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Extreme Makeover: Medical Center edition

September 23, 2009

By Jeff McCallister

At the end of the 2008-09 academic year when the majority of students and faculty and many staff left the main campus for summer vacation, plans were nearly set for the largest single construction project in Ohio State’s history.

ProjectONE, the title of the Medical Center expansion, had come through much of the planning and design stages and officials were ready to present to the Board of Trustees a bodacious design for a curved double-tower complex, covered in a gleaming skin of glass, that would be the new home of the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, a new critical care facility and new outpatient facilities and research space with a spacious atrium connecting the towers. Continue reading ‘Extreme Makeover: Medical Center edition’

Lights! Camera! Knowledge!

September 23, 2009

Faculty have to go only as far as Bricker Hall to find an international pulpit

By Adam King

The room in the nondescript underbelly of Bricker Hall is akin to C.S. Lewis’ wardrobe link to Narnia. Once faculty enter, they — or at least their likenesses — are instantly transported to other places throughout Ohio, across the nation and around the world.

The Bricker basement has been rewired to create a state-of-the-art television broadcast studio and soundproof radio booth in the center of campus. It was part of an effort to give Ohio

State a level of exposure befitting the largest public university in America and make it easier for faculty to share their expertise with national network and cable news outlets.

“Often the barrier most faculty face in doing a TV interview is it takes time,” said Paul Beck, a political science professor who did more than 200 interviews during the 2008presidential election campaign. “They don’t like to give up those blocks of time for what ends up being a minute or two on the air. And if you have to go off campus to do it, which often was the case, it takes more time.”

With the Ohio State Broadcast Studio up and running, faculty can zip in and out for a live interview, either on television or radio. It’s certainly convenient for Beck, whose office is next door. And the new studio has come in handy for him even with the election cycle over; Beck has had 40 interviews this year discussing partisan politics and campaigning, some of them at Bricker.

“Our faculty have a lot of work they’re doing that speaks to people beyond academia, and I think it’s very important to get the word out about it,” Beck said. “Faculty don’t think of themselves as producers of sound bites and may not present it in a way the media can easily handle. But we teach what we know in the classroom and teach it effectively, and there are plenty of people out there interested in what we do and in learning more about the unique insights it gives us.”

Faculty who might be uncomfortable in front of a camera have an invaluable resource that goes hand in hand with the studio: Ohio State National Broadcast Director Joe Camoriano.

A long-time national anchor, video producer (Missouri and Kansas State) and former national broadcast director at the University of California-Irvine, Camoriano understands how to put faculty at ease and prepare them for live interviews. It also is Camoriano’s responsibility to keep an eye on stories in the news — or that might shortly enter the news cycle — where OSU faculty would be a good fit as experts and “pitch” them to the networks.

“We have 40 experts on our OSU YouTube channel who we brought in and interviewed for 15-20 minutes, and those interviews were edited down to 2-3 minutes. I use those clips to promote OSU faculty, linking the networks to them along with each faculty’s bio,” Camoriano said. “That’s been pretty effective. And the networks were surprised we could do everything in our studio, so now they’ve been asking us for a list of our experts.”

Since February when Camoriano arrived, about 25 national and international interviews have taken place in the Bricker studio and appeared on outlets such as CNN, CNN International, FOX News, FOX Business, MSNBC, Al-Jazeera (Middle East) and Al-Hurra (India) as well as NPR and BBC radio.

The studio also is being made available for internal audiences. The Department of Theatre and Buckeye TV will be producing weekly half-hour shows beginning this fall.

Camoriano said he is looking for faculty with something to say about their research. But he also wants faculty who might be unsure if their research is nationally newsworthy to contact him.

“You never know when there is an angle we can tie in,” Camoriano said. “And if they’re unsure about going national, we can promote them regionally so they can get their feet wet and see how easy it is. We’re here to serve the university and our faculty.”

There’s no bismuth like show bismuth

September 23, 2009

Geoffrey Taber uses unique metal to earn onCampus recognition for his art

By Adam King

It was in a scrapyard where Geoffrey Taber became intrigued with bismuth, a metalloid that forms intriguing crystal formations as it cools. He found a hunk of it in the fall of 2003 while digging through the Research Alloys yard on Goodale Boulevard for metal he uses to make equipment for materials science researchers.

“It had some really cool little crystals and colors,” said Taber, a laboratory technician in OSU’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “Over the next several months I studied and experimented, trying to optimize the interesting features.”

In the view of the editorial staff at onCampus, Taber excelled in his artistic vision, honoring him with the first ever onCampus Editors’ Choice Ribbon for his entry “Hemisphere” in the Staff Arts and Crafts Exhibit at Bricker Hall.

The entire exhibit is on display through Oct. 2, but Taber’s piece, as well as the others in the exhibit honored by President Gordon Gee, the university’s vice presidents and the People’s Choice Award, will be moved to the Schottenstein Center for view by fans attending the Wisconsin home football game Oct. 10.

Taber was a medical imaging systems engineer until he walked into the Hoyt Sherman studio in Columbus in 1987 and fell in love with glassblowing, which he did for the next 10 years.

Taber was the first American student to attend the State School for Glass in Zelezny Brod, Czechoslovakia, in 1990, and he sold his creations locally at the Riley Hawk Gallery, the Columbus Museum of Art gift shop and the Ohio Designer Craftsmen “Show of Hands” retail stores.

Taber relishes developing his skills in both glass and metal casting techniques, and he said it’s the marketing and selling of his artwork that is the most “painful” part of his endeavor.

But he strongly believes in the science of art. After figuring out how to manipulate bismuth, Taber is trying to figure out how to turn practical applications into art aesthetics.

“I have been researching something called ‘monodispersed nanospheres,’ which all that really means is tiny balls, smaller than 1 micrometer, all within a narrow range of diameter,” he said. “After synthesizing such spheres, it is possible for them to stay suspended indefinitely in an ordered or structured solution, know as a colloid. This area is widely studied in search of functional optical devices, such as photonic crystals, but my intent is merely to exploit some of my favorite visually appealing features: Opalescence and iridescence.

18th Annual Staff Arts and Crafts Show

September 23, 2009

Faculty & Staff, 9/24/09

September 23, 2009

Books
Terri Fisher, Psychology, OSU Mansfield, Current Directions in Human Sexuality and Intimate Relationships, New York: Allyn & Bacon (2010), with J. McNulty (ed.), and Speaking of Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Readings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), with N.B. Moore and J.K. Davidson (eds.).

Susan Nittrouer, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Early Development of Children with Hearing Loss, August 2009 (San Diego, Calif.: Plural Publishing).

