Student Happenings

Click on the following links to know about achievements and activities of students of different programs of the Center for International Studies:


AS Student News

CommDev Student News

IDS Student News

LAS Student News

SEAS Student News

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Dale Albanese (undergraduate student, Asian Studies) received a Pepsi Ohio University Campus Leadership Scholarship for the 2006-07 academic year.

Mo'ayed Al Hawazi (graduate student, Communication and Development Studies) presented a paper on "Death of a Terrorist: Different Interpretations and Differenty Messages at the Global Fusion Conference in Chicago on September 29, 2006.

Masadul Karim Biswas (graduate student, Communication and Development Studies) presented "Examining the State of Press Freedom in Relation to 'Control of Corruption' and 'Voice and Accountability'" at the Global Fusion Conference in Chicago on September 29, 2006.

Fanta Diamanka (graduate student, African Studies) served as a Wolof language instructor at the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute at Indiana University this summer.

Omolola Anne Famuyiwa (graduate student, Communication and Development Studies) presented "Place on the Edge: Textual Analysis of Online News About Africa" at the Global Fusion Conference in Chicago on September 29, 2006.

Lauri Hlavacs (graduate student, Southeast Asian Studies) has received a research grant from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Lauri will be using soft classification of Landsat imagery to detect change and map the progression of destructive fishing practices in the Sabalana Archipelago in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. She attended the Advanced Indonesian Abroad program this summer in Manando, North Sulawesi.

Cheryl King (graduate student, Latin American Studies) traveled to Cuenca, Ecuador to work on her certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Centers for Interamerican Studies.

Loisa Kitakaya (graduate student, Communication and Development Studies) served as a research fellow for FINCA International this summer.

Colleen Klingler (graduate student, African Studies) participated in the Ohio University HIV/AIDS field study in Botswana this summer.

Maureen Magee (graduate student, Communication and Development Studies) participated in the Ohio University HIV/AIDS field study in Botswana this summer.

Zodiac Maslin Hahn (undergraduate student, African Studies) interned for Amnesty International in Washington, D.C. this summer with the support of the Ullman Scholarship from Ohio University.

Mark Mason (graduate student, International Development Studies) traveled to Indonesia this summer to study Indonesian through the United States Indonesia Organization (USINDO).

Thomas Spreelin MacDonald (doctoral student, African Arts) presented "The Aesthetic of Migrationin the Post-Apartheid Era: Phaswane Mpe's" at the 49th annual meeting of the African Studies Association in Berkley in November.

Kara Mealer (undergraduate, Asian Studies) is spending the 2006-07 academic year learning Vietnamese and studying underrepresented populations in Hanoi, Vietnam on a David Boren Fellowship through the National Security Education Program.

Sandra Nahdar (graduate student, Communication and Development Studies) presented "Teledakwah: The Emergence of Islamic Teaching on Television Stations in Indonesia in the Post-Soeharto Era" at the Global Fusion Conference in Chicago on September 29, 2006.

Joshua O’Donnell (graduate student, International Development Studies) traveled to Ecuador this summer with Ohio University’s Tropical Disease Institute.

Matthew Ozea (graduate student, Southeast Asian Studies) presented a paper titled "Buddha Meets Wittgenstein: Saying and Showing within a Unique Buddhist Eco-Ethic" at the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences on June 1, 2006.

Tim Pappa (graduate student, Southeast Asian Studies) presented "Monotonous Muslims: Proffering Progressive Messages Among Indonesian Pesantren Communities" at the Global Fusion Conference in Chicago on September 29, 2006.

Lindsay Partusch (graduate student, African Studies) studied Arabic at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California with the support of a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship.

Julia Philipson (graduate student, Latin American Studies) traveled to Cuenca, Ecuador to work on her certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Centers for Interamerican Studies.

Ghassan Siddig (graduate student, African Studies) participated in the Ohio University HIV/AIDS field study in Botswana this summer.

Marina Solakhyan (graduate student, International Development Studies) interned for the International Organization for Migration in New York, New York this summer.

Selam Tesfai (graduate student, African Studies) participated in the Ohio University HIV/AIDS field study in Botswana this summer.

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