OU graduate works to restore homegrown W.Va. walleye

Someday, when West Virginians catch really big walleyes, they’ll have an Ohio University graduate to thank.

Her name is Katie Zipfel. Without her, fish hatchery workers wouldn’t be able to tell one walleye from another — and state fisheries officials wouldn’t be on track to restore several Mountain State trophy walleye fisheries to their past glory.

Zipfel, a Division of Natural Resources fisheries biologist, is the agency’s resident expert on walleye genetics. With some scientific sleight-of-hand and a dash of laboratory legerdemain, she can tell a Lake Erie fish from a native West Virginia fish.

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Ohio University Roundup for February 24, 2012

• ABOVE: Wheeled rugby tourney raises funds in fifth year (The Post)
• OU colleges implement budget cut scenarios (The Post)
• ICYMI, Kaisch (sic) appoints new OU trustee (The Post)
• Students turning more toward prescription drugs (The New Political)
• Recruiting entrepreneurship at OU (33 Corridor News)
• OU alumnus seeks Ohio Supreme Court spot (The Post)
• University Events:
  • Better Together addresses food, water insecurities through fasting event (The Post)
  • Black Student Union caters to cravings with cooking competition (The Post)
  • Alumni to join SMO contemporaries in song (The Post)

Photo via The Post.

Related topics: Ohio University | OU Administration | OU Alumni | Black History Month

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OU alum provides art for mythical read

Alexandra Shostak is a 2011 Ohio University graduate with big dreams for her writing. However, her claim to fame as of now is the illustrative work she has done for a new young-adult science fiction book, “Tangled Tides,” written by Karen Amanda Hooper.

“Its a funny story, actually, how I ended up doing the artwork,” said Shostak, who grew up in Athens and still lives here. “Karen is a good friend of mine, and she wanted royalty-free images for her book by the next day — it was really last minute. So for eight hours I worked on them. I drew them out by hand first, then put them into Photoshop.”

Shostak is not responsible for the cover art of “Tangled Tides,” but illustrated three images that are shown at the beginnings of each chapter, and which indicate to the reader a shift in the narrator. The drawings serve as “animal representations of the characters” that the chapter will revolve around.

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Ohio University Roundup for February 1, 2012

• ABOVE: Campus Care offers relief with allergy specialist (The Post)
• Housing and dining facilities propose for increase to student living fees (The Post)
• Student Senate: Academics and athletics among series of presentations planned (The Post)
• OU tries out new emergency system, students have mixed reactions (The New Political)
• World Music and Dance Festival celebrates cultural differences around OU (The Post)
• Faculty:
• Film professor wins Raindance Award (WOUB)
• ICYMI, Professor honored with creation of OU-HCOM chair (The Post)
• Alumni:
• Imgur wins Best Bootstrapped Startup, sees 1 billion pageviews per month (TechCrunch)
• Alumna’s arctic-inspired play captures playwriting award (The Post)

Image via The Post.

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Related topics: Ohio University | healthcare | Student Senate | OU Alumni (new tag, still working on it)

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Ohio University Roundup for October 14, 2011

• It’s Homecoming Weekend!
  • ABOVE: The Who, What, When & Where of Homecoming (The Post)
  • Homecoming Parade pinnacle of weekend’s festivities (The Post); Watch the parade live on woub.org (WOUB)
  • Uptown restaurants ready for Homecoming rush (The Post)
  • Musical alumni set to jazz, jam anew at Casa (The Post)
  • Beyond the bricks and back again: Alumni remain in Athens to instruct next generation (The Post)
  • Evolution of a rally ’Cat (The Post)
  • Bars all over the US ‘fly green flag,’ allow ’Cats fans to catch games (The Post)
  • Distracted Driving Simulator Coming to OU Homecoming (WOUB)
  • Dean of Students “flips out” over Homecoming (OUDeanTeam on Youtube via @ThePost)
• Q2S switch requires additional advising, forms (The Post); RELATED: Faculty, alumni reflect on OU’s last systematic switch (The Post)
• OU administration educating students on sexual assault prevention (The New Political)
• Schoonover Center funding shift delays opening until 2014 (The Post)

Graphic via The Post.

Voinovich donates senate papers, to join OU faculty

After putting in time as a mayor, governor and senator, George Voinovich will return to the place he began — the classrooms of Ohio University.

Voinovich, most recently one of Ohio’s two senators, donated his collection of senatorial papers to Alden Library and will serve as a visiting professor of leadership and public affairs at OU, President Roderick McDavis announced Saturday.

“We are honored to have such an esteemed alumnus return to enrich the lives and education of the next generation of Ohio University students,” McDavis said.

Read more from The Post or from The Athens NEWS or WOUB. | Photo credit: Gwen Titley, The Post.