CAS Faculty Claim 6 Mentor Awards

Please join us in congratulating six faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences for being recognized by the Board of Trustees with a Mentor Award! Mentor Award recipients are nominated by a student and are selected by a committee of Board members via a blind review process.

Congratulations to:

• Dr. Dolly Crawford, Biology
• Dr. Jeff Weidenhamer, Chemistry
• Dr. Mark Rubin, Criminal Justice
• Dr. Stefan Swanson, Music
• Dr. Iyad Ajwa, Computer Science
• Dr. David Aune, Religion

Two French Films Remain

The Tournées Film Festival at Ashland University concludes this week with two more French film screenings showing on Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Ronk Lecture Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

On Jan. 28, Mes Provinciales (A Paris Education) is Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s fresh spin on a time-honored narrative tradition. The audience follows the life of aspiring filmmaker and university student Etienne Tinan, using the time-honored themes of solitude, devotion, hope and hopelessness.

The series concludes on Jan. 29 with 2018’s Tazzeka, which also is the name of the Moroccan village that is home to Elias, an aspiring chef who finds nothing is what he imagined when he leaves his hometown for the roaring traffic of Paris.

Art Faculty Exhibition Opens 1/23

The AU Art and Design faculty exhibition opens Thursday, Jan. 23 at 4:30 p.m. with a free/public reception and continues through Feb 23, featuring the work of Cynthia Petry, Keith Dull, Priscilla Roggenkamp, Dan McDonald and Michael Bird. This annual event highlights the works of the current faculty members as professional artists exhibiting in their prospective areas. Read more at news.ashland.edu

OSU Prof. to Detail His Work on Improving Local Air Quality Measurements

Dr. Andrew May, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic  Engineering at The Ohio State University, will present details about his work in improving the measurements of local air quality on Thursday, Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Ronk Lecture Hall. The event is presented as part of the Environmental Lecture Series and the College of Arts & Sciences' biennial Symposium Against Indifference which are both focusing on the theme of "Liberty and Responsibility." The event is free and open to the public. More info at cas-symposium.blogspot.com

Ashland to Host OPCICA Honors Festival

The Department of Music is honored to host the 2020 Ohio Private College Instrumental Conductors Association (OPCICA) Honors Festival culminating with a free, public concert on Sunday, Jan. 19 at 1:30 p.m. in Hugo Young Theatre. The 2020 OPCICA Festival is organized by the association's president, John Packard (Mount Vernon Nazarene University), along with the local hosts from Ashland University, Joseph Lewis and Dr. Scott Garlock. Read more at ashlanduniversitymusic.blogspot.com

Call for 2020 URCA: Workshop 1/21 | Abstracts Due 1/31 | Symposium 4/15

The Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the 11th Annual College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (URCA) Symposium. Students who wish to present at the Symposium should contact a College of Arts and Sciences faculty member who can act as a faculty sponsor. When the project is ready, the student should work with the faculty sponsor to prepare an abstract and submit it to the URCA Symposium Committee by 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.

The URCA Symposium committee will hold an abstract writing workshop on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Patterson 324 to assist students in polishing their abstracts.

The 2020 Symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. See the full details at ashlandurca.blogspot.com.

Tournées Film Festival Returns for 6th Year

Ashland University’s Department of Foreign Languages will host a Tournées Film Festival in January featuring five recent French films and one classic film. The festival, which is free and open to the public, will take place each evening at 7 p.m. on Jan. 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and 29 in the Ronk Lecture Hall in the Schar College of Education.

The festival, which is presented in collaboration with Ashland University’s College of Arts and Sciences, was made possible by a grant from the French-American Cultural Exchange received by Dr. Richard Gray, associate professor of foreign languages, who organized the festival. Gray is the only professor in the Midwest to have received this grant six of the last seven years. Read more at news.ashland.edu

Byndas Passes Actuarial Exam 5

Michael Byndas, a 2017 Actuarial Science graduate, passed the Casualty Actuarial Society's Exam 5. Byndas is only one exam away from being ACAS designated. Congratulations, Michael!

Kirkus names APP to "Best Indie Poetry of 2019"

KIRKUS REVIEW named Ashland Poetry Press Publication Save Our Ship by Barbara Ungar as one of their "Best Indie Poetry of 2019" selections.

A collection of 57 poems that sound alarms about current ecological, political, and cultural trends. Read more at englishatashland.blogspot.com