Grants
Ronald Reano, Electrical and Computer  Engineering, received an Army Research Office Young Investigator Award of $50,000 a year for three years for the project “Electric-Field Sensor Array Technology,” in which he will explore 2-D optical arrays for imaging RF electric-fields using nonlinear integrated optics.

Jessica Winter, Biomedical Engineering, received a three-year, $300,000 National Science Foundation grant for “Brain Mimetic Materials for Cancer Cell Migration Studies” with co-principal investigator Atom Sarkar, Neurosurgery, to develop 3-D brain mimetics that will be used to study migration of glioblastoma multiforme cancer tumor cells in vitro; and a three-year, $313,433 National Science Foundation grant for “Fluorescent-Magnetic Nanomanipulators for Cytoskeletal Mechanical Investigations” with co-principal investigators Jeffrey Chalmers, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Anthony Brown, Neuroscience, to develop a technique to manipulate the cytoskeleton using fluorescent-magnetic nanoparticles and explore the influence of applied force on migration of fibroblast wound healing cells.

Presentations
Jeff Agnoli, Office of Research, and Kristi Baker, Paul Matherny and Bob Scher, Office of Sponsored Programs, presented “Being a PI at OSU – Roles and Responsibilities,” Columbus, July 8.

John Burnham, History and Psychiatry, presented “The Historical Problem of Different Audiences for Psychoanalysis,” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Institut fur Wissenschaft und Kunst conference, “Epistemic Vehicles in the Human Sciences,” Vienna, Austria, July 25.

Jill Clark, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Drivers of US Peri-Urban Agricultural Adaptations: The Role of Place, Space and Scale,” at the 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Bonn, Germany, April 26-30.

Michael Donovan and Tani Prestage, Office of Responsible Research Practices, presented “IRB Forms Help – Behavioral/Social Sciences,” Columbus, July 15.

Prabhat Gupta, Materials Science and Engineering, presented “Reflections on the Thermodynamics of Glass Transition and the Glassy State,” at the Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 31-June 5.

Bette Hartschuh and Sue Woodruff, Office of Sponsored Programs, presented “PI Portal Overview,” Columbus, July 15.

Leila Heil, Music, presented a session “Strategies for Developing Tone in the Vocal Jazz Rehearsal,” at the 2009 American Choral Directors Association national conference, Oklahoma City, Okla., March 3-6.

Brian Hiestand, Adam McClintock and Tani Prestage, Office of Responsible Research Practices, presented “IRB process Workshop for Human Subjects Research,” Columbus, June 24.

Heather Inwood, East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented “For Better or For Worse? The Effects of the Media on Online Chinese Poetry,” to the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Reno, Nev., Oct.10, and “Cyber Folk? Multimedia Poetry in the Aftermath of the Sichuan Earthquake,” to the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, Ill., March 28.

Jesus Lara, Landscape Architecture, presented “Learning from Abroad: Knowledge Transfer and Approaches to Sustainable Development,” at the British Columbia Land Summit 2009, “A Better Future Adapting to Change,” Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, May 20-22, and “Drawing on Architect Christopher Alexander’s Theory and Practice: Teaching Models, Building Case Studies and Conceptual Critiques” and “Community Participation and the Web: Visualizing a Sustainable Community in Moapa Valley, Nev.,” at the 40th Environmental Design and Research Association meeting, Kansas City, Mo., May 27-30.

Debra Moddelmog, English, presented “’Who’s Normal? What’s Normal?:’ An Approach to Teaching Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden,” at a roundtable on teaching The Garden of Eden, sponsored by The Hemingway Society, American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Mass., May 23.

Sean O’Sullivan, English, presented “Episode Five, or When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?”  at the International Conference on Narrative, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, June 4.

Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Computer Science and Engineering, presented a keynote address “Mining and Management Tree Structured Data Efficiently,” at the International Workshop on High Performance Data Mining, Pisa, Italy, Dec. 15.

Cameron Thraen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Livestock Gross Margin – Dairy: The Good, Bad and Not-so-well Understood,” at the NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting and Market Risk Management, St. Louis, Mo., April 20-21.

Publications
Scott Boden and Barb Kefalas, Office of Residence Life, “Knock, Knock. Whose House is it Anyway?” Association of College and University Housing Officers Talking Stick, Vol. 26, No. 6, p. 38.

Paul Denton, OSU Police Division, “Policing College Campuses: An Overview,” Ohio Police Chief (online), Spring/Summer 2009.

Mark Headings, Agricultural Technical Institute, “Morphological Similarity of Bean Extrafloral Nectaries Between and Within Species of the Genus Vigna,” The Ohio Journal of Science, Vol. 109, No. 1, p. A-9, March 2009.

L. Scott Lissner, University ADA Coordinator, authored a chapter “Access to Higher Education: The Spirit and the Letter of the Law,” NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) monograph Advising Students with Disabilities: Striving for Universal Success, 2nd edition, No. 10.

David Woods, Integrated Systems Engineering; Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design; Anesthesiology; and Speech and Hearing, “Cooperative Advocacy: A Strategy for Integrating Diverse Perspectives in Anomaly Response,” Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2009), pp. 175-98, with J. Watts-Perotti; “Escaping Failures of Foresight,” Safety Science, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2009), pp. 498-501; “Resilience and Brittleness in the Offshore Helicopter Transportation System: Identification of Constraints and Sacrifice Decisions in Pilots’ Work,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 94 (2009), pp. 311-19, with J.O. Gomes,

P.V. Rodrigues de Carvalho, G. Huber and M. Borges; “See is Believing? The Effects of Real-Time Imaging on Decision-Making in a Simulated Incident Command Task,” International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2009), pp. 54-69, with John M. McGuirl and N.B. Sarter; and “Minding the Gaps: Creating Resilience in Health Care,” Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches, Vol. 3 (2008), Performance and Tools (Rockville, Md.: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Publication No. 08-0034-3), K. Henriksen, et al (eds.), with C. Nemeth, R.L. Wears, E. Hollnagel and R.I. Cook.

Recognition
John Bennett, Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books & MSS Library, is the subject of an extensive article and interview about his work in the Chilean cultural journal Escaner Cultural, by Mexican poet and curator Cesar Espinosa.

Holly Dabelko-Schoeny, Social Work, is the 2009 recipient of the college’s Distinguished Recent Career Award. The award is presented to an alumnus who has graduated within the past 10 years and whose accomplishments exemplify outstanding professional achievements in one or more of the following areas: practice/clinical excellence, community development, advocacy, education or administration. Dabelko-Schoeny has devoted her career to the field of aging as a colleague, mentor, educator, and researcher with a focus on improving the quality of life for older adults and their caregivers.

