News

In order to celebrate Día de los Muertos properly, members of Sigma Delta Pi decked out the Modern Languages Department in traditional decorations on Oct. 28, alongside setting up an altar with personal, regional and informational artifacts. Using papel picado (Mexican perforated paper), calaveras (skulls), cempasuchiles (tissue paper flowers), and […]

  The lights are low, the candles are lit and there is a knock at the door. Enter now 19 future members of Sigma Delta Pi led by advisor Dr. Betsy Partyka adorned in her finest black medieval garb. Four officers of Sigma Delta Pi stand behind a table topped […]

Dr. Becky Barlag has been named president-elect of the Forensic Science Institute of Ohio for 2020. In 2021, she will serve a one-year term as the institute’s president. Barlag is director of the Forensic Chemistry program and Associate Professor of Instruction in Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University. The Forensic […]

Ohio University’s Pi Rho/Tau chapter of Sigma Delta Pi celebrated the society’s centennial and held a cord ceremony for two graduating seniors on Nov. 21. Under gold and crimson adornments and soft lighting, the ceremony boasted a table holding cords on either side of the original registers of neófitos (newcomers) […]

Dr. Betsy Partyka, Associate Professor of Spanish in Modern Languages, and Carli Henman, a graduate student in Spanish, represented Ohio University and Sigma Delta Pi at the Hispanic Cultural Celebration at the Bunsold Middle School in Marysville, Ohio, on Nov. 3. During the celebration, middle school students and their families […]

An example of excellence in community outreach and plant and fungi education, Martha Bishop goes above and beyond as lab coordinator for the Environmental & Plant Biology Department. In addition to coordinating the teaching labs, Bishop teaches two courses, Medicinal Plants of Ohio and Biology of Fungi, at Ohio University. […]

Athens County has prairie plants? Strouds Run State Park is home to three small prairie-like openings that host grassland species. Persistence of this unusual community may be threatened by encroachment of trees and shrubs that can shade out herbaceous plants. That’s why members of the Plant Biology Graduate Student Association […]