, student profiles, and more.

Are you on Twitter? If you are, check out HTC’s tweets. Search @OUHTC to follow the College’s updates.

FROM THE DEAN

Placing HTC at the Center of Undergraduate Enrichment Opportunities Because of the rigorous nature of the tutorial method for both students and faculty, HTC is limited to a capacity of approximately 250 students. Consequently, the College’s academic contributions to the university can significantly expand only by investing in other, campus-wide enrichment opportunities. Thus, in addition to increasing the diversity of the College’s student body, I am focusing the College’s energies on strategic priorities that I hope will position HTC at the center of undergraduate enrichment opportunities at Ohio University within the next five years.

faculty member’s current project. Students learn basic research methods and protocols in their field, while faculty benefit by having an apprentice help them with basic field, library, editorial, and/or lab research. Over the past few years, this program has grown thanks to financial support from private donors, the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity, and the Deans of the College of Arts & Sciences, Fine Arts, Scripps College of Communication, Russ College of Engineering and Technology, College of Health Sciences and Professions, and Libraries. I will be meeting with the deans of these colleges to discuss ways of expanding the program so that all qualified students can apply to participate in this opportunity.

INCREASE DIVERSITY

While our recruitment of multicultural students has improved recently (from 8% of the freshman class in 2009 to 14% of this year’s incoming freshman class), one of the College’s strategic priorities over the next five years is to increase the percentage of multicultural, first generation, Appalachian, and international students in our freshman class. Such diversity will bring additional perspectives to challenge and foster our students’ scholarly and artistic development. This would bring our diversity to at least 20% of our student body and would align us with the multicultural makeup of Ohio University’s other colleges.

I have appointed a Diversity Committee co-chaired by Denise Robinson (Philosophy ’99) and Laralyn Sasaki Dearing (Journalism ’86) to help guide us in this effort.

EXPAND ONCA’S OUTREACH

This academic year is the 15th Anniversary of the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards (ONCA), a unit dedicated to campus-wide enrichment already housed in HTC. ONCA staffers advise students who apply for a wide range of funding opportunities for education abroad, undergraduate tuition, graduate education, internships, and research. An average of 161 Ohio University students submit applications for national and international fellowships each year. And, with a winning rate of 34%, OHIO remains a top Fulbright producing institution in the state and the nation. Over the next five years, our second strategic priority is to increase ONCA’s reach to the regional campuses so that more OU students can learn from the experience of applying for national fellowships to fund education abroad, participate in original research, and afford graduate education. We will begin this effort this fall, when an ONCA adviser will visit each of the regional campuses to make students aware of opportunities available to them.

PROVIDE INTRODUCTORY RESEARCH INSTRUCTION FOR HIGH-ACHIEVING STUDENTS

Along with an expansion of the Research Apprenticeship Program, another strategic priority is to position HTC to provide introductory undergraduate research training so that all honors and scholars students at Ohio University are able to compose senior thesis projects, an accomplishment that enhances their marketability for careers and graduate, law, business, or medical school. Such instruction will also help increase the number of honors theses written across campus. The first step towards this goal has been to expand the existing HTC seminars by offering the winners of our annual Outstanding Tutor Awards the opportunity to teach them. Second, we have begun to offer a junior composition course that teaches students how to write a thesis. The next step will be to expand further our instructional capacity in partnership with the other colleges on campus so that we can offer courses in social science, Humanities, and art-related research methodologies for honors and scholar students.

INCREASE ALUMNI INVOLVEMENT AND MAINTAIN OUR ANNUAL INCREASES IN FUNDRAISING

Our final two strategic priorities in the coming years focus on alumni involvement and donations. We are currently developing a strategic communication plan focused on alumni with the goal of regularizing our communications with them. This will help us achieve our fifth strategic priority: to develop effective touch points for HTC alumni on a quarterly basis that culminate in an annual on-campus event. Creating this plan and organizing an annual event will help us realize our final strategic priority: increasing our alumni’s connection to our College and ability to assist us in preserving the highest quality undergraduate experience possible.

EXPAND THE RESEARCH APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM

A third strategic priority of the College is to expand the HTC Research Apprenticeship Program to include undergraduates from across the university. Begun by Dean Peg Cohn in the 1990s, the program matches an HTC student with a faculty member for up to 300 hours of research assistance on the

I had the opportunity to present these priorities to the Board of Trustees in March, and they were very excited by HTC’s continued strengths and our plans to expand opportunity to students across the university. I hope to have more news about these initiatives throughout the coming year.

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FROM THE DEAN

Transforming the Board of Visitors In late 2013, the Board of Visitors (BOV) and I initiated a review of the board’s mission, structure, and activities. This conversation quickly floundered, since we could not come to an obvious consensus about how best to position the board to serve the college’s current needs. We discussed a lot of good ideas, but we didn’t know what would really work.

After a few hiccups, I decided to do what any HTC student would have told me to do from the beginning: find out what the current scholarship on the topic says. A review of the literature concerning alumni advisory boards offered very clear advice about what we should do. I selected three representative articles from this literature and asked the current board members to read them in preparation for our annual BOV meeting in May: Merrimon Cuninggim’s “The Pros and Cons of Advisory Committees” published by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (1985) Gary A. Olson’s “The Importance of External Boards” published in The Chronicle of Higher Education (2008) Ben Powers’s “Joining an Advisory Board? Look before you Leap” published in Charter (2014) We learned a lot of useful tips from these sources. Here’s a quick list of the some of the most important advice we discussed: Advisory boards offer advice; they make recommendations that the college may or may not act upon. Such boards can be of immense value to the college by answering questions and brainstorming ideas at the behest of the dean. They have no governing function.

While the BOV had historically had 13 members, the current rule of thumb is to assemble boards of 25 to 30 members on the assumption that about half of the membership is likely to be able to attend any given meeting. (The recent history of the BOV largely confirms this attendance rate.)

Since 2007, current board members elected new members.

The literature suggests that the dean appoint members based on their experiences, skill sets, and competencies, selecting members who can bring their knowledge to bear on very specific issues and activities. A board that represents all of the college’s various forms of diversity is most useful.

Potential members should have a clear idea of what they are being asked to do when they are asked to join the board.

Since 2007, members’ terms of service have been for four years and terms had to be non-consecutive. The scholarship suggested that four years was too long and that members should have shorter, renewable terms.

While advisory boards should have bylaws, the BOV’s bylaws seemed more appropriate for a governing board rather than an advisory one. Advisory boards’ bylaws should delineate the group’s mission, appointments, and organization as simply as possible.

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Frankly, I’ve not really known how best to use the Board of Visitors, and so the board’s purpose and activities haven’t been clear. The literature firmly argues that the dean should drive the conversation by presenting board members with genuine issues, soliciting their advice, and providing ample time for discussion. Additionally, members should be actively engaged by serving on subcommittees focused on specific, actionable activities.

After a very productive conversation, board members agreed that we should move forward in restructuring the board according to the recommendations taken from this research.

They then tasked my staff and me with proposing a new set of bylaws for the board, which were subsequently adopted via conference call in June.

These bylaws lay out the BOV’s charge: to advise and support the Honors Tutorial College’s administration in its efforts to achieve the College’s mission and to improve the quality of education it provides to its students.

I am now engaged in the process of inviting members to join this revitalized board. My guiding principles in this process have been to find alumni and friends who have specific competencies, experiences, and interests that I think will benefit the college over the next two years. Specific areas in which my staff and I need advice are: Diversity — how do we attract and serve multicultural, firstgeneration, and international applicants and students?

Communication — how can we better communicate with alumni?

Alumni involvement — how can we better involve alumni in the college’s activities?

Fundraising — how can we continue to raise money for scholarships and student research and travel in the coming years?

As I invite each new member to the board, I am also inviting him or her to share knowledge in one of these areas by joining a subcommittee devoted to that issue.

I have invited the current BOV members to remain on the board. Most have agreed to continue their service; a few have decided that they would prefer to engage with the college in other ways. I am now identifying additional members to invite with the goal of having 20 to 25 board members in place by January 1st. As I look for new members, I am also attempting to maintain the board’s gender, ethnic, geographic, disciplinary, and age diversity.

Just as the BOV now has a clear charge, each of the subcommittees also has a clearly defined purpose. As I appoint members to these committees, I am also appointing non-BOV members to join them. My hope is that these committee members will eventually move up to positions on the BOV. Any alumni who would like to contribute their knowledge, expertise, and experience by serving on the Board of Visitors or on a smaller committee can contact me for more information.

FROM THE DEAN

Supporting the College Financially While President McDavis announced in the spring that the university has already exceeded the Promise Lives Campaign’s $450 million goal, we are continuing the campaign through June 30, 2015.

Each college also has a campaign goal in support of its priorities and a campaign committee. HTC’s goal is a relatively modest $1.3 million to support scholarships, student research and travel, and the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards.

Bruce Brege is the chair of our committee, which, due to our size, only has one additional member: Mich Hein.

The good news is that we are close to meeting this goal. As of July 2014, we have raised $1.258 dollars, 89% of which has been raised since I became dean. This means that we have only $42,000 left to raise in order to have a successful campaign.

(There’s no bad news!)

During the last campaign ten years ago, the college, primarily under Joe Berman’s leadership, raised $1.353 million. (Secretly, we would love to match that record amount, and, since we have 9 months left in the campaign, it’s possible that we will.)

Regardless of the final number, we have succeeded in two important goals:

1. All of the funds we have raised have gone toward

helping our current students either through scholarships, research and travel support, or the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards.

2. We are using this campaign to engage a larger portion of our alumni in annual giving to the college.

So much of what we do in HTC is funded directly by alumni and friends, and our ability to award scholarships to outstanding prospective students is key to our continued ability to compete for the best students in the country. Your financial support at all levels of giving makes a real impact on our students’ educational opportunities.

If you would like to make a gift to help us reach (or exceed) our campaign goal, please contact me or our advancement liaison, Ellen Fultz, executive director of development, at fultz@ohio.edu or 740.597.2145

THE JAN HODSON & KATHY WHITE FUND An anonymous donor has made a gift to the Honors Tutorial College to honor the former assitant dean, Jan Hodson, and the budget unit manager, Kathy White.

The gift was made by a supporter who wanted to recognize the dedication of Jan and Kathy, said Ellen Fultz, Ohio University executive director of development. “The donor wanted to recognize them for the hard work they do,” Ellen said. “They are loyal and passionate and the donor wanted that work to be seen by others.”

Creating a fund to honor people who are still alive and actively supporting the Honors Tutorial College is a noteworthy event. “It’s a really special way to honor Jan and Kathy’s commitment to the college,” Dean Jeremy Webster said. “They were here when the fund was created, and that’s not something that happens very often.”

People who would like to contribute to the fund are welcome to make a donation. “To continue the growth of the fund, donors should specify the Jan Hodson and Kathy White Honors Tutorial College Endowment Fund as the account when making a gift to Ohio University,” Ellen said.

Photo by Rob Hardin

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NEW FACES AT 35 PARK PLACE

Kevin Haworth

Laura Schaeffer

Kevin Haworth joined the Honors Tutorial College as a parttime faculty member in fall 2013. However, he is not new to the College. As a faculty member in Ohio University’s English Department, he worked with HTC students in a range of roles, from teaching tutorials and advising theses to teaching an interdisciplinary seminar entitled, “The Art of the Public Intellectual.”

Another aspect of his academic life that led him to work with HTC students is the study abroad trip to Israel he helps coordinate. He and his wife, Rabbi Danielle Leshaw, the executive director of Hillel at OHIO, take students to learn about Israeli and Palestinian history, literature and culture at Tel Aviv University. HTC students have gone on this trip since its inception, and he was inspired by their passion for the program.

