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Ohio Wesleyan University Graduates Class of 2013

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May 12, 2013
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Internet technology pioneer and 1961 Ohio Wesleyan University graduate George H. Conrades borrowed some advice from another successful OWU alumnus when Conrades delivered the keynote address May 12 at Ohio Wesleyan’s 169thcommencement ceremony.
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Ohio Wesleyan Alumnus Louis A. Simpson Endows Fund for OWU’s Woltemade Center for Econmics, Business and Entrepreneurship

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May 9, 2013
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Louis A. Simpson is investing in his college alma mater and its faculty – contributing $2 million to Ohio Wesleyan University to benefit the school’s Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship.
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Ohio Wesleyan Professor’s Novel Noted in New York Times’ Bestseller List

Robert Olmstead

It’s one for the books this week for Ohio Wesleyan University’s Robert Olmstead. Make that two.
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Ohio Wesleyan to Celebrate 169th Commencement Ceremony May 12

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May 1, 2013
Zeke Brechtel, president of the Ohio Wesleyan Class of 2013, will speak May 12 during the university’s 169th commencement ceremony. (Photo by John Holliger)

Members of the Ohio Wesleyan University Class of 2013 will gather together with family and friends at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 12, to celebrate their graduation and to hear words of inspiration and advice from 1961 OWU alumnus George H. Conrades.
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Ohio Wesleyan Student Documentaries Examine Delaware’s Economy

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April 30, 2013
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Students in Ohio Wesleyan University’s “Geographies of the Global Economy” course will screen and discuss five films they produced examining Delaware’s economic and geographic issues during a free public event at 7 p.m. May 7 at the Strand Theater, 28 E. Winter St., Delaware.
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Evolutionary Biologist to Discuss ‘Earth on Life’

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April 22, 2013
Olivia Judson, Ph.D.

Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson, Ph.D., author of “Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex,” will speak April 25 at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Ohio Wesleyan Featured in Princeton Review’s ‘Guide to 322 Green Colleges’

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April 18, 2013
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Ohio Wesleyan University is one of the 322 most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and Canada, according to The Princeton Review’s new “Guide to 322 Green Colleges.”
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Ohio Wesleyan to be Featured in Indian Reality TV Show

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April 17, 2013
(Image courtesy of U.S. Consulate General Mumbai and Channel V)

Ohio Wesleyan has been chosen as one of three universities in the United States to host a weeklong visit from “College Hunt, USA,” a reality television show produced jointly by the U.S. Consulate General Mumbai and Channel V.
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Noted Classics Scholar to Speak at Ohio Wesleyan

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April 11, 2013
Serena Connolly, Ph.D. (Photo courtesy of Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences)

Ohio Wesleyan University’s Classics Club is sponsoring a presentation by Serena Connolly, Ph.D., associate professor of classics at Rutgers University. Connolly will discuss “Romans and Friends in the Distichs of Cato” when she speaks at 4:15 p.m. April 17 in Room 009 of Sturges Hall, 85 S. Sandusky St., Delaware.
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Ohio Wesleyan Receives Gift to Aid Students Seeking Post-Graduate Fellowships

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April 11, 2013
Jan W. Baran ’70. (Photo courtesy of Wiley Rein LLP)

Ohio Wesleyan University today announced the receipt of a significant gift to create an endowed fund to support students planning to pursue post-graduate fellowships after earning their OWU diplomas.
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Ohio Wesleyan University Announces May Public Events

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April 11, 2013
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Ohio Wesleyan University today announced its May 2013 lineup of public events.
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Ohio Wesleyan Dancers, Choreographers Explore What It Means ‘To Be Human’

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April 10, 2013
Ohio Wesleyan’s student dance company, Orchesis, will present ‘To Be Human’ in three performances April 26-28. The company includes Lauren Holler of Cleveland and Jordan Ahmed of Winchester, Mass. (Photo by Ryan Haddad ’14)

Ohio Wesleyan University’s student dance company, Orchesis, will explore the theme “To Be Human,” when 19 dancers perform nine dances created by student, faculty, and guest choreographers.
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Ohio Wesleyan Art Majors Share ‘Marks Made’ in Special Exhibit

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April 9, 2013
Ohio Wesleyan's senior fine arts majors -- including Danielle Muzina of Cleveland, Ohio -- display their creations in 'Marks Made.' The Ross Art Museum exhibit opens with a public reception April 13. (Photo by Kathleen Dalton '13)

The Ohio Wesleyan University students displaying artworks in “Marks Made,” the 2013 senior art show, describe their art as part of themselves. They have a compelling need to create, express, and share the beauty of the world around them.
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Ohio Wesleyan Student Awarded National Goldwater Scholarship

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April 8, 2013
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Ohio Wesleyan University student Mary Ann Lee of Decatur, Ga., has been named a 2013-2014 Goldwater Scholar by the national Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
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Article by Ohio Wesleyan Faculty Member Distributed at National Conference

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April 8, 2013
Gulimina Mahamuti, D.M.A. (Photo by John Holliger)

An article by Ohio Wesleyan University part-time faculty member Gulimina Mahamuti, D.M.A., has been published in the March/April issue of the leading piano pedagogy journal in the United States, Clavier Companion, which was distributed by the journal’s publisher and the Music Teachers National Association to every participant at the 2013 MTNA National Conference in...
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Ohio Wesleyan to Celebrate Branch Rickey-Jackie Robinson Legacy Immortalized in New Film Starring Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman

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April 4, 2013
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Ohio Wesleyan University will celebrate the release of the national feature film “42” with a series of campus and community events commemorating the Branch Rickey-Jackie Robinson legacy – a historic collaboration that ended racial segregation in Major League Baseball and helped set the stage for the U.S. Civil Rights movement.
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‘America’s Sputnik Moments’

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April 4, 2013
Sean Kay

Ohio Wesleyan University professor and global security expert Sean Kay, Ph.D., says America’s “failure to adjust to repeated shocks to the system” – such as the 9/11 attacks, financial collapse of 2008, and 2011 Arab Spring – has led to “strategic paralysis at a key moment of systemic international change.”
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Ohio Wesleyan Students to Host TEDx Event

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April 3, 2013
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Ohio Wesleyan University’s TEDxOWU group will hold a spring conference April 13 to discuss “Into the Uncharted Future.” The event will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. April 13 with all presentations streamed live online at StreamOWU.
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Political Science Professor, Author to Discuss Immigration at Ohio Wesleyan

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April 3, 2013
Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Ph.D. (Photo courtesy of the University of North Texas)

Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Ph.D., professor of political science at the University of North Texas, will discuss “Who Are These Immigrants? What Do We Do About Them?” at 7:30 p.m. April 16 at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Ohio Wesleyan to Host Rice University Professor, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

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April 2, 2013
Michael W. Deem, Ph.D. (Photo courtesy of Phi Beta Kappa)

Michael W. Deem, the John W. Cox Professor in Bioengineering and a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, will discuss “Evolution in the Bacterial, Archaeal, and Jawed Vertebrate Immune Systems” in a free Science Lecture Series discussion April 4 at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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