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Newsbriefs, 10/22/09

October 21, 2009

President Gee meets with staff Nov. 2
The University Staff Advisory Committee will host a Staff Conversation with President Gordon Gee from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Fawcett Center Assembly Hall. Gee will have an informal discussion with those in attendance about key university issues and then open the floor to a question-and-answer
session.

Staff who can’t appear in person may send questions ahead of the event to usac@osu.edu. Any question not addressed during the event will be answered at usac.osu.edu, where a live Webcast of the event also will be available. USAC is asking college and department heads to support staff in attending the event.

College of Engineering dean search committee members named
Provost Joe Alutto chose members for the search committee for the Dean of the College of Engineering on Oct. 16. The committee members are: Joseph Steinmetz, vice provost and executive dean, search committee chair; Jane Amidon, associate professor, Knowlton School of Architecture; Rudolph Buchheit, professor and chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; L.S. Fan, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Hamish Fraser, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Vijay Gadepally, Council of Graduate Students representative; Robert Gustafson, professor and director, Engineering Education Innovation Center; Richard Hart, professor and chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering;

Mary Juhas, assistant dean, College of Engineering; William Lhota, president and CEO, Central Ohio Transit Authority; William Marras, professor, Department of Integrated Systems Engineering; Patrick Mayer, Undergraduate Student Government representative; Michael Paulaitis, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Christine Poon, dean, Fisher College of Business; Linda Weavers, professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science; Ronald Townsend, executive vice president, Global Laboratory Operations, Battelle Memorial Institute.

NIH awards Ohio State grant for population research center
Ohio State’s Initiative in Population Research has received a $2.2 million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health establishing IPR as a premier population research center with signature strengths in the study of family demography, population health and geographic analysis of health. The IPR brings together behavioral and health scientists from six colleges and 14 departments across Ohio State to better understand the health of children, adults, families and communities. A sampling of the range of population research conducted and supported by IPR includes studies of population growth in Africa and South Asia; unintended pregnancy in the US and in developing countries; child health and development; adult health disparities; and differential access to health care.

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research awards available
Applications are available now for the US Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program for advanced graduate students studying modern foreign language and area studies. Eligibility is restricted to students who possess the requisite language skills for the dissertation project and who are US citizens or permanent residents. Applications are available at ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/applicant.html. The OSU campus deadline to submit applications is Nov. 16. For more information contact Joanna Kukielka-Blaser at kukielka-blaser.1@osu.edu.

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research grants offered
Applications are available now for the US Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program. The program provides grants to colleges and universities to fund faculty to maintain and improve their area studies and foreign language skills by conducting research in other countries for periods of three to 12 months (projects focusing on western Europe are not supported). Grants provide travel expenses, a maintenance allowance (based on academic year salary) and a project allowance (for research related expenses such as books, copying, tuition). Applications are available at ed.gov/programs/iegpsfra/applicant.html. The OSU campus deadline to submit applications is Nov. 16. For more information contact Joanna Kukielka-Blaser at kukielka-blaser.1@osu.edu.

Ohio State begins providing all-in-one recycling containers
Working toward achievement of Ohio State’s goal of a 40 percent recycling rate by 2010, the university is launching the new All-In-One recycling program on the Columbus campus. The program is cost effective and makes recycling convenient for students, faculty, staff and visitors. Departments are encouraged to buy recycling containers for offices, break rooms and other public areas. For questions about recycling on campus or how to order containers, visit recycle.osu.edu or call 292-1528. More information also is available at fod.osu.edu/recycling.

Workshops help employees deal with grief, diabetic stress
The University Faculty and Staff Assistance Program is offering a pair of November workshops to help employees cope with holiday stress or diabetic issues related to stress or depression.

Program Counselor Lisa Borelli conducts “Facing Grief during the Holidays” from 5-6 p.m. Nov. 9 at OSU Health Plan, 700 Ackerman Road, Suite 580. This workshop is designed to help employees identify symptoms of grief, stress and depression and teach coping skills and resources that can help.

On Nov. 18, Borelli delivers “Stress Managment for Diabetics” from 5-6:15 p.m. at the same location. This workshop is designed to help employees manage moods, increase their awareness of coping skills and consistently adhere to their condition management. The workshops are free but registration is required and space is limited. Contact Borelli at 292-1709 or borelli.3@osu.edu for more information or to register. Attending this workshop can earn you points in the Your Plan for Health Incentive Program.

Julia Watson, professor of comparative studies

October 21, 2009

Julia Watson is associate dean for admissions and undergraduate affairs in arts and humanities and professor of comparative studies.

What are your five favorite books and why?

Essays by Michel de Montaigne
The book I would take to a desert island, my secular Bible. I wrote my dissertation on this vast collection of reflections by the 16th-century “inventor” of the essay, though I haven’t written on them in many years. No matter — Montaigne lives in my head as a speaking voice ruminating about intellectual questions, a physical presence with all its infirmities and quirks, a non-judgmental ethical force and a teacher, companion and ami (friend).Visiting the tower near Bordeaux a few years ago where he composed the essays was a thrill. Would that our accelerated 21st-century world still allowed such a life of retreat and contemplation!

The Odyssey by Homer
I didn’t read this until I began teaching, but its complex journeys and fable of quest deferred and pursued have stayed with me as a template for understanding life as an open-ended, creative and often mysterious journey toward the (ever-receding) horizon of wisdom. The challenges, seductions and dilemmas encountered by Odysseus, and in different ways — over his 20-year absence — by his son Telemachus in search of a father, and wife Penelope confronting unwanted suitors and surviving on her own — offer insights into interpreting experience that remain fresh.

The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The novel that, for me, pulls the hunger for love and learning together with the desire for a kind of justice that political arrangements rarely allow. Julien Sorel, like his female counterpart Mathilde, is a self-ironizing, passionate, yet half-blind and stirring figure who both embodies and undoes the notion of heroism in modernity.