“HTC students are intellectually adventurous,” he said.

Last year he began working even more intensely with students by joining the HTC staff. In Fall 2013, he co-taught the freshman seminar with Dean Jeremy Webster and Assistant Dean Cary Frith, focusing primarily on responding to the students’ writing.

“I think that’s an important assignment because it establishes me as a resource for students for their writing needs,” he said.

In Spring 2014, he taught a seminar for juniors to prepare for their theses. He also advised a creative writing thesis, along with teaching several tutorials.

Haworth says that all of these responsibilities have pushed him to adopt an interdisciplinary mindset. In both seminars and tutorials, he has worked with students from every discipline in HTC, which has proved to be a unique challenge as a writing adviser.

“The students are very accomplished in their fields, and they’re dealing with concepts which are very advanced and specific. I have to respect that they know what they’re talking about in their fields and still find a way to help them improve how they express themselves,” he said. “They have the knowledge and the concepts, but they may not have found all the best ways to communicate that in the context of academic writing.”

Laura Schaeffer did not expect to stay in Athens long after graduate school. While working on her master’s in international development, she interned coordinating volunteers at Rural Action. She planned to move back to Minnesota, but then she met the man who would become her husband. She has stayed in Athens ever since.

In the position she began last year, Schaeffer splits her time between the Honors Tutorial College and the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, where she manages a wide profile of awards. She said that her experience working in other offices at Ohio University, as the Assistant Director for Global Studies Programs, the Director of Outreach in the Center for International Studies and as the Coordinator of Supplemental Instruction in the Academic Advancement Center, has given her a holistic understanding of how the university is interconnected.

“I want to help HTC reach out to other units at the institution so we can be more collaborative,” she said.

Schaeffer says that the range of awards she advises, including the Boren, Marshall, Mitchell, Gates Cambridge and Rhodes, have exposed her to different interests and passions of HTC students.

“In one second you’ll have somebody who’s going to study tropical diseases in Brazil, and the next you’ll have somebody who’s looking at memorial studies in the UK,” she said.

The interdisciplinary aspect and the students’ dedication drew her to the position. She also organizes a variety of academically engaging activities for HTC students, such as weekly high teas in the Common Room and Pre-Law Day. She said that although her job is busy, one of her favorite things about it is the relaxed atmosphere of the College.

“Pinch me, is that live piano music in my workplace?” she said.

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NEWS BRIEFS

ONCA STUDENT PROFILES The Office of Nationally Competitive Awards replicated its impressive success rate during the 2011–12 academic year by helping 84 Ohio University students to apply for and receive awards, including six Fulbright awards. This year, ONCA staff has been working to assist applicants for various awards, including Boren, Gates-Cambridge, Ernest F. Holling, Critical Language, Goldwater, Marshall, Truman, Gilman and Udall awards.

Charlie Murphy Timothy “Charlie” Murphy spent the summer working in the Smart Health Lab at Ohio University working on a project to predict blood glucose levels and hypoglycemic events in patients up to 60 minutes ahead of time. This is very different from the research he will conduct next summer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Murphy won an NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship, which provides an undergraduate scholarship of up to $8,000 per year as well as a 10-week internship at an NOAA facility to provide training in oceanic and atmospheric science. While this field may seem like a stretch for Murphy who studies Computer Science in the Honors Tutorial College, it is actually a good fit for him.

“There’s a high need for computer scientists at any large-scale research facility,” he said. “Large amounts of data have to be processed by someone and that’s done by computers.”

NOAA actually uses a lot of computer science techniques to render data onto a sphere using 3D graphics, called “Science on a Sphere,” Murphy said.

Murphy said the main portion of the application process was the essay in which he had to differentiate himself from others who applied.

“The key was explaining how computer science relates to NOAA’s mission,” he said.

This summer, Murphy took a quick break from his job at the Smart Health Lab to attend the weeklong orientation program for his NOAA internship, which will begin in summer 2015. He will receive his placement in October.

“I listened to presentations about everything the NOAA has to offer,” he said.

One presentation Murphy was particularly interested in was about the use of drones to collect weather data in severe weather like hurricanes rather than using pilots to fly into dangerous zones.

However, presentations weren’t the only part of the orientation week.

“The orientation program has two objectives,” he said. “You’re to learn about the program, but you also get to meet the other internship recipients.”

While some might be nervous about an internship of this magnitude, Murphy said he’s more excited to work for the potential to work with cool projects.

“Getting to actually work on something that’s going to be used by thousands of people is exciting,” he said.

For his future career, which he hopes will involve 3D computer vision or artificial intelligence, Murphy intends to conduct research either as a professor or as part of a team at a research facility and working in a NOAA lab will benefit his long-term goals.

“Working at a national lab gets you exposed to researchers,” he said.

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NEWS BRIEFS

ONCA STUDENT PROFILES

Phillip Craigmile Phillip Craigmile, a junior in the Honors Tutorial College studying Biological Sciences, spent the summer conducting research in Essen, Germany, through the DAAD RISE program. He also got to celebrate in country when Germany won the World Cup against Argentina.

“Before arriving in Germany I knew that the World Cup would be a big deal, but I never could have imagined how big,” he said. “The atmosphere is so electric, unlike anything I have ever seen in the United States. It is an entire nation celebrating like one city would celebrate after winning the Super Bowl.”

Flags were strewn everywhere, and people chanted excitedly and congested the streets for hours after each game, he added.

“From my understanding, this is somewhat weird for Germans because they are extremely cognizant of their history,” Craigmile said. “Rarely do they display flags or strongly support their nation because they don’t want to seem too nationalistic.”

Craigmile received a DAAD RISE scholarship from the German government, which pairs undergraduate students with doctoral students who serve as their mentors in fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and engineering. His research focused on how cancer cells respond to radiation in relation to a specific protein involved in apoptosis, which causes cell death.

“My research experience has been good,” he said. “I think most scientists would agree that research can be frustrating, and I have had my moments of frustration. A mentor in my lab and I made a small mistake the first week that I was here, and it delayed my project an entire week. We fixed the issue, but we lost valuable time.”

However, it wasn’t all work for Craigmile. He was in Germany from May 18th to the middle of August and traveled to Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich, as well as Copenhagen, Denmark, and Salzburg, Austria.

“I have met many German friends while I have been here, and DAAD RISE has provided me so many opportunities

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to meet new people who go to school in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom,” he said.

Craigmile also had opportunities to travel through the DAAD RISE program.

“I went to Heidelberg for the DAAD RISE interns meeting where post graduate opportunities in education and industry were presented,” he said. “Germany is really trying to attract top scientists from around the world to come do research here.”

Despite being an ocean away from home, Craigmile said he didn’t experience much culture shock.

“It’s the little things that surprise me most,” he said. “For example, Germans love French fries with mayonnaise. I would have never considered eating that, but it’s actually pretty tasty.”

NEWS BRIEFS

Katie Lasco For the first time in five years, an Ohio University student has received the Udall Scholarship.

Katie Lasco, an Honors Tutorial College student studying Business, received the scholarship, which grants up to $5000 to college students who are committed to careers related to the environment.

“Ohio University has emerged as a leader in campus sustainability over the past years, and I collaborate with many other talented students on environmental projects who deserve equal recognition,” Lasco said.

Lasco has always been interested in the environment and her family would frequently take cross-country camping trips, went hiking and saw national parks, she said.

“I developed an interest in the outdoors and strong environmental ethics,” Lasco said.

She started a paper recycling campaign when she was in high school and her interest in the environment turned into an academic pursuit when she started college. While she’s studying Business, HTC has presented her with flexible opportunities to really study what she wants, Lasco said.

“I’m a business major but I’ve taken a lot of environmental studies classes and I also took a tutorial on environmental studies,” she said.

Lasco hopes to use her Business degree to further her career as an environmental change maker.

“Businesses have an enormous impact on the environment, and I am passionate about helping companies change practices to reduce their consumption of natural resources,” she said.

As well as receiving the Udall Scholarship, Lasco also received the HTC Public Interest Internship grant to go to

Ecuador and research there as well. She has also worked at the Office of Sustainability on campus since the fall of her freshmen year and participated in Sustainable Ohio University Leaders (SOUL). On top of that, Lasco is a student member of the Ecology and Energy Conservation Committee.

“I hope to work in corporate sustainability and help business become more sustainable,” she said.

Receiving the Udall Scholarship will help her form a strong network with other recipients, she said. Lasco has already gone to Washington D.C., for an event at the Udall Office where she met other scholars and alumni.

“I believe the connections formed with other Udall Scholars will be invaluable when considering future job opportunities in the environmental sphere,” Lasco said.

JAN HODSON NAMED HONORARY ALUMNA During her time as assistant dean of the Honors Tutorial College, Jan Hodson fufilled many roles. Just prior to retiring in August 2013, she added another: Honorary Alumna.

HTC’s Honorary Alumna award is bestowed by the College’s Board of Visitors to an individual who has performed valuable services to the College. Hodson worked at HTC for 14 years and made an indelible impact on hundreds of students and faculty. The award came as a surprise to her.

“I was clueless. I had no idea they were going to consider me for this. I worked in HTC long enough to really see what it means to graduate from the College,” Hodson said. “It’s not enough to just be smart — you’ve got to really be dedicated,

work hard, and be passionate about study.”

Hodson earned a bachelor of science in interior design from Ohio University. She completed a master’s in child development and family studies in 1996. She said that training influenced her work as assistant dean. Although Hodson did not attend HTC, she conducted her work as assistant dean using the same oneon-one approach that the tutorial system values.

“Every college says ‘you’re not just a number.’ HTC is one of the few places that actually follows through on that,” she said.

Hodson is enjoying retirement, but she misses the amazing staff and students of HTC.

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SCHOLARLY

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Seniors complete a wide array of theses

STORIES BY CARA HANSON AND SARAH-JANE LORENZO PHOTOS PROVIDED

STUDENTS

Danielle Fultz FRENCH

“Educational Inequalities for FirstGeneration Magrebian Muslim Youth in France: A Study of the Policies of Education as a Force of Assimilation”

Austin Way ENGINEERING PHYSICS

“Fabrication of a-Si and a-InGaN Photovoltaics by Plasma Sputtering”

France is known for its culture, and HTC French alumna Danielle Fultz has always been intrigued by the country’s attempts to preserve it.

Fultz, who also completed a degree in history and a certificate in war and peace studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, studied French schools’ promotion of French culture and language as reflected by their treatment of North African Muslim immigrant youth.

In recent years, many French citizens have perceived Muslim immigrants from North Africa as a threat to their culture.

This is because these immigrants often have strong ties to Islamic culture and frequently lack fluency in French.

Fultz learned that instead of providing first-generation North African immigrant youth with wrap-around transitional support, French schools often take an immersion-based approach to these students’ assimilation.

This means that in many cases, immigrant students are not taught the language skills they need to understand subject material in class.

Despite this, many of the immigrant students develop the necessary conversational skills for basic communication with teachers and peers. This misleads teachers, who often assume these students are fluent in French and are just not trying to succeed.

Fultz hopes her thesis will expose some of the problems of public education in France, but also hopes those who read her work are mindful of the similar difficulties faced by immigrant students in the United States.

“It’s easy to criticize France for its policies,” she said. “But we are also lacking here at home.”

Austin Way came to Ohio University interested in physics, but after participating in an environmental sustainability project his freshman year, he discovered a passion for energy.

