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10/18/2019
Former president of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbayeva explores socio-political relations at 2019 annual Havighurst Center Lecture
Miami University students, faculty, and alumni gathered in the Wilks Theater on Wednesday, October 9 to listen to the 2019 annual Havighurst Lecture, given by Roza Otunbayeva, former president of Kyrgyzstan (2010-2011). Otunbayeva spoke on her career and the political, social, and economic environments of Kyrgyzstan
10/17/2019
Students from around the country conduct research at Miami
Miami sophomore zoology major Ty Cooley searches for amphibians at Shaker Trace Wetlands in Harrison, OhioThey ventured from Iowa, North Carolina, Puerto Rico and other communities to study at Miami University during the summer as part of the NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.
10/17/2019
10-17-19 Weekly Three
Topics include: announcement of Interim Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, details about the HERI Survey, and reminders about midterm grades, the Graduate Research Forum, President Crawford's annual address and open enrollment for benefits
10/15/2019
25 years of ecosystem research on Acton Lake supported by NSF
Long-term research on Acton Lake has involved more than 100 students over the past 25 years. Left to right: Kevin Lash ('16, M.S. '18) and doctoral student Tanner Williamson in 2015; Jessica Gephart (Miami '11) and Claire Meikle ('14) in 2011; and Williamson, Tessa Farthing , graduate student, Izzy Aristizabal, senior, and Claire Stock, junior, in 2019. The NSF Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) grant provides $634,999 over the next five years. It is the only LTREB project currently funded in Ohio.
10/15/2019
Miami Students Lead Multicultural English-language Learning Camp in Luxembourg
Not often do you find yourself teaching the daughter of the Minister of Education for an entire European nation. But in Luxembourg this summer, that happened for Cara Severson, a Miami University senior studying early childhood education (ECE).
10/14/2019
Music and the Art of Collaboration
The Miami string faculty hosted violinist Annie Fullard in October for three days.
10/14/2019
Political scientist uses a classic jazz song to contextualize the horrific, public "spectacle" of lynching
On September 26, Miami's Department of Philosophy hosted Melvin Rogers, an associate professor of political science at Brown University, to give its annual Harris Memorial Lecture. The title of his talk was "The Spectacle of Lynching Redeployed: On the Performance of Democratic Regard"
10/11/2019
Dan Darkow Receives the Lydia Block Rising Star Award
Dan Darkow, coordinator in the Miller Center for Student Disability Services, was recently awarded the Ohio Association for Higher Education and Disability’s Dr. Lydia Block Rising Star Award.
10/11/2019
Miami's Bioengineering Program prepares students for success
Since the 2014-2015 academic year, Miami has nearly quadrupled the number of students graduating with their Bachelor’s degree in this major as of last academic year (2017-2018), with an overall success rate of about 91%.
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