David Gergen will be the speaker for Ohio State University’s Spring Commencement, set for June 13 at Ohio Stadium. Approximately 7,500 undergraduate, graduate and professional students will receive degrees at the ceremony, which begins at noon. Continue reading ‘Respected by presidents’

Trustees, 5/20/10

May 19, 2010

The Ohio State Board of Trustees approved a variety of personnel, fiscal and construction-related matters at its meeting May 14 in Longaberger Alumni House.

Faculty, staff bylaws amended
The board approved several amendments to the Rules of the University Faculty, the Bylaws and the Rules and Regulations of the Medical Staff of The Ohio State University 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.

Regional board appointments approved
Trustees approved three appointments to the Mansfield Regional Campus Board:

• Patrick Heydinger, effective July 1-June 30, 2013.
• Pamela Siegenthaler, effective July 1-June 30, 2013.
• Sarah Galat (student), effective July 1-June 30, 2011.

Self-Insurance Board appointments approved
Trustees approved four appointments/reappointments to the Self-Insurance Board:

• Galen Barnes, term ending April 30, 2012.
• Christopher Ellison, term ending April 30, 2012.
• Thomas Johnson, term ending April 30, 2012.
• Gary Katz, unexpired portion of the term ending April 30, 2011.

Naming procedures revised
The board approved revisions to rules for commemorative, honorific and administrative naming requests, establishing minimum gift levels and ensuring that the naming procedures will be systematic and inclusive of the views of the university community.

Student Legal Services Program established
Trustees approved the establishment of a Student Legal Services Program, a prepaid legal services program established by attorneys practicing law in Ohio. A student’s participation in the plan will be voluntary and the legal services provided must be reasonably related to student welfare, to the advancement or successful completion of student education, or must otherwise serve a public purpose within the powers of the university.

Building named
The board approved naming the former Coal Storage Building, located between the McCracken Power Plant and Ohio Stadium, the Water Treatment Building. Since coal is no longer stored there for the boilers at McCracken, the building will be used for water treatment upon the completion of the Central Power Plant water treatment project in fall 2011.

New degree programs established
The board approved merging three inter-related programs in the College of Veterinary Medicine — veterinary biosciences, veterinary clinical sciences and veterinary preventative medicine — into a single graduate degree program called comparative and veterinary medicine. The college-wide program will address a nationally recognized need to provide comprehensive training to DVM and non-DVM scientists.

The board also approved the establishment of two new undergraduate degree programs in the Department of Geography. The new Bachelor of Science in Geographic Information Science degree program is designed to meet the growing demand for geographic information science skills. The new Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Sciences will be the first such degree offered in Ohio.

Department changes
The board approved the merger of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering to form the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering. Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering will maintain separate undergraduate and graduate degree programs, and the undergraduate programs will be separately accredited.

The board also approved changing the name of the Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design to the Department of Design.

Start of semester conversion changed
The board approved changing the start date for the conversion to a semester calendar from autumn 2012 to summer 2012. The change will eliminate some scheduling conflicts presented by the overlap of a summer 2012 quarter and the start of an autumn 2012 semester.

Personnel appointments
The board approved the following personnel actions:

• Michael Boehm, vice provost for academic planning in the Office of Academic Affairs, through April 30, 2015.
• Geoffrey Chatas, senior vice president and chief financial officer in the Office of Business and Finance, through Feb. 14, 2015.
• John Lahey, associate vice president for health science in the College of Medicine.
• Valerie Lee, interim vice provost in the Office of Minority Affairs, through March 31, 2011.
• Phillip Popovich, professor and holder of the Ray W. Poppleton Research Designated Chair in the College of Medicine, effective July 2010-June 2014.
• Jack Rall, Faculty Ombudsman in the Office of Academic Affairs, effective Oct. 1 through June 30, 2011.
• Miguel Villalona-Calero, professor and holder of The Dorothy M. Davis Chair in Cancer Research in the College of Medicine through June 30, 2015. He also will serve as director of the Division of Medical Oncology in the College of Medicine.
• Greg Allenby, professor and holder of The Helen C. Kurtz Chair in Marketing in the Fisher College of Business, through Sept. 30, 2014.
• Annette Beatty, professor and holder of The Deloitte & Touche Chair in Accounting in the Fisher College of Business through Sept. 30, 2014.
• Anil Makhija, professor and holder of The David A. Rismiller Professorship in Finance in the Fisher College of Business, through Jan. 31, 2011.
• Raymond Noe, professor and holder of the Robert and Anne Hoyt Designated Professorship in Management in the Fisher College of Business, through Sept. 30, 2014.
• Oded Shenkar, professor and holder of The Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management in the Fisher College of Business through April 30, 2014.
• Ingrid Werner, professor and holder of The Martin and Andrew Murrer Professorship in Finance in the Fisher College of Business, through Feb. 28, 2015.
• James Tressel, head football coach, through Jan. 31, 2015.

