Archive for February, 2014

The George Washington Forum presents a public lecture considering Higher Education in a Reform Era by Dr. Johann Neem on Monday, March 24, in Galbreath Chapel at 7:30 p.m. Neem is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University, where he is also president of the faculty senate. A graduate of Brown University, he did […]

The Chemistry & Biochemistry Colloquium Series presents Dr. Dehua Pei, Ohio State University, on Monday, March 24, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 135. Upcoming Events Colloquia are Mondays from 4:10 – 5:10 p.m. in Walter 135. Bing-Hua Jiang, Jefferson Medical College, March 31 Erik Nielsen, Michigan, April 7 Laura Sagle, […]

From Compass Ohio University Libraries is preparing to officially kick off its bicentennial celebration on Tuesday, March 25, at the Founders Day Symposium, scheduled for 1:30 to 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of Alden Library. The event, “Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American […]

The spring literary festival 2014’s Lit Fest is March 26-28 and welcomes fiction writer Andrea Barrett, poet Frank Bidart, essayist Sven Birkerts, fiction writer Ben Fountain, and essayist Rebecca Solnit. Bidart was among the winners at the National Book Critics Circle awards were announced March 13. Bidart won the poetry […]

The Ecolunch Seminar Series presents Paul Converse on “The Molecular and Population Ecology of Diamondback Terrapins” on March 26. All Ecolunch seminars are Wednesdays from 11:50 to 1:40 p.m. in Irvine 159. Students are in BIOS 7000 Seminars in Ecology and BIOS 3880 Undergraduate Research & Inquiry & Analysis in EEB. […]

Café Conversations presents Dr. Roger Cooper, Media Arts and Studies, on Wednesday, March 26, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. Ringing phones, clicking keyboards and a boss dictating “to-do” lists—the typical sounds of a work environment. Chuckles, jokes and a hissing laughter—what Cooper believes a work environment […]

Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University will give a public lecture about global poverty, titled “Global Injustice,” On Thursday, March 27, from 7 to 9 p.m. in Walter 135. The lecture will be followed by discussion with the audience about global poverty and climate change. Pogge is Leitner Professor of […]