Wayne Lawson, Art Education, received an award from the Chilean National Council for Culture and Arts for his outstanding cultural collaborations between Ohio and Chile on June 16 in Santiago, Chile.

Charles Massey, Art, was among five faculty members who received the 2009 Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards from the Undergraduate Research Office, in recognition of their exceptional efforts on behalf of undergraduate researchers at Ohio State, Spring 2009.

Service
Richard Hart, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed secretary of the national Biomedical Engineering Society and to the executive committee for a two-year term.

Julie Higle, Integrated Systems Engineering, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Industrial Engineers as the senior vice president for academics.

Russel Mikkelson, Music, conducted the Ohio Music Educators 13 Honor Band at Springboro High School, Springboro, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, and was the featured clinician at the Eastern Illinois University “Art of the Wind Band” conducting symposium, Charleston, Ill., Feb. 27- March 1.

Ohio State forensics students take their expertise into the classroom

September 23, 2009

By Julia Harris

There’s evil afoot in the halls of Linden-McKinley STEM Middle/High School. Someone — or some ones — is committing heinous murders all through the building and leaving behind grisly crime scenes.

Thirteen victims mutely await justice.

Fortunately for them, the students at this unique hybrid school — currently housed at the old North High School building on Arcadia Avenue while the old school on Duxberry is modernized — have been trained by forensics experts at Ohio State to solve crimes just like this.

And so, for one very busy week at the beginning of the school year, seventh- and ninth-grade students unearthed skeletal remains, studied evidence of all shapes and sizes, took fingerprints and analyzed blood splatter patterns. Each classroom had a different crime scene, a different victim and a unique crime scenario.

Each classroom was also assigned a forensics expert, an Ohio State graduate student in the department of anthropology, who answered questions and provided direction as the students picked apart their crime scenes.

The learning was chaotic, messy and at times rather loud.

And that’s just the way Annalies Corbin, executive director of PAST Foundation (Partnering Anthropology with Science and Technology) and purveyor of the Forensics in the Classroom program, likes it.

“Part of the goal for this program was to provide these kids at this new school a sampling of what hands-on learning was going to be like,” Corbin said.

“At both the seventh- and ninth-grade level, we were pleased to see how well the program worked on the notion of collaboration, which is one of the primary tenets of STEM schools.”

The Forensics in the Classroom project is just one of many programs PAST has developed that make science come alive for students. It’s based on a summer learning experience conducted for two years with Metro High School students, during which students excavated mock crime scenes from plots in Waterman Farm and spent many hours learning about and compiling forensic data.

“Taking what was a summer-long program and putting it into an in-school setting was really challenging,” Corbin said. “We had to do some pretty radical modifications.”

Part of the modifying process involved training the classroom teachers and a larger cohort of experts and student mentors that could work independently in each of the 13 classrooms.

Forensics graduate students were trained to be experts on all facets of the curriculum content and then sent into the classrooms — a daunting task for some of them.

“This was the first time I’d been exposed to this curriculum, so teaching these guys helped me better understand the material,” said Rachel Balabuszko, a PhD candidate in bioarchaeology.

Her hands were black with the ground-up volcanic powder used in lifting latent fingerprints, her face smudged and damp in the stifling heat. All around her, ninth-grade students clumped on desks examining and comparing fingerprints.

“It’s been kind of crazy,” she said.

Corbin acknowledges that the week-long project was more than a little hectic. Not all sections of the program appealed to all of the students — some liked the ballistics, some liked the math, some liked the social aspects. And the fact that it happened so early in the school year meant that relationships weren’t fully formed and interactions could be a bit strained.

“Also, this setting was different from the summer program because it wasn’t voluntary: Some of the kids were really excited to be there and some just didn’t care. The seventh graders were young enough that they had no preconceived notions of what high school should be, and they just jumped right in.”

She laughed. “Some of the ninth graders, you know, were into that ‘I’m too cool for school’ stage. But overall I think it was very successful.”

Notes from the field

Linden-McKinley senior Pilar Clark is both student and mentor

Pilar Clark didn't mind getting dirty this summer during her Cave Ecology class.

She may be quiet and a bit shy, but there’s nothing fearful about Pilar Clark. Just ask her how she spent part of her summer vacation.

“I studied water temperature in caves, identified Daddy Long Legs and spider webs, and looked at lizards, frogs and cave crickets. Man, those things are big!”” she said with her radiant, toothy smile.

“I was scared of bugs at first but I’m not now.”

She credits this growth experience to the PAST Foundation and its week-long field learning program, Life in Transition: Cave Ecology. The program took a group of students into Kentucky’s Carter Caves, where they conducted research projects on topics related to environmental science and natural resource management.

Or, as the 5-foot 8-inch tall Clark describes it, “The tallest part of the cave was probably four feet high and the shortest was like two feet, so we got stuck a lot. It was muddy and wet and there were literally butts everywhere, but it was fun and it was something I never thought I’d have the opportunity to do.”

Her enthusiasm for the kind of hands-on projects the PAST Foundation provides is what led her to sign on as a mentor for the Forensics in the Classroom program recently offered at Linden-McKinley. She underwent a week of training at Metro High School before the course, where she learned about comparing fingerprints, studied bullets and bullet casings and examined skulls and skeletons.

“I never knew you could get an ear print,” she said. “Or that you could tell a person’s sex just by looking at the skeleton.

Clark was able to take her new knowledge into the classroom, where she mentored one group of seventh graders and one of ninth-graders. She was surprised by how differently the two groups approached the project.

“The seventh graders wanted to just jump in and go, and so we had to help them be more thoughtful about the process and understand the outcome,” she said.

“The ninth graders knew things the seventh graders didn’t and were more alert and aware. I didn’t have to guide them as much because they kind of got things quicker.”

Although Clark, who plans to enroll at the University of Cincinnati next year, is certainly grateful for the experiences she’s had through PAST and with the transition of her school into a STEM-based academy, she still feels a bit wistful.

“I wish I’d had this kind of stuff when I was a seventh-grader, because it gives you an early start on things,” she said.

Calendar, 9/24/09

September 23, 2009

Conference

Critical care, hospital medicine discussed
Sept. 25
Update in Hospital Medicine 2009, a Continuing Medical Education conference, will take place at the University Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, 3110 Olentangy River Road. The symposium consists of six live presentations, Q&A discussion time and will cover a wide array of critical care and hospital medicine topics. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m.; the program will conclude at 3 p.m. Registration is $50 for physicians, $25 for non-physicians. Read more at ccme.osu.edu/cmeactivities/courses/detail/index.cfm?id=515.

