| SEPT. 10, 2015 | TWEET! |
NEWS & UPDATES
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To the White House
Ann Hamilton, Distinguished University Professor, has been named a 2014 National Medal of Arts recipient. President Barack Obama will present the award at the White House at 3 p.m. this afternoon; you are invited to watch a simulcast of the ceremony in the Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater. |
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Research Suggests There May Be No Such Thing as ‘Democratic Peace'
Skyler Cranmer, associate professor, political science, is lead author of a new study suggesting that trade relationships and participating in international governmental organizations are key to peace-keeping. The study developed a new way to more accurately predict levels of international conflict than previous models. |
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History Graduate Student Receives History Scholar Award
Michael Rueger, graduate student, history and education, was selected a recipient of the History Scholar Award from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The award recognizes the top 15 undergraduate American history students who have demonstrated academic and extracurricular excellence in American history or American studies as well as a commitment to public service and community involvement. |
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AAAS Associate Professor Elected President of ASWAD
Leslie Alexander, associate professor, African American and African Studies, was elected president of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), an international academic organization that reaches across disciplinary boundaries to expand our understanding of African-descended peoples throughout the world. Alexander officially begins her four year term, November 2015. |
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Patrons’ Circle Lecture Welcomes Victor Stoichita
The Department of History of Art welcomes Victor Stoichita for its Patrons’ Circle Lecture Thursday, Sept. 17, at 5:30 p.m., 002 Psychology Building. Stoichita, professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, will speak on “The Don Quixote Effect: Pictorial Fiction and Aesthetic Borders in Murillo and Beyond.” Free. Open to all; reception follows in Pomerene Hall. |
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Decision Sciences Collaborative Kicks Off Lecture Season
Shige Oishi, professor of psychology, University of Virginia, is the featured speaker for the Decision Sciences Collaborative first lecture of the season, Friday, Sept. 18, 12-1:30 p.m., 035 Psychology Building. Oishi will speak on “Socio-ecological Psychology,” as investigation of humans’ cognitive, emotional and behavioral adaption to physical, interpersonal, economic and political environments. |
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Materials Science Researcher Kicks-off Science Sundays Season Five
Materials scientist Jeff Childress, research director at HGST, San Jose, California, kicks off ASC’s free, public lecture series, Sunday, Sept. 20, 3-4 p.m., Ohio Union U.S. Bank Conference Theater. His lecture, "Science and technology of data storage," is followed by a reception, 4-5 p.m., Ohio Stater’s Traditions room. |
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Lab Hosts Symposium Celebrating Waters Center of Innovation Designation
Vicki Wysocki, Ohio Eminent Scholar, chemistry and biochemistry, director, Campus Chemical Instrument Center; and Waters Corporation, host free "COI Mass Spectrometry in Structural Biology Symposium," Tuesday, Sept. 22, RPAC, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wysocki’s lab is a designated Waters Center of Innovation. Registration ends Monday, Sept. 14. |
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Undergraduate Student e-Newsletter – September Issue
The September undergraduate newsletter highlights the microbiology major, upcoming career and internship fairs, Undergraduate Research Week, undergraduate research funding opportunities, the annual Study Abroad Expo and a student who studied abroad in France. Contact: Ann Rottersman. |
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EVENTS
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Sept. 11
Graduate Seminar in Literacy Studies: Studying Literacy; 12 p.m., 311 Denney Hall
Larry Benson, Climate Change as a Possible Mechanism Linking in Time the Rise and Fall of the Mississippian Cahokians and the Southwestern Anasazi; 1 p.m., 0125 Mendenhall Laboratory
Frances Dolan, Compost/Compositions; 4 p.m., 070/090 18th Avenue Library
Sept. 14
The Academic Job Search; 2:30 p.m., U.S. Bank Conference Theater, Ohio Union
Graeme Boone, The Progress of White Notation: From Ink Color to Ideology; 4 p.m., 205 18th Ave. Library
Sept. 14 - Sept. 15
Lab Series: My Life is On the Refrigerator and To All the Boys I've Loved Before; 7 p.m., New Works Lab
Sept. 15
IPR Seminar: Ryan King, associate professor, sociology; 12:30 p.m., 038 Townshend Hall
Viacheslav Morozov, Russia’s Subaltern Empire: Toward a Radical Materialist Perspective on Peripheral Identity Politics; 3:30 p.m., Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.
Sept. 16
Active Learning Strategies for the Classroom; 12 p.m., 285 Bakers Systems
Hannibal Hamlin, Exploding the Sacred-Secular Divide in English Renaissance Literature; 7 p.m., 180 Hagerty Hall
Sept. 17
Maria Tatar, The Wolftrap: Into the Woods with Fairy Tales; 4:30 p.m., 165 Thompson Library
Patrons’ Circle Lecture, Victor Stoichita: The Don Quixote Effect: Pictorial Fiction and Aesthetic Borders in Murillo and Beyond; 5:30 p.m., 002 Psychology Building
Through Oct. 16
Global Gallery Exhibit: Amadeo Modigliani; Hagerty Hall Lobby
Through Nov. 7
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne; Urban Arts Space, Hopkins Hall Gallery, and the facade of the former Long's bookstore |
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