Emeritus titles granted

• Edward Adelson, School of Music.
• Ralph Boerner, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology.
• Howard Crane Jr., Department of History of Art.
• José Cruz Jr., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• John King, Department of English.
• Bernard Mulligan, Department of Physics.
• John Roberts, Department of English.
• Jacqueline Jones Royster, Department of English.
• Anton Schenk, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science.
• Halina Stephan, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures.
• James Kinard, Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems.
• Christiane Laeufer, Department of French and Italian.
• Paul Ponomarev, Department of Mathematics.
• Wayne Redenbarger, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
• Mac Stewart, Department of Human Development and Family Science.

Resolutions in memoriam

• Fred Beekman, director emeritus in the Office of Recreational Sports, who died Feb. 26.
• John Belland, professor emeritus in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership, who died Nov. 26.
• Byron Bondurant, professor emeritus in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, who died Jan. 24.
• Timothy Brock, professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology, who died Dec. 20.
• Warren Eason, professor emeritus in the Department of Economics, who died March 22.
• Robert Essman, assistant professor emeritus in the Department of Molecular Genetics, who died March 2.
• Erwin Hebner Jr., professor emeritus in the Department of Art, who died March 9.
• Richard Keates, professor emeritus in the Department of Ophthalmology, who died Jan. 26.
• Mary Key, assistant professor emerita in the University Libraries, who died Jan. 4.
• John Kozyris, professor emeritus in the Moritz College of Law, who died Feb. 10.
• Thomas Milburn, professor emeritus in the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, who died Nov. 21.
• Hongor Oulanoff, professor emeritus in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, who died Feb. 3.
• Milton Rosner, professor emeritus in the College of Social Work, who died Nov. 20.
• Joanne Sabol Stevenson, professor emerita in the College of Nursing, who died Jan. 19.
• Walter Wada, professor emeritus in the Department of Physics, who died March 7.
• Virginia Zirkle, professor emerita in OSU Extension, who died Jan. 18.

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

• Phase II of a steam and condensate distribution upgrade to replace failing direct buried piping. Professional services amount is $2.3 million to be provided by university bond proceeds.
• Phase II of the expansion of the William H. Hall housing complex. Professional services amount is $6.7 million to be provided by university bond proceeds and auxiliary funds.

The board authorized the university to enter into or increase construction contracts for the following projects:

• Expansion of the McCracken Power Plant chiller. Estimated construction cost is $12.6 million to be provided by bond proceeds.
• Construction of a South Campus central chilled water plant to support the projects and facilities included as part of the Medical Center Facilities Plan. Estimated construction cost is $55.5 million to be provided by university bond proceeds.
• Phase II of the expansion of the William H. Hall housing complex. Estimated construction cost is $44.4 million to be provided by university bond proceeds and auxiliary funds.

Lease approved
The board authorized a 10-year lease agreement for 8,000 square feet of office space on the first floor of the South Campus Gateway building at 21 E. 11th Avenue to be occupied by the Office of University Communications.

It also authorized the purchase of property adjacent to the new William H. Hall housing complex from the city of Columbus.

New university affiliates authorized

The board authorized the university to establish these new affiliated entities:

• The BioHio Research Park will facilitate collaboration with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in order to promote the market application of scientific research and further economic development in Ohio.
• OSU China Gateway LLC will facilitate collaboration between the university and institutions and organizations in the People’s Republic of China. The program will provide opportunities for faculty and student exchanges, explore opportunities for executive training and teaching activities in China and facilitate university advancement in China.

The board accepted the University Development Report as of March 31. In all, 30 new named endowed funds were established, totaling $3.7 million in private giving.

• Anna Rebecca and Robert H. Katz Endowment Fund, $1,131,938.
• US Bank Student Organization Endowment Fund, $550,000.
• Charles and Myrna Fazio Athletic Scholarship Fund, $284,455.
• The Robert P. Caren Family Endowment Fund, $250,000.
• The Austin E. Knowlton Memorial Scholarship Fund, $200,000.
• The Phyllis and Richard Leet Endowed Chair Fund in Chemistry, $200,000.
• The Wendy Zuckerwise Ritter Endometrial Cancer Research Fund, $62,836.
• The STJ – ElSi Athletic Scholarship Fund, $61,060.
• The Lynne Allen Wallace Scholarship Fund in Sports Physical Therapy, $61,008.
• The Daniel W. and Janet Schleppi Harmon Scholarship Fund, $60,681.
• The Dayton Freight Athletic Scholarship Fund, $60,000.
• Dale E. and Bernice E. Mansperger Endowment Fund for the College of Education and Human Ecology, $55,324.
• The Anita and Michael Goldberg, Rite Rug Company and Its Founder, Duke Goldberg, Endowment Fund for Wexner Center Children and Family Programs, $55,110.
• Welding Engineering Alumni Scholarship Fund, $52,321.
• The Medical Class of 1969 Scholarship Fund in Medicine, $51,652.
• The Brahms Fund, $50,326.
• The Lauterjung Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, $50,196.
• The Stairway to Heaven Scholarship Fund, $50,066.
• The John and Bebe Finn MBA Scholarship Fund, $50,000.
• The Barton and Regina Holl Scholarship Fund, $50,000.
• The Lowe Family Scholarship Fund, $50,000.
• The Jim and Suzanne McNulty Athletic Scholarship Fund, $50,000.
• The David and Donna Shreiner Endowed Fund for Family and Consumer Sciences Education Scholarship, $35,301.
• The Arley Duff Blankenship Memorial Fund at Stone Laboratory, $32,755.
• The Ohio State University Men’s Glee Club Alumni Society Fund, $26,454.
• The Birkenholz Leadership Award Fund, $25,005.
• The H. Keith Allen Family Unrestricted Endowed Fund, $25,000.
• The American Electric Power Foundation Endowment for the WOSU Digital Media Center Fund, $25,000.
• Thomas E. Workman Endowed Scholarship Fund, $25,000.
• Lloyd M. Parks and Irene M. Parks Professorship Fund, $21,535.