Events

Free Qigong relaxation classes at Younkin
Ongoing
Learn the art of relaxation with Qigong (chee-gong) — a method of relaxation and stress management through gentle movement. Counseling and Consultation Services offers sessions every Thursday at 9 a.m. in the Library/Media Resource Suite, 2nd floor, Younkin Success Center. Sessions are free, last 30-45 minutes and are open to the OSU community. No reservations needed; no length of commitment required. Contact Rick Mitsak or Chris Rideout at 292-5766.

Sept. 26, Ohio State Newark Earthworks Day Events, “Native Harvest Festival,” story-telling, craft-making, and Native cultural presentations by the Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio, 5-8 p.m., Great Circle Earthworks, free and open to public, newark.osu.edu or (740) 364-9584.

Charity walk to begin at Ohio Stadium
Sept. 27
BuckeyeThon is sponsoring Miracle Miles 5k Walk/Run around the Ohio State campus. Proceeds will benefit the Children’s Miracle Network and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the race starts at noon in from of the Ohio Union at the Ohio Stadium. Register online at premierraces.com/2009Races/MiracleMiles5k.html. The registration fee is $20. For more information contact Laura Bunner laura.bunner@gmail.com.

Join The James/OSU Team for Strides for Hope
Sept. 27
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Register now to join The James/OSU Team for the 2009 Strides for Hope 5K Walk/Run hosted by the Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Ohio at 9 a.m. at the Westerville Community Center, 350 N. Cleveland Ave. Participants must provide the registration fee: $25 for adults, $20 for survivors or $15 for children 17 or under. For more information, e-mail tara.kuisick@osumc.edu.

Banned African American books to be celebrated
Oct. 1
African American authors are frequent targets of censorship. Well-known books by authors like Alice Walker and Maya Angelou have been removed from the shelves of schools and libraries throughout the US. Community leaders, artists and activists will honor these and other prominent African American writers by reading passages from their banned and challenged books during Banned Brilliance of African American Authors. The readings take place from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Department of African American & African Studies Community Extension Center, 905 Mt. Vernon Ave.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information or to register, call (216) 472-2220 or email contact@acluohio.org.

Oct. 2, “BIGG Glass Art Tour Series: Art and Spirituality,” 1-2 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Oct. 3, Wooster’s Secrest Arboretum 2009 Events, “Seventh Annual Autumn Discovery Day,” tree and shrub sale, 9 a.m.-noon, Secrest Arboretum,
1680 Madison Ave., free, secrest.osu.edu.

Oct. 6, OSU Urban Arts Space Rooftop Garden Tour, 2-3 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., register at uas@osu.edu.

Oct. 7, Wooster’s Secrest Arboretum 2009 Events, “Autumn Walk,” 2-4 p.m., Seaman Orientation Plaza on Williams Road, pre-registration encouraged, free, secrest.osu.edu.

Oct. 8, National Work and Family Month Annual Women’s Reception, “Do Babies Matter in Academia?” forum 4-5:15 p.m., reception immediately following, Fawcett Center Auditorium, 2400 Olentangy River Road, registration required, hr.osu.edu/ohrc/ld_customezedtraining.

Walk at the Schott raises autism awareness
Oct. 11
The 2nd annual Columbus Walk Now for Autism Speaks event will be at the Schottenstein Center. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the approximately one-mile walk begins at
10:30 a.m. Money will be raised for autism awareness, education and research right here at Ohio State. Walk Now for Autism Speaks offers everyone a fun-filled experience with entertainment, refreshments, an autism community resource fair and much, much more. Create a walk team or sign up to volunteer, become a vendor or make donations via walknowforautism.org/columbus. For more information, e-mail columbus@autismspeaks.org.

Exhibits
Through Sept. 30, Knowlton School of Architecture Exhibition, “KSA Works,” 08-09 student work from the Knowlton School of Architecture, Banvard Gallery, 275 W. Woodruff Ave., free, 292-1012.

Through Oct. 2, 18th Annual Staff Arts and Crafts Exhibit, first and second floor lobbies, Bricker Hall, 190 N. Oval Mall, free, 292-4341.

Through Oct. 7, Visiting Artist/Lecturers Exhibition, opening reception, Sep. 28, 5-7 p.m., Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, 128 N. Oval Mall, free, 292-5072.

Through Oct. 10, “BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass” sponsored by Steuben Glass, OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Through Oct. 10, “E.F. Hebner: excerpts … 2009,” reception, 7-9 p.m.

Sept. 24, OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Through Oct. 23, “Curtis Goldstein: Paintings,” opening reception, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 2, Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr., ohiostatefacultyclub.com or 292-2262.

Through Nov. 15, Ohio State Newark Earthworks Day Art Exhibit, “Pilgrimage Through the Centuries,” opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 3, LeFevre Art Gallery, 1179 University Dr., free and open to public, newark.osu.edu or (740) 364-9584.

Oct. 9, Final tour of “BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass,” selection and installation process will be explored along with in-depth discussion of selected works and artists, 1-2 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Lectures

James Cancer Hospital hosts talk on clinical trials
Sept. 24
James Thomas, medical director of clinical trials at Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, will lead an informal discussion about the role of clinical trials in the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer at 6 p.m. at the Longaberger Alumni House, 2200 Olentangy River Road. For more information, visit medicalcenter.osu.edu/viewer/press/Pages/index.aspx?NewsID=5090.

Sept. 24, Department of Statistics and Biostatistics Colloquium Series, “Better Bayes Factors,” Val Johnson, University of Texas, 3:30 p.m., 170 Eighteenth Avenue Building, 292-5194.
Robotic surgery for specific cancers detailed.

Sept. 24
Ohio State’s Center for Advanced Robotic Surgery will host “An Introduction to Robotic Surgery for Urologic and Gynecologic Cancers” from 5-6 p.m. in the Ross Heart Hospital Auditorium in observance of Prostate and Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month. Ronney Abaza, co-director of the Center for Advanced Robotic Surgery and director of robotic urologic surgery at The James, and David O’Malley, a gynecologic oncologist at The James, will be presenting. The event is free. To register, contact 293-0981 or e-mail robotic.surgery@osumc.edu.

Sept. 25, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, “America’s Relative Decline and Its Consequences,” Robert Pape, University of Chicago, noon, 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., lecture is free, please respond to russell.16@osu.edu by Sept. 23.

Sept. 29, Physics Department 09-10 Colloquium Series, Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology, 3:45 p.m. reception, 4 p.m. colloquia, 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

Sept. 30, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, “Critical Infrastructure Protection: Are We Spending Too Much on Counter-Terrorism?” Mark Stewart, University of New Castle, noon, 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., lecture is free, please respond to powers.108@osu.edu by Sept. 28.

