Archive for April, 2017

The Ohio University History Department hosts its 11th Annual Undergraduate History Conference April 5-7. The conference opens on Wednesday, April 5, at 5 p.m. with a plenary session and awards ceremony at the Friends of the Library Room, 319 Alden Library. Assistant Professor Sarah Kinkel will give a lecture on “Revolutionary Leadership: The Top Ten […]

The The Department of Biological Sciences Ecolunch presents Wayman Holloway of the Biological Sciences Department discussing “Phytosaurian cranial evolution: Insights from geometric morphometrics” on Wednesday, April 5, at 11:50 a.m. in Irvine 159. All Ecolunch seminars are open to the public and meet in Irvine 159 on Wednesdays from 11:50 […]

The Wealth and Poverty theme is hosting a research talk, given by Dr. Jonathan Agensky (Political Science),  on “Faith, Aid and Global Governance” on Wednesday, April 5, at noon in Baker 231. This event is co-sponsored with the African Studies program. Agensky’s talk is open to the public, and light […]

The Algebra Seminar features Dr. Nicholas Pilewski on Thursday, April 6, from 4:30-5:30 pm. in Morton 313. Pilewski, a lecturer in Mathematics at Ohio University, will present “On modules that witness that certain Leavitt Path Algebras are directly infinite.” He is also an alum, earning an M.S. and Ph.D. in […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium Series presents Katharina Vollmayr-Lee of Bucknell University, on “Universal Aging Dynamics of Silica” on Thursday, April 20, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: We investigate the non-equilibrium (aging) dynamics of the strong glass former  SiO2.  Using molecular dynamics simulations, we quench the […]

Dr. Atalia Omer speaks on Thursday, April 6, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Bentley 306 on “Intersectional Social Justice Activism: Jewish-American Palestine Solidarity and the Transformation of American Judaism.” There will be an drop-in in the Center for Law, Justice and Culture lounge from 3 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 6. This […]

The Gawande Speaker Series presents “Is Yoga Hindu? A talk on the development of modern yoga”—a lecture by Andrew J. Nicholson on Friday, April 7, at 7 p.m. in Ellis 111. Nicholson joined the State University of New York at Stony Brook faculty in 2006. He holds degrees in Religious […]