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How I did it: Five Ohio State staffers tell their Pelotonia fundraising stories to help inspire others to join the cause

July 15, 2009

By Jeff McCallister

Rich Blagg was one of the first riders to sign up for Pelotonia back in November when the event first was announced.

“As soon as I heard about it, I knew I had to do it,” said Blagg, an imaging technician in the Medical Center’s Nuclear Imaging Lab.

Blagg used to be a serious rider, one who took part in the annual 210-mile Tour of the Scioto River Valley with several of his colleagues from the radiology and cardiology staff.

But that had been a long time ago — a lifetime, in fact. He fought a successful battle with a rare form of cancer in the years since and had been in remission for exactly five years when news about the grass-roots cancer-fighting bike tour broke. Continue reading ‘How I did it: Five Ohio State staffers tell their Pelotonia fundraising stories to help inspire others to join the cause’

Newsbriefs, 7/16/09

July 15, 2009

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. Continue reading ‘Newsbriefs, 7/16/09′

Donna Distel

July 15, 2009

Donna Distel is the ReadAloud program coordinator for the Ohio State University libraries. She also is the outreach assistant for collections, instruction and public services. Continue reading ‘Donna Distel’

Food for thought: The Student Farm at OSU is growing more than just vegetables

July 15, 2009

by Julia Harris

Farming is not for the faint of heart. It’s hot, dirty and often back-breaking work. And it takes a lot of sunscreen, applied liberally and often, to keep sunburn at bay.

Just ask two Metro High School students, Zakia Nasrin and Zach Brazik, who have been spending their summer on three plots of land carved out of a small portion of Ohio State’s Waterman Farm. Continue reading ‘Food for thought: The Student Farm at OSU is growing more than just vegetables’

Faculty & Staff, 7/16/09

July 15, 2009

Books
Michael Foster, Aerospace Engineering, Partial Differential Equations in Fluid Dynamics (Cambridge University Press: August 2008), with co-author Isom Herron.

Scopas Poggo, African American and African Studies, The First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972 (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, December 2008).

Rusty Wilson, Graduate School, The Ohio State University at the Olympics: A Biographical Dictionary of Atheletes, Alternates, Administrators, Coaches and Trainers (McFarland Publishers, August 2005).

Grants
Chadwick Allen, English, has been awarded a $10,000 Conference Support Grant from the Grants for Research and Creative Activity in the Arts and Humanities program to help develop a symposium to mark the 2011 centennial of the first meeting of the Society of American Indians held in 1911 on the OSU campus.

Elizabeth Dayton and Robert Mullen, Environment and Natural Resources, have been awarded $75,193 for their project “Linking Soil Test Phosphorus with Agricultural Runoff Phosphorus” and $75,133 for their project “Best Management Practices for Mitigating Phosphorus Movement from Agricultural Fields” from the USEPA through the Great Lakes National Program Office.

Virginia Folcik Nivar and Estelle Boyaka, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, received grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to pursue additional research related to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and cigarette smoke-induced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

David Lee, Computer Science and Engineering, received a $450,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study Internet attack traceback — cross-validation and pebble-trace.

Willa Young, Student Life Learner Initiatives, received funding from the 2009 Robert S. Crane Endowment for Community Trusteeship at The Columbus Foundation to support participation in Leadership Columbus.

Presentations
Scott Boden, University Housing, presented a Mid Level Management Round Table session at the Association of College and University Housing Officers – International Conference, Baltimore, Md., June 29.

John Brooke, History, presented “Patriarchal Magistrates, Energetic Improvers and Jealous Monitors: Visions of Self-Government in the Early American Republic, 1760-1840,” at the Conference on State and Citizen in British America and the Early United States, 1763-1865, Oxford University, Oxford, England, April 17-18, and “Malthus Refuted, or Qualified? World History and the New Science of Abrupt Climate Change,” at the Department of History Lecture Series, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, May 7.

Robert Burns, Center for Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, presented “What Is the Smart Grid? What Are Smart Grid Technologies? And, How Do You Evaluate Them?” at Session XIV: Smart Grid Technologies and Transmission Planning and “Clean Coal as an Alternative Energy Source,” at Session XI: Renewables and Efficiencies: Costs and Benefits, and moderated Session VI: A Renewed Interest in Regulation at the 32nd annual National Conference of Regulatory Attorneys, Las Vegas, Nev., June 3.

Ray Cashman, English, was a discussant at the Undergraduate Folklore Symposium, Columbus, May 15.

Miriam Conteh-Morgan, University Libraries, presented “Long Tail of Long Odds?: A Case Study of African E-Journal Usage” at the European Conference on African Studies, Leipzig, Germany, June 4-7.

Ozeas Costa Jr., Continuing Education, presented “Exploring the Linkages Between River Water Chemistry and Watershed Characteristics in the Clear Fork River,” and “Spatial and Temporal Variations in Sediment Organic Matter Distribution From a Stream Draining Mixed-Use Landscapes,” at the annual meeting of the North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America, Rockford, Ill., April 1-4.

Claudio Gonzalez, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, gave three lectures on “The Evolution of Microfinance: A Comparison of Asia and Latin America” at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, March 23-25.

