Archive for April, 2019

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes journalist David Finkel to deliver the keynote address for the “Coming Home from War” program on April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Baker 242. The event is free and open to the public. The Pulitzer Prize-winner presents “‘Welcome Home, Sgt. Schumann’: Why We Keep Telling […]

The Economics Seminar series presents Dr. Nurlan Turdaliev on Friday, April 5, from 3 to 4:15 p.m. in Bentley Annex 302 (conference room). Turdaliev is Associate Professor and Head of Economics at the University of Windsor, Canada. The title of the presentation is “Inflation and Optimal Delegation in a Heterogeneous […]

Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival is April 3 to 5. One of this year’s featured authors is Kiese Laymon, a black southern writer, born and raised in Jackson, Miss. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana […]

The Ohio University-Ohio State University ring theory seminar series presents Mauricio Medina Bárcenas discussing “Boyle’s conjecture and perfect localizations” on Friday, April 5, at 4:45 p.m. in Cockins Hall 240, OSU-Columbus. Medina is a Fubright Fellow at the University of Northern Illinois at Dekalb. Abstract: A ring R is called left […]

The Psychology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Felipe De Brigard on “Varieties of Counterfactual Thinking” on Friday, April 5, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 102. De Brigard is an assistant professor of philosophy, and an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, at Duke. He is also core faculty in the Cognitive […]

Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival is April 3 to 5. One of this year’s featured authors is Mark Doty, who is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Deep Lane (W. W. Norton, 2015); A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures (Prestel, 2013); Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Timothy J. Hallman, of  DOE, on “An Overnight Breakthrough One Hundred Years in the Making”, on Friday, April 5, at 4:10 p.m. in Clippinger Labs 194. Abstract: For anyone who is a fan of science and technology, nothing is more exciting than learning […]