Sula by Toni Morrison
My favorite of all the books by women writers I love and admire. While I’ve taught this short, intense novel perhaps a dozen times, I’m repeatedly astonished by its story of casual cruelty, bitter social inequities and moments of fierce attachment and abiding affection in adversity. The ferocity and truth in its passages of ecstasy and recognition move me to tears.

The Trial by Franz Kafka
Kafka characterized books as “an axe for the frozen sea inside us.” And his, from brief parables to The Trial, have that effect. But the “sea” that needed charting in my own experience was the vast ignorance I grew up in about the experience of people of color. The slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs were stirring, and the cool way Malcolm X tells his story of multiple conversions is unforgettable. But the stories that taught me about the structural injustices of colonialism and new ways writers are engaging with history and humanity are by African writers such as Mariana Ba in So Long a Letter and Ousmane Sembene.

To nominate an Ohio State faculty or staff person for a future BookTalk column, e-mail harris.587@osu.edu.

CCAPP symposium sets cosmological agenda

October 21, 2009

By Pam Frost Gorder

Researchers are trekking to the ends of the Earth to probe the furthest reaches of space.

The inaugural conference of Ohio State’s Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) earlier this month hosted a reunion for some of these unique Antarctic explorers.

CCAPP Postdoctoral Fellow Michael Stamatikos — a South Pole veteran — organized the conference, called “Towards Fundamental Breakthroughs in Astrophysics and Cosmology within the Next Decade.”

Today’s top minds in astrophysics and cosmology gathered to build a consensus on such topics as what the universe is made of and how the galaxies formed.

“As we explore the cosmos throughout the next decade, we’re poised to answer some of nature’s most enigmatic questions via an unprecedented scientific synergy of ground-based and satellite detectors such as Swift, Fermi and IceCube,” Stamatikos said.

Since the participants came from many different research fields, each using different methods for studying the universe, the conference let them build common ground. It also pointed to fundamental questions that still remain.

One major question is the source of high-energy cosmic ray particles that stream through the universe.

Neutrinos may hold the key. These tiny invisible particles are traveling so fast and with such high energy that every second, untold billions of them pass right through our planet as if it wasn’t here. Do they come from exploding stars? Black holes? Collisions in the early universe? All of the above?

Researchers aim to find out. Their most advanced telescope is taking shape at the South Pole right now.

University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist Francis Halzen, principal investigator of the project, reported in his public lecture Oct. 12 that the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is more than half finished.

Since 2005, scientists including Stamatikos have traveled to the pole to plant strands of light detectors, each a kilometer long, under the ice.

When they’re done, 80 strands will dangle like branches of a giant chandelier forever frozen in place.

Over a dozen times a day, a neutrino collides with an atom of ice, creating a flash of blue light that the IceCube will detect. In fact, the detectors that are in place have already seen thousands of neutrino events, which have been consistent with an atmospheric origin thus far.

Halzen expects that IceCube will reveal astrophysical neutrinos within a few years. That is, unless a nearby star were to explode in a supernova. In that case, scientists could be sure that the flood of new particles came from a specific source.

“We would get 10 years’ worth of physics in 10 seconds,” Halzen said.

Ethan Dicks, Ohio State alumnus and information technology consultant, was on hand at the lecture. Two of his six trips to Antarctica found him assembling the IceCube detector strands and lowering them into the ice.

Deadlines for building the telescope have to be flexible, as all activity on the continent is at the mercy of the weather, Dicks explained. Stations can be shut down, with no travel in and out for days or weeks at a time.

“On Antarctica, things happen… when they happen,” Dicks said. “You get used to it.”

Medical Center, Children’s Hospital limit visitors during flu outbreak

October 21, 2009

The higher-than-normal incidence of influenza this season has caused both the Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital to limit access to patient care rooms by young visitors.

To protect patients, families, visitors and staff from the spread of seasonal and H1N1 influenza, both facilities have restricted visitation to patient rooms to immediate family members who are over 12 and who have no flu-like symptoms.

Obviously, the restrictions do not apply to children who come for medical treatment. The restrictions are temporary and in response to the elevated incidence of influenza in the central Ohio area. Most area hospitals are limiting access to children becasue they’re more susceptible than adults to certain strains of the flu virus, particularly H1N1.

Hospitalized patients are at higher risk if they are exposed to someone with influenza and respiratory illnesses.
All hospitals within the Medical Center, including University Hospital, the James Cancer Hospital, Ross Heart Hospital, Dodd Hall, OSU/Harding and University Hospital East, as well as Nationwide Children’s, have restrictions in place.

Visitation to the Neonatal Intensive Care and Bone Marrow Transplant units at Children’s had been restricted to patients/guardians and grandparents only for about four weeks prior to this latest restriction and will remain.

“While Nationwide Children’s Hospital maintains a philosophy of family-centered care and usually encourages siblings of any age to visit inpatients if the siblings are free of colds or other illnesses, there is evidence that children under 12 years of age are more likely to carry and spread viruses,” Children’s officials said in a release.

Children’s normally implements visitor restrictions to some degree during each influenza season, according to the release, and the hospital will continue to monitor the spread of influenza this season and expand its visitor restrictions if necessary.

For up-to-date information on the restrictions, additional limitations that might be in place at specific OSU Medical Center facilities, as well as flu-prevention information, go to flu.osu.edu, medicalcenter.osu.edu or nationwidechildrens.org/h1n1 or call 293-5123.

Do your part

Frequent hand washing and coughing or sneezing into your sleeve help to limit the spread of the flu virus.

Flu-like symptoms include a fever greater than 100.4 degrees with a cough, sore throat, nasal congestion, headaches, fatigue or body aches.

Faculty & Staff, 10/22/09

October 21, 2009

Books
Lynn Knipe, Animal Sciences, wrote the chapter, “Processing Interventions to Inhibit Listera Monocytogenes Growth in Ready-to-Eat Meat Products,” and served as editor with Robert Rust for the book Thermal Processing of Ready-to-Eat Meat Products (Blackwell Publishing, 2009).

