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Pelotonia10: Reasons to ride
July 14, 2010
| Last year, the stated goal for the inaugural Pelotonia was for 2,000 riders to line up and start the bicycle ride — each raising between $1,000-$2,000 to be donated to the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute for the honor of riding with Lance Armstrong (above, in black and yellow) in a grassroots effort to end cancer.
This year, without Armstrong as a draw, the goal is 5,000 riders — including 1,000 from Ohio State. There are several enticing incentives for those on the fence: Prizes from an annual Rec Sports membership to a new Honda Accord are available to OSU employees who sign up (though the deadline to be eligible for the car is July 15). Vice President for Human Resources Larry Lewellen even emailed an emotional personal appeal for riders to sign up in which he noted his own motivation to ride. But it seems the fundraising minimum still holds people back, and those who have gotten involved, say it doesn’t have to. |
Stories of success• Motivation to help fight cancer trumps fundraising trepidation • Earning through elbow grease • Bike jewelry inspires and beautifies • Real-life drama helps Boves with their efforts to fight the disease • Pelotonia ideas to get you started: host a fundraising party at your home |
Top 3 on 2, 7/15/10
July 14, 2010
Why did you choose to work at Ohio State? Well, it was just a twist of fate. I had a friend who worked here and knew I was looking for a job at the time. Her department had a part-time temporary position open and I took it. I eventually worked my way up to a full-time permanent position and the rest is history.
What do you like about your job? The variety of work and the opportunity to make a difference. Anyone who has watched the TV show M*A*S*H* is familiar with the character Radar O’Reilly. I liken my job to his. However, I am not quite as quick as he was. He knew what people needed before they even asked for it — I’m not nearly that good. Because of my responsibilities in the surgery environment, I am depended upon to find and supply the staff and surgeons with the products, instruments and equipment they need to perform their jobs. It can be a very fast-paced environment — sometimes I wish I did know what my coworkers need before they knew they need it!
What advice would you give a new employee? The university is so vast and diverse, it would be impossible to not find something you would enjoy doing, learning or helping others with outside of your job; continue to expand your world and grow.
If you weren’t working at Ohio State, what would you be doing? Working with disadvantaged children and single parents. I think because I knew what it felt like to grow up without one of my parents, I’ve had a spot in my heart for children without parents. A safe home with loving parents and an opportunity to reach your full potential should be a right of all children, but sadly, for too many it is not.
Who is your hero? I don’t really have a hero, but there are people I admire for many different reasons. Some of those people are the ones I meet daily in the halls of The James Cancer Hospital; some are patients and family members that face uncertain futures with smiles and grace and some are the staff who share their gifts of compassion, skill and dedication. The parent that I spent most of my life living without was a patient of Dr. James’. There is hardly a day that goes by that I don’t remember why we are all here.
Of what honor or recognition are you most proud? Being the mother of three wonderful sons! They have changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. I have been blessed by being entrusted to be their mother.
What is your favorite activity outside of work? Traveling and exploring new places, meeting new people, learning about new things. I always want to know “why.” I guess that is one of the reasons I have really enjoyed going back to school at age 53.
If you were the university president for a day, what would you do? Talk the OSU Marching Band into letting me dot the “i” at a football game!
To nominate a staff member for an upcoming issue, e-mail oncampus@osu.edu.
Ohio State will lead a new national initiative to help millions of American children who struggle with learning to read.
The university’s College of Education and Human Ecology will direct the five-year, $20 million project funded by the federal Institute of Education Sciences. The aim is to find the best ways to improve reading skills in children from prekindergarten to grade three.
The project, part of a larger effort called the Reading for Understanding Research Initiative, will involve 14 top researchers at five universities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The researchers will develop intervention programs within five years that can be immediately implemented in schools around the country, said Laura Justice, leader of the project and professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State.
The award is one of the five largest federal grants ever received by Ohio State.
President Gordon Gee meets with 110-year-old Zheng Ji, a professor at Nanjing University in China, during Gee’s trip there in early July. By all accounts, Ji — who earned a master’s degree from Ohio State in the early 1930s — is the world’s oldest professor. He was in the hospital during the meeting after he was misdiagnosed with cancer and fell ill during his treatment.
