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Laying down roots

April 20, 2011

Arbor Day isn’t just a day to think about trees. It’s an opportunity to plant a legacy.

By Julia Harris

Depending on what list you consult, April is an eclectic month when it comes to causes worth celebrating. According to some sources, it’s National Poetry Month, National Humor Month and Stress Awareness Month. To others, it’s National Pecan Month or National Welding Month.

To Mary Maloney, director of Ohio State’s Chadwick Arboretum and Learning Gardens, it’s quite a bit simpler. “April is the month that we celebrate trees on campus,” she said. “Arbor Day is the biggest Friday in April.”

To see an audio slideshow of the trees and greenery on campus, check out the Crowns of Campus.

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Peter Shane, Moritz College of Law

April 20, 2011

What is a government shutdown and how does ithappen?

A government shutdown occurs when Congress allows the fiscal year appropriation for one or more agencies to “lapse” — that is, run out — before Congress has appropriated additional funding. Without a new appropriation, the agency has no money to spend and, with limited exceptions, is prohibited by the so-called Antideficiency Act to do anything at all that would obligate Congress to appropriate money in the future.

What are the consequences of a government shutdown?

In 1980, then-Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti concluded that, when fiscal year appropriations lapse, agencies may generally conduct only functions that are authorized by other appropriations, required for the orderly shutdown of the agencies, necessary to enable the president to fulfill his constitutional duties or connected in an immediate way to the safety of human life or the protection of property.

How can this be avoided, as was the recent case with the US government?

Congress could enact all regular appropriations on time — which, to the best of my knowledge, has happened exactly once in the last 30 years. Congress can enact “continuing resolutions,” which are basically short-term stop-gap appropriations. Or Congress could amend the Antideficiency Act to allow agencies — when appropriations lapse — to create obligations in advance of appropriations at whatever rate of spending Congress most recently authorized. This last step would mark a radical departure from our historic checks and balances system.

Andrew Sorensen, 1939-2011: Chief fundraiser walked the walk when it came to giving

April 20, 2011

By Jeff McCallister

Like many of his generation, Andy Sorensen had a paper route when he was a young boy in Pittsburgh.

But life lessons about hard work and the value of a dollar weren’t all that job taught him. Sorensen’s father, a Presbyterian minister, made him donate 10 percent of his income to the church.

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Faculty & Staff, 4/21/11

April 20, 2011

Books

David Herman and Jared Gardner, English, edited the book, Graphic Narrative and Narrative Theory, in a special issue of SubStance, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2011).

Michelle Herman, English, Dream Life, (Kindle Single, 2011).

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, La zebrata veste. Memorie e lettere di detenuti politici italiani, a cura di e con prefazione di Mauro Stampacchia, (Pisa: Fabrizio Felici, 2011). The book is an Italian version of his Sentences, (Toronto, Canada: Toronto University Press, 1999).

Grants

Amy Bonomi, Human Development and Family Science, received a grant from the Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Wash., to launch a pilot study to investigate the prevalence of teen dating violence, 2010.

Frank Donoghue, English, was awarded an NEH Summer Stipend for the summer of 2011.

Yan Liu, Consumer Sciences doctoral student, has received matching funds from the Graduate Travel Award Program, Office of Research, College of Education and Human Ecology. She will present “What Do Consumers Expect to See? Expectations and Satisfaction with Company Versus Consumer-sponsored Word-of-Mouth Forums,” at the 2011 American Marketing Association’s Winter Marketing Educators’ Conference, Austin, Texas.

Presentations

Milton Allen, Associate Director of Bands, presented three clinics on topics including conducting and teacher preparation to capacity crowds, at the MENC-NW Division Conference, Bellevue, Wash., Feb. 18-19; served as a judge and clinician at the Alberta International Band Festival, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, March 26-April 1; and conducted the Tri-County Honor Band, Pawnee, Ill., March 10 and the Interstate-8 All-Conference Band, Peotone, Ill.,
March 14.

David Brewer, English, presented “‘I Take Them to be Sally Fielding’s:’ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Familial Uses of Authorial Names,” at the annual meeting of the British Women Writers Conference, Columbus, April 2; and presented “Authorial Heads:  Painted, Printed, Carved and Cast,” chaired the session “Bodies, Affect, Reading,” participated in the roundtable “Why Not Smollett?” was the respondent to a session on “Letters, Journals and Literary Form” and chaired the presentations of the winners of the Innovative Course Design competition, at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, B.C., Canada,  March 17-18.