Mo Yee Lee, Social Work, Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Social Work: An Empirically Based Approach to Assessment and Treatment (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Susan Nittrouer, Otolaryngology, Early Development of Children with Hearing Loss (Plural Publishing, San Diego, 2009).

Robyn Warhol-Down, English, Feminisms Redux: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism, co-edited with Diane Price Herndl (Rutgers University Press, 2009).

Grants
Anish Arora, Computer Science and Engineering, received a $200,001 National Science Foundation Computer and Network Systems grant for “Collaborative Research: Localization and System Services for SpatioTemporal Actions in Cyber-Physical Systems.”

Jacqueline Davis, Optometry, received a $20,000 grant from the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus Foundation Inc. for the establishment of a community-based Glaucoma Screening Program.

Francis Fluharty, Animal Sciences, received a $397,000 USDA grant for four years of research entitled “Assessing Production, Economics, Marketing, Producer and Processor Perceptions, and the Characteristics of Meat from Forage-based Systems,” assisted by Steve Loerch, Henry Zerby and Paul Kuber.

Richard Gumina, Cardiovascular Medicine and Internal Medicine, received a $412,500 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research project “CD39-Mediated Cardiovascular Protection,” as well as a $308,000 four-year grant from The American Heart Association for “Influence of KATP Channel Activity on ROS/RNS Generation and the Effects on Calcium Modulatory Proteins.”

Elizabeth Lenz, Nursing, has been awarded a two-year grant of approximately $200,000 from the Ohio Board of Nursing’s Nursing Education Grant Program to expand and enrich OSU’s post-licensure programs.

Randy Moses, Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a $9,996 National Science Foundation planning grant to collaborate with Wright State University in establishing an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Surveillance Theory that will develop a mature theory and advanced body of knowledge for modern surveillance systems.

Presentations
Chadwick Allen, English, “Voicing Silences in Diane Glancy’s Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea,” at the Western Literature Association Conference, Spearfish, S.D., Oct. 2.

Kristi Baker, Research, presented “PI Portal Overview,” Columbus, Sept. 22.

Maurice Eastridge, Animal Sciences, presented “Opportunity to Manage Milkfat Contents in Dairy Cattle,” at the 30th Western Nutrition Conference, Manitoba, Canada, Sept. 23-24.

Steven Fink, English, presented “Who is Poe’s ‘Man of the Crowd?’” at the Poe Studies Association’s International Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 8-11.

David Herman, English, presented “Triangulating Stories, Media and the Mind” at the Workshop on Cognitive Poetics, Toronto, Canada, June 10; “Beyond Theories of Mind: Narrative Modeling of Action Sequences,” the keynote address for the International Conference on Minds and Narrative, Leuven, Belgium, June 16; and “Beyond the Two Cultures: Persons, Minds and Stories,” at the Symposium on Narrative, Science and Performance, Columbus, Oct. 2.

Hasan Jeffries, History, gave a series of public lectures related to his book Bloody Lowndes at the United African Movement in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 9; at Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem, N.Y., Sept. 10; at the City College of New York Division of Interdisciplinary Studies in New York, N.Y., Sept. 11; at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., Sept. 14; at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 15; at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 16; and at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 17.

Kristi Lekies, Human and Community Resource Development and Ohio State University Extension, presented “Organized Community-Based Activities for 5-8-Year-Old Children: A Review of the Research Literature,” at the 19th European Early Childhood Education Research Association Conference, Strasbourg, France, Aug. 27.

Sarah Starr, Research, presented “Research Funding Opportunities — for Research Administrators,” Columbus, Oct. 15.

Kathryn Terzano and Victoria Morckel, City and Regional Planning, presented “The Relationship Between Transit Options, Commuting Mode and Recreational Physical Activity: Washington, DC, and Elsewhere” at the 50th Anniversary Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Crystal City, Va., Oct. 1-4.

Noel Voltz, History, delivered “’It’s No Disgrace to a Colored Girl to Placer:’ A History of Placage in the Circum-Caribbean,” at the ASALH 94th Annual convention, Cincinnati, Oct. 2.

Publications
Tamara Davis, Susan Saltzburg and Chris Locke, Social Work, “Supporting the Emotional and Psychological Well Being of Sexual Minority Youth: Youth Ideas for Action,” Children and Youth Services Review, September 2009, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 1030-41.

Jared Gardner, English,“Percy Crosby and Skippy,” The Comics Journal, May 2009, pp. 298.

Jane Hathaway, History, published Siyasat al-zumar al-hakima fi Misr al-uthmaniyya (Arabic translation of The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt), trans. Abd al-Rahman Abdallah al-Shaykh (Cairo: The Supreme Council for Culture, 2003).

Richard Morman, University Police, “Changing Game Day Culture,” Campus Safety Magazine (online), September/October 2009.

David Rigney, Materials Science and Engineering, “A Simulation Study of the Mixing, Atomic Flow and Velocity Profiles of Crystalline Materials During Sliding,” Wear, Vol. 267, pp. 1130-36; “The Effects of Sliding Velocity and Sliding Time on Nanocrystalline Tribolayer Development and Properties in Copper,” Wear, Vol. 267, pp. 562-67; “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Sliding in an Fe-Cu Tribopair System,” Wear, Vol. 267, pp. 1166-76; “Nanostructures Generated by Explosively Driven Friction: Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations,” Acta Mater, Vol. 57, pp. 5270-82.

Hari Sharma, Integrative Medicine, “Leaky Gut Syndrome, Dysbiosis, Ama, Free Radicals and Natural Antioxidants,” AYU – A Quarterly Peer Reviewed Journal of Research in Ayurveda, Vol. 30, No. 2,  pp. 88-105.

Carolyn Skinner, English, “’She Will Have Science:’ Ethos and Audience in Mary Gove’s Lectures to Ladies,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 240-59.

Recognition
Marialice Bennet, Pharmacy, has been chosen as president-elect of the American Pharmacists Association and will be installed in Washington, DC, March 12-15, 2010.

