Archive for February, 2015

The Creative Writing Program in conjunction with the Athens Book Center presents a reading by Melinda Moustakis at the Athens Book Center in uptown Athens on Friday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. A book signing and reception follow the reading. Moustakis was born in Fairbanks, AK, and raised in California. […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Sergey Frolov of the University of Pittsburgh on “Majorana Fermions in Semiconductor Nanowires Coupled to Superconductors” on Friday, Feb. 13, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: Majorana fermions are real solutions to the Dirac equation, meaning they are their own  antiparticles. In […]

Global Divestment Day from fossil fuels is Friday, Feb. 13, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room at Ohio University. The event features a panel discussion about divestment from fossil fuels, with panelists: Dr. Dan Karney (Energy Economics) Dr. Gary Coombs (Business Management) Dr. Nancy Manring, […]

Ohio Program of Intensive English welcomes Ohio University faculty, staff, and students to join OPIE events this week. Tuesday, Feb. 3, 3-4 p.m., Gordy 110, Book Fun: a reading club for beginners. Wednesday, Feb. 4, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Gordy 113, OPIE Baking Club meeting. All are welcome to share recipes and […]

Ellie Koewler ’15 Dr. Ronan Carroll, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, talked Feb. 4 to Anthropology students about his research in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA. When Dr. Sabrina Curran learned about his research, she realized that it had direct application for her Biological Anthropology course (ANTH2010) […]

The Contemporary History Institute speakers series presents Dr. Laura McEnaney on “The Problem of Caring: Dependency and the Demobilization from World War II” on Thursday, Feb. 12 in Baker 242 at 4:30 pm. McEnaney is the Nadine Austin Wood Chair in American History at Whittier University, California. She earned a […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium Series presents Jian Huang of Wayne State University on “Quantum Wigner Solids in Two-dimensional Flatlands” on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter Lecture Hall 245. Abstract:Transport studies of two-dimensional electron systems compose two fundamental effects: disorder scattering and electron-electron interaction. Fifty years […]