Three years later, Way, an Honors Tutorial College senior studying Engineering Physics, set out to create a complete solar cell through a technique called plasma sputtering. Because typical techniques used to create solar cells are very expensive, he turned to sputtering, a more cost-effective method.

“The question I’m raising is if we can use a cheaper, less-used technique to make a complete solar cell,” Way said.

“And if we can do this – if we can actually make it into a solar cell – how well can we increase its capability of producing energy by techniques that are available to us without having to rely on extremely expensive materials or equipment.”

The Kanawha Project, which focuses on the interconnectedness of the envi-

ronment, energy and the economy, piqued Way’s interest in energy research.

“After I got involved with the Kanawha Project, I fell in love with environmental stuff and energy,” he said. “Energy really sparked an interest and a passion in me, so I decided to find out if there was anyone at Ohio University doing work with solar cells.”

Way found his thesis advisor, Dr. Martin Kordesch, during his freshman year, and he has been working with him ever since. Kordesch is a professor of physics and astronomy at OHIO. Way is pursuing a doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. After that, he hopes to be a research scientist in a national lab or in private industry.

— SARAH-JANE LORENZO

— CARA HANSON

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Connor Gartland MEDIA ARTS AND STUDIES

“Making Mori: Emotional Depth and the Art of Video Games”

Dan Garrett ECONOMICS

“Post Graduation Earnings and College Completion Rates: The Case of Students from Appalachia”

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Connor Gartland wants to create a video game that appeals to players’ emotions.

Gartland, an HTC Media Arts and Studies alumnus with a focus on game art, believes emotional depth is one of the great untapped potentials of the gaming industry. Although some games on the market already evoke emotions as players watch their characters’ plots unfold, Gartland wants to take that emotional experience to the next level.

“I hope the user kind of parallels the experience of the character,” Gartland said. “In video games I think it’s profound that you can interact with the characters if you identify with them; you can be a part of their struggle.”

Gartland began working on his game, Mori, summer before last. He said the project has given him the chance to put

on a producer’s hat, something he hasn’t done before.

In order to finish the game in time for the OHIO Research and Creative Activity Expo in April, Gartland worked with a team including a programmer, two animators and a composer. Gartland created all of the game’s visuals himself, and said the time he spent working on the project was equal to a full-time job.

Gartland doesn’t plan to market the game; instead, his goal is to get as many people as possible to play it. He hopes Mori will introduce them to a new genre.

“To me this is as much a piece of artwork as it is a video game,” he said.

“So we’re going to be distributing it for free.”

Research has established that workers in Appalachia make less money on average than workers in other parts of the country; however, it’s not entirely clear what part college plays in the equation.

Dan Garrett, an HTC Economics alumnus, set out to answer that question in his thesis project. He tried to determine if any relationship exists between the lack of return to highly skilled workers in Appalachia and college completion rates. To accomplish this, he used a National Center for Education Statistics dataset from a large, national survey.

“Because we see that college graduates get paid less in the Appalachian region, I’m going to see if there is less incentive to graduate,” Garrett said.

After graduation, Garrett wants to study student loans and how people respond to them, and his thesis is a preliminary step along his research path.

“We don’t yet know enough about why people go to college to formulate good research questions about how people take on loans,” he said. “A lot of people say kids go to college purely for the investment payoff — so they make more money in the long run — but there’s a growing body of literature that says that’s not true.”

In the fall, Garrett is attending Duke University to pursue a Ph.D. in economics. He believes research will be an essential component of his career.

“I’ll probably wind up doing some empirical economic research,” he said.

“I’ll eventually probably become a college professor because that’s the best way to do that.”

— SARAH-JANE LORENZO

— CARA HANSON

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Amanda Dunson BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

“Regulation of ompA and Its Effect on Shigella Virulence”

Eric Burke HISTORY

“Decidedly Unmilitary: The Roots of Social Order in the Union Army”

Mandy Dunson has always been interested in science, but she didn’t find her true passion until she took a microbiology course her second year at Ohio University. Dunson, an HTC Biological Sciences alumna, fell in love with microbiology and has been exploring the subject ever since.

For her thesis project, Dunson decided to look at a potential RNA thermometer — a temperature-sensitive non-coding RNA molecule that regulates gene expression — in Shigella, a waterborne pathogen that causes an infectious diarrheal disease called shigellosis.

Though shigellosis is not usually lethal in the United States, it is responsible for an estimated 1.1 million annual fatalities worldwide, Dunson said.

“DNA is transcribed into mRNA, and then that mRNA is translated into protein,” she said. “An RNA thermom-

eter is a piece of RNA that looks like a lollipop structure, and it affects the translation of mRNA into a protein.”

The potential RNA thermometer that Dunson is looking at inhibits ribosomal binding, which is necessary for the creation of the protein. The protein encoded by the sequence after the regulatory region that she is looking at is OmpA, which is necessary for Shigella virulence.

“I’m looking to characterize the thermometer and see how mutations made to the thermometer affect virulence,” Dunson said.

By comparing mRNA and protein levels, Dunson hopes to provide evidence of an RNA thermometer.

Dunson is attending The Ohio State University to earn a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology.

Eric Burke doesn’t know what sparked his interest in the Civil War. “It’s just been my thing since I was a kid,” he said. “I’ve spent twenty-three years reading about a four-year event. It’s kind of paradoxical.”

But Burke, a History alumnus of the Honors Tutorial College, doesn’t mind the paradox. When he chose his thesis topic, he decided to delve into Civil War history full time. He worked to gain a better understanding of the reasons that led soldiers to join the army and the relationships they developed with military structure.

“People want to believe that the militarization process is more unified than it is,” Burke said. “Soldiers are often looked at like they’re all just the same.

But they’re all individuals, and that individuality is important. They’re not all just parts of a machine.”

Before enrolling in the Honors Tutorial College, Burke served four years in

the United States Army, including a year in Iraq and a year in Afghanistan. His time in the military helped him understand the Army’s nature and structure.

He realized that many aspects of that structure clash with commonly held stereotypes.

“What I’m trying to do with my work is kind of complicate those stereotypes,” Burke said. “There are a lot of soldiers and veterans who act like the gap between soldiers and civilians is unbridgeable. But you realize that’s not the case. You’ve done a lot of things, seen a lot of things, but you’re still a human being. Just the same as everybody else.”

Burke is attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue a doctorate in history.

— CARA HANSON

— SARAH-JANE LORENZO

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Paula Welling STUDIO ART

“Limited by Language: Words, Images, and Their Effect on Women”

Yashashree Jadhav ASTROPHYSICS

“The Search for Cataclysmic Variables Using Pan-STARRS1 Data”

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When she started writing her thesis prospectus, Paula Welling, an HTC Studio Art alumna with a focus in graphic design, knew she wanted to look at how language combines with visual communication to create meaning.

However, as she started to investigate the idea further, Welling realized she needed a more specific way to explore her ideas about language and graphic design, so she turned to feminism.

Welling’s thesis is an exploration of the way the words and images that people use in American society affect and reflect women’s experiences.

“One of my visual essays is about how the use of the term ‘girl’ to refer to young women, especially when they’re sexualized, harms our perception of women’s sexual authority,” Welling said.

Another one of Welling’s visual essays looks at how the words society uses to

describe women’s appearances — such as voluptuous, doll, shapely, and babe — affect men’s perception of women and women’s perceptions of themselves.

“The prevalence of those words in our language indicates our unfair emphasis on women’s beauty and how that can damage women,” Welling said.

As part of her thesis project, Welling created a handmade book that focuses on derogatory language about women, which was accepted into Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books III. The exhibition will be traveling nationally and internationally between 2014 and 2016.

After graduation, Welling moved to New York City and accepted a position with McGinty Inc., a studio that designs books and other publications for major art museums.

When the time came to select her thesis project, Yashashree Jadhav looked to the sky.

For the HTC Astrophysics graduate, this was only natural. However, she looked at it through a different lens – that of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS1) in Maui, Hawaii.

Jadhav used Pan-STARRS1 data to make new strides in the identification of cataclysmic variable stars, or CVs. CVs are binary star systems that experience cycles of brightness due to quasi-periodic explosions. Jadhav is one of the first researchers to use Pan-STARRS1 data to find them.

Although the Pan-STARRS1 telescope is in Hawaii, Jadhav did not travel there. Instead, she went to Heidelberg, Germany, last summer to conduct research at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.

At the Institute, Jadhav selected a portion of the sky to analyze and began

to sift through data. She started by looking at a catalog of about 4,800 stars.

Through a multi-step screening process, she identified 15 potential CVs. Jadhav then spent her senior year studying those 15 CV candidates. By mid-February she had identified one CV. Upon the completion of her work, she classified nine of the remaining stars as candidate T Tauri stars and the remaining five as what are known as blue variables.

Jadhav hopes her work will show other researchers in her field a new method of cataclysmic variable star identification.

“Pan-STARRS1 gave me insight on how to work with very large datasets,” she said. “In the next five years there will be about two more big telescopes going up. When they do go up, experience working with Pan-STARRS1 data will help me to work with those telescopes’ even larger datasets.”

— CARA HANSON

— CARA HANSON

STUDENT INTERNSHIPS

Caroline Boone Caroline Boone, a recent graduate in HTC Political Science, interned with the Women’s Fund of Central Ohio, a philanthropic foundation that promotes women’s empowerment in Ohio.

Boone was connected with the internship through the Columbus Foundation Summer Fellowship. She’s had a general interest in women’s issues and philanthropy for a while, and she felt like the match was a good one for her.

The Women’s Fund gives grants to programs that engage, empower, support or educate women and girls. Boone researched where money was going to support women’s empowerment in the central Ohio area and how that money was being used.

She would talk to organizations to figure out how grants were budgeted to benefit women. One example was when she visited a summer camp for youth.

“They watched MissRepresentation, which is a documentary about women’s status, and then they put their own spin on it,” Boone said. “So they presented the information again, but through a youth lens. They did a really great job with it, and it was youth driven and youth run, and it was just really fun.”

Boone is attending Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in fall 2014 to earn her master’s degree in public administration. She also took another fellowship with the Central New York Community Foundation, where she can continue her philanthropic interests and have her full tuition to the school covered.

— KATE IRBY

Brian Gibbons Brian Gibbons spent last summer on Wall Street, exploring the Big Apple in between 12-hour work days.

Gibbons, a recent graduate in HTC Business, worked for the investment banking branch of Credit Suisse as a summer equity research analyst. He researched companies so that stock brokers could advise investors about whether or not to buy stock in them.

“It was really cool because people really do listen, and it can influence the stock price,” Gibbons said. “Say something is trading at $50 and we came back out and said it was worth $65 per share, it might have moved that day to $55 per share. So you actually get to see your ideas come to life.”

One of his favorite research projects was on 3-D printing companies. Credit Suisse sent him to a conference on 3-D printers in the city, where he met the CEO of 3D Systems, one of the bigger companies in the business, and learned how to use the printing equipment.

“So we were trying to find all the potential end markets for 3-D printers — in the aerospace industry, the dentist industry, making Invisalign braces, tons of other things,” Gibbons said. “So you’re just trying to get a feel for how big that market could be and how much that company would be able to take out of that pie.”

After accepting a job offer from Credit Suisse, Gibbons moved to New York City to pursue a career in investment banking.

— KATE IRBY

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One Physicist’s Research Spans Ozone Levels to Quantum Dots

BY JEAN ANDREWS, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY PHOTO PROVIDED

Nationally competitive award funds government research

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rom observing ozone phenomena to building microscale devices, HTC Physics senior Helen Cothrel explores her environment to the extreme. This summer she worked at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, Colorado, to study the Earth’s ozone layer.