Holly Dabelko-Schoeny, Social Work, was appointed to the National Adult Day Services Association board of directors, composed of individuals who represent adult day services providers from across the country, and will serve a two-year term.

Inder Gupta, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Yuan Zheng, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering; and Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, received a best paper award for “Positioning in GPS Challenged Environments: Dynamic Sensor Network with Distributed GPS Aperture and Inter-nodal RF Ranging Signals,” at the Institute of Navigation Global Navigation Satellite System conference, Savannah, Ga., Sept. 22-25.

Alisa McMahon, Business, was selected as the recipient of the Fisher Staff Excellence Award for demonstrating qualities that have enriched the student’s educational experience.

Ryan Shaughnessy, History, took first prize in the 2008-09 Cold War essay contest sponsored by the John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis at the Virginia Military Institute with his paper entitled “Relational Rearmament: The US Air Force’s German Air Force Monograph Project and Its Effect on the West German-American Alliance, 1952-1958.”

Service
Harvey Graff, English, was an advisor to the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, whose report, “Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age,” was released in Washington, DC, Oct. 2, and has been nominated to serve on the American Historical Association’s Committee on Teaching Prizes.

Karen Peeler, Music, judged the annual Tuesday Morning Music Club Scholarship Final Competition in San Antonio, Texas, March 7.

Robin Rice, Music, was a master teacher for the Asian International Opera Workshop Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, during the months of July and August, teaching and coaching many opera scenes and voice lessons to the international students and also presented several master classes.

Ness Shroff, Computer Science and Engineering, served as general co-chair of the Fourth International Wireless Internet Conference in Maui, Hawaii, Nov. 17-19, 2008, as well as being an invited member of the chaired Professor Group on Wireless Communications at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, March 23.

Calendar

October 21, 2009

Conferences
Oct. 30-31, Mershon Center for International Security Studies Conference, “West Africa and the United States’ War on Terror,” Kelechi Kalu and Laura Joseph, Ohio State, Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., call 292-1681 or visit mershoncenter.osu.edu for more information.

Multiple Perspectives event seeks proposals
Deadline Nov. 7
The Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion and Disability conference scheduled for April 27-28 is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is encouraging proposal submissions built around themes of past conferences. These include: “The Next 10 Years,” “Disability in Context,” “Access by Design,” “Education, Citizenship, Disability,” “Reflecting on Sameness Difference,” “Personal Perspectives and Social Impact: The Stories We Tell,” “Rights, Responsibilities and Social Change,” “Looking Back, Thinking Ahead,” and “Change, Challenge, Collaboration.” For the call for presentations and additional information, visit ada.osu.edu/conferences.htm.

Dance
Oct. 28, Dance on Camera II, 7 p.m., Sullivant Theatre, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St., admission, 292-7977.

French director Claire Denis casts her insightful eye on a working-class man and his grown daughter in “35 Shots of Rum” (2008), a film that’s as much a tone poem as a story. Their deeply devoted relationship evolves unpredictably when she attracts a young suitor and her father becomes drawn to a middle-aged woman. Separately and then together, father and daughter realize that both living and loving involve aspects of their common past. The showings are at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 and 30 in the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Theater. Visit wexarts.org or call 292-3535 for tickets.

Events
Oct. 22, Wooster’s Secrest Arboretum 2009 Events, fourth annual “Why Trees Matter Forum,” Fisher Auditorium, $70 registration fee required, (330) 263-3761 or cochran.7@osu.edu.

Oct. 22, University Libraries Read Aloud Program, Doug Dangler will read Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut or one of his short stories, 3-4 p.m., Thompson Library, ground floor northwest, opposite to the Berry Café, 1858 Neil Ave., library.osu.edu/blogs/readaloud.

Oct. 22, Flu Immunizations, Lima campus, 8:20 a.m.-12:40 p.m., 212/213 Public Service Building, 4240 Campus Drive, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness.

Oct. 22, Flu Immunizations, Medical Center, 7-9:30 a.m., Season’s Café, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness.

Oct. 22, Biometric Health Screenings, Lima campus, 8:20 a.m.-12:20 p.m., 212/213 Public Service Building, 4240 Campus Drive, registration required, yourplanforhealth.com.

Oct. 26, Flu Immunizations, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Fawcett Center, Garland Room, 2400 Olentangy River Road, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness.

Oct. 27, Flu Immunizations, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Physics Research Building, first floor atrium, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness.

Oct. 27, Flu Immunizations, Medical Center, 2-4 p.m., first floor, Room 325, 660 Ackerman Road, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness.

Oct. 28, University Libraries Read Aloud Program, Ohio State Lima, volunteers will read from their favorite works, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Cook Hall, 4240 Campus Drive, lima.osu.edu/communications/events.php.

Oct. 28, October Book Club, This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff, noon-1 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Oct. 29, University Libraries Read Aloud Program, Julia and Joyce: Two Fifties’ Outsiders Tell Their Stories, David Stebenne (history) will read selections from Julia Child’s memoir My Life in France and Karen Simonian (Wexner Center) will read from Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir, 3-4 p.m., Thompson Library, ground floor northwest, opposite to the Berry Café, 1858 Neil Ave., library.osu.edu/blogs/readaloud.

Oct. 29, Flu Immunizations, Wooster-OARDC and ATI, 8:40 a.m.-12:40 p.m., Fisher Auditorium, North Exhibit Area, 1680 Madison Ave., registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness.

Oct. 29, Biometric Health Screenings, OARDC and ATI, 8:40 a.m.-1 p.m., Fisher Auditorium, North Exhibit Area, 1680 Madison Ave., registration required, yourplanforhealth.com.

Oct. 31, Monuments of Columbus Bike Tour, 18-mile tour of the under-rated monuments of Columbus, noon, OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., 292-8861.

Nov. 2, Flu Immunizations, Medical Center, 4-6 p.m., Season’s Café, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness.

