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The English Department’s 2018 visiting fiction visitor, Marjorie Celona, gives a reading on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 in Walter Hall Rotunda. Celona received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the John C. Schupes fellowship. Her stories have appeared in Best […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes Retired Air Force Col. Dr. Edward Kaplan discussing “U.S. Air-Atomic Strategy in the Cold War” on Jan. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 242. The Air Force, and particularly its Strategic Air Command, conceived of air-atomic war in the early decades of the Cold War, […]

The Mathematics Department and Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences colloquium series present Dr. Alexander Nepomnyashchy discussing “Anomalous Dispersion in Laminar Flows” on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Nepomnyashchy is with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology & Northwestern University. Abstract: Dispersion of particles in chaotic, turbulent or random flows […]

Science Café presents Dr. Viorel Popescu on “Challenges for Conserving Biodiversity in a Changing World” on Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 5 p.m. at the Baker Center Front Room. Popescu is Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. Bobcats and bears and frogs, oh my! What do all these animals have […]

The Geological Sciences Colloquium Series presents Dr. Patricia Nadeau on “From the magma chamber to the atmosphere:  Tackling the role of volatiles in volcanism” on Jan. 26 at 2 p.m. in Clippinger 205. Nadeau is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology at the Department of Geological Sciences at Ohio University. […]

The Environmental & Plant Biology Colloquium Series presents Dr. John Hall on “Advances in the systematics of charophytes; synthesizing biological data in the genomic era” on Friday, Jan. 26, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 104. Hall is a Research Associate at the Research Greenhouse Complex at the University of Maryland’s College of Agriculture […]

The Psychology Colloquium series presents Dr. Matthew Vess on “Recognizing Bad Faith: Exploring How People Subjectively Experience the Awareness of Authentic Selves” on Friday, Jan. 26, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 102. Vess is an Associate Professor for the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University. He received his doctorate […]