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The seven women whose eclectic artworks will fill Ohio Wesleyan University’s Richard M. Ross Art Museum beginning this month all have lived and worked in central Ohio – but their roots and influences stretch across the nation and around the world.
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Ohio Wesleyan University today announced its March 2013 lineup of public events.
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The Five Colleges of Ohio consortium – which includes Ohio Wesleyan University – is being recognized in a new report by the Ohio EPA’s Office of Environmental Education highlighting “outstanding” grant projects to improve environmental health and safety.
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Performance artist Tim Miller’s one-man show “Glory Box” has been described as a “funny, sexy, and politically charged exploration” of the marriage and immigration issues faced by gay and lesbian men and women who have partners from other countries. Miller will perform “Glory Box” (the Australian term for hope chest) at 8 p.m. Feb....
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Ohio Wesleyan University will host Natasha Trethewey, America’s current poet laureate and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, at 7 p.m. Feb. 20.
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Ohio Wesleyan University’s Classics Club will host a free lecture Feb. 27 by Katharina Volk, Ph.D., associate professor of classics at Columbia University.
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On Feb. 22, Ohio Wesleyan University will host acoustic guitarist and recording artist David Burgess, a musician whose live performances have been described as “hauntingly beautiful.”
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The C-SPAN Bus, a 45-foot interactive multimedia learning center, will visit Ohio Wesleyan University from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 12 to highlight the cable television network’s original new series, “First Ladies: Influence and Image.”
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Ohio Wesleyan University’s Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program will host celebrated medieval scholar Steven F. Kruger on Feb. 21 to discuss “Institutional Time and the Time of Conversion.”
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Following a nationwide search, Ohio Wesleyan University has appointed Charles L. Stinemetz, Ph.D., as provost. Stinemetz was serving as interim provost prior to this appointment.
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Ohio Wesleyan University will hold its second annual Environmental and Natural Resource Symposium on Feb. 19. This year’s panelists will dive into water-related issues.
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In a new paper, Ohio Wesleyan faculty member Chris Wolverton and a group of Ohio Wesleyan students examine how soil phosphate levels impact the growth of lateral roots. Their study, “Low Phosphate Alters Lateral Root Setpoint Angle and Gravitropism,” appears in the January edition of the American Journal of Botany.
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Ohio Wesleyan University alumna and internationally renowned photographer JoAnn Verburg is featured in a new segment of “Minnesota Original,” in which she discusses her take on the nature of art and photography.
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Through his teaching, writing, and speaking, Ohio Wesleyan University alumnus and retired Harvard University professor Ezra F. Vogel, Ph.D., has endeavored to build bridges between the Far East and America. With his latest gift to Ohio Wesleyan, Vogel is helping to ensure that future generations of scholars and leaders are able to maintain and...
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Steve Drongowski, former CEO of one of Central Ohio’s largest advertising and public relations agencies, will discuss 2013 Super Bowl advertising and marketing when he presents “Winners... Losers... and Why” on Feb. 7 at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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“My colleagues and I currently are learning a powerful lesson in collegiality from our students,” Ohio Wesleyan University President Rock Jones tells writer Maria Shine Stewart for the latest edition of her recurring Inside Higher Ed column, “A Kinder Campus.”
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