Nov. 2, Biometric Health Screenings, Super Screening Day (faculty and staff only), University Hospital East, 8 a.m.-noon, Wallace Auditorium Lobby, registration required, yourplanforhealth.com.

Nov. 3, Flu Immunizations, Mansfield campus, 8:20 a.m.-noon, 217 Eisenhower Hall, 1640 University Drive, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness.

Nov. 3, Biometric Health Screenings, Mansfield campus, 8:20 a.m.-noon, 217 Eisenhower Hall, 1640 University Drive, registration required, yourplanforhealth.com.

Nov. 4, University Libraries Read Aloud Program, Ohio State Lima, volunteers will read from their favorite works, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Cook Hall, 4240 Campus Drive, lima.osu.edu/communications/events.php.

Nov. 4, Flu Immunizations, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 410 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Ave., registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness.

Exhibits
Through Oct. 23, “Curtis Goldstein: Paintings,” Faculty Club, ohiostatefacultyclub.com or 292-2262.

Through Oct. 23, Department of Art New Works Faculty Exhibition, “Ardine Nelson, photography,” Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, 128 N. Oval mall, free, 292-5072.

Through Oct. 30, Ohio State Marion, “Drawing it Out,” an exploration of the recording of thought through drawing, Kuhn Arts Gallery, Morrill Hall, 1465 Mt. Vernon Ave., closing reception, 4-6 p.m. Oct. 28, free and open to the public, Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-5 p.m., marion.ohio-state.edu/community/gallery.html.

Through Nov. 15, Ohio State Newark Earthworks Day Art Exhibit, “Pilgrimage Through the Centuries,” LeFevre Art Gallery, 1179 University Drive, free and open to the public, newark.osu.edu or (740) 364-9584.

Through Nov. 19, Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, “Black, White and Re(a)d All Over,” Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, 128 N. Oval Mall, free, 292-5072.

Through Feb. 6, “Tactile Color,” artwork of SallyB, OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Oct. 26-Nov. 6, New Works Exhibition: Ed Valentine and Amy Youngs, Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, 128 N. Oval Mall, free, 292-5072.

Oct. 27-Dec. 12, “The Monuments of Columbus,” opening reception, 5-8 p.m.

Oct. 29, OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Oct. 28-Dec. 18, Group exhibition featuring watercolors, oils, pastels and bronze and ceramic sculpture by Elaine Freeman, Judith Hazen, Anastasia Horowitz and Rebecca Taft, Faculty Club, ohiostatefacultyclub.com or 292-2262.

Nov. 3-Dec. 18, “Works by Neighborhood Design Center: Proposing New Possibilities,” OSU Urban Arts Space,
50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Films
Oct. 22, “Thinking on Their Feet: Women of the Tap Renaissance,” screening with Q & A, 7-8:30 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space,  50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Oct. 29, “Nosferatu,” screening with live sound track, 6:30-8 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Lectures
Oct. 22, Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, “Presumption of Black Bias: Presumption of White Objectivity,” Vincene Verdun, Moritz College of Law, 6-7 p.m., Community Extension Center, 905 Mount Vernon Ave., 292-3922 or aaascec@osu.edu.

Oct. 22, Department of Statistics and Biostatistics Colloquium Series, James O’Malley, Harvard University, 3:30 p.m., 170 Eighteenth Avenue Building, 292-5194.

Oct. 25, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, “When Does Criticism of Israel Shade into the ‘New’ Anti-Semitism and Why?” Menachem Kellner, University of Haifa, 10 a.m., Columbus JCC, 1125 College Ave., 292-0967.

Oct. 25, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, The Pearl and Troy Feibel Lecture on Judaism and the Law, “When Theology Affects Law: The Case of Maimonides,” Menachem Kellner, University of Haifa, 7 p.m., Wexner Heritage Village, 1151 College Ave., 292-0967.

O’Leary Lecture: ‘Ending America’s Ambivalence in the War on Drugs’
Oct. 26
The College of Social Work is hosting its annual Robert J. O’Leary Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m. at the Fawcett Center Auditorium. Diana DiNitto, Cullen Trust Centennial Professor in Alcohol Studies and Education and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, will discuss “Ending America’s Ambivalence in the War on Drugs.” A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Lauren Haas at 247-7385 or haas.168@osu.edu.

Oct. 26, Humanities Institute, Neighborhood Institute Working Group, “Town/Gown Relations from the East Side of High Street,” Emily Foster, community historian, 3:30 p.m., Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., staley.3@osu.edu.

Oct. 27, Physics Department 2009-10 Colloquium, Hari Manoharan, Stanford University, 3:45 p.m. reception, 4 p.m. colloquia, 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

Oct. 28, President and Provost’s 2009-10 Diversity Lecture and Cultural Arts Series, “Step Out on Nothing: An Afternoon with Byron Pitts,” 4 p.m., Saxbe Auditorium, Drinko Hall, 55 W. 12th Ave., osu.edu/diversity or
hr.osu.edu/worklife/education/aspx.

Oct. 28, Knowlton School of Architecture, Autumn 2009 Baumer Lecture Series: Territory, “Redefining Infrastructure,” Pierre Belanger, Harvard University, 5:30 p.m., Knowlton Hall Auditorium, 275 W. Woodruff Ave., free and open to public, knowlton.osu.edu or 292-1012.

Oct. 28, Humanities Institute, Lusoglobe Working Group, Michael Wood, Princeton University, noon, Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., pereira37@humanities.osu.edu.

Oct. 29, Department of Statistics and Biostatistics Colloquium Series, Rebecca Andridge, 3:30 p.m., 170 Eighteenth Avenue Building, 292-5194.

Oct. 30, Department of History, “Migrations and Identity in Iron Age and Medieval Europe,” Peter Wells, University of Minnesota, 3:30 p.m., 014 University Hall, 230 N. Oval Mall, for more information contact history.osu.edu.

Oct. 30, Humanities Institute, Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies, 11:30 a.m., Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., hooks.28@osu.edu.

