Student Senate prepares for top university officials
By Caroline Bartels | Mar. 11, 2014Ohio University administrators and faculty are not the only ones preparing for this week’s OU Board of Trustees meeting.
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OIT offers 50GB free online storage
By Seth Archer | Mar. 11, 2014Ohio University students and faculty will soon have more space up in the clouds.Box, an online storage solution, has been recently purchased for all OU students and faculty.Similar to services such as Dropbox or Google Drive, Box allows its users to store documents, images, video and more online. These services provide a place to back up important documents or expand the storage space of one’s computer.Sean O’Malley, communications director for OIT, announced the service Feb. 12 via a university press release.According to the release, students, faculty and staff will all have access to 50GB of online storage as soon as the license is activated. For larger institutions such as OU, this can take 30-60 days to accomplish. The university spent $340,600 for a three-year license, O’Malley said.The new service has the ability to change how some people accomplish their day-to-day tasks.“I use Dropbox now,” Trent Lindsay, a sophomore studying aviation flight, said. “Since (Box) has an app, I would switch. The 50 gigs is really nice.”Box has integrated collaboration features, meaning people can create documents and then share them with coworkers or classmates so they may see and edit the documents.Professors also have the ability to request assignments through Box. Students could submit homework or projects through the program, where professors could then give comments.Individual users are able to sign up for personal accounts through the Box website, but are only offered 10GB for free. Users who already have personal accounts will not be able to combine these accounts with the coming OU accounts, but they can still keep both accounts.Students also would not be able to have more than 50GB of storage under their university accounts, O’Malley said.O’Malley lead two demos on Box during Fall Semester to show people how to use the service and gauge its popularity among students, faculty and staff.“There’s been a lot of requests coming in, where people were asking ‘what are my options for being able to do secure file storage somewhere other than my hard drive?’” O’Malley said. “We saw the need building, and we tried to address that.”
New versatile survey tool offered at OU
By Seth Archer | Mar. 10, 2014Ohio University officials have purchased an information gathering tool for students and faculty.
Outstanding admins awarded for services
By Dina Berliner | Mar. 10, 2014Students spend only a few years at Ohio University, but for some administrators, OU has been their home away from home for as many as 40 years.
HCOM will offer a new expansive program for incoming medical students
By Danielle Keeton-Olsen | Mar. 10, 2014A handful of students will attend Ohio University in Fall 2014 knowing exactly what they will be doing for the next seven or eight years.
Pilcher house gives idea of OU's past
By Emily Daffron | Mar. 10, 2014An Athens historic landmark and a previous home to The Post in the 1970s, the Pilcher House, is full of history.
GSS welcomes commissioner, talks elections
By Taylor Maple | Mar. 10, 2014Elliot Long made his first appearance as Graduate Student Senate’s LGBT Affairs Commissioner at Monday’s meeting.
Road changes possible; new building planned
By Danielle Keeton-Olsen | Mar. 10, 2014Park Place might see some changes
Ohio University's Bingham House preserves Athens heritage more than 200 years since being built
By Taylor Maple | Mar. 9, 2014If the walls of the cabin that sits on the edge of campus could talk, Ohio University might know more about the building that’s almost as old as the campus itself.
Student Senate elections near, applications available
By Caroline Bartels | Feb. 27, 2014As the Spring Semester nears closing, it’s almost time for next year’s Student Senate elections.
Senate discusses pros of prayer room
By Caroline Bartels | Feb. 26, 2014Student Senate would like to see an interfaith prayer room in Baker University Center where people of all religions can pray or meditate throughout the day.
Teachers and Tiaras: Faculty strut their stuff for charity
By Dina Berliner | Feb. 25, 2014Dancing, singing and a surplus of faculty embarrassment came together Tuesday night at the Fifth Annual Ava Nichols Faculty Pageant.
Award-winning professor honored
By Emily Daffron | Feb. 24, 2014Ohio University honored Tom Carpenter, 53rd recipient of OU’s Distinguished Professor award, the university’s highest distinction for faculty members at an event Monday night.
Former ODOT director to discuss 'soft skills' required for success
By William Gibbs | Feb. 24, 2014The former director of the Ohio Department of Transportation will lecture on how engineers can think differently to improve decision making Tuesday evening.
Bone marrow drive to return to Baker
By Anjelica Oswald | Feb. 23, 2014Kevin Feinberg had his cheek swabbed during his freshman year, and by his sophomore year, he had saved a life.
Nearly-naked students run mile for charity
By Dina Berliner | Feb. 22, 2014Ohio University students took advantage of the warm weather Saturday by stripping down to their skivvies for the fifth annual Bare on the Bricks.
OU Press celebrates 50th anniversary
Feb. 20, 2014From a hit book about The Ridges to series of books about Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, the Ohio University Press has spent the last 50 years publishing books to satisfy any kind of reader.
OU Facilities department looks to restructure for future
By Danielle Keeton-Olsen | Feb. 20, 2014Implementing Ohio University’s Capital Improvement Plan will require a lot of work from the Facilities department.
President McDavis says additonal break may be a possibility for 2014 Fall Semester
By Maria DeVito | Feb. 19, 2014There’s a fall break on the horizon.