Rebecca Nguyen, Health and Exercise Science Department
July 14, 2010
What is the physical training involved in preparing for a two-day bike ride like Pelotonia?
The principles of specificity and overload should be used to guide any exercise program, regardless of the goal. Training specificity means that if you want to successfully prepare for Pelotonia, you must add more cycling to your regimen. Training overload refers to the fact that a muscle or system must be stressed beyond what it is accustomed to for improvements to occur.
There are several facets of training that will improve performance in Pelotonia and reduce the risk for injury. Aerobic or endurance training can improve aerobic power, which is also called VO2max. You can attain a higher VO2max with prolonged, continuous exercise of a consistent intensity, e.g., long bike rides. Anaerobic or interval training is accomplished via intermittent, high-intensity exercise, e.g., sprints. High-intensity training is beneficial because not only can it raise VO2max, it also can improve your lactate threshold. This will increase the intensity of continuous work you can do without fatiguing. Resistance training, which includes core training, will improve your muscular strength and endurance. Train all major muscle groups twice a week. Stretching should be performed to improve the range of motion around a joint and can be easily completed after the cool down period of a workout. The above components are all necessary for a comprehensive program, but aerobic training is the most important thing to get you through Pelotonia like a winner. Long story short, you’ve got to spend lots of time in the saddle.
Finally, it is vital to remember that a primary reason for injury is increasing your training volume too quickly. One of the most important things you can do is listen to your body. If you don’t take adequate rest and recovery, you won’t allow your body time to adapt and you will increase the risk of getting hurt. A training-related injury is not a part of the program. It’s OK to take an easy day if you’re really sore or fatigued, but you’ve got to be honest with yourself — don’t make up excuses just to take extra time off!
What nutritional aspects are more important to prepare for and successfully complete the race?
Proper nutrition before, during and after training is a must for optimal performance. This includes eating well-balanced meals with complex carbohydrates, high-quality protein and healthy fats throughout the day, preferably every two to four hours. If training volume has gone up, you will really need to pay attention to your carbohydrate consumption, the primary nutrient that will be fueling your rides and is vital to recovery.
One to three hours before and immediately after a workout, eat a snack with carbohydrates. During the race, you will need to supplement periodically with a carbohydrate drink, gel, bar, etc. You will need to do this during your long rides too. This will help spare your glycogen, maintain blood glucose and keep you from “bonking” during the ride. Individuals have different tolerances for food timing and types, so use these next few weeks to find your ideal choices. Don’t try anything new on the day of Pelotonia.
A very small change in body hydration can have a huge effect on your ride. Drink plenty of water all the time. An easy way to determine if you are properly hydrated is urine color. Urine should be a pale yellow; otherwise, you might be dehydrated. You should be urinating every few hours. If you’re not already, start carrying around water from which you sip throughout the day. And you should be hydrating every 10-15 minutes during the race, so be sure to find a palatable drink with carbohydrates and electrolytes.
Confident teachers help more with language skills
July 14, 2010
Jessica Orwig, Research Communications
A match made in (research) heaven
July 14, 2010
New service links researchers with volunteers for their studies
By Julia Harris
Lots of people give blood; many are signed on as organ donors; some people even sell their own plasma. But how many of us can say we’ve taken part in a clinical trial for a new diabetes drug, or volunteered for a study on how soy affects the severity of asthma symptoms?
Here’s a hint: Not many. Continue reading ‘A match made in (research) heaven’
Pelotonia ideas to get you started: Host a fundraising party at your home
July 14, 2010
| A fundraising party is an effective (and fun) way to increase your fundraising by bringing Pelotonia to life for your contributors. Your donors are more likely to sponsor you at a higher level once they have a better understanding of what Pelotonia is all about. Your contributors will discover what a huge commitment you are making and how their contributions will support The James.
