Archive for March, 2015

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Student Association leads a roundtable event on Friday, March 20, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Room in Alden Library. The roundtable on “Diverse Ways of Knowing Gender and Sexuality: Identities and Social Relations in Research” features: Keynote […]

Two resource panels can help undergraduate and graduate students interested in expanding their understanding of opportunities as Americorps volunteers and within the green jobs sector. Americorps Panel—Thursday, March 19, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Baker Center Amanda Cunningham Leadership Center, Room 366 Green Jobs Panel—Thursday, March 26, from […]

Dr. Paul Hirschfield, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, visits Ohio University on Thursday, March 19, at noon in Bentley 124 for a public lecture on adolescence, school, and the criminal justice system. The talk is on “Decriminalizing Schools? Recent Reforms in School Discipline and Policing.” Hirschfield presents on theories […]

Tip # 9: It’s OK to look like a tourist, writes Elizabeth Harris on the OUimpressions site. “Chances are most other people around you will be tourists as well. Embrace your inner-tourist. Take thousands of pictures, do not be afraid to carry around a map, ask for directions, and overall […]

The War and Peace theme is co-sponsoring an Africa & War and Peace Lecture Series with the African Studies Program and the Institute for the African Child. On Wednesday, March 18, from 3 to 4:30 pm, in Baker 231, Dr. Brandon Kendhammer, assistant professor of political science, will deliver the […]

Science Café presents Dr. Christopher France on “I’d like to give blood but…” on Wednesday, March 18, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Front Room. According to the Red Cross every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. This translates to more than 41,000 blood donations every day. […]

The Food for Thought speakers series presents Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, on “Eating Away at Austerity: Ireland and the Local Food Movement” on March 17 at 5 p.m. in Alden 319 (Friends of the Library Room). Scanlan’s Fulbright experience in Ireland last year provided opportunities to witness […]