Oct. 30, Humanities Institute, Public Sphere Working Group, Jennifer Mitzen, political science, 2:30 p.m., Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., fischer.5@osu.edu.

Nov. 3, College of Public Health, 2009 Health Care Disparities and Diversity Leadership Lecture Series, “Health Centers’ Role in Reducing Disparities,” Julie vanPutten, Columbus Neighborhood Health Centers Inc., 12:30-2 p.m., 165 Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, 473 W. 12th Ave., 293-8264 or cph.osu.edu.

Nov. 3, Physics Department 2009-10 Colloquium, “Testing Fundamental Physics with Atom Interferometry,” Asimina Arvanitaki, University of California-Berkeley, 3:45 p.m. reception, 4 p.m. colloquia, 1080 Physics Research Building, 292-5713.

Nov. 4, Center for the Study of Religion, At Large Lecture Series, “Albrecht Durer and the Art of Faith on the Eve of the Reformation,” Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas-Austin, 4:30 p.m., Grand Lounge, Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive, 688-8010.

Nov. 4, Knowlton School of Architecture, Autumn 2009 Baumer Lecture Series: Territory, “AIA Columbus Honor Awards Keynote Lecture,” Doug Stockman, El Dorado, 5:30 p.m., Knowlton Hall Auditorium, 275 W. Woodruff Ave., free and open to public, knowlton.osu.edu or 292-1012.

Meetings
Oct. 22, National Work and Family Month, “Bullying,” Lissa Barker, Masters Programs and Family Nurse Practitioner Program, noon-1 p.m., 168 Newton Hall, 1585 Neil Ave., registration preferred, hr.osu.edu/worklife/education.aspx.

Oct. 22, Lunch and Learn, “Living with Epilepsy,” noon-1 p.m., 130 Biomedical Research Tower, 460 W. 12th Ave., registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness/program.asp or 292-1894.

Oct. 26, National Work and Family Month, “Greening the Workplace,” Aparna Dial, OSU Energy Services and Sustainability, noon-1 p.m., Gateway Suite 430, Room 425,
1590 N. High St., registration preferred, hr.osu.edu/worklife/education.aspx.

Oct. 27, National Work and Family Month, “Touch of Gourmet,” 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Gateway Suite 430, Room 421, 1590 N. High St., registration preferred, hr.osu.edu/worklife/education.aspx.

Oct. 27, Lunch and Learn, “Benefits of Mindful Eating,” noon-1 p.m., 226 University Hall, 230 N. Oval Mall, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness/program.asp or 292-1894.

Oct. 29, Board of Trustees, Longaberger Alumni House, 2200 Olentangy River Road, call for schedule, 292-6359.

Nov. 2, Lunch and Learn, “On the Road to Better Managing Your Diabetes,” noon-1 p.m., 426 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Ave., registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness/program.asp or 292-1894.

Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Lunch and Learn, Get Fit with Maria, “Coed Mat Pilates – 101 for Beginners: Series Two,” 5:30-6:30 p.m., 306 Pomerene Hall Gym, 1760 Neil Ave., registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness/program.asp or 292-1894.

Nov. 3, Succeeding Financially, “Homebuying Prep Seminar,” Brian Connor, Huntington National Bank, noon-1 p.m., Gateway Suite 430, Room 425, 1590 N. High St., registration required, hr.osu.edu/finseries or 247-7961.

Nov. 4, 18, Dec. 2, 7, 9, Lunch and Learn, Get Fit with Maria, “Coed Back at ‘Cha: Series Two,” 5:30-6:30 p.m., 306 Pomerene Hall Gym, 1760 Neil Ave., registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness/program.asp or 292-1894.

Music
Oct. 25, Jazz Faculty Series: Andrew Woodson on bass and Mark Flugge on piano, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

Oct. 26, Guest/Faculty Series: Soprano Maya Krivchenia and pianist Edward Bak, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

Oct. 27, Guest Series: Baritone Norman Spivey, 8 p.m., Hughes Auditorium, 1899 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

Oct. 27, Wind Symphony, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

Oct. 28, Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

Oct. 30, HalleBOOia! 16th Annual Halloween Concert, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

Nov. 2, Ohio State Lima, Quelque Chose Musical Trio, 12:30 p.m., 160 Reed Hall, 4240 Campus Drive, free and open to the public, lima.osu.edu/communications/events.php.

Schottenstein
Oct. 23, Zac Brown Band, 7 p.m., Value City Arena, admission, schottensteincenter.com or ticketmaster.com.

Oct. 28, Jay-Z, 7:30 p.m., Value City Arena, admission, schottensteincenter.com or ticketmaster.com.

Oct. 30, “Disney Live! Rockin’ Road Trip,” 7 p.m., Value City Arena, admission, schottensteincenter.com or ticketmaster.com.

Training
Oct. 22, University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Events on Teaching, “Putting Together Your Job Search Campaign: The Interview,” 3:30-5 p.m., 150 Younkin Success Center, registration required, ucat.osu.edu/participate/ftad_events/registration.html or 292-3644.

Oct. 22, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Resolving Conflict within the Workplace,” 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. 22-23, Financial Training and Documentation, “The Procurement and Payment Process,” 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. both days, 231 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.ohio-state.edu/hrfin/trainingregistration.html.

Oct. 26, 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.

Oct. 26, 28, 30, IT Statistical Training, “SAS for Windows 1,” 1:30-3:30 p.m., 112B Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, no charge, registration required, oit.osu.edu/shortcourse/compcourses.html.

Oct. 27-28, Financial Training and Documentation, “The Reconciliation Process,” 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. both days, 231 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.ohio-state.edu/hrfin/trainingregistration.html.

Oct. 27-28, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Key Fundamentals of Management,” 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. both days, Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road, admission for non-members, registration required, glennschool.osu.edu or 292-3242.

Oct. 28, College of Social Work Training, “Out in the World: Working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth,” 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m., 115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, earn 6 CEU/clock hours, open to the public, for description and registration visit csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar/091028.