Ozeas Costa Jr., Earth Sciences, presented “Environmental Controls on the Geochemistry of a Constructed Wetland,” with G.A. Boerner, “Nutrient Geochemistry of Lakes in North-Central Ohio: Physical and Anthropogenic Controls,” with C. Aebersold and “Physical and Anthropogenic Controls on Nutrient Concentrations across a Mixed-Use Headwater Catchment in North-Central Ohio,” at the 45th annual meeting of the North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pa., March 20-21.

Norman Jones, English, presented “The King James Bible at 400: A Dialogue,” at the Eighteenth Oxford Conference for the Book, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., March 26.

Caezilia Loibl, Tasha Snyder and Andrew Wapner, Family and Consumer Sciences, OSU Extension, presented at the “Promoting Child and Family Wellbeing” in-service, Columbus, Oct. 7. Loibl reviewed “OSU Extension Housing Counseling Services;” Snyder’s topic was “What’s Happening with Ohio’s Families? Recent Trends in Family Well-Being;” and Wapner discussed “New Developments in Obesity Prevention and Management.”

Jack Nasar, City and Regional Planning, presented “On Community,” at the American Planning Association’s 2011 National Planning Conference, Boston, Mass., April 9-12; and “Designing Healthy Urban Parks: Assessing and Applying the Research Evidence,” at Urban Nature, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Los Angeles, Calif., March 30-April 2.

Dana Renga, French and Italian,  presented “Unfinished Business: Gender, Trauma and Mourning in Recent Italian Mafia Movies,” at the conference Carnival of Death: Perceptions of Death in Europe and the Americas, University of London, Feb. 25.

Wendy Smooth, Women’s Studies and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, presented “Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement: Role Models for Leadership,” for African American History Month, at Amethyst Inc., Columbus, Feb. 25.

Publications

Chadwick Allen, English, “Rethinking the Forms of Indigenous Literatures: Grounded, Cosmic and in Transit,” Exploring Fourth World Literatures: Tribals, Adivasis, Dalits, ed. Raja Sekhar Patteli, (New Delhi, India: Prestige Books, 2011) pp. 181-93.

Marcia Farr, English, “Urban Plurilingualism: Language Practices, Policies and Ideologies in Chicago,” Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 43 (2011), pp. 1161-72.

Patricia Flowers, Music Education, “Attention, Preference and Identity in Music Listening by Middle School Students of Different Linguistic Backgrounds,” Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 55, No. 3 (2007), pp. 204-19, with Carlos Abril. The article is ranked first among the top 50 most-read articles in the journal, a position it has held for the past three months.

Mary Margaret Gardiner, Entomology presented the poster “Comparison of Pollinator Diversity and Pollination Services Provided within Community Gardens and Turf-based Vacant Lot Ecosystems,” with Scott Prajzner, Entomology, and “Testing an Interference Competition Hypothesis for Native Lady Beetle Decline,” with C. Smith, at the Entomological Society of America annual meeting, San Diego, Calif., Dec. 14.

Omprakash Mittapalli, Xue-feng Bai, Praveen Mamidala, Swapna Priya Rajarapu, Pierluigi Bonello and Daniel Herms, Entomology,“Tissue-Specific Transcriptomics of the Exotic Invasive Insect Pest Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis),”  PLoS ONE, Vol. 5, No. 10 (2010), pp. 1-12.

James Moore III, Physical Activity and Educational Services, co-authored “African American Male Students’ Perception of the Availability and Use of High School Counseling Services,” in African American Males in Urban Schools, Vol. 3, No. 1.

Miriam Shenkar, Educational Policy and Leadership, and Oded Shenkar, Management and Human Resources, “Labor Conflict on the National Stage: Metaphoric Lenses in Israel’s Teachers’ Strike,” Comparative Education Review, Vol. 55, No. 2 (2011), pp. 210-30.

Udo Will, Musicology, contributed two chapters to the book The Rhythmic Brain: Music, Science and Clinical Implications, (Routledge, June 2011). The opening chapter “Introduction to Entrainment and Cognitive Ethnomusicology,” with G. Turow, discusses principles and approaches of entrainment research within the context of current developments in Cognitive Ethnomusicology. Chapter 5, “EEG Research Methodology and Brainwave Entrainment,” with S. Makeig, presents research on how human brainwaves respond to rhythmic musical stimuli.

Recognition

Harit Bal and Parwinder Grewal, Entomology, received the Entomological Foundation Award for Science Project Ideas in the category targeted at high school students for their project entitled “Do Human Activities Negatively Influence Insect-Parasitic Nematodes in the Soil?”

V.M. (Bala) Balasubramaniam, Food Science and Technology and Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, has been selected for the OARDC Distinguished Junior Faculty Research Award.

