News
| Title | Date | About |
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| Acting Locally Scholar Mia DeNardi Featured by Miami Student News | Sun, 11/15/2009 - 13:39 | On Tuesday November 3rd Mia DeNardi presented her plan for an Amtrak station to ASG. Mia began the project in her urban planning class and has continued to work on it over the previous year and current semester in the Acting Locally program. ASG approved her effort to push for a station here in Oxford. |
| 2009 Ohio Civic Health Symposium- Tuesday November 11th | Wed, 11/04/2009 - 16:27 | The 2009 Ohio Civic Health Symposium will be held on Tuesday, 11.10.09 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. The symposium is a state-wide opportunity to connect with other community members, students, faculty and legislators about the current state of our civic participation in Ohio. |
| Social Action Center Recruiting for Student Organizations and Advisory Board members | Wed, 11/04/2009 - 15:46 |  Are you a member of a social justice-oriented service or activist student organization? Could you use extra resources, space, or Join the Social Action Center. Get connected with other groups on campus. |
| Liz Garrett Featured by the Hamilton Journal for her student mentoring program | Tue, 11/03/2009 - 16:21 |  On Tuesday Oct.27th Wilks Scholar Liz Garret discussed her 2010-2011 student mentoring program with the Hamilton City School District Board of Education. Her intent for the program is a community-wide program that would provide a one-on-one mentoring partnership with students in Hamilton’s middle schools and at MUH. Link: |
| Benjamin Walker and Mike Eilers Receive Provost Student Academic Achievement Award | Wed, 09/09/2009 - 16:22 |  On August 21st 2009 at the Bicentennial Convocation, nine students received the Provost Student Academic Achievement Award. The award is to recognize the students for outstanding academic achievement and notable contributions to the intellectual climate of Miami. Two of the winners, Benjamin Walker and Mike Eilers are Wilks Scholars in the Scholar Leader program. |
| Wilks Scholars Meet with Harry T Wilks at Pyramid Hill 8/29 | Fri, 09/04/2009 - 13:37 |  On August the 29th the Wilks Scholars and staff traveled to Pyramid Hill for a day of team building. Pyramid Hill is a public sculpture park in Hamilton, where Harry T Wilks displays his sculpture collection on a vast campus of 265 acres. Mr.Wilks also resides on the campus in his home that he designed himself. |
| High School Engagement Program hosts spring retreat at MU Oxford | Tue, 05/12/2009 - 11:40 |  Local high school students gathered for a day of leadership discussion and skill-building on the Oxford campus on Friday, April 24, 2009. |
| Wilks Scholars for Shaping Sustainable Communities selected for 2009-2011 | Fri, 05/01/2009 - 10:32 | Shaping Sustainable Communities, a two-year minor that will extend classroom learning about community planning and environmental sustainability into the surrounding region of Butler County, Ohio, has now accepted 20 students for the first round of the program. |
| Former Wilks Scholars win 2009 Charles J. Ping Student Awards | Fri, 05/01/2009 - 09:53 | Three of the four Miami University students receiving the 2009 Charles J. Ping Award presented by Ohio Campus Compact (OCC) are being recognized for their stellar work in the Acting Locally program. |
| Wilks Community Assistants- Now Accepting Applications!! | Wed, 04/15/2009 - 11:44 | The Wilks Leadership Institute is accepting applications for full-year student employment (09-10). We are excited to offer three positions to engaged and enthusiastic students interested in working and learning in an office dedicated to implementing public leadership initiatives across campus. |
| Scholar Leader applications : Deadline Extended! | Thu, 01/15/2009 - 12:34 |  Deadline Extended to Jan 23! The Scholar Leader program is a residential living-learning program involving a one-year residence in Elliott or Stoddard Halls. Endowments for each room provide scholarships to those students selected to live in the community. The Scholar Leader community offers the opportunity to explore leadership through intensive student-led initiatives. You can apply for the Scholar Leader program using the Common Leadership Application: click here Learn more about the Scholar Leader program elsewhere on our website |
| Wilks Scholar Jessica Reading nominated for USA Today All-College Team | Wed, 01/14/2009 - 12:12 | Jessica Reading, a member of the first cohort of Wilks Scholars and now a Community Assistant for the second cohort, is Miami University's nominee for the USA Today All-College Team. |
| Brett Roeth, Scholar Leader, elected AIAS Vice President | Wed, 01/14/2009 - 11:58 | Congratulations to Scholar Leader Brett Roeth, who has been elected as the 2009-2010 national vice president for the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)! |
| Three Wilks Scholars receive President's Distinguished Service Awards | Tue, 07/01/2008 - 23:36 | Wilks Scholars Amy Weber, John Obrycki, and Whittney Barth joined 18 other graduates in receiving President's Distinguished Service Awards, recognizing their 'extraordinary service in and outside of the campus community'. |
| High School Engagement Program - Spring 2008 | Tue, 05/06/2008 - 00:00 | This past year, the High Engagement Program adopted a new format. Students from Talawanda and Hamilton high schools came to Miami in the fall of 2007. Throughout this past year we visited the high schools to discuss issues that matter to them and their community-including school funding, climate and the need for spaces for students to have dialogue. |
| Wilks Scholar's 'Partners for Change' program sustains Acting Locally initiative | Wed, 04/30/2008 - 21:14 | Wilks Scholar Jessica Reading created the Partners for Change initiative in order to build more relationships between Latino business owners in Hamilton and Miami students. |
| Wilks Institute sponsors Alternative Spring Break trip | Wed, 03/12/2008 - 00:00 | The Wilks Institute supported students who traveled to the Dominican Republic as part of a Spring Break trip. |
| Harry T Wilks appointed to Board of Trustees | Thu, 01/31/2008 - 01:00 | Harry T. Wilks, whose $5 million gift led to the creation of the Wilks Institute, was appointed to a 9-year term on the Miami University Board of Trustees. |
| Acting Locally profiled in Miami Student | Sun, 01/20/2008 - 12:07 | The Wilks Institute's Acting Locally program received a full page writeup in the Miami Student's January 18 edition. |
| Wilks Scholars featured in Op-Ed | Fri, 01/18/2008 - 01:00 | The Hamilton Journal-News editorial profiled students involved in the Acting Locally program on January 14, commending the students' work to relieve tensions between Hamilton's Hispanic residents and other members of the Hamilton community. |