Café Conversation presents Dr. Katherine Jellison on “Unelected Leaders: America’s First Ladies” on Wednesday, March 11, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Front Room. Betty Ford, Michelle Obama, and Hilary Clinton—first ladies, but also powerful women. These first ladies played an important role in the political system by representing the […]

The War and Peace theme is co-sponsoring an Africa & War and Peace Lecture Series with the African Studies Program and the Institute for the African Child. On Wednesday, March 11, between noon and 1 p.m. in Baker 231, Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, discusses the broader historical […]

The Astrophysical Institute (ApI) presents Raffaella Margutti of  the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics presenting “Eruptions, disruptions and (repeated) explosions: massive stars at the end of their life and the role of central engines and sustained mass-loss” on Tuesday, March 11, at at 4:10 p.m. in Edwards Accelerator Lab, Roger W. […]

For more than 55 years, Ohio University’s Distinguished Professor lecture has been a hallmark celebration of an honored faculty member’s outstanding scholarly and creative accomplishments, so it is no surprise that even Old Man Winter couldn’t derail plans to commend the 2014 Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Dr. Christopher France. The […]

Ohio University’s 2014-15 Kennedy Lecture Series presents “A Trip Through Strawberry Fields” with Scott Freiman on March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Templeton Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. Freiman is the CEO of Qwire which creates collaborative, cloud-based tools for people who create, supply, and manage music for film and television. […]

Think you’re interested in law school but want to know what it’s like first? Test it out with a mock criminal law class. Professor Dana Cole of the University of Akron School of Law joins the Center for Law, Justice & Culter on Tuesday, March 17, from 4 to 6 […]

The 2015 Baker Peace Conference on “The Vietnam War: A Fifty-Year Retrospective” on March 26 and 27. A panel on War and Social Changes is Friday, March 27,  at 1 p.m. in Nelson Commons. The panel features: Moderator – Dr. Katherine Jellison, Ohio University Dr. Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young […]