Community of Scholars

The “Community of Scholars Seminar Series” is an interdisciplinary research talks series formerly known as “Griffin Seminars”. The seminar series aims to offer opportunities to Ohio State Marion faculty and students to deliver professional talks on their research or other academic activities. The function of the seminar series is to foster an atmosphere of collegiality and interdisciplinary discussions on topics of interest to Ohio State Marion faculty and students. The seminar will be offered during spring semester. Students are particularly encouraged to attend.

Our next Community of Scholars Seminar

Thursday, March 23rd, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200

English Lecturer, Sue Oakes
Topic: Reading a Place of Memory: The Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania

 

The Community of Scholars Seminar Series Schedule for Spring Semester 2023

Tuesday, January 17th, 12:30 p.m. in the Science & Engineering Building, Room 205

Student Researcher, Zane Nelson
Topic: Protein-Protein Interaction of HIRA; chromosomal remodeling protein
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Renee Bouley

Student Researcher, Michela Writesel
Topic: The purification and antibiotic inhibition of L,d Transpeptidase in Enterobacter cloacae
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Renee Bouley


Tuesday, January 24th, 12:30 p.m. in Morrill Hall, Room 200

Professor of English, Ben McCorkle
Topic: 100 Years of New Media Pedagogy: Writing a Disciplinary History using Data Visualizations and Multimodal Production


Monday, January 30th, 12:30 p.m. in Science & Engineering Building, Room 205

Student Researcher: Twyla Gray
Topic: How stressors affect bumble bee health: synergistic and individual effects of fungicides and gut parasites
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Frances Sivakoff

Student Researcher: Kim Hardison
Topic: KAT5 histone acetyltransferase mutations in cancer cells
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ruben Petreaca


Monday, February 6th, 12:30 p.m. in Morrill Hall, Room 200

Dean & Director, Associate Professor of Geography, Greg Rose
Topic: African Americans in the Old Northwest by 1850


Monday, February 13th, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200

Professor of Mathematics, Aurel Stan
Topic: Some inequalities about means and norms
Abstract: The H¨older and Stolarsky means of two positive numbers will be introduced first. Some inequalities among these means will be presented next. We end the talk with some inequalities about norms of Wick products.


Monday, February 20th, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200

Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Parisa Fatheddin
Topic: Applications of mathematics in cyber security, Google search engines and laser technology


Wednesday, March 1st, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200

Student Researcher, Sharon Gattshall
Topic: Without a Voice, The Trial of Bill Anderson and His Fight for Freedom at the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement in Marion, Ohio, 1839


Monday, March 6th, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200

Student Researcher, Dallas White (working with Associate Professor of History, Margaret Sumner)
Topic: Marion Women and the World War II Homefront: Research Discoveries in the Marion Women's Club Archives


Thursday, March 23rd, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200

English Lecturer, Sue Oakes
Topic: Reading a Place of Memory: The Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania


Tuesday, March 28th, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200

Associate Professor of Psychology, Program Coordinator, Nikole Patson
Topic: Misconceptions about language: How prejudice shows up in our linguistic “knowledge”


Tuesday, April 4th, 12:30 p.m., Science and Engineering Building, Room 205

Student researchers, Shayaan Rasheed and Maria Ruano
Topic: Investigating the inhibition of PRMT5 through biochemical and computational approaches


Thursday, April 13th, 12:30 p.m., Morrill Hall, Room 200

Student researchers, Molly Quinn and Stephanie Karrick (Patson lab)
Topic: Exact or approximate? How number information is represented during language comprehension


Monday, April 17th, Science and Engineering Building, Room 205

Assistant Professor/Computer Science and Engineering, Program Coordinator, Gol Mirzaei
Topic: Disease detection using