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10/24/2019
Museums Miami Center brings entities under one umbrella
Michael Hatch, assistant professor of art history, discusses a print piece with a student, while Robert Wicks, director of the Miami University Art Museum, talks to another student in the class at the art museum.Miami's seven museums and museum-like entities have joined forces under one umbrella organization, the Museums Miami Center. The Council of Academic Deans approved the request to establish the interdisciplinary university center.
10/14/2019
Miami/CAS and Cincinnati Museum Center to present "Art, Nature and You!"
On October 19 from noon to 2pm, professors from Miami University's College of Arts and Science will return to Cincinnati Museum Center for their ever-popular interactive gallery talks. This time, their goal will be to highlight the intersection of art and science in the natural world
10/09/2019
Inside London broadens students' understanding of UK mass media
Miami's 6-week summer Inside London program integrates students of various majors through a combined online and study abroad trip, exposing students to the communications industry of the United Kingdom. The trip is offered through the Department of Media, Journalism & Film (MJF), under the supervision of chair and professor Bruce Drushel, who introduced the program in 2008
10/08/2019
Reframe: Episode 63
The Trouble with Mascots
10/07/2019
Empathy and the Religious "Enemy": Miami students conduct interviews with Westboro Baptist Church members
This past summer, sophomore Alexa Lawhorn and senior Sofia Vlahakos travelled to Topeka, Kansas for 5 days with assistant teaching professor of comparative religion Hillel Gray to meet and interview members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church (WBC)
10/04/2019
Dr. J Andrew Jones is published in his research on production of psilocybin
Dr. J. Andrew Jones, Ph.D, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical, Paper and Biomedical Engineering, has been published in the Metabolic Engineering journal for his latest work in the production of the psychoactive compound psilocybin through engineered bacteria.
10/01/2019
Why Public Health is About Far More than Diet and Exercise
When we talk about health and wellness, we often talk about what people eat, how they move, and the personal choices they make. These factors are certainly part of the story. But they are not the whole story.
09/27/2019
Miami hosts summer Chemistry Education Research Conference
In a display of Miami's dedication to professional education and development, the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry hosted the fifth Chemistry Education Research (CER) Graduate Student & Post-Doctoral Professional Development Conference this past summer
09/25/2019
Distinguished Educator Award winner Lynette Hudiburgh cautions how statistics in the media can be misleading
Lynette Hudiburgh, a prestigious Miami statistics lecturer, is the recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award from the College of Arts and Science. She gave her lecture, "Statistics: Confused, Misused, and Abused, or How to Avoid Being Swept Away in the Data Deluge" on Tuesday, September 17 in front of a full Upham Hall classroom