Joshua Bryant, Ryan Caesar, Nicola Gallagher, Glene Mynhardt and Kaitlin Uppstrom, Entomology, were on the Ohio State University Linnaean Games Team that won the National Championship at the annual meeting of Entomological Society of America, San Diego, Calif. The team was coached by Dave Horn, Entomology.

Charles Emery, Psychology, Scott McGraw, Anthropology, and James Peck, Economics, have been selected as Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellows for 2011 in recognition of their first-rate scholarship. Huber Fellows are nominated by department chairs and receive an annual cash award of $5,000 a year for three years to further their research programs. Emery focuses on behavioral medicine and the psychology of aging, specifically the psychological adjustment to chronic illness and psychological outcomes of physical exercise. He is director of Ohio State’s Cardiopulmonary Behavioral Medicine Program. McGraw is an evolutionary primatologist who studies the evolution, morphology and behavior of monkeys, apes and humans. He is director of the Monkey Project in western Ivory Coast. Peck has made important contributions to our understanding of uncertainty and asymmetric information in markets; his current research focus is the timing of transactions on markets. He is associate editor of the Journal of Economic Theory.

Steven Fink, English, was the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Distinguished Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., March 22-24. Fink conducted classes on “Jewish American Fiction: Old World v. New” and “Jewish American Fiction: Intra-family Tensions;” “The Experience of the Holocaust in Fiction” and “Holocaust Memory in Fiction;” and “Jewish American Women’s Writing.”

Ernest Lockridge, emeritus, English, had a painting “Parting at Sunset, Iceland,” that won First Place at the “Spice of Life” Exhibit, High Road Gallery, Worthington, March 6.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, has been awarded the 2010-11 Honors’ Faculty Service Award. Marx-Scouras is a staunch proponent of the honors program and has mentored her many honors students, encouraging them to apply for graduate school, helping with career plans and directing numerous honors.

Calendar, 4/21/11

April 20, 2011

Conferences

April 21-22, Gender and States of Emergency Conference, “States of Emergency: Childhood and the Conservative Right,” Wendy Hesford, “Gendered Intermediacy,” Lynn Itagaki, “Discourses of Innocence and Suspicion: Political Asylum,” Amy Shuman, The Blackwell Hotel, 2110 Tuttle Park Place, registration required, womens-studies.osu.edu/content/gender-and-states-emergency, 292-6065.

April 30, College of Social Work, 23rd National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work, “Embracing Difference in Social Work Scholarship: Roles for Emerging Scholars,” keynote speaker, Lorraine Gutierrez, University of Michigan, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, no registration required, free and open to all, csw.osu.edu/degreeprograms/phd/doctoralsymposiuminformation or contact nakayama.7@osu.edu.

May 3, 17th Annual National Conference on Diversity, Race and Learning, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Fawcett Conference Center, registration required, contact taylor.972@osu.edu, 292-1417 or 292-8156 for more information.

Dance

May 5-7, Spring Concert, 8 p.m., Sullivant Theatre, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St., admission, 292-7977.

Events

April 21, University Libraries Read Aloud Program, Leta Hendricks will present rap lyrics from The Anthology of Rap edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DeBois, also poetry with singing parts by freshman Kelsey Lewis, 3-4 p.m., 202 Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., light refreshments served, readaloud@osu.edu or 292-2594.

April 21, 2011 Earth Day at Ohio State, Recycle for the Record, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Ohio Union West Plaza, 1739 N. High St., contact metz.221@osu.edu for more information.

April 21, Jesse Owens Statue Unveiling, 1:30 p.m., Owens Memorial Stadium, 2450 Fred Taylor Drive, osu.edu/jesseowens.

April 21, Jesse Owens 75th Anniversary Scholarship Dinner, guest speaker, Bill Cosby, 7 p.m., Archie Griffin Ballroom, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., tickets limited, osu.edu/jesseowens.

April 23, 2011 Earth Day at Ohio State, Shuttle to Earth Day 2011: Lighten Up! Celebration, shuttle to and from campus to Franklin Park Conservatory, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., free shuttle service leaving every hour from the 12th Ave. side of the Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., earthday.osu.edu.

April 23, Spring Football Game honoring Jesse Owens, 1:30 p.m., Ohio Stadium, 411 Woody Hayes Drive, $7 advance admission, $15 day of game admission, ohiostatebuckeyes.com.

April 23-24, 2011 Jesse Owens Track and Field Classic, 6-10 p.m. April 23, 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. April 24, Owens Memorial Stadium, 2450 Fred Taylor Drive, osu.edu/jesseowens.

April 26, University Libraries Read Aloud Program, Dilsat Erzin Demiralp will present favorite readings in Turkish, 3-4 p.m., 165 Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., light refreshments served, readaloud@osu.edu or 292-2594.

