Archive for November, 2013

Ohio University alum Rick Clayton, Chief of the Division of Administrative Statistics and Labor Turnover with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, will speak on Friday, Nov. 1, at noon in Baker 366. The event is hosted by the Department of Economics in the Ohio University College of Arts & […]

The Department of Biological Sciences Research Seminar Series presents Dr. Thomas Turner on “Stable Isotope Analysis of Museum Specimens Reveals Ecosystem-Wide Effects of River Regulation over the Last Century” on Monday, Nov. 4, at 4 p.m. in Irvine 159. Turner is Professor and Curator of the Division of Fishes at […]

Join Dr. Alycia Stigall, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, as she and her collection of fossils invade the Front Room during her Science Café discussion, “Fossil Invasion! Studying ancient species to help predict consequences of modern invasive species,” on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Front Room. […]

The  Kennedy Lecture Series presents Dr. Keith Devlin on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Auditorium. Devlin is ‘the Math Guy” on National Public Radio. Devlin will discuss “Leonardo and Steve: The Young Genius who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years.” Devlin is a mathematician […]

Ohio University alumna Jeanette Grasselli Brown ’50, a graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences, recently donated her personal papers and her collection of research books to the University Libraries’ Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, reports the library. “In addition to her decades of service to Ohio […]

A public Q&A with local author Donald Pollock is Wed., Nov. 6, at 3:05-4:25pm in Walter 235. Pollock is the author of Knockemstiff and The Devil All The Time. His talk is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences. Pollock […]

The Bioinformatics Journal Club presents the movie Gattaca on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 4:35 p.m. in the Academic and Research Center (ARC)  321. The discussion leader is David Parisi. “Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin and Jude Law star in this engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares […]