Archive for March, 2015

The Middle East and North Africa Film Series presents Taxi to the Dark Side on Monday, March 30, at 6:30 p.m. in Baker Center 231. This documentary (directed by Alex Gibney) takes off from an investigation into the killing of an Afghani taxi driver at the hands of U.S. interrogators. The investigation, […]

  Dr. James Andrews, Associate Professor of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University, gave a talk on “Sophia kai episteme … kratiston: Protagoras on Knowledge and the Virtues” at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South on March 26 in Boulder, CO. At […]

By Tetyana Dovbnya OPIE and College of Arts & Sciences International Student Adviser One of the oldest and most successful cultural and academic exchanges the Ohio Program of Intensive English has established is definitely with the Chubu University in Japan. It started in 1973, and has been fruitful since then. […]

The Ohio University Russian Program is proud to announce that 11 Russian students (10 freshmen and one junior) participated in the 2015 Undergraduate Olympiada of Spoken Russian. The competition this year was hosted by Kent University on Feb. 28. Tested on an oral interview, a poem recitation, and a presentation on a […]

The Environmental & Plant Biology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Richard Vierstra, on “Autophagy, the Master of Selective Recycling” on Friday, March 27, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 104. Vierstra is a Full Professor with the Laboratory of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Abstract: Autophagy-mediated turnover plays an essential role […]

The 2015 Baker Peace Conference on “The Vietnam War: A Fifty-Year Retrospective” on March 26 and 27. A panel on “The International Context” is Friday, March 27,  at 3 p.m. in Nelson Commons. The panel features: Moderator – Dr. Paul C. Milazzo, Ohio University Dr. Pierre Asselin, Hawaii Pacific Univeristy […]

The 2015 Baker Peace Conference on “The Vietnam War: A Fifty-Year Retrospective” on March 26 and 27. A panel on The Military Commitment of Troops is Friday, March 27,  at 10 a.m. in Nelson Commons. The panel features: Moderator – Dr. Clarence Wyatt, Monmouth College Dr. George C. Herring, University […]