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If you’re between 18 and 23, are attending college full-time and have done so since graduating from high school, you fall into the majority of students attending Ohio University, and you’re known as a traditional student. Perhaps you’ve heard this term, and wondered what a non-traditional student is. The fact is, it’s just about …

OU’s homecoming is set for Oct. 7-12, with a roster of exciting events concluding with the Ohio vs. Northern Illinois game on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 3:30 p.m. at Peden Stadium. This year’s theme, “1804 and So Much More” has inspired the 2019 homecoming logo, which you’ll see all over campus and around Athens. …

Updated with current information for 2023 One of the most common problems that students face is falling asleep in class. This can be embarrassing, distracting, and can negatively impact academic performance. While there are a number of reasons why students might fall asleep in class, some of the most common include sleep deprivation, poor …

Students attending one of OU’s branch campuses who wish to relocate to Athens are known as relocating students. Relocation is available for any student who has earned at least 12 credit hours of coursework at a regional campus. This coursework may not be in remedial or developmental courses. Those with fewer than 12 credit …

There’s a long tradition of getting crazy during college football season that usually involves spray painting yourself in the college’s colors, donning kooky hats and wigs, marking up your face in cryptic tribal patterns or, for OU students, spraying your pet bobcat green (JK). Another football season tradition you’re probably familiar with is tailgating. …

Are you one of those university students who sits in your Athens Ohio rental uptown or elsewhere and agonizes over what you should really major in? One field that’s hard to beat these days is health sciences. Colleges of health science professions have seen rapid growth in most universities, and OU is no exception, …

Those pursuing a career in the sciences will want to become quite familiar with words such as colloquium, which translates as an academic conference or seminar. If you’re enrolled as a physics major, you can get a taste of what colloquia are all about on Wednesday, Sept. 25, when Professor Charlotte Elster, Ph.D. , …

Don’t try this in your Athens Ohio apartments, students. Better to exercise and exorcise your inner drummer by planning to hear Columbus percussionist Cameron Leach on Sept. 19 at 8 p.m., at OU. Leach has been making a name for himself as a daring and innovative performer – said to be blurring “the lines …

Management of resources is a big deal in a world that is running out of them. Whether from climate change, development, toxic pollutants or other problems, loss of water resources is particularly worrisome. Maybe you’ve already thought about that as you turn on the water in your Athens Ohio housing to wash your hair, …

Undecided about your major? You’re not alone – in fact, you can meet and mingle with a good many others of your ilk on Wednesday, Oct. 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Baker Center Ballroom during the Majors Fair. Here you’ll find faculty and staff ready to help advise, recruit and …