Archive for April, 2017

by Kristin M. Distel “It’s nice to be well-informed and knowledgeable, but students should explore other options through internships and nonprofits. I’m so glad I did,” says junior Jake McClelland, who worked as a policy intern for Sarah Grace’s state representative campaign during the 2016 election cycle. McClelland notes that […]

Forty-five participants attended First Ladies Symposium, the second installment of the Ohio University History Department’s “History on the Move” series. Held on April 1 at the the Ross County Historical Society, in the hometown of First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes: Chillicothe, Ohio. The First Ladies Symposium featured three presentations: Katherine Jellison, Professor and Ohio […]

The History Department, in collaboration with the Contemporary History Institute and Latin American Studies, hosts the first installment of the History Faculty Book Talk series. On Tuesday, April 18, at 3:30 p.m. in Baker Center 231,  Dr. Patrick Barr-Melej, Professor of History at Ohio University, will deliver a lecture based on […]

The 2017 Spring Literary Festival welcomes author Colm Tóibín for a lecture on Wednesday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Walter Hall Rotunda, and for a reading on Friday, April 7, at 8:30 p.m., in Baker Theatre. By Justin Mundhenk Graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing: Fiction Writers get written into corners by genre, […]

The Environmental & Plant Biology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Kathryn Flinn on “200 years of changes in the vegetation of northeast Ohio” on Friday, April 7, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter Hall 104. Flinn is an Assistant Professor in the Biology and Geology Department at Baldwin Wallace University. Abstract: To ensure that ecological […]

The Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities presents a free one-day workshop for secondary teachers on Tolkien’s Middle Ages with Kate Hurley on Saturday, April 1, at Ohio University. Registration deadline: Thursday, March 23. To register, please email your name, home address, email address, and school […]

The Biological Sciences & Biomedical Sciences Research Seminar Series welcomes Patrick Shea, Ph.D., discussing “The Genomics of Human Resistance to HIV” on Monday, April 3, at 4 in Hall 159 . Shea is a Research Scientist with the Columbia University Institute for Genomic Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in human […]