More than two years after its announcement, “Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga” finally launched on April 5.
Provost Jason Osborne’s tenure has been one filled with challenge and conflict – perhaps more than any Miami University provost.
Although Miami University's COVID Response team announced that masks would no longer be required on campus when Butler County's community risk level is low, some students, staff and faculty have continued to mask up.
When junior biomedical engineering major Ilsa Shaikh has free time, she spends it thinking about how to get clean water to a community she’s never been to.
On March 17, Miami University faculty and staff flocked to Hall Auditorium to celebrate the institution’s accomplishments throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Whether it’s the high vaccination rates, fewer COVID-19 restrictions or warmer weather, students are getting more involved.
Miami University announced it would tie its mask requirement to Butler County transmission levels. Currently, students are not required to wear masks in class unless asked by the instructor.
Beginning Wednesday, Miami University will now only require masks “in classrooms during instruction, laboratory or other research settings, and in healthcare settings,” according to the COVID Response Team.
At least one class has been dismissed early this semester due to students’ failure to follow university-wide mask wearing policies.
The class of 2022 is finally back to in-person classes as the reality of post-graduation life comes hurtling toward them.
On Feb. 21, the university reported zero new student cases for a seven-day moving average of 3.7 cases per day. Employees reported zero new infections and an average of zero per day.
Oxford Mayor Bill Snavely said Oxford City Council will likely not renew the city’s emergency mask mandate, which expires March 1, at Council’s Feb. 15 meeting.
When senior diplomacy and global politics and political science major Halle Sarkisian started teaching group fitness classes at the Miami University Recreational Sports Center (the Rec) her sophomore year, she had no idea things would drastically change in just a few short months.
The pandemic is not over. Every time we start telling people numbers are going down and that we can relax, people take their masks off and lose sight of what it actually means to go back to normal.
Forecasted hazardous weather and an ever-changing COVID-19 situation led to several changes to Miami University’s formal recruitment process for fraternities and sororities.
The announcement of unionization did not come quickly for Cathy Wagner, president of Miami University’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). She’s been working on her plan to introduce collective bargaining to Miami faculty for two years.
Student organizations at Miami University are planning to meet in person this semester despite encouragement from the administration to hold virtual meetings when possible.
As the semester drew to a close last fall, low case numbers and high vaccination rates made Miami University students hopeful that the spring semester would look more normal.
Following a new $50 per semester mental health fee for students passed by the Board of Trustees at its December meeting, Miami University's mental health resources could get a boost as early as next fall if the Ohio Chancellor of Education approves it.
In its Jan. 12 email, the Miami University COVID Response Team outlined new guidelines regarding testing and quarantine and isolation going into the spring semester.