Post Tagged with: "Wealth and Poverty"

The Wealth and Poverty theme presents a public lecture by Brian Alexander on “Glass House: Anchor Hocking and Lancaster, OH” Wednesday, Feb. 20, from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda. Watch on A&S TV. The iconic Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base […]

  The Wealth and Poverty theme presents the following events for Spring 2019. All events are free and open to the public. Wealth and Poverty Week on Immigrants Immigration is a significant political issue across the world. An estimated 258 million people worldwide live in a country other than their country of birth. […]

Celebrating the United Nations’ World Food Day to help end hunger, the Ohio University Chapter of the American Meteorological Society and Wealth and Poverty Certificate students together raised 14 boxes of food donations for Good Works Inc., a local charity organization that offers hot meals to Athens’s most underprivileged communities. Several […]

The Wealth and Poverty theme at Ohio University presents Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo discussing “Slavery and Its Legacies: Comparative Approaches in Memory and Reparations” on Monday, Nov. 19, from 3 to 4 p.m. at Walter  Hall Rotunda. Araujo is Professor of History of Howard University. Her research explores the history, memory, and […]

Wealth and Poverty hosts a research talk by Dr. Tarminder Kaur, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa, on Wednesday, Nov. 28, from 4 to 5 p.m. at Alden 319. The talk is titled “Farmers Are Not ‘That’ Rich; Farm Workers Are Not ‘That’ Poor: an […]

Editor’s Note: Last summer five OHIO students received Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty summer internships. During an Action on Inequality Week panel discussion, titled “How I Spent My Summer,” five interns reflected on their experiences. By Franchesca Rife Sociology major and Wealth & Poverty Certificate Interned as legal advocate at Legal […]

Under the motto “Ending Hunger Starts with OHIO,” the Wealth and Poverty theme hosts its annual World Food Day food drive throughout October. The United Nations’ World Food Day is Oct. 16, “a day of action against hunger” involving people from around the world. OHIO collection sites for non-perishable items for Good […]