From Compass Ohio University Libraries is preparing to officially kick off its bicentennial celebration on Tuesday, March 25, at the Founders Day Symposium, scheduled for 1:30 to 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of Alden Library. The event, “Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American […]

The spring literary festival 2014’s Lit Fest is March 26-28 and welcomes fiction writer Andrea Barrett, poet Frank Bidart, essayist Sven Birkerts, fiction writer Ben Fountain, and essayist Rebecca Solnit. Bidart was among the winners at the National Book Critics Circle awards were announced March 13. Bidart won the poetry […]

The Ecolunch Seminar Series presents Paul Converse on “The Molecular and Population Ecology of Diamondback Terrapins” on March 26. All Ecolunch seminars are Wednesdays from 11:50 to 1:40 p.m. in Irvine 159. Students are in BIOS 7000 Seminars in Ecology and BIOS 3880 Undergraduate Research & Inquiry & Analysis in EEB. […]

Café Conversations presents Dr. Roger Cooper, Media Arts and Studies, on Wednesday, March 26, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. Ringing phones, clicking keyboards and a boss dictating “to-do” lists—the typical sounds of a work environment. Chuckles, jokes and a hissing laughter—what Cooper believes a work environment […]

Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University will give a public lecture about global poverty, titled “Global Injustice,” On Thursday, March 27, from 7 to 9 p.m. in Walter 135. The lecture will be followed by discussion with the audience about global poverty and climate change. Pogge is Leitner Professor of […]

The 17th Annual Lazaroff Lecture, “Who was a Jew in the Middle Ages? Conversos, Jews and the Question of Religious Identity,” features Dr. Jonathan Ray of Georgetown University on Thursday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Baker Center Ballroom A. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to […]

Faculty are invited to a Brown Bag Lunch Conversation about Online Course Design is Friday, March. 28, at noon in Wilson Hall 303. This is the first of three brown bag lunch conversations available through the College of Arts & Sciences. Laura Patch, the college’s new instructional designer, will be […]