Science Café presents Dr. Christopher France on “I’d like to give blood but…” on Wednesday, March 18, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Front Room. According to the Red Cross every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. This translates to more than 41,000 blood donations every day. […]

The Food for Thought speakers series presents Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, on “Eating Away at Austerity: Ireland and the Local Food Movement” on March 17 at 5 p.m. in Alden 319 (Friends of the Library Room). Scanlan’s Fulbright experience in Ireland last year provided opportunities to witness […]

The Chemistry & Biochemistry Department presents Dr. Heather C. Allen on “Ions and Lipids at the Air-Water Interface: Electric Fields induced by Organization” on on March 16. Allen, Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio State University, is an expert in sum frequency generation spectroscopy and uses […]

The Middle East and North Africa Film Series presents Forget Baghdad on Monday, March 16, at 6:30 p.m. in Baker Center 231. The documentary (directed by Samir) tells the story of four Baghdadi-Jews, all former members of the Iraqi Communist Party during the 1940s and 1950s. The four elderly protagonists are […]

The new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series presents Unveiled (2005) by the German director Angelina Maccarone, an American filmmaker of a Peruvian background, on Saturday, March 14, at 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema. Admission is free. In Unveiled, Fabria, prosecuted in Iran because of her love affair […]

The Department of Geography Colloquium Series presents Dr. Yvette Richardson on “Our Current Understanding of Tornadic Storms” on Friday, March 13, at noon in Clippinger Labs 119. Richardson is an Associate Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. Abstract: Decades of observational, numerical, and theoretical studies have revealed many of the […]

The dogwoods will be in pre-bloom as the Dogwood Bloom Reading Series presents readings by short-storyist Madeline Ffitch and essayist Kat Saunders on March 13 at 7 p.m. in Galbreath Chapel. Dogwood Bloom is a student-run reading series in Ohio University’s Creative Writing program that allows second-year graduate students to […]