Archive for January, 2014

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology, explores gravity—through the perspective of plants—in a Science Café on Jan. 22 at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. Gravity is responsible for keeping life on Earth grounded, literally, and with the advent of space travel we now have […]

Ohio University alum Luke Feeney ’02, Chillicothe City Auditor, was the featured speaker at Chillicothe’s 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration on Jan.20, reported the Newark Advocate. Feeney majored in Political Science Pre-Law and earned his degree from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. He is […]

Registration for the 2014 Ohio University Student Research and Creative Activity Expo is now open. Students must enroll online at www.ohio.edu/studentexpo to participate. Registration closes Friday, Feb. 28. This year’s Expo will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Thursday, April 10, at the Convocation Center. The annual event […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Jeyhan Kartaltepe of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory on “How Cosmic Collisions Shape the Universe” at a special time on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 4:10 p.m., in Walter 245. Abstract: Galaxy mergers and interactions are thought to play a key role in the evolution […]

“The difficulties of studying what no longer exists are legion,” writes Dr. Miriam Shadis, “and are particularly acute in the realm of women’s history, but … the absence of a discourse of visual imagery does not mean that this imagery never existed, nor that queens’ patronage did not play a […]

“Rich Swirsky was sworn in as the new Ward 1 member of Akron City Council last month, but he said he began serving constituents before he took the oath of office,” reports the Akron West Side Ledger. The concept of service is just something that’s important to him, Swirsky explained. […]

Dr. Richard Vedder and Ohio University alum Christopher Denhart published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 8. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. Denhart earned a B.S. in Economics from Ohio University’s College of […]