April 26, 2011 Earth Day at Ohio State, US Dept. of Energy – Ohio Regional Workshop and Windows Exhibit, workshop and lunch: 9 a.m.-1 p.m., exhibit: 2-5 p.m., Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, RSVP required by April 22, jbogovich@energetics.com or (410) 953-6257, visit www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/windowsvolumepurchase for more information.

April 28, University Libraries Read Aloud Program, Rick Brown will share non-fiction from both his new book Naked Sunfish – Best Bites and the website, Elisa Philips will present unpublished prose and poems and John Bennett will read from new works in English, Spanish, Nahuatl and Globbolalia, 3-4 p.m., 165 Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., light refreshments served, readaloud@osu.edu or 292-2594.

April 28, Biometric Health Screening, 8:40 a.m.-noon, Newark Campus, 64 Hopewell Hall, 1179 University Drive, registration and appointment required, yourplanforhealth.com.

May 4, Biometric Health Screening, 9 a.m.-noon, OSU Extension-South Central Region, 16714 Wolf Run Road, Caldwell, registration and appointment required, yourplanforhealth.com.

May 5, University Libraries Read Aloud Program, Joyce Beatty will read from the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 3-4 p.m., 202 Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., light refreshments served, readaloud@osu.edu or 292-2594.

Exhibits

Through April 22, “Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World,” Thompson Library Exhibit Gallery, 1858 Neil Ave., lincove.1@osu.edu.

Through April 29, “Fleeting Dream: The Paintings of Chun Arthur Wang,” Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive, ohiostatefacultyclub.com or 292-2262.

Through May 4, “Jesse Owens Memorabilia,” Thompson Library First Floor Exhibition Gallery, 1858 Neil Ave., osu.edu/jesseowens.

Through May 4, “Undergraduate Juried Exhibition 2011,” Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, 128 N. Oval Mall, 292-5072.

Through May 14, “Confluence(s): 2011 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition,” OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

Through June 18, “Art in the House Exhibition,” reception 4:30-6 p.m. April 27, OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

May 3-June 11, “Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Projects Exhibition,” OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free, 292-8861.

May 4-June 24, “Home and Abroad,” paintings by Mark Gingerich, Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive, ohiostatefacultyclub.com or 292-2262.

Films

April 21, Gateway Film Center: Nightmares on High Street, “Wrecked,” 9:30 p.m., Gateway Film Center, 1550 N. High St., $6 admission, gatewayfilmcenter.com.

April 21, 2011 Earth Day at Ohio State, Green Lunch Series: “DIRT!” noon, Suite 1000, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., contact nieto.12@osu.edu for more information.

April 22, 2011 Earth Day at Ohio State, Film Screening: “DIRT!” 4:30-6 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, Suite 130, 50 W. Town St., 292-8861.

April 22-24, Gateway Film Center: ALIVE! Late Night Movies, “Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD” (1990), midnight April 22-23, 1:30 p.m. April 24, Gateway Film Center, 1550 N. High St., $6 admission, gatewayfilmcenter.com.

April 27, Latin American Film Series, On the Road Again: Contemporary Latin American Road Films, “Bajo California: El limite del tiempo/Under California: The Limit of Time” (Carlos Bolado, 1998, Mexico), 7:30 p.m., 180 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, clas.osu.edu or 688-4285.

April 30, Gateway Film Center: Hoot Family Film Series, 10 a.m., Gateway Film Center, 1550 N. High St., free admission, suggested canned good donation, gatewayfilmcenter.com.

May 3, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Film Series, Spring 2011: Cinema Ruski, “1612: Khroniki Smutnogo Vremeni” (Vladimir Khotinenko), 7:30 p.m., 147 University Hall, 230 N. Oval Mall, cmrs.osu.edu or 292-7495.

May 5, Gateway Film Center, “An Affirmative Act,” 8 p.m., Gateway Film Center, 1550 N. High St., $6 admission, gatewayfilmcenter.com.

Lectures

April 21, President and Provost’s 2010-2011 Diversity Lecture and Cultural Arts Series, Kimberlé Crenshaw, 4:30 p.m., Saxbe Auditorium, Drinko Hall, 55 W. 12th Ave., osu.edu/diversity.

April 21, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, “Benjamin Franklin’s Bookshop,” James Green, Library Company of Philadelphia, 4 p.m., 1150 Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., library/osu.edu/projects-initiatives/exhibits/benjamin-franklin.

April 21, Humanities Institute, LiteracyStudies@OSU, “Language Practices and the Search for Authenticity,” 4 p.m., Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., hanson.94@osu.edu.

