Archive for January, 2017

Dr. Assan Sarr will begin the Contemporary History Institute spring semester lecture series on Thursday, Jan. 26, with a talk entitled “Gambia’s ‘Unprecedented’ 2016 Election: Accounting for the Recent Crisis in the Small West African Nation.”  The talk is in Baker 242 at 4:30 pm. Sarr has just returned from a […]

Science on Screen presents Hidden Figures with Dr. Sarah Wyatt on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. Free admission! Limited seating. Tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis, available starting 4 p.m. Thursday. Wyatt is Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University and a long-time space enthusiast. Her […]

The Between Love and Hate theme is hosting a screening and discussion of the film The Times of Harvey Milk on Thursday, Jan. 26, from 6-8:30 p.m. in Gordy 307. The screening if free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Dr. Akil Houston, […]

The Center for Campus and Community Engagement hosts “Community Coffee Talks” on a variety of different themes throughout the year. Community Coffee Talks are an opportunity for university and community partners to gather and discuss issues and projects of mutual interest on a particular theme and to explore avenues for […]

All are invited to attend an upcoming reading from OHIO Creative Writing students on Friday, Jan. 27, takes place at 7:30 p.m. at Arts West (132 W. State St.). Emily Kramer, Derek Robbins, Michelle Pretorius, and Sarah Minor are the featured writers for this week’s event. Kramer and Robbins will read their […]

The Geography Department Colloquium Series presents Dr. Kendra McSweeney on “Grounding traffic: how the cocaine commodity chain transforms lives and land in rural Central America” on Friday, Jan. 27, from 3:05 to 4 p.m. in Clippinger 119. McSweeney is Professor of Geography at Ohio State University, with over 20 years […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Douglas Natelson of  Rice University on “Heating and Thermoelectricity at  the Nanoscale” on Friday, January 27, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: When a wire is connected across a battery, energy is transferred from the macroscopic electrochemical potential difference of the battery terminals […]