Oct. 28, University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Events on Teaching, “Grammar 101: Effectively Addressing Surface Errors in Student Writing,” 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., 300 Younkin Success Center, 1640 Neil Ave., registration required, ucat.osu.edu/participate/ftad_events/registration.html or 292-3644.

Oct. 28, Human Resources Training, “Manage Positions and Create Job Openings,” 1-4:30 p.m., 191 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.osu.edu/hrfin/hrschedule/html.

Oct. 29, Financial Training and Documentation, “Introduction to Your Business Responsibilities at OSU,” 12:30-4 p.m., 231 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.ohio-state.edu/hrfin/trainingregistration.html.

Oct. 29, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Emotional Intelligence: What Makes a Good Leader?” 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.

Nov. 3, Office of Research, “Research Expo 2009,” 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., registration required, research.osu.edu/ortec.

Nov. 3, Office of Research, “Electronic Research Tools Demonstration,” 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1:30-2:30 p.m., Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., research.osu.edu/ram.

Nov. 3, Office of Research, “If a Tree Falls in the Forest … The Conundrum of Science Communications,” 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., research.osu.edu/ram.

Nov. 3, Office of Research, “Inventions, IP and Industry: The Ins and Outs of Industry Collaboration and Commercialization,” 12:30-1:30 p.m., Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., research.osu.edu/ram.

Nov. 3, Office of Research, “New Discoveries at the Intersection of Disciplines: How to Forge Strategic Multidisciplinary Collaboration,” 10-11 a.m., Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., research.osu.edu/ram.

Nov. 3, Office of Research, “New Faculty Meet and Greet,” 9:30-10:30 a.m., Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., registration required, research.osu.edu/ortec.

Nov. 3, Office of Research, “Research Funding Opportunities for Faculty,” 10:30-11:30 a.m. and 12:30-1:30 p.m., Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., research.osu.edu/ram.

Nov. 3, Office of Research, “Tips from the Pros: Strategies for Successful Grantsmanship,” 2-3 p.m., Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., research.osu.edu/ram.

Nov. 3, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Adept at Adapting,” 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.

Nov. 3-4, 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.

Nov. 4, College of Social Work Training, “Prevention Across the Lifespan,” 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m., 115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, earn 3 CEU/clock hours, open to the public, for description and registration visit csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar/090910.

Nov. 4, University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Events on Teaching, “Writing and Critical Thinking: Quick and Easy Assignments for Any Classroom,” 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., 300 Younkin Success Center, 1640 Neil Ave., registration required, ucat.osu.edu/participate/ftad_events/registration.html or 292-3644.

Nov. 4, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Managing Change in Organizations,” 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.

Nov. 4-5, 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.

Wexner
Through Oct. 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.

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.

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.

Oct. 22, GenWex Presents: Trivia Night, 6 p.m., Performance Space, $5 admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 22, Visiting Filmmaker: Janie Geiser, “Magnetic Sleep and other films,” 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 23, Secret Cinema, 7:30 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 25, Next @ Wex, “Atlas Sound and Broadcast,” 9 p.m., Black Box on Mershon Stage, $14 admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 27, Artist’s Talk, Amy Youngs and Ed Valentine, 4 p.m., Film/Video Theater, free, 292-3535.

Oct. 28, Classics: Festival of Preservation, “Young America” (Frank Borzage, 1932) and “Song O’ My Heart” (Frank Borzage, 1930), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 29, Gallery Talk, “Double Take: Maurice Stevens and Paul Reitter,” 12:30 p.m., Wexner Center Galleries, free, 292-3535.

Oct. 29, onStage, “The Tiger Lillies,” 8 p.m., Performance Space, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 29-30, International Screen, “The Dead” (Susan Philipsz, 2000) and “35 Shots of Rum” (Claire Denis, 2007), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Nov. 1-30, The Box, “In the Air” (Liza Johnson, 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.

Nov. 1, International Screen, “Being Jewish in France” (Yves Jeuland, 2007), 2 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Nov. 3, Special Event, “John Canemaker: The Art and Life of Winsor McCay,” 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Nov. 4, Writer’s Reading: Matthew Specktor, “That Summertime Sound,” book signing follows, 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, free, 292-3535.

Workshop
Nov. 5, OHRC Workshop, “Family Violence and Relationship Abuse Awareness Training,” 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Gateway Suite 430, Room 425, 1590 N. High St., registration required, hr.osu.edu/ohrc/ld_quarterlytraining.

Jared Gardner, English/Film studies

October 21, 2009

How has the rise of the DVD changed the way films are taught?
When I started out studying film, VHS wasn’t even widely available for most classic titles, so teaching film required ordering films from 16mm rental companies. There was little time to stop and study the film, and in fact freezing a film to get a specific shot for close analysis required specialized equipment that most of us didn’t have. By the time I got to graduate school, VHS was everywhere and more titles were available. For the first time we could show clips, revisit sequences, etc. But there were downsides to VHS as well: Most of them panned-and-scanned the original film ratio to fit a television, destroying the original composition of the cinematography. The quality of the image was always vastly inferior to original film. DVD transformed film classrooms, allowing access to anywhere in the film, perfect stills, slow-motion, zoom, etc.

For me, the best advantage as a teacher is being able to respond to a question or insight from my students in class by going promptly to the scene in question. In the DVD age, students are used to re-watching films, zooming in or freezing on shots that particularly capture their imagination.

How has the DVD changed the film industry?
In countless ways, still to be measured. Increasingly the bulk of studio revenue from a film comes from DVD sales, not from theatrical release. So filmmakers and studios are starting to think about audiences less as passive spectators in the picture palace on opening night and more as a new kind of audience, watching on TV or laptops with a remote control in hand. As filmmaking increasingly merges with the small screen, everything from cinematography to screenwriting to editing changes, inevitably. The full measure of these changes won’t be clear for a generation, but we can already see some clear changes in, for example, the rise of the “cinema of complexity” (or “puzzle films”) specifically designed for viewers to watch more than once, to hunt through for clues, etc.