She received funding through an Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship, a two-year appointment with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Education (NOAA.) The title of her NOAA project was “Summertime Ozone Measurements in the Colorado Front Range.” She looked at summertime ozone exceedances in Colorado (i.e. ozone episodes above the 75 ppb standard), and possible correlations between high ozone levels and specific ozone precursors.

“Identifying ozone exceedances that correlate with a certain precursor would allow us to identify what circumstances led to an exceedance, such as forest fires or gas and oil well activity,” she wrote in her project abstract.

The research center has been collecting surface ozone data for six years, since June 2008, but has been unable to analyze it due to time constraints. The area’s increased resource extraction activity does not directly produce ozone, or O3; however, it does create precursor pollutants, such as CO2 and methane (CH4). These gases affect the production of ozone, which is produced in a sunlight-driven reaction between volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), Cothrel said.

Ozone can be beneficial in the troposphere, but it is a harmful air pollutant closer to ground level.

“Ozone is most harmful in the lower atmosphere, where it contributes to photochemical smog and has negative effects on flora and fauna,” Cothrel wrote in her abstract. “This collection of properties makes ozone a compound of great interest to researchers.”

As ozone is produced in a sunlight-driven reaction, ozone levels higher than the 75 ppb standard set by the EPA are rarely observed in any season other than summer. They can be particularly high in afternoon on sunny days. To differentiate

between the natural cycle and long-term trends, Cothrel said she first had to establish the seasonal trends.

“Specifically, we asked what is aggravating ozone levels above this standard?” Cothrel said. “We wanted to look and see if there’s been a trend and if it has been increasing in recent years.”

As it turns out, their initial hypothesis was correct: During the six-year period, Cothrel established a significant correlation between the ozone level exceedances and temperature, carbon monoxide and methane.

By analyzing the wind direction, Cothrel was also able to establish a correlation between the exceedances and the wind direction, particularly with wind coming from the northeast sector — the location of increased gas and oil well activity.

Helen will complete her HTC honors thesis this academic year under the direction of Dr. Eric Stinaff, an associate professor of physics and director of the Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute. After returning to Athens at the end of the summer, Helen plans to switch gears and work at the nanoscale. She’ll use microscale devices with photolithography to investigate the properties of nanostructures such as quantum dots. She has been developing a photolithography procedure to produce micron scale metallic devices to ultimately use in the study of nanostructured materials. This has involved significant effort to identify the optimal parameters to produce working device structures. In the next stage of the project Helen will be employing various optical spectroscopy and imaging techniques to study new materials and nanostructures including arrays of colloidal quantum dots, quantum wires, and hybrid structures.

The goal is to help study energy transfer in these materials.

Being a well-rounded scientist means having a sense of wonder for things outside your chosen field. Helen found time this summer to explore the Colorado landscape and hike with her family when they visited. Other relaxing activities include playing video games and going to a local coffee shop to hang out and read novels such as The Lord of the Rings.

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A NEW WAY TO

Teach Health STORY BY BRIAN VADAKIN ILLUSTRATION BY PAULA WELLING

FACULTY & STAFF

ince 2011, the Honors Tutorial College has introduced two interdisciplinary programs of study to its offerings — Environmental Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. After a year of planning, the College will soon add a third: a program in Translational Health will begin accepting students in the next academic year.

The creation of a Translational Health program, designed by Dr. Cheryl Howe, assistant professor of exercise physiology, will provide a new avenue for HTC students interested in health and wellness. Currently, HTC students interested in health must select a program in the core sciences of biology, chemistry, or physics.

“The translational health degree is trying to model the health care system that is emerging,” Howe said. “We’re trying to develop a health care model that is multidisciplinary. We take basic science information, applied science information, clinical information, and community information and put all of these players at the same table to communicate with each other to get the best care for you.”

Howe received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 2010. Her research specializes in pediatric exercise physiology and obesity prevention, but the Translational Health program will draw on all fields of applied health sciences, including nutrition. Members of various programs, including the OHIO Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, will coordinate to provide a more holistic health curriculum.

Howe uses a specific term to describe the translational health model: bench-to-bedside-to-curbside. Students begin by learning the core, “bench-taught” sciences of chemistry, physics, and biology.

“Then for bedside, students take that information and relate it to chronic disease and patient care, but also go curbside into the community for prevention,” Howe said. “It’s basically taking the core science and bringing it all the way to community health.”

Howe is the co-director for education of the OHIO Diabetes Institute and has incorporated its multidisciplinary training into the Translational Health program. While HTC Translational Health students may choose a nutrition or an exercise physiology track, they will all earn the Diabetes Certificate as part of their studies.

“The Diabetes Certificate has an independent study component where the students are actually going out … and translating their studies into the community,” Howe said. “Students also take a seminar class where they’re learning about the latest research in the disease, so that’s a model for graduate school work.”

Because of the flexibility of an HTC degree, students will receive the multidisciplinary benefits of an applied health sciences degree, but will also be encouraged to take more core science classes to improve their “benchtop” competence.

“This degree will allow students a little bit more freedom,” Howe said. “It will still give them the background in the core sciences but also expose them to all the different disciplines like nutrition and exercise, so that they can have a well-rounded background.”

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Dr. Haley Duschinski

Dr. Bernhard Debatin

Specialized

S E M I N AR S STORY BY BEN POSTLETHWAIT PHOTOS BY ROB HARDIN

Interdisciplinary Outstanding Tutor seminars create unique learning opportunity for students and professors

FACULTY & STAFF

EACH YEAR, THE HONORS TUTORIAL COLLEGE NAMES TWO OUTSTANDING TUTORS for their excellent service to the college and their commitment to tutorial education. The Outstanding Tutors are given the opportunity to create and teach an interdisciplinary honors seminar. In turn, HTC students can enroll in these targeted classes taught by some of the best professors at Ohio University.

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amed an Outstanding Tutor for the 2011–2012 academic year, Dr. Bernhard Debatin is a professor of journalism and Director of Studies for HTC’s Journalism program. Debatin has an interest in environmental issues, especially the unique conditions found in the Appalachian region. His course, Environmental Justice, looked at regional environmental issues and public health threats, including how public policy handles these issues.

“It’s a difficult challenge to design an interdisciplinary course like this. It’s very interest-based,” Debatin said. “Students wrote about the topics from their own unique perspectives.”

The class read Mountains of Injustice, a book co-authored by Environmental Studies DOS Dr. Geoff Buckley, which examines the way in which small, impoverished Appalachian towns are targets for waste dumping and landfills.

Part of Debatin’s multidisciplinary approach involved planned excursions to some of the region’s landmarks that relate to the environmental challenges discussed in class, including the Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio and the many abandoned mines and acid mine drainage sites found in Athens County. Debatin hopes the excursions allowed students to gain a perspective on the environmental issues that they could not otherwise understand by simply reading text or watching films.

One of the films Debatin showed in the course was The Cheshire Transaction, a 2002 documentary that focuses on the extreme pollution in Cheshire, Ohio, by the Gavin Power Plant. The plant is one of the twelve largest coal power plants in the nation and the location of the largest fly-ash landfill in Ohio. The town was bought out for $20 million by American Electric Power in 2002, leaving only 10 percent of the original population in the small village. The group traveled to the Gavin plant to see for themselves the pollution that afflicted the area.

“When you talk about environmental sacrifice zones, you need to go there and see it for yourself,” Debatin said. “We have a special opportunity to go to these places and actually see the effects first-hand.”

Debatin said that living in Athens County makes it necessary for students to have a general understanding of the environmental challenges that the region faces.

Named an Outstanding Tutor for the 2012 –2013 school year, Dr. Haley Duschinski, an associate professor of anthropology and Director of the Ohio University Center for Law, Justice and Culture, created a course called “Imagining International Justice.” It focused on the social impact of post-conflict remediation efforts. For Duschinski, the challenge of creating a class that would appeal to multiple disciplines was a welcome change of pace from the normal curriculum.

“International justice is a perfect topic for interdisciplinary learning,” Duschinski said. “It’s something we all feel invested in, but it’s also slippery and often hard to grasp. Having students of different backgrounds allowed for a lot of unique perspectives.”

The group studied truth commissions, tribunals, and other post-conflict international bodies ranging from the post-World War II Nuremberg trials in 1945 to the post-Rwandan genocide Gacaca Court in 2001.

Students in the course were challenged with large amounts of reading relating to post-conflict remediation efforts. Duschinski said she was impressed with the amount of interest that the students took in the topics, often taking them outside of the classroom and forming a community around some of the difficult discussions in the three-hour long seminar. Some members of the small class went the extra mile and attended lectures like the J-Street U conference on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the STAND Against Genocide lecture, in Washington D.C. “We covered very difficult subject material, but every week we looked forward to it because Duschinski presented the material in a fascinating and careful manner, making sure we could stop and digest every detail,” said junior Art History major Henry Kessler. “It allowed us to pull our own individualized programs of study into the course in a unique way.”

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OUTSTANDING TUTORS

Dr. Carey Snyder

Photo by Rob Hardin

Immediately apparent in a conversation with Honors Tutorial College English students about their Director of Studies, Dr. Carey Snyder, is the immense respect they have for her as an intellectual and a person.

“I have never once left [her office] without feeling newly inspired, assured or comforted,” said HTC English and Dance alumna Bethany Lopreste in her Outstanding Tutor nomination. “She is truly wonderful.”

Snyder, who began teaching at Ohio University in 2001, received her doctorate in 20th century British literature from State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is an associate professor of English and has served as the Director of Studies for the HTC English program since 2010.

HTC English students work with Snyder starting in their first term in the College, when she teaches a group tutorial called Introduction to Literary Studies. It simultaneously functions as an introduction to college-level writing and reading, and an immersion into the English Department at OHIO. “Dr. Snyder welcomed us into a family of HTC English faculty and students who were and continue to be my most important influences and closest friends,” said Bekki Wyss, a fourth-year English student who also nominated Snyder.

Snyder has advised six HTC theses and is passionate about the process.

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“It is the first time that a student is taking ownership of the material and becoming a specialist in a certain subject,” Snyder said, adding that she enjoys “watching them have that breakthrough moment between writing term papers and making an intellectual contribution.”

For Lopreste, her best tutorial experience with Snyder was when they designed a specialized tutorial on rhythm in modern dance, poetry, and prose. In the class, they studied the choreography and modern composer Igor Stravinski’s orchestral score of Le Sacre du Printemps (or The Rite of Spring).

“The radically innovative ballet provoked riots among spectators upon its 1913 Paris premiere for its rhythmic, dissonant score; its violently unconventional dance movements; and its shockingly pagan theme, involving a fertility ritual and human sacrifice,” Snyder said.

Additionally, Snyder and Lopreste traveled to Columbus to watch a reenactment of the production by the Columbus symphony and ballet.

“Though [Snyder] is not a dance historian, her ability to understand concepts of modernist choreography and her familiarity with choreographers were traits that I am fairly certain I would not have found in other English professors,” Lopreste said.

Snyder was also enthusiastic about the interdisciplinary, “exploratory” tutorial. Whatever type of tutorial she leads, however, it is clear that she is just as excited about the experience as her students.

“I love the idea that I can just mention a book in passing, and my HTC students are likely to go pick it up or put it on their reading list,” Snyder said. “Anyone who is teaching loves to see their own love reflected back.”

— BRIAN VADAKIN

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Dr. Julie White To receive the Outstanding Tutor Award, a professor must have served for at least four years as a tutor with the Honors Tutorial College. Dr. Julie White, director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and associate professor of political science, exceeds that minimum — by about eleven years.

