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Congratulations to Minkyung Koh
Please join us in congratulating Minkyung Koh, who has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, Marriage Migration of Women and Making a Multicultural Society in South Korea. Her committee…

Congratulations to Hui Kong
Please join us in congratulating Hui Kong who has successfully defended her dissertation this afternoon, Understanding and Designing the Development of Chinese Cities:
Towards an Approach based…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
We regret the late cancellation of today’s visiting speaker Rinku Roy Chowdhury, due to illness, we will be looking to reschedule.
Jim DeGrand informs me that OSU’s application to the…

Ohio State announces grant funding for research into opioid addiction.
Ohio State announced the winners of more than $1 million in grants to fuel research to help combat the opioid epidemic. Eight teams were awarded grants, including one led by Harvey Miller,…

Last Speaker Series Presentation CANCELLED
We are sorry to have to cancel our last Speaker Series Presentation with Rinku Roy Chowdhury this Friday afternoon.
The event-visit was cancelled due to illness.

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Lots of news to catch up on this week.
The department, with outstanding input from Mat Coleman and Suzanne Mikos, recently made a number of awards to undergrads.
First, there is the 2017-…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
We are busily wrapping up the week here before a very welcome Spring Break. Those of you on travel will undoubtedly have a major temperature shock as you move away from wintry Ohio.
We…

Dr. Jay Hobgood comments on Ohio weather phenomena.
As reported in College News, our colleague Jay Hobgood has been in the news explaining two aspects of Ohio weather:
"So, yeah, Tuesday was spring. Now, it's winter again. Weather guys…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
A great week with many diverse achievements!
Current graduate student Jinhyung Lee and Harvey Miller have had their paper come out (in near record time!) in Applied Geography. The paper is…