Archive for April, 2019

Ecolunch presents Wren Edwards discussing “Freaky Fecal Foreboding in Chimps” on Wednesday, April 24, from 11:50 a.m.to 12:45 p.m. in Irvine 159. Edwards is a graduate student in Biological Sciences at Ohio University. Ecolunch is a long-running seminar series that meets on Wednesdays from 11:50 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Irvine 159. […]

Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute, delivers a talk on Thursday, April 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker Center 242. Titled “Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam,” the talk draws on Trauschweizer’s recently-published book of the same title, an intellectual […]

Registration is open for the 11th annual free Ohio University CALL Conference on April 26 at Ohio University. The keynote speaker is Dr. Deborah Healey from the University of Oregon’s Language Teaching Studies Department. Healey is president of the TESOL International Association. She leads the plenary on “CALL and TESOL’s […]

Dr. Nukhet Sandal was named the next Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies at the 60th International Studies Association annual convention last week in Toronto, Canada. Sandal also co-chaired the ISA convention, “Re-Visioning International Studies: Innovation and Progress,” March 27-30, with Jenifer Whitten-Woodring of the University of […]

The campus and Athens community are invited to come explore BioBlast on The Ridges and search for plants, animals, and fungi on Saturday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ridges. The Ohio University Biological Sciences Graduate Society is hosting the BioBlast in conjunction with the Ohio […]

A Special Physics & Astronomy Colloquium features Dr. Robert P. Kirshner discussing “Accelerating Science in an Accelerating Universe” on Thursday, May 2, at 3:30 p.m. in Walter Hall 235. Kirshner has made groundbreaking contributions in several areas of astronomy, including the physics of exploding stars seen as supernovae, supernova remnants, […]

A colloquium features Nobel Prize laureate and Ohio University alumnus Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan discussing “Termination of Translation in Bacteria and Eukaryotes” on Thursday, May 2, at 11 a.m. in the Baker Center Theater. His book Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome will be available for […]