White’s involvement with HTC began about fifteen years ago, two years after she arrived at the university in 1997. She served as Director of Studies for the HTC Political Science program. Additionally, White spent a semester in 2008 working at 35 Park Place as a faculty fellow. As part of the position, she designed and taught an interdisciplinary seminar about the public intellectual.

“That was a really great experience,” White said. “I think I have always appreciated the tutorial students in political science, but the course gave me the opportunity to work with students from other fields as well.”

White, who specializes in political theory as well as critical public and social policy, receives accolades almost as frequently as she takes on new projects. She has twice received the University Professor Award — once in 1997 and again in 2004 — as well as teaching distinctions from the College of Arts and Sciences and the American Political Science Association. In addition to her involvement with HTC, she is on the advisory board and teaches students in the College of Arts and Sciences Scholars Program.

“I think it’s a really important aspect of public education to have universities actively recruit, enroll, and retain high-achieving students,” White said. “One way to do that is the tutorial system; another is the Scholars Program.”

It is her teaching style, however, that makes the most impact on her students. In tutorials, White said she likes to start off with a few fundamental texts for the topic, and then develop the tutorial individually from there.

“What really sets Dr. White apart is her ability to bring together all of the knowledge and all of the experience I’ve acquired over the past four years and make everything piece

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together,” wrote Matt Zofchak, a 2013 HTC Political Science graduate, in his Outstanding Tutor nomination.

White worked with Zofchak on his senior thesis, one of five theses she has advised since 2008.

“HTC and political science have had an amazing relationship in the time I’ve been here,” she said. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work with students who were both intellectually inspiring, and inspiring campus citizens as well.”

According to Zofchak, the students who have worked with her are equally fortunate.

“Beyond the academic guidance and wisdom Dr. White has offered throughout the year, what I’ve found more inspiring is her character — humble, outgoing, incredibly involved on campus, caring, funny and someone who ‘walks the walk,’” he said.

— BRIAN VADAKIN

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LEGAL CAREERS

Explored

HTC Hosted Pre-Law Day 2013 STORY BY BRIAN VADAKIN PHOTOS BY ROB HARDIN

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FEATURE

LEFT Dr. Anna Harvey delivers keynote address.

he Honors Tutorial College has never had a pre-law program of study, which some universities offer to prepare students for law school and legal careers.

However, for the group of nine successful alumni who visited campus for Pre-Law Day in October 2013, the lack of a discrete program wasn’t necessarily a disadvantage.

Beginning at 9 a.m., while some students were heading to their first class, keynote speaker and HTC alumna Dr. Anna Harvey spoke to a rapt audience about the role played by judges, who are by nature unelected officials, in making law and setting policy direction in the United States. Harvey, an associate professor of politics at New York University, graduated from HTC in 1988 with a degree in political science before going on to receive her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has written two books about American politics; her most recent book focuses on the effects Supreme Court decisions may have on domestic policy. A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy was published in 2013.

Law is often misconstrued as a singular field of work – lawyers work in the courtroom, either as an attorney for the prosecution or defense, or as a judge. The reality is much more diverse. The academic study of law encompasses many different subfields, and students attending Pre-Law Day were fortunate to meet a wide variety of academics and professionals.

The visiting professionals represented diverse areas such as corporate law, judgeship, defense and prosecution, political science, higher education law, and work in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Robert Stout graduated from HTC with a degree in Political Science in 1981. He received his J.D. from Northwestern University and now is the Vice President and Head of Regulatory Affairs at BP America.

“I think the most rewarding thing for me is the diversity of my practice and my ability to apply so many different parts of myself and my talents into my practice,” Stout said. “I work for a large corporation, and I have had both legal and nonlegal roles. It’s really neat to be able to have that much diversity — to always be able to do something different, but still be grounded in the fundamental expertise of law and policy.”

To learn more about career opportunities, law school and life in the field of law, students participated in eight panel sessions throughout the day. However, for some students, the most beneficial session was the opportunity to speak with the professionals at a lunch hosted in Baker University Center.

Angelina Moore, a second-year HTC student studying Business, had the opportunity to speak at length with Stout.

She said speaking with him gave her direction for law school preparation.

“He told me that writing and communication are key and to take courses that will build my strength in those areas because that’s what they expect of you when you enter law school,” Moore said. “What made him so helpful to me was that he works as in-house counsel, which is my dream job. Most lawyers go the private firm route or work for the government, but he described his pathway to work in house for a large company.”

Although HTC does not plan to sponsor Pre-Law Day again, the College will work with the Center for Law, Justice and Culture on the event in 2014.

“We were delighted to have such a prestigious group of Ohio University alumni back for this event,” Dean Jeremy Webster said.

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PRE-LAW DAY PANELISTS Sandra J. Anderson Retired Associate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at The Ohio State University Office of Legal Affairs

Sandra Anderson recently retired as Associate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at The Ohio State University Office of Legal Affairs. In that role, she directed the efforts of the office’s 24 attorneys and 20 paralegals and support staff in providing legal services to the university’s main campus, regional campuses, and Wexner Medical Center. She also supervised legal work performed by more than 25 state and national law firms serving as special counsel to the university on various matters.

Sandy began her duties at Ohio State in 2010, after 33 years with the Columbus law firm, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, where her practice focused on civil litigation.

Sandy is a 1973 graduate (summa cum laude) of Ohio University, with a degree in Communication, and a 1976 graduate (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif) of Northwestern University School of Law, where she was a member of

Robert L. Stout, Jr. Vice President and Head of Regulatory Affairs, BP America

Bob Stout leads BP America’s regulatory team and previously led the global Health, Safety, Security & Environment (HSSE) legal team of 41 lawyers and other professionals responsible for advising BP’s global businesses on legal/regulatory issues, enforcement matters, and disputes including matters arising out of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In his 21 years with BP, Bob has served in successively broader leadership roles, including as BP’s Western Hemisphere Compliance Director, a litigation and commercial staff attorney and managing counsel, and a public & government affairs director. Prior to joining BP in 1992, Bob was an associate and equity partner in the Litigation department of Latham & Watkins in Chicago from 1985 – 92, and a law clerk to the Honorable Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1984 – 85.

Bob received his J.D., cum laude, in 1984 from Northwestern University School of Law, where he served as the Articles & Book Review Editor for the Northwestern Law Review, and his A.B, summa cum laude, from Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College in Political Science in 1981.

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the National Moot Court team and an editor of the Law Review. Upon graduation from law school, she clerked for Judge George Edwards, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Sandy currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio University, having been appointed to the Board in 2007. She also serves on the Boards of The Legacy Fund of The Columbus Foundation and Equality Ohio. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bet-theCompany Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Labor and Employment Law and Personal Injury Litigation. She was the first female president of the Columbus Bar Association and later served as president of the Columbus Bar Foundation.

She is a former member of the Ohio State Bar Association Council of Delegates. She served for six years on the Ohio Supreme Court Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline, including as Chair in her final year on the Board.

She has served on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and as an adjunct professor at Moritz College of Law, teaching Trial Advocacy.

Judge Charlotte Coleman Eufinger Union County Probate and Juvenile Court

Charlotte Coleman Eufinger is a judge for the Union County Court of Common Pleas Probate and Juvenile Divisions in Marysville, Ohio. She was elected to the court in 2002 and re-elected in 2008 to another six-year term. Judge Eufinger established and presides over two drug courts as specialized dockets in the Juvenile Division to address issues involving juveniles and their parents who are before the court due to underlying drug and alcohol issues.

Eufinger received her undergraduate degree in history from Miami University in 1969 and her J.D. from the Ohio State University in 1972. Before becoming a judge, Eufinger was a partner at the Marysville law firm of Coleman, Eufinger and Aslaner, with a focus on probate, estate, and family law.

Eufinger was a member of the Ohio University Board of Trustees, a member of the Ohio University Foundation Board, and was named an Honorary Alumna of Ohio University in 1996.

John W. Borchert

David L. Burgert

Trial Attorney — Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit, Fraud Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Partner, Jones Day

John Borchert graduated from the Honors Tutorial College in 1996 with a B.A. in Political Science (Phi Beta Kappa), and received his J.D. with honors from Emory University School of Law in 1999. After five years of practice with a law firm in Washington, D.C., he was appointed to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. In that position, he prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases and took more than fifty cases to trial on behalf of the United States.

His prosecutions have involved weapons smugglers, terrorists, corrupt public officials, narcotics dealers, scam artists, street gangs, and corporate defendants. In his present position with DOJ, Borchert prosecutes violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a federal statute that broadly prohibits companies and individuals from paying bribes to secure business overseas.

Tara Stuckey Morrissey

David Burgert has focused on the trial and appeal of commercial disputes for 30 years. He has tried more than 50 cases to jury verdict as lead counsel. David represents plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association, JAMS, and the N.A.S.D. and has argued appeals before Texas and federal appellate courts. He litigates aspects of internet cyberpiracy, trademark law, licensing litigation, as well as patent disputes, representing both patent holders and accused patent infringers. David received his B.S., summa cum laude, from the Ohio University Honors Tutorial College in Economics in 1980, and his J.D. from The University of Michigan Law School in 1983.

Kevin Mohr Partner, King and Spalding

Associate, Jones Day

Tara Stuckey Morrissey is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Jones Day. As a member of the Issues & Appeals group, Tara’s practice focuses on legal analysis, briefing, and strategy in complex trial and appellate litigation. She has represented clients in a variety of matters, including intellectual property disputes, constitutional challenges, and antitrust litigation. Tara also maintains an active pro bono practice, which included an immigration case that she briefed, argued and won in the Ninth Circuit.

Tara is a native of Toledo, Ohio. At Ohio University, Tara served as a student trustee and graduated summa cum laude from the Honors Tutorial College. She majored in Journalism and minored in Business and Spanish. Tara attended law school at the University of Notre Dame, where she was Executive Managing Editor of the Notre Dame Law Review and graduated first in her class. After graduation, she served as a law clerk for Judge Jeffrey Sutton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Columbus, Ohio. In 2010, Tara clerked for Justice Samuel A. Alito on the Supreme Court of the United States. Tara and her husband recently welcomed their first child, Daniel.

Kevin Mohr is a partner in the Houston office of King and Spalding and a member of the firm’s Litigation group. Mohr’s practice focuses on transnational commercial disputes and complex commercial litigation. For more than 10 years, he has represented clients in trial, appellate, and arbitration proceedings spanning more than 30 state, federal, and non-U.S. jurisdictions. He has extensive experience with commercial contract and securities litigation, transnational commercial and treaty arbitrations, and franchise/distribution litigation, with a particular emphasis in the energy sector.

Mohr received his B.A. in 1994 from Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College, summa cum laude, with a major in Political Science and a minor in History. He received his J.D. in 1997 from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, where he served as a research assistant to Professor Arthur R. Miller. Following law school, Mohr served as a law clerk to the Honorable Hayden W. Head, Jr., a distinguished United States District Judge in the Southern District of Texas. Mohr is licensed in Texas and Illinois, and is also admitted to practice before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Texas and the Northern District of Illinois.

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Thomas Hodson

Dr. Anna Harvey

Director and General Manager, WOUB Center for Public Media

Associate Professor of Political Science at New York University

Tom Hodson has a distinguished background in journalism and law. Hodson, whose specialty is court media and community relations, has taught in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University.

He has co-authored a book about how media can improve court coverage, has written numerous articles on the subject and is a media consultant to various judicial organizations across the country.

The Athens attorney served as judge of the Athens County Common Pleas Court and the Athens County Municipal Court from 1980 to 1986. He served a Judicial Fellowship in the Administrative Office of the Chief Justice of the United States in 1986-87 and was presented the Justice Tom C. Clark Award

by Chief Justice William Rehnquist as the outstanding judicial fellow for that year.