Fundraising parties can be of any size or style. The first things you should decide are the date, location and type of your event. Good ideas include house parties, a larger event at a bigger venue, golf tournaments, wine tastings, casino nights, auctions or a home party through a company that specializes in at-home sales. Many companies that specialize in merchandising through home sales are happy to pass on a percentage of your sales to a charity of your choice. Raffles are a good way to generate funds at a party. Local businesses may be willing to donate gift certificates. 50/50 raffles are also popular. Silent or live auctions are a great way to generate funds. With the right crowd and an experienced auctioneer, a live auction will generate the most money. Give your guests the opportunity to donate at your event. Guests may donate by check or credit card. Provide credit card slips, or for guests who prefer to go online to donate, provide them with an instruction sheet so they may do this at home. Even better, put a laptop or computer out at your party and set it to the Pelotonia donation page. This “Donation Station” gives guests the opportunity to donate online AT your party! Many more ideas can be found at pelotonia.org/ride/resources_fundraising.jsp.. |
Stories of success• Motivation to help fight cancer trumps fundraising trepidation • Earning through elbow grease • Bike jewelry inspires and beautifies • Real-life drama helps Boves with their efforts to fight the disease |
Faculty & Staff, 7/15/07
July 14, 2010
Books
John Bennett, Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books and MSS Collection, has published an electronic book of poetry, NEOLIPIC, (Argotist Ebooks, 2010); and a limited-edition wood-type visual poem, Balam Malab (Columbus: Logan Elm Press/Luna Bisonte Prods., 2010).
Marcia Nahikian-Nelms, Medical Dietetics, Medical Dietetics, Nutrition Therapy and Pathophysiology, 2nd edition, (Cengage Learning, 2010).
Chris Zirkle, Physical Activity and Educational Services, wrote 13 chapters in Definitive Readings in the History, Philosophy, Practice and Theories of Career and Technical Education, (United States: IGI Global; and China: Zhejiang University Press), with Edward Fletcher, Jane Briggs and Kris Sander.
Grants
Kay Bea Jones, Architecture, and Becky Mansfield, Geography, co-chairs of the Design Team for the International Poverty Solutions Collaborative, received a $49,000 grant from the collaborative for their team to explore new interventions and rehabilitation for housing, commercial networks, infrastructure and public space for the Weinland Park neighborhood.
Edward Riedinger, University Libraries/Humanities, received a grant from the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation to prepare a chapter on Brazil for Liberal Learning from a Comparative Perspective (under review for publication by Johns Hopkins University Press); and from the Rockefeller Foundation to discuss and review liberal arts education and country study chapters of Liberal Learning from a Comparative Perspective at Bellagio Center (Villa Serbelloni), Lake Como, Italy.
Peter Rogers, Engineering Education Innovation Center, Rob Siston, Mechanical Engineering, and Mark Ruegsegger, Biomedical Engineering, in partnership with the College of Engineering; College of Medicine; College of Arts and Sciences; Fisher College of Business; Tony R. Wells Foundation; Down Syndrome Association of Central Ohio; United Cerebral Palsy of Central Ohio; and Easter Seals Central and Southeast Ohio Inc., received a $45,000 Engagement Impact Grant from Ohio State for the Social Innovation and Commercialization program, which accelerates efforts to integrate student projects with community partnerships, product design, commercialization and social venture. The grant, “Social Innovation and Commercialization,” is designed to engage the community partners that focus on helping persons with disabilities and solve real-world problems through the Senior Design Capstone course.
Chandan Sen, Comprehensive Wound Center, will receive a Congressional earmark for $1.6 million located in the Defense Appropriations Bill for the Army Medical Research Program “Alginate Oligomers to Treat Infectious Microbial Biofilms.” The funding is for work in partnership with the CWC’s Norwegian corporate partner AlgiPharma. The funding is expected to start in October 2010.
Presentations
Dawn Anderson-Butcher, Scottye Cash and Rebecca Mdivanian, Social Work, presented “A Common Currency: Using Time Dollars to Engage and Support Communities,” at the 8th ISPCAN Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect and the 12th Australian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, November 2009.