Calendar, 5/20/10

May 19, 2010

Art

May 27, “Columbus Moving Image Art Review Screening Event,” 7-9 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., 292-8861.

June 3-4, Spring Quarter Juried Showcase of Art + Technology, “Future Photon,” 5-8 p.m. June 3, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. June 4, Haskett Hall Gallery and Soundstage, 156 W. 19th Ave., free, artandtech.osu.edu.

Conferences

May 21, University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, The Ohio State Academy of Teaching Fourth Annual Mini-Conference on Excellence in Teaching, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Younkin Success Center, 1640 Neil Ave., visit ucat.osu.edu/academy/mini-conf.html for more information.

May 22, Seventh Annual History of Black Columbus Conference, “Back to the Future: From Bronzeville to Vision 2012,” 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., AAAS Community Extension Center, 905 Mt. Vernon Ave., pre- and on-site registration available, call 292-3922 or visit aaascec.osu.edu for more information.

June 15-17, Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics, hosted by the Office of Research and the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., registration required, occbio.org, call 688-3071 for more information.

Dance

May 27-29, Spring Concert, 8 p.m., Sullivant Theatre, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St., admission, 247-7036.

Events

May 20, University Libraries Read Aloud Program, Ebony Caldwell will read selections from C.S. Lewis, 3-4 p.m., 202 Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., library.osu.edu/blogs/readaloud.

May 22, Historic Costume and Textiles Collection Spring Programs, Spring Symposium, 8:30-11:30 a.m., The Geraldine Schottenstein Wing, Campbell Hall,
1787 Neil Ave., free and open to the public, 292-3090 or lhendricks@ehe.osu.edu.

May 24-25, “2010 Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Symposium: International Connections,” 3-4:30 p.m. May 24, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. May 25, OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., registration required, 292-8861.

May 26, Biometric Health Screening, Super Screening Day, 8 a.m.-noon, Agricultural Administration Building Auditorium, 2120 Fyffe Road, registration and appointment required, yourplanforhealth.com.

May 27, University Libraries Read Aloud Program, the Thurbrarians will read the stories of James Thurber in dramatic adaptations by Harry Campbell, 3-4 p.m., 202 Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., library.osu.edu/blogs/readaloud.

May 31, Memorial Day, no classes, offices closed, 292-9051.

June 3, “Rock the Space,” 5-8 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Exhibits

Through May 20, “Me and You and Everyone We Know,” OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Through May 20, “2010 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition,” OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Through May 28, The Byrd Polar Research Center 50th Anniversary (1960-2010), “Celebrating Scientific Discoveries, Achievements and Global Exploration,” Thompson Memorial Library Exhibition Gallery, 1858 Neil Avenue Mall, library.osu.edu.

Through May 28, “18th Annual Fergus Scholarship Award Exhibition,” Ohio Union Gallery, 1739 N. High St., 292-5072.

Through June 12, “Flora in Fashion,” Historic Costume and Textiles Collection Galleries, 279 Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Ave., free, costume.osu.edu or 292-3090.

Through June 12, “2010 Arts Scholars Juried Exhibition,” OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Through June 18, “Gardens of Earthly Delight,” Joanne Stichweh, Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive, ohiostatefacultyclub.com or 292-2262.

Through Aug. 20, “What’s New? A Sampler of Recent Acquisitions,” Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Reading Room Gallery, 27 W. 17th Avenue Mall, cartoons.osu.edu or 292-0538.

June 1-12, “Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Projects Exhibition,” OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St. and Hopkins Hall Gallery, 128 N. Oval Mall, 292-8861.

Film

June 2, Spring Latin American Film Series: Cuban Cinema: Then and Now, “Habana Blues” (Benito Zambrano, 2005), 7:30 p.m., 180 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, free and open to the public, clas.osu.edu.

Lectures

May 20, Mershon Center for International Security Studies Lecture Series, “The Salafis, the Wahhabis and the Nature and Doctrines of Global Islamic Movements,” Bernard Haykel, Princeton University, noon, 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., free, respond to mershoncenter.osu.edu.

