Archive for January, 2015

Athens News: History Student Running for City Council

History student C.J. Fogarty has announced he’s running for Athens City Council, reports the Athens News. A second Ohio University student has announced his intention to run as a Republican for an at-large Athens City Council seat this year. C.J. Fogarty, 19, announced Tuesday that he will seek to run […]

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January 29, 2015 at 10:33 amIn the News Students in the News

Math-Biology Seminar: Circular Statistical Methods in Dispersion of Clusters in a Cell-Cycle Coupling Model, Jan. 28

Xue Gong

The Math Biology Seminar series presents Xue Gong on “Circular statistical methods in dispersion of clusters in a cell-cycle coupling model” on Wednesday, Jan. 28, from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. in Morton 313 (or in a room nearby). Gong is a doctoral student in the Mathematics program at Ohio University. […]

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January 28, 2015 at 5:15 pmEvents

Ecolunch: The Importance of Microhabitat, Jan. 28

The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Colloquium series “Ecolunch” begins Jan. 28 with a presentation by Vinny Farallo – Biological Sciences, on “The importance of microhabitat: a comparison of microendemic Plethodon species to the widespread P. cinereus.” All seminars are open to the public and meet in Irvine Hall Room 159 […]

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January 28, 2015 at 5:15 pmEvents

Student Comments on Bedi’s Call for End of Mass Incarceration

Sheila Bedi, a law professor at Northwestern University, wants to end mass incarceration. Photographer: Olivia Wallace

Students for Law, Justice & Culture member Kaleb Carter wrote an engaging opinion piece on issues raised in Professor Sheila Bedi’s talk on mass incarceration last week. His comments appear in the Ohio University online student publication The New Political. When Sheila Bedi mentioned in her Baker Ballroom speech on […]

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January 28, 2015 at 4:48 pmNews

Guest Speaker Calls for End of Current U.S. Criminal Justice System

Guest Speaker Calls for End of Current U.S. Criminal Justice System

Sheila Bedi, clinical associate professor of law at the Northwestern University School of Law, brought a simple message to Ohio University last Thursday evening — end the current prison system and mass incarceration. During her Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Week talk titled “Tearing Down the Walls: The Urgent Human Rights […]

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January 28, 2015 at 4:38 pmNews

Seminar: Critically Endangered Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey, Jan. 29

Dr. Le Khac Quyet

The Biological & Biomedical Sciences Research Seminar Series presents Dr. Le Khac Quyet on “Conservation of the critically endangered Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) in Khau Ca Forest, Ha Gian Province, Northeastern Vietnam” on Thursday, Jan. 29, at noon in Irvine 159. Quyet earned his Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from […]

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January 28, 2015 at 2:35 pmEvents

Schulman Reading from ‘Gentrification of the Mind,’ Jan. 27

Schulman Reading from ‘Gentrification of the Mind,’ Jan. 27

The Department of Political Science presents a reading by Sarah Schulman from her latest book, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 11 a.m. (note new time) at the Women’s Center in Baker Center 403. In this gripping memoir of the AIDS […]

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January 27, 2015 at 5:30 pmEvents