Archive for March, 2014

The Ohio University Student Research and Creative Activity Expo is seeking faculty, staff and postdoctoral fellow judges for the event on the morning of Thursday, April. The Expo, held at the Convocation Center, will feature 800 student presenters from the Athens and regional campuses this year. Top Seven Reasons Why […]

The Spanish section of the Department of Modern Languages presents The 18th Annual Spanish and Latin American Studies Spring Colloquium form Thursday, March 27, through Saturday, March 29. The colloquium’s mission, since its inception in 1996, is the promotion of Hispanic artistic and cultural awareness as well as the showcasing […]

Twenty College of Arts & Sciences Students earned departmental honors in 2015. Outstanding undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences at the junior or senior level who maintain an accumulative GPA of at least 3.50 may be eligible to earn departmental honors from their department of major. A […]

Dispatch from Romania By Tim Anderson Associate Professor of Geography In his widely acclaimed history of Romania from prehistoric times to the present, Romania: Borderland of Europe, the noted Romanian scholar Lucian Boia argues that the “soul” of the country, its national identity, is deeply rooted in tropes associated with […]

  Dr. Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, gave an invited talk on March 5 as part of the Conversation Series at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. The title of the talk was “Color-Void: The Peril of African American Men in Higher Education Policy.” […]

Dr. David A. Drabold, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University, gives an invited review lecture at  the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry in March. He will address “First principles simulations of phase-change materials” at the upcoming symposium, “Doped Amorphous Chalcogenides and Devices,” at Trinity College, University […]

By Katie Hendershot From Compass A new portrait will now hang in Alden Library amongst the 52 others that honor the greats who have molded the minds of Ohio University students. Dr. Tom Carpenter, Professor of Classics and World Religions, was honored Feb.24 as the 2013 Distinguished Professor. Carpenter gave […]