May 21, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Mementos, Keepsakes and Tokens 2009-10 Lecture Series, Francis Lee Utley Lecture, “Judeo-Spanish Folk-Literature: Hispanic Myths and Sephardic Realities,” Samuel Armistead, University of California-Davis, 2:30 p.m., 090 Science and Engineering Library, 175 W. 18th Ave., cmrs.osu.edu or 292-7495.

May 21, Department of History, “Welsh Indians in Kentucky: Westward Migration and British Identity in the 1790s,” Juliet Shields, CHR Fellow, 3:30 p.m., call 292-2674 for location.

May 21, Institute for Japanese Studies, Japan Lecture, “Japanese Girl Stuff: Trends and Innovations in Popular Culture,” Laura Miller, Loyola University-Chicago,
5:30 p.m., 155 Jennings Hall, 1735 Neil Ave., ics.osu.edu.

May 23, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, “College of Jewish Knowledge,” 1:30 p.m., Columbus Jewish Community Center, 1125 College Ave., free and open to the public, 292-0967 or fireman.2@osu.edu.

May 24, Department of Physics lecture, Eric Loken, Penn State University, 1 p.m., 4138 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

May 24, Humanities Institute Brownbag Lunch, Narrative and Cognition Working Group, “Video Game Theory and Praxis,” moderated by Jared Gardner, with Amber Camus, Jordan Loewen and Tiffany Salter, English, noon, Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., aldama.1@osu.edu.

May 24, Humanities Institute, Narrative and Cognition Working Group, “Counterintuitive Approaches to Videogames: Emotion, Reason and Meaning,” hosted by Frederick Aldama and David Ewoldsen, with Rene Weber, University of California-Santa Barbara and Michigan State University, and Mark Wolf, Concordia University, 1:30 p.m., Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., aldama.1@osu.edu.

Kitayama to speak on US ethos of independence
May 24

Shinobu Kitayama, director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan, will deliver “Ethos of Independence Across Regions in the United States: The Production-Adoption Model of Cultural Change,” at noon at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. Kitayama is co-author of Handbook of Cultural Psychology (Guilford Press, 2007) and The Heart’s Eye: Emotional Influences in Perception and Attention (Academic Press, 1994).

To register, contact russell.16@osu.edu by May 20.

May 25, Department of Physics lecture, Patrick Hayden, McGill University, 4 p.m., 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

May 25, Mershon Center for International Security Studies Lecture Series, “The War on Drugs in Mexico: Chronicle of a Failure Foretold,” Francisco González, Johns Hopkins University, noon, 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., free, respond to mershoncenter.osu.edu.

May 26, Knowlton School of Architecture Baumer Lecture Series, “Winter/Spring 2010: Economy,” Brian Holland, KSA 2009-10 LeFevre Fellow, 5:30 p.m., Knowlton Hall Auditorium, 275 W. Woodruff Ave., knowlton.osu.edu or 292-1012.

May 26, Mershon Center for International Security Studies Lecture Series, “Plato on Action and Knowledge,” Chris Bobonich, Stanford University, 3:30 p.m., 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., free, respond to mershoncenter.osu.edu.

May 27, Department of Statistics Spring Seminar 2010, Sue-Jane Wang, FDA, 3:30 p.m., 170 Eighteenth Avenue Building, 292-5194.

May 27, Department of Physics lecture, “Research Area: Thin Film Growth and Materials Physics of Complex Oxides; Oxide Thin Film Heterostructures; Nanoscale Characterization,” Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California-Berkeley, 11:30 a.m., 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

May 27, Department of Physics lecture, Maria Spies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1:30 p.m., 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

May 27, Department of Physics lecture, “Making Ubiquitinated Proteins with Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation and Chemical Ligation Techniques,” Xin Li,
2:30 p.m., 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

May 27, Department of Physics lecture, Keli Hu, Pharmacology, 3:30 p.m., 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

May 27, Mershon Center for International Security Studies Lecture Series, “Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in Chinese Foreign Relations,” Jessica Chen Weiss, Yale University, noon, 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., free, respond to mershoncenter.osu.edu.

May 28, Humanities Institute, Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies, “Visual Literacies,” 11:30 a.m., Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., hanson.94@osu.edu.

June 1, Ohio State Marion Science Café, “The Changing Nature of Gender Income Inequality,” Donna Bobbitt-Zeher, Sociology, 7 p.m., The Infinity Restaurant, Harding Hotel, 267 W. Center St., Marion, marion.ohio-state.edu/sciencecafe.

June 1, Department of Physics lecture, K.K. Gan, Physics, 4 p.m., 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

June 3, Department of Statistics Spring Seminar 2010, Whitney Award Lecture, “LIME: A Likelihood Approach for Detecting Imprinting and Maternal Effects Using General Pedigrees from Prospective Association Studies,” Jingyuan Yang, Statistics, 3:30 p.m., 170 Eighteenth Avenue Building, 292-5194.

