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OHIO’s Seventh Annual Meteorological Symposium is Saturday, March 19, from noon to 5 p.m. in Walter Hall 235. The event is free and open to the public. It is hosted by the Ohio University Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (OUCAMS). Ohio University is one of two schools in Ohio […]

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 Wealth & Poverty theme hosts a two-week event—“Society and Inequality”—in February. America’s income inequality is growing again, and it is one of the nation’s most urgent problems—the “defining challenge of our time” in President Obama’s words.  Academic and policy debates on inequality have recently moved beyond income inequality and poverty […]

The Geography Department Colloquium Series presents Dr. Harold Perkins on “Killing One Trout to Save Another: The Hegemonic Political Ecology of Aquatic Ecological Networks” on Friday, Feb. 12, from 3:05 to 4 p.m. in Clippinger 119. Perkins is Associate Professor in the Geography Department at Ohio University. He earned his doctorate […]

The Geography Department Colloquium Series presents Dr. Ben Sperry on “A Brief History of U.S. Transportation Policy and Planning” on Friday, Jan. 29, from 3:05 to 4 p.m. in Clippinger 119. Sperry’s research focuses on using innovative analysis techniques to examine traveler behavior and measure traveler responses to different policy […]

The Geography Department Colloquium Series presents Dr. Matthew Rosen on “Literary Ethnography in a Postsocialist City” on Friday, Nov. 6, from 4:10 to 5 p.m. in Clippinger 119. Rosen is Visiting Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Ohio University. He earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from The New School for […]

Award-winning National Geographic photojournalist Dennis Dimick leads the celebration of International GIS Day and Geography Awareness Week at Ohio University during the second annual GIS Open House on Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Steven L. Schoonover Center for Communication Lower Level Atrium. This event […]