Events
September 13, 2011
Students: Are you interested in social work, research and community action? Attend an open house at The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences on Wednesday, Sept. 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. to meet with faculty, financial aid officers, admissions staff, current students and alumni. Learn more at msass.c...
September 13, 2011
The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women presents “Difference Matters: An empowHERment workshop for women of color” on Oct. 5 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Thwing Center Spartan Room. The interactive workshop with Brenda J. Allen, professor of communication and associate dean at the University of Colora...
September 13, 2011
The fourth annual Ubbelohde Lecture will be held Sept. 22 with Linda Colley, the Shelby MC Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Colley will discuss “Britain, the Written Constitution, and World History” in a lecture at Thwing Center’s 1914 Lounge. The free, public lecture begins ...
September 13, 2011
T. Kenny Fountain, assistant professor of ϳԹ’s Department of English, will kick off this year’s Baker-Nord Center for Humanities’ Faculty Work in Progress series with the talk “Affective Circuits: Networks of Feeling in the Flesh of New Media.” He addresses the emotional...
September 12, 2011
Habitat for Humanity will host its annual “Let’s Shack Up!” event on Friday, Sept. 16, on Freiberger Field. The event seeks to drive awareness about substandard housing issues, as teams of students build cardboard structures to sleep in over night. The most creative teams will win prizes.
Students ...
September 12, 2011
This year’s George B. & Elsa Golden Memorial Lecture will be “Israelis and Palestinians: The Possibilities for Peace,” featuring David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, and Ghaith Al-Omari, executive director of the ...
September 09, 2011
This year’s Constitution Day Forum, held Sept. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in the School of Law Moot Courtroom, will discuss “Same-sex Marriage and the Constitution.” The program will feature Mark Strasser, Trustees Professor of Law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, and George W. Dent Jr., Schott-va...
September 09, 2011
GradLink, a graduate student support group, will hold its first meeting of the semester Tuesday, Sept. 13, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Spartan Room at Thwing Center. Come eat pizza and share your thoughts and experiences about being a graduate student at ϳԹ. Connect wi...
September 08, 2011
This fall, ϳԹ will host BlueBash, a special kickoff to Homecoming and Alumni Weekend highlighting the university’s innovative community and featuring a concert by Goo Goo Dolls, presented by University Program Board.
BlueBash will be held Oct. 13 in Veale Convocation, R...
September 06, 2011
David Eltis and David Richardson, recipients of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for Atlas of the Transaltantic Slave Trade, will discuss new findings and new directions for future research in a Sept. 14 lecture, “Digital Scholarship and the African Diaspora.” Eltis is Robert W. Woo...