Meetings

QI Working Group to discuss IRB forms
May 21

Qualitative Inquiry and Institutional Review Board – A Working Group Discussion, will take place from 3-4:30 p.m. in 4012 Smith Laboratory.

The Office of Responsible Research Practices is moving to online forms in the near future and is developing separate forms for biomedical and social and behavioral research. The group will meet with representatives of ORRP and give constructive feedback about the new forms. This is a very opportune moment for qualitative researchers because this may mean a shift away from the biomedical model. However, the question is what should a social and behavioral model or form look like?

For a report of the IRB Working Group for Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences as well as IRB forms for social and behavioral research from other institutions, which may or may not have succeeded in developing forms that are appropriate for qualitative research, visit https://qualinq.wikidot.com/meetings.

May 25, June 1, 8, Lunch and Learn, “Strength Training Series,” noon-1 p.m., 422 Physical Activity and Educational Services Building, 305 W. 17th Ave., registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness/program.asp or 292-1894.

May 26, Lunch and Learn, “Making the Most of Your Farmers Market Visit,” noon-1 p.m., 226 University Hall, 230 N. Oval Mall, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/wellness/program.asp or 292-1894.

May 27, University Senate, 3:30-5:30 p.m., 130 Drinko Hall, 55 W. 12th Ave., senate.osu.edu.

Music

May 20, Free Outdoor Jazz Series @ Mirror Lake: Jazz Faculty, 7:30 p.m., Browning Amphitheatre (rain site is Weigel Auditorium), free, 292-2870.

May 21, New Music Collective, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, free, 292-2870.

May 22, Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

May 23, Chorale and University Chorus, 3 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

May 24, Percussion Ensemble, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

May 25, Collegiate Winds, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

May 26, Symphonic Band, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

May 27, Free Outdoor Jazz Series @ Mirror Lake: Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 p.m., Browning Amphitheatre (rain site is Weigel Auditorium), free, 292-2870.

June 1, Gospel and Spiritual Ensemble, 6:30 p.m., Hughes Auditorium, 1899 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

June 1, University Band, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

June 3, Wind Symphony, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

Schottenstein

May 30, “Troubadour Reunion,” Carole King and James Taylor, 7:30 p.m., Value City Arena, admission, schottensteincenter.com or ticketmaster.com.

Theater

May 20-22, 26-28, Department of Theatre, “The Three Sisters,” 7:30 p.m., Roy Bowen Theatre, Drake Performance and Event Center, 1849 Cannon Drive, admission, 292-2295.

May 20-23, 26-28, Department of Theatre, “The Long Christmas Ride Home,” 7:30 p.m. May 20-22 and May 26-28, 3 p.m. May 23, Thurber Theatre, Drake Performance and Event Center, 1849 Cannon Drive, admission, 292-2295.

May 20-23, Ohio State Lima Department of Theatre, “An Inspector Calls” directed by Maria Ignatieva, 8 p.m.  May 20-22, 7 p.m. May 23, admission,
(419) 995-8382.

Training

May 20, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Advocating Your Position,” 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.

May 21, College of Social Work Training, “The Effects of Parents’ Mental Illness on Children,” 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m., 315 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, earn 6 CEU/RCH clock hours, open to the public, visit csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar for description and registration.

May 21, Financial Training and Documentation, “Tax Obligations and Compliance at OSU,” 8:30 a.m.-noon, 231 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.ohio-state.edu/hrfin/trainingregistration.html.

May 25-26, 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.

May 25-26, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Mastering the Information Overload,” 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.

May 26, College of Social Work Training, “Providing Supervision for the Future LISW and LISW-SUPV,” 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., earn 3 CEU/RCH clock hours, open to the public, visit csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar for description and registration.

May 26, College of Social Work Training, “Ethics for Supervisors: What to Teach Your Supervisees,” 1-4:15 p.m., Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., earn 3 CEU/RCH clock hours, open to the public, visit csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar for description and registration.

May 27, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Using Your Brain for Better Results,” 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.

June 1-2, Financial Training and Documentation, “Accounting at OSU,” 12:30-4:30 p.m. both days, 231 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.ohio-state.edu/hrfin/trainingregistration.html.

June 2, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Managerial Writing for Results,” 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.

June 2-3, 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.

June 3, 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.

Wexner

Through May 31, The Box, “Drive Thru” (Gretchen Skogerson, 2006), 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, 1871 N. High St., free, 292-3535.

Through Aug. 15, On View: Mark Bradford, Wexner Center Galleries, 1871 N. High St., admission (free to visitors the first Sunday of the month and every Thursday after 4 p.m.), 292-3535.

Through Aug. 15, On View: Zoe Strauss, “Works for Columbus, OH,” Wexner Center Galleries, 1871 N. High St., admission (free to visitors the first Sunday of the month and every Thursday after 4 p.m.), 292-3535.

