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Each year since 1970, millions of people all over the country have celebrated Earth Day on April 22. Around the same time of year for over 15 years, the Oxford and Miami University communities have celebrated EarthFest, a festival celebrating community and collaboration between local environmental groups and businesses.
Spring break in college has taken on something of a legendary status in our culture. It’s a time to get out of the cold and crappy weather on campus and catch some rays on a beach littered with White Claws and High Noons. If you’re cool enough, you may even be able to spend some time partying with cool frat dudes and sorority gals.
The Donald W. Fritz Pavilion was crowded with students and faculty eagerly anticipating a lecture at 5 p.m. on April 4 from an acclaimed creative nonfiction professor from Brown University. This speaker was the eighth speaker of Miami’s 2023/2024 Altman Program in the Humanities, which this school year has followed a theme of environmental justice.
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ll have heard about the solar eclipse on April 8. And if you are even somewhat connected to the happenings around Oxford and Miami University, you’ll have seen plenty of eclipse-related events being advertised.
A lone bald eagle soars out of trees against a deep gray sky, high above a restored prairie full of legumes and big bluestem. A vintage but functional weather station creaks nearby, and in the distance, a red barn sits on the edge of a large grassy field dotted with vegetation plots.
Warmer weather has made its way to Oxford as spring awaits just around the corner. With several days of warm weather in late February, Miami students and Oxford residents have taken advantage of the many trails scattered throughout the town and campus.
It’s that time of year again. Handshake and LinkedIn are sending out barrages of emails with positions, professors are announcing opportunities for students to apply and the Career Center is holding its plethora of workshops.
At the end of a hallway decorated with frames and canvas, natural light streams in from floor-to-ceiling windows, a fitting illumination for a gallery filled with artwork reflecting the natural world on the other side of the glass.
“When do you head back to school?”
After six weeks off, Miami University students have once again made the journey back to Oxford for another semester. Students tough out the first several weeks of cold weather, wet conditions and windy days until the spring. The coming of spring brings warm weather and the blooming of plants, a reminder of the resiliency of the natural environment.
Thanksgiving break has come and gone, and the holiday season is now in full swing. Miami University students have just three weeks until the end of the fall semester and a return home for winter break.
Beginning on Nov. 18, the Miami Natural Areas will be open to deer hunting, a continuation of the deer management plan first implemented in 2022.
Yellow, orange and red, the colors synonymous with the fall season. Every year Mother Nature puts on a stunning display of colors, one last “hoorah” before the trees go dormant for the winter.
Walking along Western College Drive toward Peabody Hall, a small path cuts across the lawn before reaching a small hollow of land up against Western Woods, the site of Miami’s Ernst Nature Theatre. The aroma of freshly turned dirt, fallen leaves and Domino’s pizza fills the air as students prepare to begin planting 2,000 individual plants.
An audience full of Miami University staff, faculty and students listened as President Greg Crawford presented during the most recent State of the University address on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Among the topics discussed were Miami’s sustainability initiatives and the updates to the Climate Action Plan.
Miami University President Greg Crawford shared the challenges facing Miami and higher education, updated the community on recruitment initiatives and highlighted the achievements of faculty and students at his State of the University Address Oct. 3.
Southwest Ohio is a region rich in fertile agricultural land fed by dozens of streams that crisscross the landscape, with pockets of protected forest and grassland reminiscent of pre-settlement ecosystems dotting the map. Behind hundreds of plots and thousands of protected acres is the Three Valley Conservation Trust, a non-profit with deep ties to the Oxford community.
A packed lecture hall full of Miami University students and faculty listened intently Thursday night as a world leader on solutions for climate change offered hope for a better future amid the chaos of climate doomism that plagues the conversation today.
Ohio is notorious for having extreme seasons, both hot and cold. In the summer, the average high temperature across the state ranges in the low to mid-80s. This summer, however, Ohioans may have noticed something different.
Throughout our lives, we are told to grow up. This is college. It’s time to find that internship, update your resume and make a LinkedIn. There are so many things we must do to act like adults, and preparing for the “real world” becomes less fun. When you look at life from the perspective of tasks that must be completed, people that must be pleased, and have a no-nonsense attitude. Life can sound quite boring.