Sept. 30, Knowlton School of Architecture Autumn 2009 Baumer Lecture Series: Territory, “Claim Jumping,” John McMorrough, Ohio State, 5:30 p.m., Knowlton Hall Auditorium, 275 W. Woodruff Ave., free and open to public, knowlton.osu.edu or 292-1012.

Oct. 1, Department of Statistics and Biostatistics Colloquium Series, “Hierarchical Models in Molecular Evolution,” Erik Bloomquist, Ohio State Mathematical Biosciences Institute, 3:30 p.m., 170 Eighteenth Avenue Building, 292-5194.

Oct. 7, Knowlton School of Architecture Autumn 2009 Baumer Lecture Series: Territory, “Disciplinary Transgressions,” Monica Ponce de Leon, University of Michigan, 5:30 p.m., Knowlton Hall Auditorium, 275 W. Woodruff Ave., free and open to public, knowlton.osu.edu or 292-1012.

Meetings
Sept. 24, University Senate Orientation, 3:30-5:30 p.m., 130 Drinko Hall, senate.osu.edu.

Oct. 6, Succeeding Financially, “Women’s Financial Independence and Security Seminar,” Rose Burns, MetLife, noon-1 p.m., Room 425, Suite 430, 1590 N. High St., registration required, hr.osu.edu/finseries or 247-7961.

Oct. 8, Ohio State Faculty and Staff Photographic Society, “Members Recent Best 8,” 5:15 p.m., Rooms A, B and C, Faculty Club, non-members welcome, reservation required, 292-2262.

Music
Sept. 27, Faculty Series: Baritone Robin Rice with pianist Edward Bak, 3 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 292-7036.

Sept. 28, Opening Graduate Voice Recital, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, free, 292-7036.

Oct. 5, Faculty Collage Concert, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 292-7036.

Nominations, Grants and Awards

Graduate student research funds available
Deadline Oct. 9
The Graduate School’s Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship Program provides up to $2,000 to support the research and scholarship of doctoral or MFA candidates in a terminal degree program for their dissertations or theses. The deadline for the fall quarter 2009 competition is approaching. For more information, contact 247-7300 or visit gradsch.osu.edu/Content/aspx?Content=55&itemid=2.

Apply for 2010 staff development grants
Deadline Oct. 26
Staff Career Development Grants of up to $500 each can be used toward expenses such as conference fees, registration fees, tuition, textbooks, research supplies and transportation costs — for activities that occur during calendar year 2010. You must be a regular full- or part-time staff member and have at least two years of continuous employment with Ohio State (by Jan. 1). Apply at hr.osu.edu/special/careerdevgrt.pdf. For more information, contact Michele Bondurant at bondurant.11@osu.edu or 292-4341.

2010 Junior Seminar proposals now accepted
Deadline Oct. 30
Tenure-track faculty from all academic units are invited to propose a Junior Seminar for spring or summer 2010. Junior Seminars, an expansion of the Freshman Seminar Program, offer 1 or 2 credit courses for rank 3 and 4 students. For more information, contact Jessica Mercerhill at mercerhill.1@osu.edu.

CCTS pilot project applications sought
Deadline Nov. 2
The CCTS Community Engagement Program recently released a new request for applications for pilot projects. Applications require a community partner. Up to $30,000 is available for each of the two 12-month projects. Additional funding is available for one of these projects if it has co-investigators from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and OSU and a focus on children or adolescents. Visit ccts.osu.edu/drupal/content/rfa-ccts-community-engagement-0 for more information.

Schottenstein
Oct. 3, EnduroCross Championship Motorcycle Racing Series, 7:30 p.m., Value City Arena, 555 Borror Dr., admission, schottensteincenter.com or ticketmaster.com.

Training
Sept. 24, Financial Training and Documentation, “University Expenditures Policy,” 2-4 p.m., 231 Mount Hall,
1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.ohio-state.edu/hrfin/trainingregistration.html.

Sept. 28, Human Resources Training, “Manage Additional Pay,” 1-4:30 p.m., 191 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.osu.edu/hrfin/hrschedule/html.

Sept. 28, College of Social Work Training, “Therapeutic Play Therapy,” 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m., Franklin County Children’s Services, 855 W. Mound St., early registration discounts, csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar/090628.

Sept. 29, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Secrets to Powerful Presentations,” 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road, admission for non-members, registration required, glennschool.osu.edu or 292-3242.

Sept. 29-30, Financial Training and Documentation, “Debits and Credits,” 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. both days, 231 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.ohio-state.edu/hrfin/trainingregistration.html.

Sept. 30, Human Resources Training, “Manage Positions and Create Job Openings,” 8:30 a.m.-noon, 191 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.osu.edu/hrfin/hrschedule/html.

Sept. 30, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Effectively Working with Difficult People and Difficult Situations,” 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road, admission for non-members, registration required, glennschool.osu.edu or 292-3242.

Oct. 1, OIT Administrative Systems Reporting Training, “Using eReports Portal – Financials,” 1-5 p.m., 191 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.osu.edu/hrfin/trainingregistration.html.

Oct. 1, College of Social Work Training, “It’s Only Weed, Right?” noon-4:15 p.m., 115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, early registration discounts, csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar/091001.

Oct. 1, University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Events on Teaching, “Putting Together Your Job Search Campaign: The Academic Job Search,” 3:30-5 p.m., 150 Younkin Success Center, 1640 Neil Ave., registration required, ucat.osu.edu/participate/ftad_events/registration.html or 292-3644.

Oct. 5, College of Social Work Training, “MotivatEd: How to Use Eating Disorder Research to Move,” 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m., 115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, early registration discounts, csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar/091005.

Oct. 6, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Better Writing and Editing Skills for Administrative Support Staff,” 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road, admission for non-members, registration required, glennschool.osu.edu or 292-3242.

Oct. 6-7, Human Resources Training, “Hire an Employee,” 1-5 p.m. both days, 191 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.osu.edu/hrfin/hrschedule/html.

Oct. 6-7, Financial Training and Documentation, “Accounting at OSU,” 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. both days, 231 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.ohio-state.edu/hrfin/trainingregistration.html.

Wexner
Through Sept. 30, The Box, “Destination Finale” (Philip Widmann, 2008), Mon.-Wed. 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Thu.-Fri. 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sun.
11 a.m.-6 p.m., The Box is located across from the Wexner Center Store, free, 292-3535.

Through Jan. 3, Exhibitions, “Luc Tuymans,” Wexner Center Galleries, admission (free to visitors the first Sunday of the month and every Thursday after 4 p.m.), 292-3535.