May 20, Theater: Nature Theater of Oklahoma, “Romeo and Juliet,” 8 p.m., Black Box on Mershon Stage, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

May 20, Artist’s Talk: Zoe Strauss, 4:30 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., free, 292-3535.

May 20, Visiting Filmmaker: Lewis Klahr, “Tales of the Forgotten Future” (Lewis Klahr, 1988-1991) and “Vinyl” (Andy Warhol, 1965), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

May 21-22, New Documentary, “Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio” (Sam Wainwright Douglas, 2010), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

May 21-23, Theater: Nature Theater of Oklahoma, “Rambo Solo,” 8 p.m. May 21-22, 2 p.m. May 23, Performance Space, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

May 22, Next @ Wex, Mumford & Sons with The Middle East, 9 p.m., Black Box on Mershon Stage, 1871 N. High St., $12 admission, standing-only show, 292-3535.

May 26, Gallery Talk, Double Take: Laura Lisbon and Philip Armstrong, 12:30 p.m., Wexner Center Galleries, 1871 N. High St., free with gallery admission, 292-3535.

May 26, Visiting Filmmakers, “The Last Truck” (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, 2009), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., free (tickets required), 292-3535.

May 27, Visiting Filmmaker: Lewis Klahr, “Out of the Past” (Jacques Tourneur, 1947), “The Two Minutes to Zero Trilogy” (Lewis Klahr, 2004) and “Point Blank” (John Boorman, 1967), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

May 28-June 1, Art & Environment Student Art Exhibition, “Interventions: Students Respond to the Environment,” free opening reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. May 27, Performance Space, 1871 N. High St., exhibit free with gallery admission, 292-3535.

June 1-30, The Box, “Whispering Pines 6, 7, 8,” (Shana Moulton, 2006), 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, 1871 N. High St., free, 292-3535.

June 3, Akira Kurosawa @ 100, “Stray Dog” (1949) and “Sanshiro Sugata” (1943), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

Workshops

May 21-22, Department of Greek and Latin, Workshop on Myth, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., University Hall Museum, 230 N. Oval Mall, contact Sandra Van Kley at vankley2@humanities.osu.edu for more information.

May 29, “Creativity FUNshop,” 10 a.m.-4 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, lunch provided to registered high school students, register at uas.osu.edu/program/creativity-funshop, contact poole.123@osu.edu for more information.

Newsbriefs, 5/20/10

May 19, 2010

john powell to receive Loving Civil Rights Award
john powell, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law, will serve as 2010 honoree and keynote speaker at the Loving Civil Rights Award Dinner, presented by the Connecticut Fair Housing Center on May 20 at the Bond Hotel in Hartford, Conn.

The Loving Civil Rights Award honors Mildred and Richard Loving, a couple who suffered the ultimate form of housing discrimination, when Virginia banned them from residing together in the state because of their interracial union. Eventually, Mildred and Richard Loving challenged Virginia’s prohibition on interracial marriages, and their historic victory before the United States Supreme Court inspired generations of civil rights lawyers.

Ohio State to host international ecology summit in 2012
The Ohio State University and the city of Columbus will serve as the first US host of a meeting of the world’s most recognized minds in ecological science.

The 4th International EcoSummit, scheduled for Sept. 30-Oct. 5, 2012, will feature lectures, scientific presentations, displays and Ohio field trips
emphasizing the theme “Ecological Sustainability: Restoring the Planet’s Ecosystem Services.”

“We’re going to have a ‘fix the planet’ theme as opposed to a ‘study the planet’ theme,” said William Mitsch, an environmental and natural resources professor and director of the Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at Ohio State. “For example, we will explore strategies to ensure that society and nature have access to our most precious resource — water — and all of the ecosystem services that aquatic ecosystems provide.”

Mitsch is a founding member of the group of ecology journal editors that organized the first three EcoSummit conferences held in Copenhagen in 1996; Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2000; and Beijing in 2007. He hopes to lure 2,000 international scientists to the conference, including the world’s top 30 ecologists, restoration scientists and environmental policy specialists for keynote presentations.

Most of the summit, which is co-sponsored by the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, will take place at the Columbus Convention Center.

Pelotonia announces Graduate Fellowship Program supporting cancer dissertation research
The Graduate School and Pelotonia, a grassroots bike tour that raises money for cancer research, are partnering to offer 18 new fellowships supporting dissertation research on cancer. One hundred percent of the funds raised by Pelotonia go to innovative and life-saving cancer research at Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 2009 (its first year), Pelotonia raised $4.5 million of which $1 million has been dedicated to training Ohio State’s most promising students.

Cancer is a complex disease and curing it will take a multidisciplinary effort. The two-year fellowships are open to all Ohio State doctoral students in any disciplinary or interdisciplinary graduate program working on cancer-related projects. This year’s application deadline is July 1. For details and an application, contact Jeff Mason, Pelotonia Fellowship Program director, or Bobbi Davis-Jones, Graduate School fellowship director, at 247-7293.

