Join us for a month-long menstrual product drive to support students on campus by providing free period products. We’re accepting any unopened menstrual products (pads, tampons, liners, etc.) or monetary donations via the QR code.
Donation drop-off locations:
On campus:
All residence halls
Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Office of Residence Life
Office of the Dean of Students
Jerome Library
Central Hall
The Oaks Social House
Carillon Place
Student Recreation Center
Off campus:
The Sanctuary Tattoo Studio
Murder Ink Tattoo Studio
Rock’em Sock’em Retro
Brewing Green
Call of the Canyon Café
Grounds for Thoughts
Get Inspired Nutrition
Sherwin Williams
Bens
If you’d like to meet earlier or have questions, contact beache@bgsu.edu. Monetary donations are accepted anytime.
Take a study break and join us for a fun surprise at the Radbill Center Community Table every Wednesday and Thursday, from noon to 2 p.m.
Questions? Email lifedesign@bgsu.edu
Please join the Department of History as we welcome distinguished historian Dr. Alan Taylor, who will present the Gary R. Hess Lecture in Policy History. His lecture is titled "Completing the Revolution: Western Expansion, Foreign Entanglements and Internal Conflicts, 1783-1796." The end of the War of the American Revolution provided the new United States with a vast western territory that was potentially either a windfall or a curse. To gain full control, the new nation felt driven to suppress Native nations and fend off their British and Spanish allies. During the 1780s, that struggle produced a crisis that nearly blew apart the tenuous union of the states and led to the push for a new constitution meant to endow the nation with the means to control and develop the West.
Alan Taylor is a distinguished American historian who earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University (1986) and has held prestigious professorships at Boston University, UC Davis, the University of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair), and Oxford University (Harmsworth Professor). He has authored twelve books on early American history, including William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic (1995) and The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia (2013), both of which won Pulitzer Prizes, and his 2021 work American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 received the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize.
His scholarship focuses on the Revolutionary era, frontier settlements, slavery, and the Civil War period. His latest book, released in September 2026, Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion, examines the context of Nat Turner's 1831 rebellion. Beyond his prolific research, Taylor has been deeply committed to education, advising California's K-12 history teachers for twelve years and earning multiple teaching awards. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has contributed to major public history projects, including serving as an advisor for Ken Burns's PBS documentary "The American Revolution," which began airing in the fall of 2025.
The Gary R. Hess Lecture in Policy History is an annual distinguished lecture initiated by Dr. Hess's former students to honor his 45 years of teaching, scholarship and service to BGSU. This lecture is presented by the Department of History.
Aug 27 – Dec 3 | Thursdays from 6:30 - 8:30 pm | BTSU 427
No session: November 26
🎮 Play Videos
🤝 Meet New People
✨ Rest & Recharge
Level-Up Your Self-Care is a weekly gaming program where students connect, relax, and recharge. Each session starts with a “High, Low, Buffalo” check-in, followed by casual video game play. It’s a fun, supportive space to build friendships, reduce stress, and boost well-being—one game at a time.
FREE and open to all faculty, staff, and students.
For More Information:
Office of Health & Wellness
wellness@bgsu.edu | 419-372-WELL (9355)
https://www.bgsu.edu/recwell/wellness-connection/well-being-programs/mindfulness.html
To individuals with disabilities, please indicate if you need special services, assistance, or appropriate modifications to fully participate in this event by contacting Accessibility Services, access@bgsu.edu, 419-372-8495. Please notify us prior to the event.
Guided by the astronauts themselves, visit and tour the International Space Station. See its construction, re-live the Apollo missions to the Moon, and visit future Moon colonies.
Public stargazing will follow evening shows, weather permitting.
$2 donation suggested for all planetarium shows. Doors close 5 minutes after published showtime.
The BGSU English Department hosts the Creative Writing Reading Series on most Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel. Listen to guest writers, BGSU faculty, MFA students, and BFA students read their original creative writing works. Join us as we welcome BGSU alum Lisa Slage Robinson, author of Esquire Ball: Stories from the Great Black Swamp (Black Lawrence Press, 2026).
Beginning with the discovery of Neptune from irregularities in the motion of Uranus, this show traces the evidence of vast amounts of dark, unseen matter that seems to be the dominant form of matter in galaxies and the Universe. What is this dark matter made of? Many efforts to unlock what dark matter may be are described.
Public stargazing will follow evening shows, weather permitting.
$2 donation suggested for all planetarium shows. Doors close 5 minutes after published showtime.
