Archive for October, 2018

Members of the Ohio University and broader Athens community are invited to a free screening eight short Syrian films (90 minutes) at the Athena Cinema at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23. All the films screened were created by Syrian filmmarkers who experienced the crisis in Syria that began in […]

Physics & Astronomy graduate student Rajib Pandit will defend his Ph.D. dissertation, titled “Local fluctuations in the relaxation rate in glassy systems,” on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 2 p.m. in Clippinger Laboratory 354. All are invited to attend.

Physics & Astronomy graduate student Yingqiao Ma defends his Ph.D. dissertation, “A Two-dimensional Semiconducting GaN-based Ferromagnetic Monolayer,” on Oct. 24 at 2:30 p.m. in Clippinger Labs 215.

Ecolunch presents Juan Pablo Aguilar Cabezas discussing “Population genetic analysis of big brown bats: implications for White Nose Syndrome” on Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 11:50 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Irvine 159. Aguilar is a graduate student in Biological Sciences at Ohio University. ECOLUNCH is a long-running seminar series that meets […]

The War and Peace theme presents Peter Warren Singer discussing “Next War: The Future of Technology, Security and Threats” on Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Schoonover 145. “Singer is a strategist at New America and an editor at Popular Science magazine. He has been named by […]

Café Conversations presents Dr. Julie Paxton on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 5 p.m. in the Front Room at Baker University Center. Paxton is Professor of Economics at Ohio University. Can people be nudged to behave altruistically? People rely on problem-solving rules called heuristics to make decisions easier. Behavioral economists seek to […]

The Sustainability Studies theme presents Dr. Bekka Brodie on “Sustainable Solutions: A Conversation about Sustainable Pest Management” on Thursday, Oct. 25, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Alden Library 319 (Friends of the Library Room). Worried about the growing use of chemicals in agriculture and pest management? Come and learn […]