Twenty-five $12,000 undergraduate research fellowships also are available. Students may attend an information session for these grants from 4:30-5:18 p.m. May 20 in 050 Hagerty Hall.

JUROS, the Journal of Undergraduate Research at Ohio State, moves online
JUROS, the student-run Journal of Undergraduate Research at Ohio State, has launched a newly designed website at jurosonline.com and is debuting a sister publication, Oculus, a print edition of the best that JUROS has to offer. Print excerpts are available at the Undergraduate Research Office, 150 Page Hall. Faculty are asked to encourage their students to read and to submit.

Three graduate students selected for Fulbright US Student Program
The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Department of State have announced the awards in the US Student Program for the 2010-11 academic year. Three OSU graduate students have received awards: Dallas DeForest, a doctoral student in history, will travel to Greece to study the culture of baths and bathing in late antique Greece, 300-88 AD; Heather Fair, a master’s student in Environmental Science, will study glacier water resources and aquatic bioassessment in the Tibetan Himalayas; and Robyn Rodriguez, a doctoral student in history, will visit German archives as she completes dissertation research on the German military mission in China from 1927-38.

Four OSU students honored with Fulbright-Hays fellowships
Four Ohio State PhD candidates were awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowships this year. Only 142 DDRA awards were made nationally this year, making Ohio State’s showing in the competition a significant achievement. The four awardees are: Benjamin Gatling, Near East Languages and Literatures, who will visit Tajikistan; Catalina Hunt, History, who will visit Turkey and Romania; Ian Lanzillotti, History, who will visit Russia; and Cameron Jones, History, who will visit Peru and Spain.

College of Vet Med hosts puppy classes
The OSU College of Veterinary Medicine offers Puppy Kindergarten, which  serves to socialize new puppies so that they may learn to handle stress and new situations well as an adult and provides owner education in aspects of canine development and behavior problem prevention and resolution. OSU employees and students receive a $10 discount. Send registration and payment to reserve a spot in class. For dates and an application, visit vet.osu.edu/3377.htm.

Faculty and Staff, 5/20/10

May 19, 2010

Books

Nancy Courtney, University Libraries, edited More Technology for the Rest of Us: A Second Primer on Computing for the Non-IT Librarian (Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2010).

Marcia Farr, English, Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education: Language, Literacy and Culture, eds. Lisya Seloni and Juyoung Song (New York/London, Routledge, 2009).

Joel Johnson, Electrical and Computer Engineering, co-authored Spectrum Management for Science in the 21st Century (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2009).

Grants

Audrey Begun, Social Work, is the principal investigator on a $104,000 contract with the Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Boards, funded by the Office of Criminal Justice Services, for Project RISE. Project RISE is designed to examine alcohol and drug, mental health and housing needs of men and women preparing for community reentry from jail, prison and community-based correctional facilities; determine the nature and extent of discrepancies between needs and services accessed; and determine what barriers might contribute to such discrepancies. Co-investigators are Theresa Early and Keith Warren, Social Work.

Pranav Jani, English, received a faculty grant from the Mershon Center for International Security Studies to support his new project, provisionally entitled “Insurgency, Violence and Anti-Colonial Resistance: The 1857 Revolt and Indian Imaginations.”

David Latshaw, Kichoon Lee and Sangsu Shin, Animal Sciences, received a $349,872 USDA-CREES-AFRI grant for “The Role of Delta-Like Homolog 1 in Muscle Growth and Development of Poultry.”

Pamela Salsberry, Nursing, received $131,265 for the US Department of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program. The grant is to help increase the number of PhD students in the College of Nursing with the goal of growing the cadre of PhD-prepared nursing faculty as an important step in addressing the national nursing shortage.

Presentations

David Brewer, English, presented “Print, Performance, Personhood, Polly Honeycombe,” at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, N.M., March 18; “Things (Including Authors),” at the Long Eighteenth Century and Romanticism Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., April 1; and “On Hiring,” at the Long Eighteenth Century and Romanticism Colloquium, the British Literature Colloquium and the Professionalization Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., April 2.

Jill Clark and Elena Irwin, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Exurban Farming in the Current Market: Past Effects, Future Possibilities,” at the Baldwin Center Inaugural Symposium, Charlottesville, Va., Oct. 16.

David Cressy, History, presented “To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Histories and Microhistories of Early Modern England,” at the Mellon-Newberry Conference on Microhistory, University of Warwick, England, May 8.

Vesta Daniel and Karen Hutzel, Art Education, presented “An Ongoing Crisis Faced by University Neighbors: Considering Possibilities and Challenges of Community Engagement through Local Arts and Culture,” with Loring Resler, at the Imaging America Conference, New Orleans, La., Oct. 3.

Kenneth Goings, African American and African Studies, participated in Civil War Legacies: A Sesquicentennial Symposium, at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tenn.,
March 25.

Karen Irving, Doug Owens and Melissa Shirley, Teaching and Learning, presented “Connected Classrooms in Mathematics and Science Using TI-Navigator: Report of a RCT Project,” Columbus, Oct. 3.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, presented “Illness Between Stigma and Stemma in Gesualdo Bufalino’s Diceria dell’untore,” at the 41st annual meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Montreal, Canada, April 10.