Hodson was a member of the Ohio University Board of Trustees from 1989 to 1998. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism with honors and in general studies from Ohio University in 1970 and his law degree from Ohio State University in 1973.

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Dr. Anna Harvey is associate professor and former chair of the Department of Politics at New York University. She received a B.A. from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University in 1995. She is the author of two books: Votes Without Leverage: Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy (Yale University Press, 2013), as well as numerous scholarly articles. Her current research is concerned with the institutional determinants of income inequality, with a particular focus on judicial review. Her next book project examines the origins of judicial review in the former European slave colonies, and its negative consequences for redistribution today.

OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM Business major Angelina Moore, Bob Stout, and Dean Webster THIS PAGE TOP Bob Stout and David Burgert BOTTOM Careers in Law Panel led by Tara Morrissey, Charlotte Eufinger, and Sandra Anderson

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Learning in the Field STORY BY BEN POSTLETHWAIT PHOTOS PROVIDED

FEATURE

MOST STUDENTS WHO TRAVEL INTERNATIONALLY WILL AGREE that the opportunity to experience other cultures is a beneficial addition to any stateside university education. In an effort to combine international experience with rigorous academic work, two OHIO professors have coordinated study abroad programs that allow students to gain a better understanding of their classes’ themes.

Conflict in Cambodia & Northern Ireland One Honors Tutorial College tutor is going the extra mile by organizing an ambitious program that includes two study abroad trips focused on the topics of genocide and remediation.

Dr. Haley Duschinski is an associate professor of anthropology at Ohio University and a 2013 recipient of the HTC Outstanding Tutor award. This year, she was named the Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture.

In Spring 2013, Duschinski led a group of students to Belfast in Northern Ireland to study the major period of cultural and political struggle known collectively as “The Troubles.”

During this time, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) led an insurgency effort seeking political independence from the United Kingdom.

As part of their research, students interviewed and studied current and past members of the IRA, learning about human rights law and justice in Northern Ireland. They studied political prisoner interviews and how remediation efforts after the most intense period of “The Troubles” have affected ordinary people.

“It’s an ideal place to study these kinds of issues. People have real-life experience through this conflict,” Duschinksi said.

“The people who were leading these paramilitary organizations are now the leading characters in the fight for peace.”

In summer 2014 Duschinski led a trip to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Six students, five of whom are in HTC, spent several months there.

They worked on research projects with the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) and the Sleuk Rith Institute, centers for genocide studies in Southeast Asia, to study how Cambodians memorialize and conceptualize the genocide that

occurred in Cambodia. From 1975 to 1979, 1.5 to 3 million people were killed by the Communist Khmer Rouge Regime under the command of dictator Pol Pot. “This gave students a unique experience in law-related settings,” Duschinski said. “These are the types of opportunities that are only available to students in law school. That’s really something special.”

This past April, Ohio University hosted the Khmer Studies Forum, a uniquely important gathering of genocide scholars that is uncommon at a public university, Duschinski said. At the forum, students presented their research ideas to a board that included the Director of DC-Cam and the Sleuk Rith Institute.

Those institutions are preparing to open the first permanent genocide museum in Cambodia, and their staff worked with the students on their related research projects.

The Cambodia trip was the pilot program for a larger series of externships that Duschinski is trying to create through the Center for Law, Justice & Culture, forming partnerships with law and justice institutions in the U.S. and the international community. Ideally, she said she would like to send students to different sites every year to do this type of work on a consistent basis.

Both of Duschinski’s trips were purposefully focused on what happens in post-conflict areas, such as Cambodia and Ireland. Duschinski said that studying how people interact with a history of mass violence leads to some impressive and truly intriguing situations.

“I want this to be something (Ohio University) can be kind of known for,” Duschinski said. “This is really impressive work, and it could not be more important.”

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Sustainability in Scotland Sometimes you have to go to a new environment to have a greater appreciation for your current one. At least that is what Dr. Geoff Buckley hopes to do with his yearly summer study abroad program in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Buckley is the Director of Studies for the HTC Environmental Studies program, and each year he takes about 15 students on a trip to Scotland for a five-week study of sustainability. Students research urban history and see how Edinburgh has adapted as a geographical place to advances in sustainable practices.

“I can’t wait to expose them to some of the impressive work that Scotland is doing as a country, no matter how small it may be,” Buckley said. “It’s such a beautiful and fascinating place.”

Students lived and worked at the University of Edinburgh, getting to know the city and faculty there. Buckley led students to some impressive sites such as Linlithgow Palace, Melrose Abbey and the island of Eigg, known for its impressive moorland plateaus and dramatic terrain.

He said that even exposing students to an infrastructure that they are not used to goes a long way toward teaching them the value of sustainability. He tries to teach students to think of cit-

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ies as individual ecosystems with millions of interlocking parts, all affecting each other.

“When you’re there and you realize that you don’t need a car, you realize that you have a more fit population – that’s really impressive to some students,” Buckley said. “That takes them outside their comfort zones and teaches them something very, very real.”

Buckley explained how everything in Edinburgh is accessible on foot, and that often, due to America’s relatively lower average population density, that is not a familiar concept for American students. He engaged the students through individual studies on accessibility, urban gardening, and the mixed use of zoning throughout the city of Edinburgh.

Buckley said that he was particularly excited for this year’s trip, explaining that this year Scotland voted on its autonomy from the United Kingdom’s government.

“There was going to be a lot of political energy in the air, and I hope that’s something that resonated with students,” Buckley said.

OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM Scotland trip 2013 THIS PAGE TOP LEFT Scotland trip 2013 TOP RIGHT Northern Ireland trip 2014 BOTTOM Cambodia trip 2014

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FEATURE

Scholarship

M AT C H I N G

STORY BY BEN POSTLETHWAIT ILLUSTRATION BY PAULA WELLING

lumni who want to support current students have a new partner: Ohio University. The Undergraduate Scholarship Investment Program offers $25 million in matching scholarship funds to provide 50 cents for every one dollar contributed by donors.

Ellen Fultz, the Executive Director of Development, Scholarships & Special Projects in the Division of University Advancement, said that the matching program is an unprecedented way to foster support for students and create a strong relationship between the university and its alumni.

“Every gift counts. With this program, alumni feel like they’re making a big difference,” Fultz said. “They feel like they’re getting their money’s worth and then some.”

Donors to the matching program decide where they would like to direct their funds. HTC Political Science alumna Sharon Fountain recently created the Sharon Monahan & Ben E. Fountain Scholarship to support high-achieving students.

Specifically, the Fountain Scholarship is designated for an Honors Tutorial College student.

Fountain graduated in 1979, when HTC degree programs were three years. She attended Duke University’s School of

Law and works at the firm of Thompson & Knight in Dallas, where she leads the Tax Practice Group.

Fountain said that she has fond memories of her three years in the College and wanted to help others have a similar experience. She said that with the matching program, she felt it was easier for her to know she was giving a gift large enough to help students.

“You want to make an impact, but we have to figure out our financial situation and what we can afford,” Fountain said. “With the match, we were able to pledge enough to be able to start a small scholarship, which really appealed to me.”

To fund a full scholarship requires a minimum gift of $16,667, which leads to a $25,000 endowment with the matching funds. It provides a $1,000 renewable scholarship to a student.

However, the program is not limited to donors who can fund full scholarships. Another avenue for donations eligible for the match is the HTC General College Endowment Fund. Smaller donations can be pooled in it with the goal of

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funding a full renewable scholarship. Fultz said that, thanks to the fund, even $50 can be matched by the university and make a difference for an HTC student.

“This is an attractive way for people at all stages of their life to give a gift,” Fultz said. “Younger alums who don’t have the resources to make a big gift can say, ‘I can do this,’ while older alums can say ‘Wow, my gift can really help.’”

Fountain said that the matching program allows people without much experience in philanthropy and opportunity to give back to the College and direct money for students who may really need it.

“If you didn’t grow up in a wealthy family, you might not think about being able to donate,” Fountain said. “With the matching program, people who have never donated in their lives can have the confidence to say, ‘Yes, this is very doable.’”

“With the matching program, people who have never donated in their lives can have the confidence to say, ‘Yes, this is very doable.’”

— SHARON FOUNTAIN HTC Political Science alumna

ALUMNUS HONORS MATH TEACHER Robert Rudroff is not a household name, but it is one that has stayed with HTC Economics and Math alumnus Randall Grossman since he was a high school sophomore.

Grossman has endowed a scholarship in memory of Rudroff, who was his high school math teacher. The Robert Rudroff Memorial Honors Tutorial College Scholarship has been established under the university’s new scholarshipmatching program.

“HTC is a big part of what I am, and it was a great experience for me back in the 70s,” he said “What I learned and the experiences I had there stuck with me for my entire life and were instrumental to making me what I am today.

Anything I can give back to the College, I try to do because it’s such an important institution.”

As for the name of the scholarship, the idea came to Grossman “right away,” he said. He was especially gifted at math and found teachers encouraging him to move ahead of the curriculum. He taught himself algebra and pre-calculus and as a sophomore, he enrolled in Rudroff’s calculus class.

After receiving a 5 on the Advanced Placement exam, Rudroff encouraged Grossman to enroll at Buffalo University in New York where he taught night classes. It was from there that Rudroff took it upon himself to drive Grossman to the college courses.

“He was an extraordinary man and he just did that out of his interest in me as a student,” Grossman said.

Rudroff was a great teacher and, “everybody loved him,” Grossman said. Every Christmas, Rudroff would roll a piano down the hall from the music classroom and play a rendition of “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” with rewritten lyrics about calculus.

“He was a great mentor to me,” Grossman said.

Randall Grossman at the 2012 HTC Reunion Photo by Rob Hardin

Rudroff was also instrumental in Grossman attending Ohio University and specifically studying Economics in HTC, which was only in its second year of existence.

“Mr. Rudroff said that I always liked different things and it sounded like I was interested in the College so why not give it a try?” Grossman said. “HTC was the best decision I ever made and I owe that in part to Mr. Rudroff.”

Grossman’s oldest daughter, Anna, graduated from HTC Theater and his younger daughter entered HTC Engineering Physics and Math in the fall.

While Rudroff passed away in a house fire a few years ago, the scholarship is a great way to remember somebody who really deserves it, Grossman said.

“It’s a way now that he’s remembered and other students can benefit from him but in a different way,” he said.

— SOPHIE MITCHEM

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ALUMNI & FRIENDS

INVESTING IN STUDENT SUCCESS Thanks to the generosity of Honors Tutorial College alumni and friends, Dean Webster supported diverse student enrichment opportunities during the 2013–2014 academic year.

$23,361

$4,500

CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE

COLLEGE-BASED COMPETITIVE AWARDS

$21,650

$4,000

STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITIES

UNPAID INTERNSHIP EXPENSES

$5,846

RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY EXPENSES

If you would like to make a gift to the HTC, please contact our advancement liaison, Ellen Fultz, Executive Director of Development, at fultz@ohio.edu or 740.597.2145. You may also visit www.ohio.edu/give.

Date ! e h t e v Sa

MAY 29-31, 2015 Plan now to join us On the Green in 2015!

There will be more Alumni College, the Golden Bobcats of 1965, a film fest, a fitness walk, special reunions and more!

Your Ohio University Alumni Association will put together another great weekend for OHIO alumni, their families and the entire OHIO community.

Stay tuned for more details as they’re available ...

