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Newsbriefs, 7/16/09

Posted on | July 15, 2009 | 809 views |

OSU is still ‘Great College to Work For’
Ohio State has been recognized for the second year in a row as one of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For” (chronicle.com/free/2009/07/21438n.htm). The university ranked among the top 10 large four-year universities (over 10,000 enrollment) in three categories: Overall Satisfaction with Benefits, Health Insurance and Disability Insurance.
The results are based on responses from the more than 40,000 administrators, faculty and staff at the 247 institutions nationwide that completed the Chronicle survey.

Apply to become a ‘change agent’
The Ray Miller Institute for Change and Leadership is currently accepting applications for its fall class, to be held Oct. 5-Dec. 7. The Institute is open to anyone age 21 or older who has a desire to become a change agent within his or her community. Applications are available online at aaas.osu.edu/resources/aaascec and are due Aug. 17. The institute is presented by the Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center and the Office of Continuing Education. For more information, call 292-3922 or e-mail aaascec@osu.edu.

Nationwide Children’s named one of top kids’ hospitals in the country
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is once again ranked in US News & World Report’s 2009 edition of “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals,” published online at usnews.com/childrenshospitals and featured in the August issue of the magazine, available on newsstands July 21. This is the fourth consecutive year that Nationwide Children’s has been named to the prestigious list.

The 2009 list includes the top 30 ranked children’s hospitals in 10 pediatric specialties — cancer, diabetes and endocrine disorders, digestive disorders, heart and heart surgery, kidney disorders, neonatal care, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, respiratory disorders and urology. Nationwide Children’s ranked among the best in nine out of 10 categories including the top 10 in digestive disorders. The hospital was one of only 16 hospitals nationally recognized in this many specialties.

College of Public Health introduces Center for Public Health Practice
The Office of Workforce Development, within the College of Public Health, is now the Center for Public Health Practice, effective July 1. The change coincided with the start date of the center’s new director, Michael Bisesi, who also serves as the college’s associate dean of academic affairs. July 1 also marks the debut of the center’s new Web site at cph.osu.edu/practice. The center, located at 1212 Kinnear Road, offers programs and services to both current and future public health workers including management training, disaster preparedness classes and group facilitation.

WOSU Public Media earns national award
WOSU Public Media has received a national My Source Community Impact Award for Engagement from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. WOSU was recognized for outreach efforts related to the digital television transition and creating a model for helping at-risk viewers that was unique in the country. WOSU launched a “Help Your Neighbor” program early in 2008 in order to solicit nearly 3,000 unused converter box coupons from the community. WOSU then secured 3,000 converter boxes and, partnering with the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging, LifeCare Alliance and a number of community volunteers, installed the boxes in the homes of at-risk seniors. WOSU also made itself available through a series of call-in programs and by establishing a hotline to answer the community’s questions related to the digital conversion. Each My Source Community Impact Award honoree will receive a $2,000 grant to promote their award-winning work in local media.

Credit Union of Ohio resumes normal hours
The Credit Union of Ohio OSU campus branch at 1660 Neil and 11th avenues resumed operations July 13 under normal business hours after a successful recovery from a small fire about a month ago. University crews are still repairing sidewalks outside the branch for an undetermined period, but the branch and ATM are at full operating capacity.

Guggenheim scholar to lead Center for Urban and Regional Analysis
Daniel Sui has joined Ohio State’s Center for Urban and Regional Analysis as its director and Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Geography. A 2009 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Sui serves as the editor-in-chief for GeoJournal and a contributing editor of GeoWorld. He also is a current member of the US National Mapping Science Committee. Sui comes to Ohio State from Texas A&M where he held the Reta A. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences and served as assistant vice president for research and director for geospatial information science and technology.

The primary mission of CURA is to conduct research on issues and problems that apply to urban and metropolitan areas, rural areas and broader regional issues. CURA plays a major role in tracking urban growth and land use change, household migration and foreclosure patterns and infrastructure vulnerability, as well as assessing workforce development, security networks and neighborhood revitalization.

iMix Airs on Big Ten NetworkA new episode of iMix will air on the Big Ten Network at 6:30 p.m. July 28, 5 p.m. July 30 and 8:30 a.m. July 31. Hosted by Chris Forbes, this episode explores the world of “smart” surveillance systems with Professor James Davis and his team of graduate and undergraduate researchers. iMix looks at Gregory Wiet’s efforts to train the “Nintendo” generation of doctors using virtual surgery. Also included is a segment on the John Glenn School of Public Affairs Kiplinger Fellowship — a program designed to train print journalists how to thrive in the new world of multimedia and online journalism. The show concludes with a segment on It’s Abuse, a peer-to-peer, grassroots awareness effort to address the issue of relationship abuse on college campuses. Visit wosu.org/imix.

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