The Sustainability Studies theme encourages students and faculty to attend a College of Fine Arts lecture by Dr. Una Chaudhuri on “Art & Climate Chaos” on Thursday, Nov 5, at 7 p.m. in Robert Glidden Recital Hall, fourth floor. A reception follows the lecture. Abstract: The pace and unpredictability of […]

Ohio University’s annual Pre-Law Days begin Thursday, Nov. 5, at 5 p.m. in Baker Theater with a keynote address from Supreme Court Justice William M. O’Neill. The event continues throughout Friday, Nov. 6, with a series of panels featuring 17 OHIO alumni. This event is free, and students from all majors are encourage […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium Series presents Daniel Gall of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on “Materials Property Guessing: The Resistivity Problem,” on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: We can guess materials properties like the density or the melting point, but we (or at least […]

Award-winning fiction writer and poet Crystal Wilkinson reads from her work Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda. A reception follows the event. The author of Blackberries, Blackberries, which won the 2002 Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature, and Water Street, Wilkinson has received national attention both […]

The Contemporary History Institute presents guest lecturer Dr. Katherine Epstein on “The Hidden History of National-Security Information” on Nov. 5 at 4:30 p.m. in Baker Ballroom A. Epstein, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden, earned a B.A. summa cum laude with distinction in history from Yale University in 2004, an MPhil […]

The Athens Algebra Seminar presents “A quick introduction to the Hyperreals” by Javier Ronquillo of Ohio University on Thursday, Nov. 5, from 4:35-5:30 p.m. on Morton 218. Abstract: We will use the machinery of ultrapowers to build the Hyperreal numbers. The nice thing about this construction is that we can […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Alexander Neiman of Ohio University on “Nonlinear dynamics of noisy hair cells” on Friday, Nov. 6, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: Perception of sound by living organisms relies on active mechanisms at work, resulting in observed high sensitivity, sharp frequency response […]