Science Cafe
Science Cafe Series
Join us Wednesdays at 5:00 pm at the Ohio University Baker Center Front Room for a topical discussion hosted by guest faculty speaker. Science Cafés and Café Conversations are venues for students to informally share their interests with faculty presenters, staff, and the community in a friendly setting.
Science Cafe
Fall Semester 2018
Sept 19: Scott Moody, Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, Athens, OH 240 Years Ago: A Natural History, video
Oct 3: Ronan Carroll, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Vaccine Denial: Facts and Fiction, video
Oct 17: Natalie Daniels, Associate Professor, Voinovich School, The Long Road to Recovery from Coal Mining, video
Nov 14: Sarah Wyatt, Env. & Plant Biology, Plant Gravity Perception: from Earth to International Space Station, video
Dec 5: Julie Suhr, Professor, Psychology, Detecting Deception, video
Spring Semester 2019
Jan 23: Doug Clowe, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy, A Dark and Lonely Place: Dark Energy and the Future of the Universe, video
Feb. 6: Lawrence Witmer, Professor, HCOM -BioMedical Sciences, Digital Dinosaurs-Fleshing Out the Past, video
Feb. 20: OHIO Museum Complex, TBD, video
March 6: Ryan Chornock, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, TBD, video
March 27: Jacqueline Wolf, Professor, HCOM Social Medicine, TBD, video
April 3: John Kopchick, Distinguished Professor & Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar Biomedical Sciences, HCOM, TBD, video
April 10: Deborah McAvoy, Civil Engineering, TBD, video
Cafe Conversations
Fall Semester 2018
Sept 26: Laeeq Khan, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Studies, Competing with Data Analytics in a Social World, video
Oct. 24: Julie Paxton, Professor, Economics, The Economics of Kindness, video
Spring Semester 2019
Rescheduled Feb. 13: Julie Owens, Psychology, Community-engaged Research: Why It Matters, video