David Brewer, English, organized and chaired a session on “Form in Space and Time,” at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, N.M., March 20; and presented “Sociability, Value and the Ghostly Materiality of Authorial Names,” at the annual meeting of the Johnson Society of the Central Region, Madison, Wis., April 16.
Jon Erickson, English, presented “A Social Definition of Tragedy: The Personal/Political Dilemma,” at the Symposium on “Tragedy, Translation, Ethnicity and Imperialism,” Columbus, Nov. 20.
Joseph Fiksel, Center for Resilience, presented “Business 101: Is Sustainability Compatible with Continued Long-term Economic Growth?” with Neil Hawkins, at a Dow Chemical joint session at the Conference Board Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability, Manhattan, N.Y., June 17-18.
Carole Fink, History, delivered the keynote address, “Facing the Soviet Union and Each Other: Nixon, Brandt and Meir in 1969,” at an international conference on “Willy Brandt’s Neue Ostpolitik and its Reception in Germany and Abroad,” at the Haifa Center for German and East European Studies, Israel, Dec. 16.
Jeff Firkins, Animal Sciences, presented “Addition of Sugar to Dairy Rations,” at the Tri-State Dairy Conference, hosted by Ohio State University, Michigan State University and Purdue University, April 2010.
Ramteen Sioshansi, Integrated Systems Engineering, presented “Using Storage to Increase the Market Value of Wind Generation,” at The Economics of Energy Markets, Toulouse, France, Jan. 28-29; and “Some Policy and Research Questions Related to Energy Storage,” at the Workshop on Electricity Storage, Paris–Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, May 10.
Kathryn Terzano, City and Regional Planning, presented “Demographic Change and Neighborhood Satisfaction: Little Italy, Cleveland,” at the Environmental Design Research Association 41, Washington, DC, June 3.
Publications
Gunjan Agarwal, Biomedical Engineering, “Inhibition of Collagen Fibrillogenesis by Cells Expressing Soluble Extracellular Domains of DDR1 and DDR2,” J. Mol. Biol., Vol. 395, No. 3 (2010), pp. 533-43, with Lisa Flynn, Biomedical Engineering, Angela Blissett, Biophysics, and Ed Calomeni, Electron Microscopy Lab, Pathology; and “The Influence of Discoidin Domain Receptor 2 on the Persistence Length of Collagen Type I Fibers,” Biomaterials, Vol. 31, No. 18 (2010), pp. 4802-8, with Lalitha Sivakumar, Biomedical Engineering.
Sarah-Grace Heller, French and Italian, published a review of E. Jane Burns, “Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women Work,” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), H-France Review, Vol. 10, No. 46 (March 2010).
John King, English, “Introduction,” in R.C. Wood’s Keeper of the Dream and Other Poems, (Magnolia, Mo.: Magnolia Gazette Publishing Corp, 2009), xi-xvii; “Introduction” and “Reading the Woodcuts in John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs,” in Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning, ed. John King, (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 1-14, 191-210; “Reading Foxe’s Book of Martyrs,” in Theorizing, Reading and Theorizing Reading in Foxe’s Actes and Monuments, eds. Thomas Anderson and Ryan Netzley, (Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2010), pp. 119-35.
Walter Rucker, African American and African Studies, “Nat Turner” and “Joint Committee of Fifteen,” in The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia, eds. Julius Thompson, James Conyers and Nancy Dawson, (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press, 2010).
Recognition
Michael Ailes, Nursing, has received the Advanced Practice Cameo in Caring Award. The award is given annually to one nurse practitioner in central Ohio.
Jay Boehmler, Michael Miller and Pankaj Tiwari, Plastic Surgery, with several residents from OSU Plastic Surgery, received the “Best Case of the Year” and “Best Save of the Year” awards at the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery Meeting.
Henri Cole, English, John Warren Wilkins, Physics, Richard Edward Petty, Psychology, and David Schmeidler, Economics, were elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jose Cruz Jr., Electrical and Computer Engineering, was selected as one of 100 Outstanding Alumni of the College of Engineering of the University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, for the past 100 years. In addition, Cruz Jr.received the university’s Alumni Association Outstanding Alumni Lifetime Achievement award.
