Archive for February, 2014

Staff from the Athens County Historical Society and Museum visited Ohio University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology on Feb. 12 to provide a special training session for a dozen Arts & Sciences undergraduate students involved in the Appalachia Population History Project. Museum staff members Jessica Ciders and Donald Newell brought […]

The Making and Breaking the Law theme group is coordinating a series of events on the theme of “Critical Resistance in the Digital Age” in Spring 2014. The spring series focuses on social activism, new media technologies, and their role in relation to issues of privacy, mobilization, and advocacy, with […]

The Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine has launched a new program that allows outstanding high school seniors to apply for medical school admission prior to starting their undergraduate coursework at Ohio University. Highly talented high school students from the state of Ohio can apply for the Early Assurance […]

“We timed this just perfectly. Do you know what’s going to happen tomorrow? Do you know what’s happening today?” asked Dr. Scott Moody at the Feb. 19 Science Café as temperatures rose outside. “All those frogs and salamanders are just sticking their noses out. They are sensing the increasing temperature. […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium Series presents George Martins on “p?!” on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter Lecture Hall 245. Martins is Associate Professor of Physics at Oakland University. His research interests are in the area of strongly correlated electrons. “In colaboration with research groups […]

Ohio University alum Jeremy Deem ’95, who majored in History in the College of Arts & Sciences, received a faculty award at Colorado Mountain College’s Summit County campus, the Summit Daily reported on Feb. 18. Jeremy Deem teaches outdoor education, history and sustainable studies and was given the part-time award. […]

Bice Peruzzi, from the University of Cincinnati, will speak on “Dancing around the grave? Central Apulian funerary practices between the 6th and 3rd century BCE.” at 5:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 19, in Ellis 212. Peruzzi is a Ph.D. candidate in Classical Archeology writing a dissertation on burial customs in […]