Ron Green, History of Art and Film Studies, delivered an invited lecture, “Gerald O’Grady, Media Study and Their Legacy,” at a conference celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Department of Media Study, which Green helped to found at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, May 3.

Daniel Herms, Entomology, presented “Ohio’s Forests Under Siege: The Clear and Present Danger Posed by Invasive Insects,” at the Fireside Garden Club, Wooster, March 2; “Management Options for Emerald Ash Borer: Green Industry Professional Perspective,” at the OSU Extension Greene County Update, Xenia, March 4; “Confronting a Hidden Enemy: Managing Wood Borers in the Urban Forest,” at the Minnesota Shade Tree Short Course, Minneapolis, Minn., March 18; and “The Emerald Ash Borer Invasion: How Can a Secondary Pest Threaten the Existence of an Entire Genus?” at the 60th Western Forest Insect Work Conference, Spokane, Wash., March 25.

David Hoffmann, History, presented “The Conceptual Origins of Soviet State Violence: Social Categorization and Social Excision,” and chaired a panel, “The Gulag and Memory,” at the National Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 22.

Andrew Hudgins, English, presented “The Achievement of Fred Hobson” and “The Company We Keep,” at the Conference on Southern Literature, Chattanooga, Tenn., April 2-3.

Paul Matherny, Research Foundation, presented “PI Portal Practice Lab,” Columbus, June 17.

Anne Sealy, History, presented “Gone But Not Forgotten: British Medical Memories of the ‘Forgotten’ 1918 Influenza Pandemic,” at the American Association for the History of Medicine annual meeting, Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, April 25.

Publications
Humberto Blanco-Canqui and R. Lal, Environment and Natural Resources, “Crop Residue Removal Impacts on Soil Productivity and Environmental Quality,” Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2009), pp. 139-63.

Jane Hathaway, History, published “Representations of an Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch: El-Hajj Beshir Agha (term 1717-46),” Abdeljelil Temimi, ed., Melanges en l’honneur du Prof. Dr. Suraiya Faroqhi (Tunis, Publications de la Fondation Temimi pour la Recherche Scientifique et l’Information, 2009), pp. 169-87.

S. Jones, Entomology, Proceedings of the 2008 National Conference on Urban Entomology, (May 2008), pp. 144, ed.; “Oriental Cockroach,” Ohio State University Extension, Fact Sheet HYG-2097-08, p. 3; “American Cockroach,” Ohio State University Extension, Fact Sheet HYG-2096-08, p. 3.

David Lindstedt, Office of the Chief Information Officer, “Ten Universities, One Federation: Sharing BCP Costs, Software and Best Practices,” Continuity Insights, May/June 2009, continuityinsights.com/Magazine/Issue_Archives/2009/05-06/Sharing_costs.html.

Chan Park, East Asian Languages and Literatures, reviewed two books: Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave, edited by Keith Howard (Global Oriental LTD, 2006) in World of Music Journal; and Four Contemporary Korean Plays by Lee Yun-Taek, translated by Dongwook Kim and Richard Nichols, with introductions by Richard Nichols (University Press of America Inc., 2007) in Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Tony Pasquarello, Philosophy, OSU Mansfield, “The Ancient Atheist and the Fetching Fundy,” American Atheist Journal, April 2009.

Jessica Winter, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, “Cell Adhesion Molecule-Modified Biomaterials for Neural Tissue Engineering,” Frontiers in Neuroengineering, Vol. 2, No. 6 (2009), pp. 1-14, co-author S.S. Rao.

Recognition
Blaine Lilly, Industrial Systems Engineering, is among nine engineering professors nationwide spending eight weeks this summer learning about key research and technology programs and sharing their perspectives as part of the Boeing Co.’s Welliver Faculty Fellowship Program. Lilly is at the company’s Seattle location working on tools for sustainable design with a group in research and development.

Kevin Tavin, Art Education, gave a keynote address at the Creativity, Innovation, Culture and Youth Conference sponsored by the Flemish and Dutch Ministries of Culture and Education. Twenty-five countries were represented in this gathering of EU policymakers, Brussels, Belgium, March 12-13.

Service
Arved Ashby, Music, organized and chaired a session, “Phenomenological Approaches to the Music of Elliott Carter,” for the international conference of the Society for Music Analysis, Cardiff, Wales, Sept. 4-7.

Christine Ballengee-Morris, Art Education, was named associate editor for Art Education, one of the field’s most important journals.

Joel Johnson, Electrical and Computer Engineering, serves on a National Research Council committee that is writing a report on scientific uses of the radio spectrum. Among its goals, the report will portray the science that is currently being conducted using the radio spectrum and advise spectrum policy-makers on the value to the nation of accommodating scientific uses of the spectrum.

Senate finalizes semester calendar

July 6, 2009

By Jeff McCallister

This autumn’s incoming class of freshmen will be the first to graduate from Ohio State under a new academic calendar based on semesters rather than quarters.

That much had been determined in March when University Senate voted overwhelmingly to convert to a semester-based calendar for the 2012-13 academic year. The Board of Trustees approved the switch at its April 3 meeting. Continue reading ‘Senate finalizes semester calendar’

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