Through Jan. 3, Exhibitions, “Walead Beshty: 12.25,” Wexner Center Galleries, admission (free to visitors the first Sunday of the month and every Thursday after 4 p.m.), 292-3535.
Through Jan. 3, Exhibitions, “Susan Philipsz: The Shortest Shadow,” Wexner Center Galleries, admission (free to visitors the first Sunday of the month and every Thursday after 4 p.m.), 292-3535.

Sept. 24-25, International Screen, “Three Monkeys” (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2008), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Sept. 27, Next @ Wex, “The Rural Alberta Advantage,” 8 p.m., Black Box on Mershon Stage, $10 admission, 292-3535.

Sept. 29, onStage, “Lost Action,” Kidd Pivot, 8 p.m., Thurber Theatre, Drake Performance and Event Center, 1849 Cannon Dr., admission, 292-3535.

Sept. 30, Member-Only Screening, “Herb & Dorothy” (Megumi Sasaki, 2008), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Sept. 30-Oct. 4, onStage, “Who Do You Think You Are,” Siti Company, 8 p.m. Sep. 30-Oct. 3, 2 p.m. Oct. 4, Performance Space, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 1, Classics: Festival of Preservation, “The Prowler” (Joseph Losey, 1951) and “Secret Beyond the Door” (Fritz Lang, 1948), 7 and 8:40 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 1-3, Symposium, “Narrative, Science and Performance,” The Blackwell Inn and Wexner Center for the Arts, registration required, visit projectnarrative.osu.edu for registration and more information.

Oct. 1-31, The Box, “Killed” (William E. Jones, 2009), Mon.-Wed. 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Thu.-Fri. 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m., The Box is located across from the Wexner Center Store, free, 292-3535.

Oct. 2, Classics: Festival of Preservation, “A Woman Under the Influence” (John Cassavetes, 1974), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 3, Especially for Families, Wex Lab: PAINT, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Wexner Center, limited space, registration required, email edweb@wexarts.org or call 292-6493.

Oct. 3, Classics: Festival of Preservation, “The Dead” (Susan Philipsz, 2000) and “Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives” (multiple directors, 1977), 2 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 4, Classics: Festival of Preservation, “Gamperaliya” (Lester James Peries, 1964), 2 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 6, Sneak Preview, Art:21 – Season 5: “Compassion,” 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, free, 292-3535.

Oct. 7, Visiting Filmmakers: Josh Grossberg and Steven Glaser, “A Bridge Life: Finding Our Way Home from Katrina,” 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 7, Next @ Wex, “Seawolf with Sara Lov and Port O’Brien,” 9 p.m., Performance Space, $9 admission, 292-3535.

Workshop

Learn to deal with disruptive or troubled students
Sept. 29, Oct. 8
Attend a workshop presented by Anna Stephenson from OSU Police and Andrea Goldblum, director of Student Judicial Affairs, and learn about issues concerning disruptive and troubled students (and others). Learn what options and resources exist for responding to situations in positive, helpful ways. Space is limited.

The workshop will be held at 33 W. 11th Ave., room 101 on the following dates and times: Sept. 29, 9-11 a.m. and Oct. 8, 2-4 p.m. Reserve your space by contacting goldblum.3@osu.edu.

Trustees, 9/24/09

September 23, 2009

The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved a variety of personnel, fiscal and construction-related matters at its meeting Sept. 18.

Development report

The board accepted the University Development Report for June 2009, establishing 35 new named endowed funds totaling nearly $5.1 million in private gifts to the university.

• Hubert Schmidt Chair in Landscape Architecture, $1,830,357.
• William J. Meyers Endowed Chair in Endodontics, $1,574,170.
• Ruann F. Ernst and William C. Riffle Endowed Scholarship Fund, $125,840.
• Chuck and Barbara Webb Athletic Scholarship Fund, $101,662.
• Ann Crowe Essig Patient Simulation Learning Lab Fund, $100,000.
• John M. Bowsher Memorial Fund, $95,056.
• Leo A. Paquette Workshops in Organic Chemistry Fund, $75,000.
• Connie Hahn Sharpe Nursing Student Fund, $75,000.
• Molly B. Demuth Memorial Scholarship Fund, $70,440.
• Donald and Betty Black Athletic Scholarship Fund, $61,292.
• Leo A. and Estelle I. Paquette Faculty Research Fund, $57,161.
• Audrey and Robert White Scholarship Fund, $52,420.
• Dr. James R. Karpac Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, $50,000.
• Dr. Randall Lonsbrough Family Endowment Fund, $50,000.
• Randall C. and Peggy North Mosher Family Scholarship Fund, $50,000.
• Dr. Sylvia Anderson Price Scholarship Fund, $50,000.
• School of Earth Sciences Field Experience Travel Fund, $50,000.
• Shealy Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, $50,000.
• Virginia I. Zirkle Scholarship Fund for Ohio State Lima, $50,000.
• MOWS Scholarship Fund, $44,761.
• Frost Brown Todd Scholarship Fund, $42,928.
• Markworth-Woolley Scholarship Fund in Materials Science and Engineering, $37,083.
• Randall Ripley Fund in Political Science, $32,095.
• OSU Ultrasound Academy Fund, $30,359.
• Jonard Family Scholarship Fund, $30,000.
• Miami County 4-H Endowment Fund, $26,439.
• Randy Kerns Endowed Scholarship Fund, $26,049.
• Donald Schuerman Scholarship Fund, $25,897.
• Ohio State Fair Hall of Fame Band and Choir Scholarship Endowment Fund, $25,150.
• L.H. and Beverly Newcomb Alpha Zeta Partners Study Abroad Fund, $25,110.
• Kathleen Retzler Memorial 4-H Endowment Fund for Clermont County, $25,005.
• Clifton Kerns (C.K.) Elliott and Edward Oxley Elliott Undergraduate Leadership Endowment Fund, $25,000.
• Franklin County Farm Bureau Endowment Fund, $25,000.
• Stephen and Martha Mehallis Dean’s Innovation Fund, $25,000.
• Dr. Neil Perrel Endowed Scholarship Fund, $25,000.
• Margaret Weaver Schifter Scholarship Fund, $25,000.
• Suzanne Meyers Widing and Christopher G. Widing Scholarship Fund, $25,000.

FY 2010 budget approved
The board approved the current funds budget for the 2010 fiscal year. The budget provides for an overall spending level of $4.4 billion for all campuses, a 3.7 percent increase over FY 2009. The Columbus campus general funds will increase by 4.2 percent, primarily to support additional enrollments and undergraduate financial aid.

Student Activity Fee to increase
The board approved an increase in the Student Activity Fee from $15 per quarter to $25 per quarter for all enrolled students, effective Winter Quarter 2010. The mandatory fee was implemented in 2003 to support student organizations, major campus events, community service projects and student participation in cultural, arts and entertainment events.