What are some benefits and detriments to using film as a teaching tool?
For me, film is a rewarding teaching tool for a number of reasons, perhaps foremost because my students come to class — even if it is their first film course — already with highly developed powers of visual analysis. And there is a unique pleasure to consuming our primary text together, in class, something that can’t be duplicated when I am teaching a triple-decker nineteenth-century novel, for example. The biggest challenges tend to be technical ones: A projector bulb goes out in the middle of a screening, I can’t get the lights to shut off for a screening or the sound system shorts out on me. But we have terrific support from classroom services here, and they can usually solve most of our technical problems quickly.

Gee takes on tenure reform in annual address to faculty

October 21, 2009

‘True heft’ of vitae, he said, should be more important than simply length

By Jeff McCallister

Gordon Gee has hinted on a number of occasions since he returned for his second term as president of Ohio State that he thought the system by which faculty are recognized and rewarded for their work needed an update. Continue reading ‘Gee takes on tenure reform in annual address to faculty’

Interdisciplinary team wins Grand Opportunities award

October 21, 2009

A team of OSU researchers recently received a$1.2 million, two-year RC2/Grand Opportunities award from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ‘stimulus package’ of the National Institute of Aging at NIH.

The team, coordinated by Nicanor Moldovan from the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology and the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute and by Stuart Cooper, chair of William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has the goal to develop a new assay for stem/progenitor cells, and to test it in patients as correlated to their heart heath status.

This translational project was a joint application of investigators form the School of Engineering, Medical Center and Children’s Hospital. It encompasses fields from protein chemistry, materials science and magnetic particles to cell biology and vascular medicine.

Further information is available from Moldovan at nicanor.moldovan@osumc.edu or 247-7801; or from Cooper at coopers@chbmeng.ohio-state.edu or 247-8015.

Innovation centers, groups selected for funding

October 13, 2009

The Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) and the Office of Research (OR) have announced the establishment of two Centers for Innovation and three Innovation Groups. The Centers for Innovation and Innovation Group programs were created by the university to encourage trans-institutional and interdisciplinary scholarship across campus.  Many outstanding proposals were submitted for this competition, addressing issues and problems of global dimension that affect the quality of the human condition.  The following proposals have been selected for funding:

Centers for Innovation:

OSU International Poverty Solutions Collaborative

Principal Investigators: Howard Goldstein, College of Education and Human Ecology; Jay Barney, Fisher College of Business

(More than 60 faculty members from 14 colleges)

Efforts to eradicate poverty have been limited by disciplinary, unidimensional approaches.  The International Poverty Solutions Collaborative recognizes the multidisciplinary nature of poverty and will work to develop and evaluate comprehensive, culturally-sensitive solutions that allow individuals, families, and communities to thrive.  The center will clarify the interrelations among economic, social, cultural, educational, health, and political factors that combine to create poverty conditions.  Four research teams will focus on promoting health and well-being, designing physical environments, developing business and economic opportunities, and building families, schools, and communities.  These teams will interact with four community laboratories, spanning urban, rural, and international settings.

Food Innovation Center:  Foods for Global Security, Safety, and Health Promotion

Principal Investigator:  Ken Lee, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

(More than 80 faculty members from 12 colleges)

Feeding the rapidly growing world population (a projected 8 billion by 2025) will require a 40% increase in the world food supply, at a time when we are wasting 40% of the current supply due to challenges in economics, safety, health, nutrition, security, technology, and food policy.  The Food Innovation Center brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers to attack the food crisis by addressing four themes:  designing foods for health, ensuring food safety, advancing biomedical nutrition in disease prevention and health promotion, and global food strategy and policy.

Innovation Groups:

Complexity in Human, Natural, and Engineered Systems

Principal Investigator: David Woods, College of Engineering

(More than 20 faculty members from 8 colleges)

Complex systems are everywhere, from anthills to ecosystems, from small towns to metropolitan regions, and from distributed robotics to air traffic control networks.  This Innovation Group will bring theorists and empirical researchers from many disciplines together to evaluate the dynamics and output of a wide array of complex systems, and to create models that can predict the behavior of these systems. This group will work to position Ohio State as a leader in the rapidly emerging field of complexity science.

OSU Center for Ethics and Human Values

Principal Investigator:  Donald Hubin, Arts and Humanities, Colleges of the Arts and Sciences

(35 faculty members from 11 colleges)

Every problem confronting us, both individually and globally, has important ethical dimensions, which are critical considerations in any proposed solutions.  The OSU Center for Ethics and Human Values encompasses researchers from across the campus whose work involves foundational or applied ethics in a forum that will create a new capacity to address emerging ethical issues in all areas of life.  In addition, the group will facilitate ethics instruction at both undergraduate and graduate levels, promoting an “ethics across the curriculum” approach to ethics education.

Computational Modeling of Global Infectious Disease Threats and Policy

Principal Investigator:  Daniel Janies, College of Medicine

(14 faculty members from 7 colleges

The emergence, reemergence, and spread of infectious diseases among humans and animals represent a complex and critical global problem. Combating the spread of infectious disease requires the collaboration of researchers in public health, medicine, biology, public policy, and social science-as well as mathematics and statistics.  This group will develop cross-disciplinary means of discovering the biological, clinical, environmental, and social causes of the spread of infectious diseases via computational modeling of pathogens and hosts, and will engage present and future scientists and policy makers in a dialogue to enhance the control of infectious diseases.

Background

Center for Innovation proposals came directly from the faculty and were required to involve at least 30 faculty members drawn from a minimum of eight colleges. The two new Centers for Innovation will receive $750,000/year for a five-year period with the expectation that each center will become self-sufficient at the end of the funding period.

Innovation Group proposals also came directly from faculty and were required to involve at least 10 faculty members drawn from a minimum of three colleges.  The three new Innovation Groups will receive $20,000/year for a three-year period.  The Innovation Groups selected have the potential to grow into Centers of Innovation.

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