Archive for August, 2014

The Appalachia Population History Project is hosting a fall welcome event to showcase the project’s undergraduate experiences and research throughout the past year on Tuesday, Sept. 30, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Baker Center 230. The Appalachia Population History Project is a regional study of historical population health and […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in serveral Labor Day stories about the economics of job creation and wages. WorkplaceChoice.org’s Trey Kovacs, in a story on “How to Raise All Worker Wages,” cites Vedder’s […]

The Fall 2014 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Colloquium—“Ecolunch”—presents Dr. Willem Roosenburg, Department of Biological Sciences, on “Demography, Halfway Technologies, and Triumphs of Terrapin Conservation” on Oct. 1. Roosenburg is Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. All seminars are open to the public and meet in Irvine Hall Room 159 on […]

Students interested in pursuing legal careers are invited to a Law Fair at Ohio University on Wednesday, Oct. 1, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Nelson Commons. Law schools from Ohio and other states will be represented, and students will be able to talk with admissions representatives. “We really […]

The Department of Geological Sciences Colloquium Series presents Michael Farmer on “Information Resources for the Geology Student: Finding Gold in the Wilderness” on Sept. 5 at 4:05 p.m. in Clippinger 218. This colloquium is for new graduate students. Farmer is Knowledge Management Specialist with Ohio University Libraries.

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes Yvonne McEwen of the University of Edinburgh as the first speaker in the fall semester Guest Lecture Series. She will talk on “Daughters of Arete: Military Nursing in World War One” on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker Theater. In 2005, McEwen joined […]

The Sense of Place theme faculty will sponsor a series of public talks on various aspects of Ohio. Presentations will be interdisciplinary in nature with speakers invited from Ohio University, other Ohio universities, Ohio government entities, and the private sector. Talks will include time for open discussion of the topic. […]