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Newsbriefs, 10/08/09

Posted on | October 7, 2009 | 362 views |

John Glenn School of Public Affairs to extend project in Ukraine
The Parliamentary Development Project, operated by the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, has received an additional $200,000 contract to extend its democracy-development activities to a strategically important autonomous region in Ukraine. Beginning this month, PDP will open an office in the Autonomous Region of Crimea to its existing operations in Ukraine. Personnel at the Glenn School will help implement programming designed to improve policy, processes and communication at the Crimean Verkhovna Rada, the regional parliament. For more information, visit glennschool.osu.edu/news/pdp/crimea.html.

Law professor Merritt argues before US Supreme Court
Moritz College of Law Professor Deborah Jones Merritt was handpicked by the US Supreme Court to argue a case before it on Oct. 7. The court, in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick, is expected to determine whether a provision in the Copyright Act prevents federal jurisdiction for claims of unregistered copyrights. Merritt, who was arguing before the court for the first time, was there to defend the lower court ruling.

Merritt, the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at Moritz, graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1977 and from Columbia Law School in 1980. While at Columbia, she was managing editor of the Columbia Law Review and won the Robert Noxon Toppan Prize.

To read the brief filed by Merritt, visit abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/07-08/08-103_JudgmentCourtAppointedAmCu.pdf.

Tassé named director of Nisonger Center
Marc Tassé was named the new director for the Nisonger Center, an interdisciplinary program that provides assistance to people with disabilities, families, service providers and organizations to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in education, health, employment and community settings.

Tassé comes from the University of South Florida where he was associate professor of child and family studies and associate director at the university’s center for inclusive communities. Tassé also served on the psychology faculty of the Université du Québec à Montréal for four years and on the psychiatry faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for seven years. He trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Nisonger Center earlier in his career.

Tassé has provided clinical services to individuals with intellectual disabilities for more than 20 years. He has led training workshops throughout the world and is widely published. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Concordia University and his doctorate in clinical psychology from Université du Québec à Montréal.

OSU Extension offers assistance to first-time home buyers
OSU Extension, in collaboration with the Economic and Community Development Institute, is currently offering homeownership assistance in the form of grants (up to $2,000) and educational workshops to prospective low-to-moderate income homebuyers interested in purchasing in a thriving neighborhood near the Ohio State campus. If you’re employed at OSU or OSU Medical Center, your family may be eligible for up to an additional $3,000 as well. Prospective buyers also are encouraged to take advantage of the federal government’s $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit. For more information, contact 299-2915 or colbert.22@osu.edu.

President Gee launching Libraries lecture series
Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee, author of two books on the role of academic libraries in higher education, will deliver the inaugural lecture for the OSU Libraries’ 2009-10 series “Sharing Knowledge: The Global Information Society” at 2 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Thompson Library. Gee’s lecture will discuss the impact of academic libraries on the universities and communities they serve.

Gee’s presentation will be in the 11th floor Campus Reading Room, with a brief reception to follow. The series will continue into the spring.

Personalized medicine ‘killer apps’ will transform care model
The next major personalized medicine advances will create therapies that are so effective, consumers will demand systemwide change in the health care industry to gain access, the inventor of the DNA gene sequencer said on Oct. 2 at the OSU Medical Center’s Personalized Health Care National Conference. Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology, said personalized medicine’s first “killer apps” — therapies that will be nearly 100 percent effective based on patient genes and other individual factors — will drive the transformation of health care from trial-and-error effectiveness.

The Medical Center plans to collaborate with the Institute for Systems Biology to form the P4 Medical Institute, which will accelerate movement toward predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory health care through public-private partnership, said Clay Marsh, executive director of Ohio State’s Center for Personalized Health Care.

Ohio State Lima sees record enrollment
The Ohio State University at Lima welcomed a record number of students to its first day of autumn classes. More than 1,500 students were scheduled to begin classes, breaking the previous high of 1,475 students in autumn quarter 1991. Last year, enrollment was 1,409.

Official numbers will be available following the 15th day of classes.

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