April 21, Center for African Studies, “Life Satisfaction among Older People in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Ivy Kodzi, HEES Foundation, noon-1 p.m., 134 Hale Black Cultural Center, 153 W. 12th Ave., free and open to the public, cas@osu.edu or 292-8169.

April 21, Department of History, Cookies and Conversation with Geoffrey Parker, 3:30-5 p.m., 168 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Ave., hobbins.7@osu.edu.

April 21, Department of Statistics, “Quantifying the Uncertainty in Pollutant Loads in Great Barrier Reef Catchments,” Petra Kuhnert, CSIRO (Australia), 3:30-4:30 p.m., Room 170, 209 W. 18th Ave., 292-2866.

April 22, Department of History, Greg Smithers Talk, 3:30-5:15 p.m., 168 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Ave., summerhill.1@osu.edu.

April 22, Humanities Institute, Moving Image Production Working Group, “Reel Buckeye Productions,” OSU Students Organizations and Scott DeWitt, 2:30 p.m., Film/Video Theater, Wexner Center, 1871 N. High St., davidson.92@osu.edu.

April 22, Humanities Institute, Conversations in the Humanities with Fred Andrle, “40 Years of the Humanities at Ohio State: Views from its Deans,” G. Michael Riley, David Frantz, Michael Hogan and Jacqueline Jones Royster, 3:30 p.m., Film/Video Theater, Wexner Center, 1871 N. High St., lantz.38@osu.edu.

April 22, Humanities Institute, LiteracyStudies@OSU, “’My Skrating Hand:’ The Making of Queen Elizabeth I’s Foreign Correspondence,” Rayne Allinson, 3:30 p.m., 255 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, burgoyne.10@osu.edu.

April 22, Humanities Institute, Qualitative Inquiry Working Group, “Art as Research: A Necessary Practice,” Graeme Sullivan, Pennsylvania State University, contact moritz.42@osu.edu or stout.127@osu.edu for time and location.

April 22, Institute for Chinese Studies, The Work of Culture Lecture Series, “Narrative as Therapy: Stories of Breast Cancer by Xi Xi and Bi Shumin,” Howard Choy, Wittenberg University, 1:30 p.m., 062 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, free and open to the public, ics.osu.edu.

April 25, Department of History, Goldberg Lecture, Senator Sherrod Brown, 4-5 p.m., Faculty Club Grand Lounge, 181 S. Oval Drive, contact Gail Summerhill at summerhill.1@osu.edu for more information.

April 25, Department of Physics, Tami Pereg-Barnea, Caltech, 11:30 a.m., 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

April 26, Department of Physics, “A Quest for Sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays,” Kumiko Kotera, University of Chicago, 12:30 p.m., 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

April 27, Knowlton School of Architecture Baumer Lecture Series, “Autumn 2010: Information,” Ron Witte, WW Architecture, 5:30 p.m., Knowlton Hall Auditorium, 275 W. Woodruff Ave., free and open to the public, knowlton.osu.edu or 292-1012.

April 27, Department of English, Fifth Annual Emeriti Lecture, “A View from the Dark Side,” David Frantz, 4-5:30 p.m., 311 Denney Hall, 264 W. 17th Ave., 292-6065.

April 28, Department of History, Goldberg Teaching Colloquium, “Teaching Writing in Large Classes: Strategies for Managing Time and Reaching your Audience,” 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., 168 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Ave., staley.3@osu.edu.

April 28, Department of Greek and Latin, “The Twenty Third Annual Thomas E. Leontis Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies,” Dan Georgakas, Queens’ College (NY), 3:30 p.m., Faculty Club Main Lounge, 181 S. Oval Mall, jusdanis.1@osu.edu.

April 28, Department of Statistics, 15th Annual Wherry Lecture, “Spatially Distributed Lateny Variable Models,” Melanie Wall, Columbia University, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Room 170, 209 W. 18th Ave., 292-2866.

April 28, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, “The Compliance Gap and the Efficacy of International Human Rights Institutions,” Xinyuan Dai, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 3:30 p.m., 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., reservation required, contact powers.108@osu.edu by April 26.

April 28, Department of English, Visiting Writers: J. Allyn Rosser and Mark Halliday, 7 p.m., 311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Ave., 292-6065.

April 28, Office of International Affairs, “When the King Renounced His Divine Status: Religious Transformation in the City of 201 Gods, Ile-Ife,” Jacob Olupona, Harvard Divinity School, 6-7:30 p.m., 040 Jennings Hall, 1735 Neil Ave., 292-6101.

April 29, Department of History, Jadwiga Peeper-Mooney Talk, 3:30-5:15 p.m., 168 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Ave., summerhill.1@osu.edu.