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ALUMNA PROFILE:

Laura Brege STORY BY BRIAN VADAKIN PHOTO BY ROB HARDIN

ALUMNI & FRIENDS

“If you’re not going to be a content expert, you have to take your skills and expertise and apply them to different areas.”

College students are often reminded that their undergraduate field of study doesn’t have to dictate their future career.

For a successful example, they need look no farther than Laura Brege.

Brege graduated in 1978 after studying government in the Honors Tutorial College and economics in the College of Business. After receiving a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago in 1982, she set off to look for jobs in Northern California with her husband and fellow Ohio University graduate, Bruce Brege (BBA ‘78).

Currently, she is the chief executive officer of Nodality, Inc., a biotechnology company in California developing a technology based on research from Stanford University: Single cell network profiling (SCNP). It allows researchers to see functional biology, also known as systems biology, at the single cell level. The diagnostic technique may allow users to predict the effects of treatment on specific patients by analyzing how the intervention affects individual cells. Together, the applications are advancing a field known as precision medicine.

“The promise of precision medicine is the right therapy, to the right patient, at the right time and the right dose,” Brege said. “The challenge for that is being able to understand how we’re different as individuals and, therefore, how the diseases act differently on us.”

All disease treatments have side effects and some can be expensive, she said, but effectiveness differs with every person. A systems biology approach can determine if a certain treatment will be ideal for a specific patient.

Before Nodality approached Brege to become CEO in 2012, she worked at Onyx Pharmaceuticals as executive vice president and chief operating officer. She spent about half of her career working in high-tech companies before moving to the biotechnology field. Because she didn’t specialize in either of those fields at college, she learned to adapt.

“If you’re not going to be a content expert, you have to take your skills and expertise and apply them to different areas,” Brege said. “It does require a huge commitment to learning the science, particularly if you have to sell that story to investors — you can’t sell that story if you don’t understand the underlying science.”

“Selling the story” and learning to communicate effectively are some of the most important skills Brege said she gained from HTC. She graduated from the College only three years after Dr. Ellery Golos implemented the tutorial system, so many fields of study were still developing the specifics of their programs.

“I was very lucky: the professor who was director was very good, very organized about it,” Brege said. “He really taught me how to write and how to communicate — that was probably one of the most important things I learned: that you have to get your ideas across in a way that other people would get excited about it.”

As all HTC students resided in Hoover House on South Green, being immediately introduced to a social group with a variety of interests was another advantage.

“You’re taking some big lecture classes, but there was always somebody that you could talk to, hang out with, learn with,” she said.

In recent years, Laura and her husband, Bruce Brege, have been involved with Ohio University and the College in various ways. Laura serves as the Chair of the Ohio University Foundation Board of Trustees, while Bruce is leading the HTC Promise Lives Campaign. In 2012, the Breges supported the HTC Research Apprenticeship program and the OHIO Office of Nationally Competitive Awards with a generous contribution.

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ALUMNUS PROFILE:

Jonathan Veley STORY BY DANIELLE KEETON-OLSEN PHOTOS PROVIDED BY JONATHAN VELEY

ALUMNI & FRIENDS

“The Honors Tutorial program does not tie you to a chair and make you listen. You’re expected to have the motivation and drive to learn.”

Jonathan Veley graduated with a degree in journalism, but writing briefs ultimately interested him more than writing articles. After graduation, he pursued a legal career. Along the way, he also developed a passion for writing implements, specifically mechanical pencils.

A 1989 Honors Tutorial College graduate, Veley completed his degree in three years. He credits the vast amount of writing required in his tutorials for teaching him how to write concisely and comprehensively, all while maintaining proper focus on his work.

“Being able to read, digest and communicate effectively is absolutely essential both in the journalism and legal fields,” Veley said.

He attended Ohio State’s Mortiz College of Law, where his concise writing style began to serve him well. Early in his career, Veley faced a group of at least six “big-city” lawyers on a complicated case. The judge asked the lawyers to write briefs on their arguments. In the end, the judge shocked Veley by picking his brief as the best and closing the case. The judge later told him that he wrote the clearest, most understandable brief.

“I think the biggest element is the directness — writing because you want to get something across to the person who’s going to be receiving it,” Veley said.

After he graduated from law school, Veley opened a private practice firm in Newark, Ohio, where he specializes in litigation, general counsel, and residential and commercial real estate legal matters.

Although he spends his days writing legal briefs, Veley does not limit his writing to law. Before he goes to the office in the morning, he spends a few hours writing about his other love — mechanical pencils.

Veley maintains a blog, “The Leadhead’s Pencil Blog,” where he has written more than 500 posts describing the print,

contour, and lead of some of the thousands of mechanical pencils he has collected. He also provides a historical context for many of the pencils and manufacturers in his collection, upon which he elaborates in his three books on the same subject.

His next book, American Mechanical Pencils, is scheduled for publication in October 2014.

Although it takes discipline to read through legal cases or technical patent data from as early as 1799 in the mechanical pencil industry, Veley said he cultivated a good portion of his motivation and passion through HTC. “The Honors Tutorial program does not tie you to a chair and make you listen. You’re expected to have the motivation and drive to learn,” Veley said. “I think Ohio University has all the resources anybody can need. [For] anybody that’s interested in personal growth, it’s the perfect opportunity to pursue.”

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Honors Tutorial College Class of 2014 Kristin Abram earned a degree in Communication Sciences & Disorders and a minor in Music. She is a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta and Mortar Board honor societies. She presented her thesis research at the Ohio Speech Language and Hearing Association conference, the Ohio University Research Expo, and the College of Health Science and Professions Research and Creative Activity Showcase. She will stay at Ohio University to earn her master’s in Communication Sciences & Disorders.

Javier Aladren earned a degree in Theater with a concentration in playwriting.

He wrote, produced, performed in, and composed the music for an original play titled, “Murder Bird.” He has been active in student organizations such as Embody Consent and F*RapeCulture.

He plans to find a job and create art in New York City.

Caroline Boone earned a degree in Political Science and a minor in Spanish.

She received a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund grant, the Aichinger Memorial Scholarship in Political Science, and the Collins Endowed Scholarship for the distinguished student in Political Science. She worked as a Research Scholar in the Voinovich School for three years and served on Student Senate. She studied abroad in Paris and Toledo. She will attend Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs to earn her master’s in public administration. While there, she will work at the Central New York Community Foundation.

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Tyler Borchers earned a degree in Communication Studies with a minor in Political Science. He received a Scripps Howard Foundation multimedia internship grant and the Don Perris Scholarship. He worked as an HTC Research Apprentice and a Voinovich Research Scholar. He interned with Talking Points Memo, Vox Media, and Time magazine.

He is first author of a peer-reviewed publication with Dr. Jerry Miller titled, “Bain & Political Capital in the 2012 GOP Primary Debates,” which was published in the cross-disciplinary journal American Behavioral Scientist. He accepted a job in New York City as an associate editor in Time magazine’s digital division.

Nathan Breitsch earned a degree in Mathematics and studied Computer Science and Physics. He researched a dynamical model for cell cycle synchronization and published his results in the Journal of Mathematical Biology. He served as a software engineering and data analytics intern at Explorys, a company that helps hospitals make better use of their electronic medical records. He will attend Kent State University to earn a master’s degree in Computer Science.

Amy Brighter earned a degree in Journalism with specializations in Anthropology and Italian. She participated in Athens Video Works, Ohio University Symphony Orchestra, and Athens Wargamers. She interned at WVIZ, a PBS station in Northeast Ohio, and studied abroad in Florence. She will head into the workforce to begin her media career.

Jordan Brogley Webb earned a degree in Journalism and completed prelaw and pre-med coursework. She is a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta and Golden Key honor societies and earned a Gates Mills Community Scholarship.

She interned with SportsTime Ohio, the broadcast home of the Cleveland Indians, and shadowed at the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and Surg Center in Cleveland. She will attend the Cleveland Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State while applying for medical school.

Eric Burke earned a degree in History.

He received the Gustavson Scholarship, Boston Research Fellowship, and Stone Essay Prize. He served as an HTC Research Apprentice and presented research papers at multiple undergraduate history conferences. He volunteered to research and procure grave markers for Civil War veterans buried anonymously at the Athens Lunatic Asylum’s cemeteries. He will enter a joint master’s/ doctoral program in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Samantha Chang earned a degree in Biological Sciences. She is a member of the Tri-Beta Biological Honors Society and received a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund award. She served as an HTC Research Apprentice in two labs.

She will enter a doctoral program in Cellular & Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.

CLASS NOTES

Eleanor Crews earned a degree in Film. She was the director and editor of three films, A Rehearsal with Bethany, Vengeance, and Sidekick. After graduation, she is moving to Colorado.

Grace Curran earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Political Science. She served as a graduate assistant in Political Science this academic year and as an HTC Research Apprentice. She interned at the Environmental Law and Policy Center. She served as campaign manager for the Star Johnson for State Senate campaign. She studied abroad in Paris this summer.

Matthew Dougherty earned a degree in English with a creative writing specialization, a minor in Spanish, and a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certificate. He participated in the Grin City Emerging Artist Residence in Grinnell, Iowa, and studied abroad in Barcelona. He won the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, and his winning short story will appear in Crab Orchard Review, a national literary journal published by Southern Illinois University. He accepted a Teach For America

placement to teach fourth-grade writing at IDEA Quest Academy in McAllen, Texas.

Jordan Drake earned a degree in Business and a specialization in Spanish. He interned with PNC Internal Audit in Pittsburgh and studied abroad in Toledo. He has been active in Christian Business Leaders, Select Leaders, and Cru, and he worked as a Resident Assistant.

He will move to Cleveland and work for PNC Internal Audit.

Allie Erwin-Dyer earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She received the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, the Affaichinger Memorial Award, an Excellence in Philosophy Award, and the Women’s Center Leadership Award. She interned at Senator Sherrod Brown’s Office. She studied abroad in Salzburg and in Dakar, Senegal, where she studied advanced Wolof and beginning French. She founded F*RapeCulture, directed the Vagina Monologues, and served on Student Senate. After graduation, she will teach English as a Second Language in Buffalo, New York, through Teach for America.

Brittany Frodge earned a degree in Spanish and a semester’s worth of graduate credit. She received a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund award and studied abroad in Barcelona, Madrid, and Toledo. She volunteered with the Foreign Languages in the Elementary Schools Program and the Ohio Program of Intensive English. Next year, she plans to teach English in South Korea.

Danielle Fultz earned an HTC degree in French, a College of Arts & Sciences degree in history, a war & peace studies certificate, and a TEFL certificate. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society.

She won the Randolph Stone Award for the best undergraduate history research paper. She presented at Phi Alpha Theta’s bi-annual National Conference. She served as a US State Department Intern at the US Embassy in Ottawa, Canada.

She studied abroad in France and Israel, and she conducted research in Cambodia this summer. She will move to southern France to be an English Teaching Assistant.

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Dan Garrett earned a degree in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and won first place in Economics at the 2014 Student Expo. He participated in the Copeland Scholars Program. He worked as a research assistant at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and for Dr. Richard Vedder on a book project commissioned by the George W. Bush Presidential Center. He interned in the Ohio Department of Taxation’s Tax Analysis Division. He co-founded the Ohio University Economics Society. He will attend Duke University to pursue a doctoral degree in Economics.

Connor Gartland earned a degree in Media Arts & Studies with a concentration in Games and Animation. He served as an HTC Research Apprentice.

He was creative director of the video game, Mori; lead artist on the iOS/ Android App, Super Sloth; director of the animated show, Camelittle; and character artist on the video game, Monster Smash. He was active in Athens Video Works and the Game Developers Association. He will work as a free-lance animator and digital artist this summer, and he will also work as the lead artist in a mobile game development start up company.

