Oxford’s only cold weather shelter will close for the year on Feb. 28. When its jurisdiction ends, occupants may be left wondering where to go next.
Renée Baernstein, dean of the College of Arts and Science, and Interim Provost Chris Makaroff demoted Christopher Howell, program director of the Physician Associate (PA) Studies program at Miami University, from his position on Dec. 12, 2025.
Four Oxford homeowners voiced their opposition to a resolution passed during city council’s Jan. 20 meeting about constructing a new sidewalk, which would impact the properties of nine homeowners on Olde Farm Road.
Associated Student Government (ASG) welcomed seven new senators during its first meeting of the spring semester on Tuesday evening.
In 1809, the Ohio Legislature granted Oxford township a land grant to establish Miami University on a six-mile by six-mile plot of land, or 23,040 acres.
Miami University is a big school. With more than 22,000 students inhabiting a 600-acre campus, it’s easy to imagine the breadth of services required to keep the campus running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Between electricity, landscaping, maintenance and snow removal, upkeeping the campus takes an army. But what most people don’t know is that the logistics of these immense services largely fall onto the desk of one man: Cody Powell.
The Miami Student (TMS) will celebrate its 200th anniversary the weekend of Feb. 27–March 1. The guest speaker series, hosted on Feb. 28, in the Heritage Room of the Shriver Center, will include a keynote speech, panels and roundtable discussions from TMS alumni spanning five decades.
The University Senate reviewed ongoing discussions on the revision of the Miami Plan and the relocation of the basketball arena during the Feb. 9 meeting.
Dan Darkow, 32, the director of the Miller Center for Student Disability Services (SDS), died February 11, according to a statement from Miami University.
Between Feb. 2 and Feb. 9, police officers responded to 11 different incidents, according to the Oxford Police Department report.
When February rolls around, love is in the air, and Valentine’s Day plans begin to brew.
The City of Oxford switched to a new electric aggregation program with Sustainable Ohio Public Energy Council (SOPEC) this past January. The program offers 100% renewable energy to eligible residents and small businesses in Oxford at a discounted rate.
Oxford City Council discussed Cook Field construction, the emergency cold shelter and swore in a new police officer at its Feb. 3 meeting.
Miami University’s $31 million Advanced Manufacturing Workforce and Innovation Hub (AM Hub) was unveiled as part of Miami’s strategic plan, MiamiTHRIVE, which began in the fall 2023.
For the past six years, Carla Myers has fostered anywhere from three to 16 kittens at once.
In 1725, Louis XV welcomed four Native American chiefs and a Native American woman from the Mississippi Valley for a diplomatic visit to France.
After classes end for the week, it’s not uncommon to see Miami University students put on their “going-out” outfits and make their way Uptown to bars and off-campus house parties.
On Friday, protestors against President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdown climbed through a foot of snow while holding resistance signs in their gloved hands to reach the Miami University seal, located in Academic Quad. These demonstrators demanded for ICE to leave Ohio and had the goal of standing in solidarity with protestors in Minneapolis following the recent fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
“Leading a university is kind of like overseeing a small city.”
As students at Miami University settle into the spring semester, it’s no secret that they are dreading the rising costs of each semester. While national headlines tend to focus on the rise in food and housing prices, there is a unique cost faced by college students alone: the price of textbooks.