Learning lab named
The board approved the naming of The Ann Crowe Essig Patient Simulation Learning Laboratory in the College of Medicine’s Clinical Skills Education and Assessment Center in recognition of Dr. LeRoy Essig’s critical financial support honoring his wife’s passion for student education.

Emeritus Medical Center appointments approved
The board approved the following as inaugural members of the Medical Center Emeritus Board:

• George Harding IV — emeritus member of the OSU Harding Hospital Board.
• Elizabeth Ross — honorary member of the OSU Ross Heart Hospital Board.
• Richard Solove — citizen member of the James Cancer Hospital Board.

Amendments to medical staff bylaws approved
The board approved a series of amendments to the bylaws and the rules and regulations of the medical staff of the OSU hospitals and the bylaws of the medical staff and rules and regulations of the medical staff of the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute.

Personnel actions

The board approved the following personnel appointments:

• William Abraham has been named professor and holder of the Designated Chair of Excellence in Cardiovascular Medicine in the College of Medicine, effective Oct. 1 through Sept. 20, 2014.
• Wayne Carlson has been named vice provost for undergraduate studies and dean for undergraduate education in the Office of Academic Affairs through Aug. 31, 2014.
• Dolan Evanovich has been named vice president for strategic enrollment planning in the Office of Academic Affairs through Aug. 31, 2014.
• Thomas Gregoire has been named interim dean of the College of Social Work.
• Lonnie King has been appointed dean, professor and holder of the Ruth Stanton Chair in Veterinary Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine through June 30, 2014.
• John Nusstein has been named associate professor and holder of the Dr. William J. Meyers Endowed Chair of Endodontics through June 30, 2014.
• Ali Rezai has been named professor and holder of the Julius F. Stone Chair in Cancer Research in the College of Medicine through June 30, 2012. He also has been appointed director of the OSU Functional Neurosurgery Program, the OSU Center for Neuromodulation and the OSU Neurosurgical Innovations through June 30, 2014.
• Donald Tobin has been named associate professor and holder of the Frank E. and Virginia H. Bazler Designated Professorship in Business Law in the Moritz College of Law through July 31, 2013.
• Michael Tweedle has been named professor and holder of the Stefanie Spielman Chair in Cancer Imaging in the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute through June 30, 2013.

Emeritus titles granted
The board approved granting emeritus titles to the following retiring faculty:
Terry Barrett, Department of Art Education; Clive Edwards, Department of Entomology; Loren Geistfeld, Department of Consumer Sciences; David Goldberger, Moritz College of Law; Barbara Hanawalt, Department of History; David Hart, Department of Chemistry; Randall Heiligmann, School of Environment and Natural Resources; Harry Mathews, Department of Marketing and Logistics; David Orin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Kenneth Pearlman, Knowlton School of Architecture; Floyd Schanbacher, Department of Animal Sciences; Paulette Schmidt, College of Optometry; Sigrid Wagner, School of Teaching and Learning; Steven Weisbrode, Department of Veterinary Biosciences; Roger Williams, Department of Entomology;  Stuart Zweben, Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Charles Albright, Department of Integrated Systems Engineering; Pai-Cheng Chu, Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems; Susan Crusey, Ohio State University Extension; Sharon Mader, Ohio State University Extension; Gary Means, Department of Biochemistry; Meri Meredith, University Libraries; Richard Murdock, Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems; Gregory Proctor, School of Music; Randall Scholl, Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology;  Frederic Snyder, Ohio State University Extension; William Taylor, School of Educational Policy and Leadership; Nicola Eyre, Ohio State University Extension; John Hixson, Ohio State University Extension.

Resolutions in memoriam
The board approved adoption of resolutions in memoriam for the following:

• Richard Dagefoerde, assistant professor in the College of Dentistry, who died May 25.
• Ruth Kessler, professor emeritus and former director of the Law Library in the Moritz College of Law, who died May 29.
• James Limbird, professor emeritus in the Ohio State University Extension, who died Aug. 16.
• Benedikt Munk, professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who died March 13.
• Ernest Nilo, associate professor emeritus in the Department of Otolaryngology, who died June 12.
• Clinton Oster Sr., professor emeritus in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs and founding director of the School of Public Administration, who died July 19.
• Gregory Passewitz, associate professor emeritus in the Ohio State University Extension, who died July 30.
• Leon Peters Jr., professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and former director of The Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory, who died April 23.
• Paul Peterson, professor emeritus in the School of Communication, who died June 24.
• John Ray, clinical professor emeritus in the Department of Otolaryngology, who died June 23.
• Frederick Zuspan, professor emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, who died June 7.

Construction projects approved
The board authorized the university to enter into or increase professional services contracts for the following projects:

• Completion of condition assessments of approximately 79 emergency generators and their automatic transfer switches in various academic and administrative campus buildings. Estimated study cost is $500,000 to be provided by plant renewal and replacement funds.
• Renovation of five student housing facilities — Park, Smith, Steeb, Siebert and Stradley Halls  —  in the south campus area and construction of two additions in support of the area masterplan. Estimated service cost has increased from $6.3 million to $9.9 million to be provided by university bond proceeds.

The board authorized the university to enter into construction contracts for the following projects:
• Expansion of the Ross Heart Hospital Electrophysiology Laboratory to include three invasive electrophysiology labs, one cardiac catheter lab and a recovery area with 10 beds. Estimated project cost is $12 million to be provided by Medical Center auxiliary funds.

The board authorized the university to enter into a joint use agreement with Nationwide Children’s Hospital for the following project:
• Construction of stable facilities for horses on 200 acres owned by the Flying Horse Pediatric Farms in Mt. Gilead. Flying Horse offers camps for children with serious illnesses at no charge to the campers’ families. The joint use agreement stipulates that the state appropriation of $250,000 to the university will be used for capital improvements to the Flying Horse facility and that Flying Horse will provide educational opportunities to students at the College of Medicine to treat the physical and emotional needs of seriously ill children and their families.

Leases amended, entered into
• The board authorized the university to enter into an amended long-term lease with Ashtabula County that increases the lease’s time period to 40 years for an exchange of property that provides a buffer zone for grape crops at the Ohio Agricultural Research Development Center. The increased term will provide for continuity in the research performed at the station.
• The board authorized the university to enter into a five-year lease agreement with Ohio State University Physicians Inc. for medical office space at 920 North Hamilton Road in Gahanna. The space will be occupied by multiple specialties of The Ohio State University Medical Center, including family practice, sports medicine, orthopedics, physical rehabilitation and imaging.
• The board authorized the university to enter into a 40-year land lease of approximately 5 to 10 acres on The Ohio State University Mansfield/North Central State College campuses. MedCentral Health System plans to construct buildings for the MedCentral College of Nursing on the property.
• The board authorized the university to exercise a five-year lease renewal of office space at 921 Chatham Lane, occupied by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences’ Center for Human Resource Research.