Brian Gibbons earned a degree in Business. He won the Academic Excellence in Finance Award. He participated in the Copeland Scholars Program and worked with Dr. Paxton on multiple articles related to behavioral economics. He has been active in the Ohio University Equity Management Group and Delta Sigma Pi Professional Fraternity. He interned

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at KeyBanc Capital Markets and Credit Suisse. He is moving to New York City to work as an equity research analyst at Credit Suisse.

Renee Hagerty will graduate with a degree in Political Science. She is a Cutler Scholar and won the Jeremy Anderson Internship Scholarship twice. She worked as a Voinovich Research Scholar.

She interned with the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Alliance for Excellent Education, Ohio Board of Regents, and Ohio Department of Education’s Office of Education Reform. She studied abroad in Salzburg. After she graduates in the fall, she plans to travel abroad while working remotely on policy writing for the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

Kristen Helmsdoerfer earned an HTC degree in English, an Arts & Sciences degree in Spanish, and TEFL and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) certificates. She competed on the Ohio University women’s golf team and recently won the Scholar Athlete of the Year Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, and Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honor Society. She studied abroad in Spain and taught English in Quito, Ecuador. She will teach high school English in Rio Grande, Texas, through Teach for America.

Raul Inesta earned a degree in Philosophy, minors in Linguistics and Spanish, and TEFL and CALL certificates. He is

a Templeton Scholar and served as an HTC Research Apprentice. He studied abroad in Toledo. He has accepted a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in South Korea.

Yashashree Jadhav earned a degree in Astrophysics and a minor in Mathematics. She earned the John Edwards Fellowship and Toomey Award. She won first place at the Student Expo. She is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society. She interned at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

She worked as a Resident Assistant and has been active in the Society of Physics Students, Indian Students Association, International Students Union, and Bollywood dance club. She will attend the Rochester Institute of Technology to earn a doctoral degree in Astrophysics.

Barbara “Babz” Jewell earned a degree in Art History, a minor in German, and Certificates in Museum Studies and TEFL. She received research funding from the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund and the Council on Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Fund, among others. She has presented at several academic conferences, including the 2014 Royal Anthropological Institute Conference at the British Museum in London. She served as an HTC Research Apprentice for two years and worked at the Kennedy Museum. Her art has appeared in several undergraduate juried exhibitions.

She founded the Gluten-Free Alliance at Ohio University. She has accepted a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant-

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ship to work with grade-school students in Berlin, Germany.

Andrew Kellogg earned a degree in Media Arts & Studies with a concentration in video production. He has been active in Athens Video Works, Athens Consulting Group, and WOUB Public Media. He interned at 90.5 WCBE, an NPR affiliate in Columbus; Brainstorm Media Group; WHIZ, the NBC affiliate in Zanesville, and Big Brothers Big Sisters. He is moving to Los Angeles to work in television marketing.

Courtney Kral earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Political Science, a minor in Spanish, and a certificate in War & Peace Studies. She received the Lillie Greer Scholarship and was recently named the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Political Science. She served as an HTC Research Apprentice and worked as a Resident Assistant. She attended the Student Conference on United States Affairs at West Point in 2013. She interned at Good Works. She plans to settle in Athens and is applying for jobs.

Maggie Krueger earned a degree in Journalism and minors in German and World Religions. She was recently named Outstanding HTC Senior in Journalism.

She interned at the National Religion Newswriters Association and founded an Ohio University chapter. She studied abroad in Israel and Leipzig, Germany, where she completed a Research Apprenticeship. She served editor-of-chief of Inquiry, the HTC research magazine, for two year. After graduation, she traveled to New Delhi, India, for a reporting internship at the national English-

speaking newspaper The Hindu. In September she will pursue a Master’s of Theological Studies degree at Harvard Divinity School.

Bethany Lopreste earned HTC degrees in Dance and English. In addition to co-founding and editing the new literary magazine Place, she served as head poetry editor of Sphere magazine. She is a member of Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society. She received four Talent Awards from the School of Dance, the Alden Library Academic Achievement Award, and the Berman Family Award for Outstanding Performance. She has performed in New York’s Lincoln Center and venues across Italy, danced in a public performance of contact improvisational dance in London, and presented research in Norway. She traveled abroad to France, Ireland, and Honduras. She will teach dance to college students in Kathmandu Institute of the Arts and teach English in Bandipur, Nepal.

Taylor Macy earned HTC degrees in Environmental & Plant Biology and Environmental Studies. On campus, she served as a Voinovich Research Scholar, an Undergraduate Scholar for the Kanawha Project, a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates participant, and a curatorial assistant at the Floyd Bartley Herbarium. Off campus, she served as an Intern Scholar at the Wilds, a biodiversity conservation facility in Cumberland, Ohio. She will go to Tanzania for eight

weeks for an advanced Swahili course that is part of Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad. She has been nominated for a position in Kenya teaching biology and is looking forward to the possibility of living in East Africa for two years.

Jason Malizia earned a degree in Chemistry. He received two Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund awards, the Jeannette G. Grasselli Brown Undergraduate Research Award, the Upper Ohio Valley Section of the American Chemical Society Sophomore Organic Chemistry Award, and an Ohio University General Chemistry Award. He will attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue a doctorate in Chemistry.

Liz Mathias earned a degree in Biological Sciences. She is a member of the Tri-Beta Biological Honors Society. She participated in three HTC Research Apprenticeships and helped to discover a novel protein interaction during one of them. She interned at Molecular Technologies Laboratories. She will attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a Biomedical Sciences doctoral program.

Sam Miner earned a degree in History and a minor in German. He received a George Washington Forum Fellowship.

He studied abroad in Salzburg for a semester and in Leipzig for a year where he served as a Research Apprentice. While in Germany, he worked with Gestapo and Stasi files. He will pursue a master’s in history at the University of Maryland.

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Meg Nicol earned a degree in Biological Sciences, a minor in Psychology, and a certificate in Bioinformatics. She was selected as an Ohio First Scholar and served as an HTC Research Apprentice.

She earned second place in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the Research Expo. After graduation, she visited family in Austria for a month and then returned home to volunteer in a hospital setting and shadow a genetic counselor.

Ben Nutter earned a degree in Communication Studies. He received a Central States Communication Association Undergrad Conference Poster Award and served as an HTC Research Apprentice.

He participated in Blue Pencil Comedy, Fridays Live, and 419 Productions. He performed a stand up routine at Memorial Auditorium. After graduation, he will launch a job search.

Mary “Cassie” Ragland earned a degree in Communication Sciences & Disorders. She served as president of Pi Beta Phi fraternity for women. She studied human rights, law, and justice in Northern Ireland. She volunteered at Echoing Meadows Residential Center and Athens County Children Services. In the fall, she will pursue a master’s degree in Communication Sciences & Disorders at the University of Cincinnati.

Brianna Rea earned a degree in Business, a minor in Spanish, and completed a pre-med curriculum. She received two Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund awards, won first place at the Research Expo, and was named the Outstanding Graduate in Business Administration.

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She interned with the Diabetes Institute and studied abroad in Toledo. After graduation, she will take the MCAT and apply to medical schools in hopes of becoming a medical school student in the 2015 academic year.

Taylor Reinhart earned a degree in English with a specialization in Creative Writing. He won first place in English at the Student Expo. He created Athens Video Works Newstime, published an article on stand-up comedy in The Weeklings Magazine, and presented a paper at the Medieval and Renaissance Forum in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

He participated in the Breakthrough Collaborative education program. He will move to Boston to teach as part of the MATCH Teacher Residency. An active member of Blue Pencil Comedy, he also plans to write and perform standup comedy.

Ian Reynolds earned an HTC degree in Media Arts & Studies and College of Arts & Sciences degrees in Global Studies and Spanish. He won first place at the Research Expo and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received numerous scholarships from the College of Communication and Department of Modern Languages. He studied abroad in Toledo and interned with an NGO in Nicaragua. This summer, he will intern with the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Canada. This fall, he will begin graduate studies in Political Science and International Studies at Ohio University.

Anne Sand earned a degree in English with a specialization in Creative Writing, a minor in Spanish, and certificates in Islamic Studies and TEFL. She received the Distinguished Professor Award for poetry. She served as an HTC Research Apprentice. She studied abroad in Israel and Toledo and held a publishing internship in Dublin. An essay from her thesis has been accepted for publication by the literary journal, Literary Orphans.

She will pursue a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Iowa.

James Schrickel earned an HTC degree in French, an Arts & Sciences degree in Economics, minors in history and business administration, and a certificate in European studies. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was a Mary L. Durnion Scholar. He studied abroad in Avingnon, France. He is moving to Columbus and working in the private sector.

Camille Scott earned a degree in Anthropology and minors in Japanese and Sociolinguistics. She founded OU Students Against Fracking and served as president of the Student Sierra Coalition. She received a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund award and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She presented research at several national conferences. She was a summer research intern for the Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club.

She studied abroad in Scotland and conducted her thesis research in Japan. She will move to Georgia for the summer to be with her parents and horse and then move to Minnesota in the fall to seek out her next adventure!

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Sarah Shanks earned a degree in Studio Art and a TEFL certificate. She also has taken Art History graduate courses. She received three Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund awards and a College of Fine Arts Creative Research Award. She displayed her work in several undergraduate juried exhibitions and had a solo exhibition in fall semester. She studied abroad in Brazil and Ecuador. She served as curatorial intern at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. She will spend the summer in Athens to complete a master’s in Art History.

Caroline Snyder earned a degree in Communication Sciences & Disorders.

She is a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta and Mortar Board honor societies.

She conducted speech therapy in England, France, and Belgium. She interned at the Greene County Board of Developmental Disabilities Early Intervention Program. She presented research at the American Speech Language Hearing Association Annual Convention in Chicago. She will attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison to earn a master’s in Communication Sciences & Disorders.

Lexie Spaw earned a degree in Biological Sciences and a Diabetes certificate.

She has worked in the Witmer Lab for two years, the first as an HTC Research Apprentice. She was a research assistant at the Edison Biotechnology Institute.

She received two Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund awards. She has presented her research at several national conferences. A few weeks ago, her abstract for the American Association of

Anatomists meeting at the Experimental Biology conference in San Diego was selected as a Finalist in the poster competition. After graduation, she began her studies at the Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Rachel Thomas earned a degree in Classics. She was a Farfel Scholar and president of the Eta Sigma Phi honor society in Classics. She has presented research at six national undergraduate conferences.

She served as an HTC Research Apprentice and an intern at the Athens County Historical Society. She studied abroad in Rome. She will present research at her first international conference in Leeds this August. In the fall, she will pursue a Master of Philosophy in Greek and Latin Languages & Literature through Merton College, University of Oxford.

Paula Welling earned a degree in Studio Art with a concentration in Graphic Design and a minor in English. She received two Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund awards, an Excellence in Typography award, and the Smith Excellence in Design award. Recently, her work was featured in Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books III, an international traveling exhibition hosted by the University of Akron Myers School of Art. She has designed campus literary magazines, Sphere and Place, and has been the creative force behind all of our HTC publications, including Ampersand and Inquiry. She studied abroad in Italy.

After graduation, she will move to New York City and hopes to work for a graphic design firm or publishing company.

Austin Way earned a degree in Engineering Physics and a minor in Mathematics. He was a Templeton Scholar and a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Scholar.

He interned at the federal Earth Systems Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. He won first place in his division at the Research Expo. He participated in the Kanawha Project and Ohio Clean Energy Challenge. This year, he received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to fund his doctoral studies. He will attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison to earn a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering.

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