Archive for November, 2014

Ohio University students can spend Summer 2015 in Italy and complete one year of language requirement. Find out more about this exciting Study Abroad opportunity with Ohio University at an Information Session on Monday, Nov. 10, at 6 p.m. in Baker 242. Italian in Florence is a six-week program in […]

The George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics and Institutions presents Judith A. Curry on “The Current State of the Climate Debate” on Monday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda. Curry is Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. she earned […]

Dr. Winfried Just, Professor of Mathematics, will speak on “Unraveling complex systems: What do brains, the internet, and ant colonies have in common?” on Monday, Nov. 10, at 11:50 a.m. in Morton 318. His talk is part of the MATH 4993 Senior Seminar. Abstract: The study of complex systems is […]

Ohio University alumnus Marc Houk recently spoke to students in the sociology class, “Punishment and Society,” under the instruction of professor Nicole Kaufman in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Houk is one of two former wardens from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to visit the class, along […]

Ohio University alum Shaila Meeker ’14 is an AmeriCorps member helping Athens County Public Libraries in a pilot program called Guiding Ohio Online, reports the Athens News. Guiding Ohio Online places AmeriCorps members in rural Ohio libraries to deliver digital literacy training through computer classes, one-on-one computer assistance, and outreach. […]

“Armored dinosaurs breathed through ‘Krazy Straws,’” LiveScience reporter Stephanie Pappas writes about a presentation by Ohio University Biological Sciences doctoral student Jason Bourke. The dinosaurs lacked respiratory turbinates, structures in the nasal cavity that warm and humidify the air coming in, and had to find a new way to do […]

The fourth annual Ohio University/John Carrol University Herpetology Symposium took place Nov. 7-9. The symposium rotates between the two universities, and this year John Carrol University hosted it. “This has been a wonderful exchange between the universities, with nearly 50 participants,” says Dr. Shawn Kuchta, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. […]