I was very excited to join Oglethorpe and have a chance to reintroduce computer science courses to our curriculum. My main goal is to help develop and implement a computer science minor (with a major being a longer-term goal). Such a minor program existed in the past but ceased. Computer science courses were offered again […]
by Chloey Mayo ’10 Moscow, Russia is not known as a spring break hot-spot. Nevertheless, a group of Oglethorpe students, led by Dr. Ronald Bobroff, Russian historian and professor of Modern European History, journeyed this year to Moscow to spend their spring break working in one of the city’s many children’s homes. Through a partnership […]
On the weekend of November 4-6, Ashley Causey ’14, Tirzah Brown ’14, Keturah Thomas ’13, and I all lugged our (overly-packed) luggage and our Oglethorpian minds up to Charlotte, N.C. for the 2011 Amnesty International Southern Regional Conference. Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million people, in more than 150 countries, […]
Earlier this fall, five Oglethorpe University psychology majors submitted research projects for presentation at the 58th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) in New Orleans in spring 2012. All submissions to this professional conference are peer-reviewed by faculty experts in their respective fields. As is always the case with Oglethorpe psychology majors, they did not […]
The OU Career Center recently hosted a Dress for Success event for students in the OU Museum of Art. “Career Services, with the help of the Student Government Association, created this event to give students a chance to jump start their professional wardrobe. The goal of the event was to help students understand that professional attire […]
The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 was an event of epochal significance. It not only changed the existing world order, it also had a deep impact on the people who lived in East Germany. Tonight, Oglethorpe students and others will have the opportunity to hear an eye-witness account of the events that […]
This past month the German classes at Oglethorpe were invited to tour the Atlanta Goethe Zentrum, a center that promotes the German language and culture in the U.S., as well as other countries around the world. The tour featured a modern and very popular subject: comics! We learned about many prominent and well received—and some so not well known—German comic artists. […]
The OU Blog recently caught up with the cast and director of Bard’s Best!, a collaboration between Georgia Shakespeare and the OU Theatre Program that stars a versatile company of six actors performing Shakespeare’s greatest hits. Favorite selections from the Bard’s most beloved plays leap from the page onto the Oglethorpe stage including Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, As You […]
Here at the OU Blog, we’ve heard plenty of stories of students traveling all over the world to enhance their OU education. Most explore places like England, Spain, and plenty of places in Asia—but a student studying archaeology in Turkey? That’s a new one for us! Meet Katherine Harkleroad ’12. She is an art history major […]
Most people could only dream of having a job that is the perfect blend of business and pleasure, but this summer rising senior Beth Cleary ’12 got to experience just that. Beth just finished a one-of-a-kind internship with the Atlanta Track Club, a job that seemed made for her. An avid distance runner, Beth worked at the […]