Matthew Lewis, ACCAD, presented “Evolving Gesture Technology,” for the “Gesture at Large” conference at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Feb. 27.

Ninoslav Majurec, ElectroScience Laboratory, presented “Airborne L-band RFI Observations in the SMAPVEX08 Campaign with the L-band Interference Suppressing Radiometer,” with James Park, Noppasin Niamsuwan, Mark Frankford and Joel Johnson, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and “Performance Analysis of a Cross-Frequency Detector of Pulsed Sinusoidal RFI in Microwave Radiometry,” with Baris Guner and Joel Johnson, Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, Mass., July 7-11; and “Studies of Sea Surface Normalized Radar Cross Sections Observed by CloudSat,” with Joel Johnson, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and S. Tanelli, at the Joint CloudSat/Calipso Science Team Meeting, Madison, Wis., July 28, and at the AMS Radar Meteorology Conference, Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 5.

Publications

Terry Barrett, Art Education, “Why is That Art? Aesthetics and Criticism in Contemporary Art,” was reviewed in the Spanish journal, EXIT Book Revista Semestral De Libos de Arte Y Cultura Visual (2009).

Katherine Burkman, English, “My First Pedicure,” Mother/Daughter Monologues: Urgent Maturity, International Center for Women Playwrights, pp. 100-3; and “Godot as Critic,” Talking Drama, ed. Judith Roof (UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp. 11-21.

R. Chaudry and Barbara Polivka, Nursing, “Using Mixed-Methods to Evaluate the Pediatric Lead Assessment Network Education Training Program (PLANET),” Evaluation and the Health Professions, Vol. 32, No.1 (2009), pp. 23-37, with T. Sharrock.

Russell Clark, ESL Programs, “Who’s Counting: Part-Time Faculty in US Higher Education and Intensive English Programs,” ITBE (Illinois TESOL-Bilingual Education) Newsletter, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Spring 2010), pp. 1, 3-4.

Joseph Fiksel, Integrated Systems Engineering and Center for Resilience, “Evaluating Supply Chain Sustainability,” Chemical Engineering Progress, Vol. 106, No. 5 (2010), pp. 28-36.

Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Folklore Studies, “Making Sense of Senses: Interview with Dorothy Noyes,” Elore, Vol. 17 (2010), pp. 3-8.

S.D. Lishan, English, “A Folding of Dark” and “A Story of Luminous (A Study in Three Acts),” The Connecticut Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 2009), pp. 76-8.

Mercedes Sanchez, Physical Activity and Educational Services, “Review of Ideologies in Adult ESL Curriculum Development and Instruction,” Thresholds in Education, Vol. 35, No. 4 (2009); and “Latinos Buy More Than They Take: An Exploration of the Economic Contributions of the Hispanic Population to the Development of the United States,” Que Pasa, OSU?, Winter 2010.

Hari Sharma, Center for Integrative Medicine, “Contemporary Ayurveda,” in Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 4th edition, ed. M.S. Micozzi (St. Louis: Saunders Elsevier, 2011), pp. 495-508.

Recognition

Franco Barchiesi, African American and African Studies, was a Faculty Honoree at the 2010 President’s Salute to Undergraduate Academic Achievement on April 1, for which his honors’ student advisee Elaine Householder, International Studies, was a Student Honoree.

Paul Berger, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, and Betty Lise Anderson, Electrical and Computer Engineering, have been named Senior Members of the Optical Society of America.

Gregg Fogle, Animal Sciences, received the Outstanding Service Award of Merit from Gamma Sigma Delta, the agricultural professional honor society, for his leadership in managing the Ohio State Beef and Sheep Farm units and for his commitment in making significant contributions to undergraduate education and youth activities.

Teh-Hong Lee, Electroscience Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association.

William Marras, Integrated Systems Engineering, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Surgery, has been appointed by the executive council of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society to a four-year term as editor-in-chief of its journal, Human Factors.

Sidney Miller, Ohio State University Medical Center’s Burn Center, was elected president of the American Burn Association at the organization’s annual meeting. As president, Miller’s overall focus will be to improve the quality of care provided to burn patients through advocacy initiatives.

Natasha Snyder, Human Development and Family Science, appeared on WBNS-TV, Channel 10, to discuss a new study about the impact of spanking, Sept. 25.

Robyn Warhol-Down, English, has been granted a Senior Fellowship by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study in Freiburg, Germany. She will spend June and July 2011 in residence at the institute, working on narrative theory.

Service

Andrew Hudgins, English, judged the Glascock Prize, at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., April 16-17. He also judged the Academy of American Poets Award for Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.

Dorothy Noyes, English, organized and chaired the panel, “On the Ground, Out of Place: Territorial Imaginaries and Human Obstructions,” at the American Folklore Society annual meeting, Boise, Idaho, Oct. 22-24.

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