Spring 2024 Edition
Alumni & Friends Magazine
OHIO Making Headlines Spring 2024
Bobcats make the news—and the OHIO community proud—every day. Read about a few of the ϳԹ alumni, students, faculty and staff who have made headlines in recent months.
Emma Henterly, BSJ '10 | April 11, 2024
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New Hall of Fame Inductee
After a 2023 ballot nod, the in 2024: former football coach , who earned the status of “winningest coach in the history of the Mid-American Conference” in 2019 with his 111th win.
Solich left OHIO in 2021 with a 115-82 record, which trails only former head coach and stadium namesake , who had 121 wins from 1924-46. (He matched Peden’s namesake status in August 2022, when the ϳԹ Board of Trustees approved naming the football field in Peden Stadium in his honor.)
He’s also only the third person with ties to the state of Ohio to become a member of the Hall of Fame, joining Mark Dantonio, MED '82, the former defensive coordinator at Ohio State University and former coach at Michigan State, and Chris Ward, who played for OSU in the 1970s.
Top-Notch Shots
TIME Ա’s included three alumni: Michael Swensen, BSVC ’21, for , after the February train derailment that caused a toxic chemical spill (Getty Images); Drew Angerer, BSVC ’12, for documenting the (Getty Images); and Madalyn “Maddie” McGarvey, BSVC ’12, for capturing a (The New York Times).
“VisCom students and alumni create so much of what this country sees every day from around the world,” says Stan Alost, a professor in the School of Visual Communication. “It gives me goosebumps to … know that we are contributing to keeping democracy alive through reporting with real images in an era of disinformation.”
Awards, Awards, Everywhere
Numerous OHIO groups recently have earned national recognition. Among them is ϳԹ Regional Higher Education, which in January was awarded the Rural Schools Collaborative’s . That funding will help expand the OHIO Rural Teacher Fellowship and junior fellowships in support of RHE’s mission to diversify the teaching workforce.
And last summer, the prestigious went to John Born (Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service and Scripps College of Communication), Eric R. Williams and John Bowditch (both Scripps), for their virtual reality training experiences for police officers in Ohio. Staff from the ϳԹ Police Department, Athens Police Department and Athens County Sheriff’s Office also contributed.
