Archive for January, 2015

The Environmental and Plant Biology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Christopher G. Oakley on “The genetic basis of adaptation and the constraints imposed by genetic drift” on Friday, Jan. 30, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter Hall 104. Oakley is Postdoctoral Research Associate at Michigan State University. Abstract: A major goal of […]

Thanks to the generosity of more than 8,500 alumni and friends, Ohio University’s College of Arts and Sciences has surpassed its $15 million Promise Lives Campaign goal – six months ahead of schedule. The Campaign, which continues though June 30, 2015, is securing an unprecedented level of financial support for […]

A small park on the Athens Campus that was created as a tribute an Ohio University alum responsible for many landscaping efforts at the University over a more than 30-year period is being relocated. The late George Carper ’48 earned a B.S. in agriculture from the College of Arts & […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Silas Beane of the University of Washington on “Aspects of 21st Century Nuclear Physics” on Friday, Jan. 30, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: Over the last several decades, theoretical nuclear physics has been evolving from a very successful phenomenology of the properties […]

The Biological & Biomedical Sciences Research Seminar Series presents Dr. Viorel Popescu, Conservation Biology Candidate, on “Wildlife Conservation in a Changing World: From Autecology to Large-Scale Conservation Planning” on Jan. 29 at 3 p.m. in Irvine 159. Abstract:  In a constantly changing world where nature protection and development continue to […]

Are we all in The Matrix? How would we know if we were? The idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation was popularized by the 1999 movie The Matrix. This idea–which is many ways a variant of questions humans have asked for thousands of years–has recently […]

The Creative Writing Program presents its second visiting writer of the 2014-15 academic year, Charles D’Ambrosio, who will read from his work Thursday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda. A book signing and reception will follow. D’Ambrosio is the author of two collections of short stories, […]