Appointments ratified
The board ratified the appointment of the trustees to its committees for 2009-10 and recognized three newly formed working groups: Research/Outreach, Facilities/Master Planning and Steering. The board also ratified the appointments to the Medical Center, University Hospitals, The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, University Hospital East, OSU Harding Hospital and Ross Heart Hospital boards.

Named library rooms honor donors, other contributors

The board approved the naming of internal spaces in the newly restored William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library in recognition of those who have provided significant contributions to the renovations:
Room 260 – The Buckeye Reading Room
Western Addition – Robinson Wing
Room 200 – Cohen Family Grand Reading Room
West Atrium – Paul G. Duke Atrium
Café Terrace – Berry Café and Terrace
Room 105 – Creighton Special Collections Reading Room
Room 450 – Ingram White Castle Foundation Study Room
Room 460 – Carole Turner Hummel Scholars Lounge
Room 165 – JPMorgan Chase Study Room
Room 150 – Fifth Third Foundation Study Room
Room 205 – The Gardner Family Map Room
Room 455 – Robert and Mary Reusche Study Room
Room 100 – Herman J. Albrecht Library of Historical Architecture
Room 480 –Tressel Terrace

Kurt Knebusch

September 23, 2009

Kurt Knebusch is an editor in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, based at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster. He writes “Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick,” a science and nature column for children, as a part of his work.

What are your five favorite books and why?
The Fool’s Progress by Edward Abbey
Abbey’s semiautobiographical “Honest Novel.” Follows Henry Holyoak Lightcap, self-professed pig and lover of life, from the Appalachian hills to the Southwest deserts and back. There’s wilderness, whiskey, multiple wives, music (Waylon, Mahler), misanthropy, slapstick and memorable scenes involving his father, his second wife, a childhood baseball game, a kid named Leroy Ginter trying to suckle a sow and his ultimate going home — a slowly building, methodically marching, sad sweet beautiful climax. Greatest. Last line. Ever.

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Kerouac on the road and also now the trail, sparked by his new encounters with Buddhism, rucksacking and Gary Snyder (“Japhy Ryder”) — all eager, earnest and idealistic. Three great, long, joyous mountaintop scenes. I remember the first time reading it, thinking, “You mean you’re allowed to write like this?” — the enthusiasm and flow. It led me to most of the rest of his books and also to Snyder and Han-shan (to whom the book was dedicated).

The Way of Life by Lao Tzu
Taoism in a nutshell. I bought it at SBX on High Street back in 1982 or so. It’s faded and wrinkled from me spilling houseplant water on it. I like its directness. “Those who say, don’t know. Those who know, don’t say.” Ouch.

Cold Mountain Poems by Han-Shan
Small clear gems about mountains and impermanence. “Clack, clack, goes my wife at her loom / jabber, jabber, goes my son at play.” I like the sounds of the words, the pictures they paint (hermit as homebody!), and how they mix sadness, joy, melancholy and silliness often all at once. Old friends die, winds blow through pines, monkeys throw figs at your head — he sees it and accepts it.

The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder/ A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen
Both changed how I see people and nature, people and other species and how we are together or can be. Both “speak for those who can’t speak for themselves” — other species, the oppressed, the planet. I think of Snyder as one of our wisest writers, Jensen as one of our bravest.

What is the last book you’ve bought?
Seekers: The Quest Begins by Erin Hunter
A birthday present for my daughter, with a talking black bear, grizzly bear and polar bear in the title roles, and that’s hard to beat. I preordered David Orr’s new Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Change the other day. Mostly I’m a big user of the Wayne County Public Library in Wooster and through it the Cleveland Public Library and have the fines to show for it.

Officials unveil measures for flu education, prevention

September 23, 2009

Ohio State officials have outlined steps the university is taking to prepare for a likely reoccurrence of influenza-like illness on campus this fall.

“Our biggest emphasis will be on prevention through education and vaccination,” said Roger Miller, preventive medicine physician for Student Health Services. “We have begun communicating with the community on ways individuals can protect themselves from getting sick and we are providing information and resources through a new web site: flu.osu.edu.

“We had H1N1 on our campus this spring and based upon what we are seeing at other universities, we fully expect it to return this fall. As a result, Ohio State will treat all influenza-like illnesses as if they were H1N1 during fall quarter,” Miller added.

Frequent and thorough hand washing, along with maintaining general good health through adequate sleep, exercise and nutrition are being communicated throughout the university as the best means of prevention.

Students returning to campus for fall quarter are being encouraged to include thermometers, medicine, hand sanitizers and tissues as part of their back-to-school supplies. Sick students will be asked to self isolate until they are fever free for at least 24 hours and return home, if possible, to recover from their illness. Ill students who remain on campus can make arrangements for meals to be delivered to their rooms. Also, faculty members have been asked to be as flexible as possible with absence policies so that sick students do not come to class.

The vast majority of individuals with influenza-like illness will experience mild to moderate symptoms and can recover on their own with rest, fluids and over-the-counter medications, Miller said.

The university will not be routinely testing ill students for H1N1 and encourages those who are sick to only seek medical attention if symptoms get worse, or if there are health issues that put the individual at greater risk.

“Vaccination will play a large role in our prevention efforts, which are somewhat complicated by the need to administer separate vaccines for seasonal flu and H1N1,” Miller said.

The university will begin offering seasonal flu vaccines to students in September and will begin administering the H1N1 vaccine, in accordance with CDC guidelines, when it becomes available later this fall. Faculty and staff annual seasonal flu vaccinations will be available in October.

Common-sense ways to avoid spreading the flu

Among the measures to prevent the spread of illness, the university is:
• Centralizing all flu education and prevention information at a new website: flu.osu.edu.
• Encouraging students to return to school with thermometers, medicine, hand sanitizers and tissues.
• Encouraging ill students to return home if they are able.
• Making accommodations, including food delivery, for students unable to return home.
• Distributing information on the proper way to “cover your cough,” including posters and email communications.
• Encouraging and in some cases mandating seasonal influenza vaccinations.
• Asking instructors to make reasonable accommodations for students who report they are ill.
• Communicating the university leave policies to faculty and staff, encouraging ill employees to stay home.
• Placing hand sanitizers in all residence halls and distributing hand sanitizer at the student involvement fair.
• Instructing housekeeping staff on proper cleaning techniques.

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