April 29, Center for the Study of Religion, At-Large Lecture Series, “The Virgin Mary: The Challenges to the Historian of Religious Cultures,” Miri Rubin, University of London, 4:30 p.m., 165 Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave., 688-8010.

April 29, Humanities Institute, Local Worlds Working Group, “Of Nature and Power: Reading Joachim Radkau’s Global History of the Environment,” Chris Otter, 2 p.m., Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., liu.737@osu.edu.

April 29, Institute for Chinese Studies, The Work of Culture Lecture Series, “What was Madam White Snake? Vanquished Snakes as Deities of the Ancient Yue People,” Fan Pen Chen, State University of New York-Albany, 1:30 p.m., 062 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, free and open to the public, ics.osu.edu.

May 2, Multicultural Center, What’s Your Story? Faculty Lecture Series, “Asian Pacific American Heritage,” Lynn Itagaki, 4-5:30 p.m., Suite 1000, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., free, refreshments will be served, bui.61@osu.edu or 688-7467.

May 2, Department of Physics, Sashi Satpathy, University of Missouri, 11:30 a.m., 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

May 3, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, “The Feudal Revolution and Europe’s Rise: Muslim and Christian Worlds before 1500 CE,” Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University, noon, 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., reservation required, mershoncenter.osu.edu.

May 3, Ohio State Marion Science Café, “Environmental Justice: Redefining Environmentalism?,” Anna Willow, 7 p.m., The Infinity Restaurant, Harding Hotel, 267 W. Center St., Marion, marion.ohio-state.edu/sciencecafe.

May 3, Department of Physics, “Constraining the Dawn of Cosmic Structure and the Epoch of Reionization with the 21cm Line,” Jonathan Pritchard, Harvard, 12:30 p.m., 4138 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

May 4, Knowlton School of Architecture Baumer Lecture Series, “Autumn 2010: Information,” Katherine Bennett, KSA Landscape Architecture, 5:30 p.m., Knowlton Hall Auditorium, 275 W. Woodruff Ave., free and open to the public, knowlton.osu.edu or 292-1012.

May 4, Science Café, “Lyme Disease in Ohio: What You Need to Know,” Glen Needham, 6:30 p.m., 070/090 Science and Engineering Library, 175 W. 18th Ave., dotson.77@osu.edu.

May 4, Department of English, The Ohio State Book Club Next Discussion: Gargoyles, Thomas Bernhard, 6-9 p.m., 311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Ave., 292-6065.

May 5, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, “The Unmaking of an Arab Regional Order,” Bassam Haddad, George Mason University, noon, 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., reservation required, mershoncenter.osu.edu.

May 5, Department of History, “20th Century Social Unrest Webinar,” 6-9 p.m., online event, contact ward.768@osu.edu for more information.

May 5, Multicultural Center, “Transforming Community Through Dialogue,” noon-1 p.m., Suzanne M. Scharer Room, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., lunch is provided, contact bui.61@osu.edu or 688-7467.

May 5, Department of Physics, Kathryn Kryka, NIST, 11:30 a.m., 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., 292-5713.

May 5, Department of English, Visiting Writer: Sue William Silverman, “The King James Bible and Its Cultural Afterlife,” 7 p.m., 311 Denney Hall, 264 W. 17th Ave., 292-6065.

May 5, Office of International Affairs, “Foundation for Sustainable Development in Africa (FOSDAF),” Akouete Eklu-Natey, FOSDAF, noon-1:30 p.m., 134 Hale Black Cultural Center, 153 W. 12th Ave., 292-6101.

Meetings

April 29, Humanities Institute, Moving Image Production Working Group, Jeff Hasse, Scott Shim, Brian Stone, 2:30 p.m., Film/Video Theater, Wexner Center, 1871 N. High St., davidson.92@osu.edu.

May 2, 9, 18, 23, June 6, YP4H Educational Program Classes: Fitness/Exercise, “Yoga and Arthritis,” 5:30-6:25 p.m., Ag Admin. Building Auditorium, 2120 Fyffe Road, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/educationalprogramming/YP4H or 292-1894.

May 3, YP4H Educational Program Classes: Stress, “It’s Easier Than You Think – Change Your Response to Stress,” noon-1 p.m., webinar, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/educationalprogramming/YP4H or 292-1894.

May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, YP4H Educational Program Classes: Fitness/Exercise, “It’s a Walk in the Park!” 5:30-6:30 p.m., Fred Beekman Park, 1999 W. Lane Ave., meet at the shelter house north of Mount Hall, registration required, osuhealthplan.com/educationalprogramming/YP4H or 292-1894.

May 5, Humanities Institute, Environmental Citizenship meeting, 2 p.m., Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., livingston.28@osu.edu.

