Archive for October, 2015

Watch the Wealth & Poverty theme Focus on Africa series on A&S TV and mark those calendars for upcoming events. Upcoming Wealth & Poverty Events Oct. 16 – Wealth & Poverty Kicks Off World Food Day with Drive Oct. 20 – Dr. Matthew Layton, Assistant Professor of Political Science, on […]

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture invites faculty teaching courses relating to law and justice to consider adding their courses to the Making and Breaking the Law curricular theme. Part of the themes initiative, the Making and Breaking the Law theme addresses major challenges of the 21st century, incorporates various […]

Dr. Greg Kessler, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio University, spoke about leveraging emerging technologies for meaningful authentic learning experiences at the second TECH-Ed Conference hosted by Washington State University in early October. “We live in a world with varied emerging technologies and contexts in which we can practice communicating […]

By Selina Nadeau The Athens Historical Society, located at 65 N. Court St., has an exhibit of photos that depict the response of Ohio University students to the Kent State shootings, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movements in 1970. The exhibit, “The Sky has Fallen: Troops, Turmoil and […]

The Graduate College and Student Affairs are sponsoring free movie screenings of The PhD Movie 1 and 2 on Monday, Oct. 5, at 6:30 and 8 p.m. in a double feature at Ohio University’s Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Auditorium. The PHD Movie 1 takes a humorous and poignant look at four graduate […]

  The Chemistry & Biochemistry Colloquium Series presents Dr. Willem Windig on “Practical Application of Chemometrics” on Monday, Oct. 5, at 4:10 p.m. in Clippinger 194. Windig is Chief Eigenspectroscopist with Eigenvector Research Inc. Abstract: This presentation will show several techniques that help the interpretation of data in a practical […]

The War & Peace theme presents Dr. Craig M. Zelizer on “Building Peace in Hard Places: Lessons for the 21st Century Peacebuilding” on Monday, Oct. 5, at 6 p.m. at Schoonover 450. Zelizer is Associate Director of the Conflict Resolution Program, Georgetown University & Co-founder of Alliance for Conflict Transformation. Zelizer […]