Archive for March, 2016

The Psychology Advising and Resource Center hosts a graduate school workshop on Tuesday, March 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Porter 103. Planning for Graduate School? How to Get Started: A Workshop for Psychology Students helps answer questions for Psychology majors applying to graduate school. What is involved in […]

The George Washington Forum presents “Attention as a Cultural Problem” on Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Galbreath Chapel. The speaker is Matthew B. Crawford, a senior fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He earned a B.A. in physics from the University of California-Santa Barbara […]

Science Café presents Dr. James Thomas on “Virtual Reality in Rehabilitation” on Wednesday, March 23, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. Virtual reality takes gamers into new worlds, immersing them both visually and audibly. But virtual reality isn’t just for gamers. This technology, which has been used for […]

Sustainability Studies theme brings Frances and Anna Lappé, a mother-daughter team internationally renowned for their work on sustainable food systems, food justice and grassroots democracy, to Ohio University in March to discuss “The Sustainable Food Movement Rising.” The founders of the Small Planet Institute will discuss sustainable food systems in […]

The 2016 Baker Peace Conference begins with a keynote address by Dr. Rashid Khalidi titled “The Persistence of the Sykes-Picot Frontiers in the Middle East” on Thursday March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nelson Commons. The theme of the 2016 conference, held March 24 and 25 at Ohio University, […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Edward Flagg of  the West Virginia University on “Quantum Dots and Quantum Optics” on Friday, March 25, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract:   Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are often called artificial atoms because charge carriers trapped within them have discrete energy levels […]