Michael Mason, Engineering, and Sarah Odum, Physical Activity and Educational Services, were honored with the Outstanding Advisor Award from the Academic Advising Association of Ohio State, May 19.
Glene Mynhardt, Life Sciences Education, is one of 10 recipients of the 2010 Graduate Associates Teaching Award, the university’s highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by Ohio State graduate students. Each receives a $1,500 award, plaque and letter of recognition from the dean of the Graduate School.
Jack Nasar, City and Regional Planning, received the Environmental Design Research Association Achievement Award for his book Designing for Designers: Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture, (Fairchild Publicaitons, 2007), co-edited with Wolfgang Preiser and Tom Fisher.
Doug Sutton-Ramspeck, English, received the 2010 Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry for Black Tupelo Country, (Kansas City, Mo.: BkMk Press, 2008).
Service
Glenda La Rue, director of Ohio State’s Women in Engineering program, has been appointed president-elect of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, a national organization and catalyst for transforming culture in engineering education to promote the success of all women.
D.K. Panda, Computer Science and Engineering, recently accepted an invitation to serve on the editorial board of the journal IEEE Transactions on Computers.
Atanas “Nasko” Rountev, Computer Science and Engineering, was co-chair of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE 2010), Toronto, Canada, June 5-6.
Big issues dominated USAC’s agenda
July 14, 2010
By Adam King
Current University Staff Advisory Committee Chair Heather Link, left, took over for Amy Ehrlich, who was extremely pleased with the group’s accomplishments during the previous academic year.
For outgoing University Staff Advisory Committee Chair Amy Ehrlich, it couldn’t have been a more exciting time to be the leader of President Gordon Gee’s appointed group.
Under Gee the university is experiencing significant changes to its physical presence as well as to how it accomplishes the process of educating tomorrow’s leaders. This administration, Ehrlich said, views staff as an integral component of those changes. Continue reading ‘Big issues dominated USAC’s agenda’
Ohio’s pension systems should be emulated instead of criticized
July 14, 2010
When independent analysts discuss responsible fiduciary stewardship over state pension systems, Ohio is always near the top of that national list. Recent news articles in Ohio on public retirement systems may have confused the status of our, Ohio retirement systems with those in other states. I want to be sure we focus on Ohio and have a clear view of what we need to do.
Alarm bells have been sounded for the pension systems in such states as Illinois, California and New Jersey, among others, whose ability to pay out over the long term has been rightly questioned. There are no such alarm bells in Ohio, but alarms will sound in the future unless action is taken today. Continue reading ‘Ohio’s pension systems should be emulated instead of criticized’
Bike jewelry inspires and beautifies
July 14, 2010
| When she rode in Pelotonia 2009, Carla Grieshop, nurse manager in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, wore a small plastic bicycle-shaped pin that had been given to her by one of her patients.
So she went to Sawchuck Jewelers in Hilliard with a proposition for owners Kevin and Heidi Sawchuck. In no time, a new line of jewelry was born — Pelotonia-approved pins, pendants, bracelets and necklaces that are available at the Sawchucks’ store, at the Medical Center’s gift shop and at Hope’s Boutique at JamesCare in Dublin. The line made enough money in one week in early July to pay the minimum for two of the riders in Grieshop’s peloton, Rays for the Cure, and will be available year-round to raise money even in Pelotonia’s “offseason.” “I worked really hard to raise my goal last year, and this year I wanted people to have a takeaway of some kind to give them a little more incentive to give,” Grieshop said. “Kevin and Heidi were so great to work with and were very open to allowing all the profits above the manufacturing cost to go to Pelotonia.” |
Stories of success• Motivation to help fight cancer trumps fundraising trepidation • Earning through elbow grease • Pelotonia10: Reasons to ride • Real-life drama helps Boves with their efforts to fight the disease • Pelotonia ideas to get you started: host a fundraising party at your home |
“I can’t tell you how many people asked me where I had gotten that pin, and when they heard it was from a patient, everyone wanted one,” Greishop said. “It occurred to me that something like that could be a really great fundraiser for this year.”
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