Archive for January, 2014

Paula L. “Weezy” Hale, 60, of Albany, passed away Friday, Jan. 24, at Grant Medical Center in Columbus. She was a budget and grant research specialist in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences. “Paula kept the faculty at 350 West State Street afloat. […]

Two writers connected with the Ph.D. program in Creative Writing at Ohio University have published essays in the new anthology, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South & Women Behaving Badly, recently released by In Fact Books.  Author Dorothy Allison writes in her introduction, “The most dangerous stories are […]

By Natalia Radic/Perspectives magazine During two periods in the 20th century, a small Michigan town called Idlewild was a popular resort community for the black middle class. It attracted intellectuals such as Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois during the 1920s, and top black entertainers, from Jackie Wilson and the […]

By Philip Barnes From high-tech airport security checks and banks that scrutinize the specifics of your credit card purchases, to city street cameras and the data collected on your Facebook postings, surveillance is “in the DNA” of modern society, argue the authors of a new book. Related Post: Top 10  […]

The Ecolunch Seminar Series presents Ashley Morhardt on “Reconstructing the Brains of Extinct Archosaur” on Jan. 29. All Ecolunch seminars are Wednesdays from 11:50 to 1:40 p.m. in Irvine 159. Students are in BIOS 7000 Seminars in Ecology and BIOS 3880 Undergraduate Research & Inquiry & Analysis in EEB. Upcoming […]

The Department of Geological Sciences Colloquium Series presents Dr. Amy Weislogel on “Perspectives and perils of using U-Pb zircon geochronology to constrain stratigraphic age: lessons from the Permian-Triassic Karoo basin, South Africa” on Friday, Jan. 31, at 2 p.m. in Clippinger Laboratories, Room 205. Weislogel is Assistant Professor in the […]

The Latin American Studies Program in the Center for International Studies invites faculty, students, and the general public to its Annual Lecture, “Patronage and Jobs for the Boys: Perspectives on Latin America,” on Monday, Feb. 3, at 4 p.m., in Bentley Hall 227. Speaker Merilee Grindle will discuss examples of […]