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

Music

April 21, Our Art/Our Planet: Urban Monthly Mix Exchange, exchange mix CDs with fellow music enthusiasts, 7-8 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free and open to all, RSVP requested, uasexhibitions@gmail.com.

April 21, Marotta Hour: Rocco DiPietro’s “Italian Rajas,” 7-8 p.m., OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., free and open to all, donations accepted, 292-8861.

April 26, Wind Symphony, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

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

April 28, Contemporary Music Festival honoring Donald Harris-Opening Concert, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

April 28, Jewish Music East and West, Beyond the Pale, 8 p.m., Lincoln Theater, 769 E. Long St., admission, CAPA Box Office (469-0939) or ticketmaster.com, contact meltoncenter.osu.edu for more information.

April 28-29, Contemporary Music Festival Documentary Premiere-Sonata (1957), 7 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

April 29, Contemporary Music Festival-The Music of Donald Harris, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, admission, 247-7036.

May 1, Women’s Glee Club High School Invitational, 3 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Road, free, 247-7036.

May 4, President and Provost’s 2010-2011 Diversity Lecture and Cultural Arts Series, international touring band FLAME, 4-6 p.m., Performance Hall, Ground Floor Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., osu.edu/diversity.

May 5, Outdoor Jazz Series at Mirror Lake: Jazz Workshop Ensemble and Jazz Faculty, 7:30 p.m., Browning Amphitheatre (rainsite is Weigel Auditorium), free, 292-2870.

Seminar

April 22, 2011 Earth Day at Ohio State, “What is Sustainable Food?,” 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, lunch provided, space limited, RSVP to Ryan McFadyen at mcfadyen_1@fisher.osu.edu.

Theater

May 5-21, Department of Theatre, “Eurydice,” 7:30 p.m. May 5-7, 12-14, 19-21, 3 p.m. May 8 and 15, Roy Bowen Theatre, Drake Performance Center, 1849 Cannon Drive, admission, 292-2295.

Training

April 22, University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, College Teaching Series, “Fair and Efficient Grading of Quizzes and Tests,” 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., 150 Younkin Success Center, 1640 Neil Ave., registration required, ucat.osu.edu.

April 26, 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.

April 26, Financial Training and Documentation, “Accounts Receivable and Accounts Receivable Collection Services,” 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 231 Mount Hall, 1050 Carmack Road, registration required, oit.ohio-state.edu/hrfin/trainingregistration.html.

April 26, University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Writing as a College Teaching Tool Series, “Grading to Learn: Assessing Student Learning Using Writing,” 3:30-5 p.m., 300 Younkin Success Center, 1640 Neil Ave., registration required, ucat.osu.edu.

April 26, College of Social Work Training, “The Big Picture: Public and Organizational Policy,” 8 a.m.-3:15 p.m., 115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, earn 6 CEU clock hours, open to the public, visit csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar for description and registration.

April 28-29, Organization and HR Consulting, “Culture Shaping and Life Effectiveness,” 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., registration required (2-day commitment), visit go.osu.edu/hrtraining for more information.

April 29, College of Social Work Training, “Random or Happy Impulses: Differentiating and Treating ADHD and Childhood Bipolar,” 1-4:15 p.m., 115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road, earn 3 CEU clock hours, open to the public, visit csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar for description and registration.

May 3, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Beyond Stress Management: Workplace Wellness,” 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 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.

May 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.

May 4-5, Management Advancement for the Public Service, “Interpersonal Communication and Counseling Skills,” 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.

Wexner

Through April 30, The Box, “Come Lontano (As if Far Away)” (Doug Ischar, 2010), 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 May 30, Erwin Redl: One of the Six Solos Exhibitions, Fetch, Wexner Center, 1871 N. High St., admission (free to visitors the first Sunday of the month and every Thursday after 4 p.m.), 292-3535.

Through July 31, Exhibitions on View, Double Sexus (Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois), Wexner Center, 1871 N. High St., admission (free to visitors the first Sunday of the month and every Thursday after 4 p.m.), 292-3535.

Through July 31, Exhibitions on View, Human Behavior with Music by Hans Berg (Nathalie Djurberg), Wexner Center, 1871 N. High St., admission (free to visitors the first Sunday of the month and every Thursday after 4 p.m.), 292-3535.

Through July 31, Exhibitions on View, The Tender Room (Pipilotti Rist), Wexner Center, 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. 14, Exhibitions on View, Annemiek (Rineke Dijkstra, 1997), Wexner Center Lower Lobby, 1871 N. High St., admission (free to visitors the first Sunday of the month and every Thursday after 4 p.m.), 292-3535.

