Honors
Colloquium
The Honors Program sponsors
an annual seminar presented by a speaker of national, regional or local
renown. Topics and speakers are selected by the Buckeye Scholars and the
OSU Lima faculty. Thus, Honors students have a direct influence on the
quality of academic life at OSU Lima.
Some of the people that have presented at the Honors Colloquium are:
Dr. Thomas Postlewait, Professor in
the Department of Theatre and 2006 University Distinguished Scholar,
The Ohio State University ,
"Bernard Shaw’s
Theatre: The Paradoxical Pleasures of Sexual and Political
Triangles"
May 18, 2006
Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson,
Professor of Geography and Senior Research Scientist in the Byrd
Polar Research Center at The Ohio State University.
"Unique Insights to the Earth's Climate History Preserved in its
Cryosphere."
February 24, 2006
Dr. Jeffrey K. McKee, Dept. of Anthropology and Biology, Ohio
State University
“Sparing Nature: The
conflict between human population growth and Earth’s biodiversity”
Dr. William Garrett Piston, Dept. of History, SW Missouri State
University
“The Civil War’s
Most Controversial Soldier: Confederate General James Longstreet”
Dr. C. Ronald Huff, School of Public Policy, Ohio State
University
“The Criminal Behavior of Gangs”
Dr. Allison Gilmore, Dept. of
History, Ohio State University at Lima
“The Allied Propaganda War against Japan
in the Southwest Pacific”