April 21, New Documentary, “Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff” (Craig McCall, 2010) and “A Matter of Life and Death” (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

April 22-23, Contemporary Screen, “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

April 26, Lambert Family Lecture, “Jerry Gorovoy and Germano Celant: Remembering Louise,” 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., free, 292-3535.

April 28, Contemporary Screen, “The Strange Case of Angelica” (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

April 29, Visiting Filmmakers: Jay Rosenblatt, “King of the Jews” and other shorts, 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

April 30, Visiting Filmmakers: Jay Rosenblatt, “The Darkness of Day” and other shorts, introduced by the director, 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

April 30, GenWex Presents, “Off the Grid,” 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Wexner Center, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

May 1-31, The Box, “Abandon” (Pouran Esrafily, 1998), 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.

May 3-4, Visiting Filmmakers: Elia Suleiman, “The Time That Remains,” (2009), introduced by the director, 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

May 4, Next @ Wex, “YACHT” with “Light Anylum,” 9 p.m., Performance Space, 1871 N. High St., $10 admission, 292-3535.

May 5, Retrospective: Charlie Chaplin, “A Dog’s Life/Shoulder Arms” (1918) and “The Great Dictator” (1940), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 1871 N. High St., admission, 292-3535.

May 5-Oct. 27, Public Programs: The Market at 15th & High, outdoor farmers’ market, 4-7 p.m., Wexner Center Plaza, 292-3535.

Trustees, 4/21/11

April 20, 2011

The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved a variety of personnel, fiscal and construction-related matters at its meeting April 8.

Preferred Pathway Program established

The board approved a joint resolution with the Columbus State Community College Board of Trustees establishing the Preferred Pathway Program.

The new collaborative between Ohio State and Columbus State Community College indicates their commitment to a regional strategy for higher education designed to expand access, increase student attainment and meet the economic advancement goals of Ohio.

Beginning in autumn 2011, Columbus State students who have earned an associate’s degree will be guaranteed admission to Ohio State, consistent with university policy. To support those students, faculty from the two schools will work together to broaden the Columbus State curriculum so that students have the academic foundation to succeed in a range of Ohio State baccalaureate degree programs.

In addition, Ohio State and Columbus State advisors will collaborate in advising students well before they transfer. Participants in the Preferred Pathway Program also will be provided with an enhanced orientation program at Ohio State and will benefit from early participation in the university’s nationally recognized First Year Experience and other acclimation programs.

Personnel actions

The board approved the following personnel appointments and reappointments:

• William Abraham has been named professor and holder of the Chair of Excellence in Cardiovascular Medicine in the College of Medicine, through June 30, 2015.
• David McComb has been named professor and Ohio Research Scholar in the College of Engineering, effective Sept. 21.
• Lawrence Moss has been named professor and holder of The E. Thomas Boles Jr., MD, Chair in Pediatric Surgery in the College of Medicine and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, through June 30, 2015.
• Kimberly Shumate has been named interim vice president in the Office of Human Resources.
• Patrick Vaccaro has been named clinical professor and holder of The Luther M. Keith Professorship in Surgery in the College of Medicine, through June 30, 2015.
• David Williams has been named dean of the College of Engineering, through March 31, 2016.
• Martha Belury has been reappointed professor and The Carol S. Kennedy Professor in Human Nutrition in the College of Educations and Human Ecology, through Sept. 30, 2015.

Resolution in memoriam

The board adopted a resolution in memoriam for the following person:

• Robert Dorsey, former member of the Board of Trustees from 1970-72, who died Feb. 11.

Faculty Group Practice approved

Trustees approved the creation of the Faculty Group Practice in the University Office of Health Sciences.

Faculty Group Practice is an organizational unit of the Office of Health Sciences whose mission is to advise the Medical Center Executive Cabinet in the areas of financial performance, patient satisfaction, clinical quality and safety, strategic direction and other areas of emphasis. Creation of the practice aligns with the Medical Center’s strategic goals and helps the institution prepare for health care reform.

The practice will employ the physician faculty of The Ohio State University College of Medicine. The resolution calls on all OSU Medical Center department chairs and physician leaders with system-wide appointments to be employed either by the Faculty Group Practice or the Specialty Care Network on or before July 1.

Construction projects approved

The board authorized the university to enter into construction contracts for the following project:

• Creation of swing space for the Department of Dance and relocation of the Music and Dance Library to the Science and Engineering Library. This project is necessary to begin the renovation of Sullivant Hall to create a new home for the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and renovate the building including space for the Department of Dance, Department of Art Education and the Music/Dance Library. The project will pursue LEED silver standards. Construction amount for swing space is $300,000.

Total project cost is $24.4 million to be provided by state appropriations, department funds and development funds.

Appointing authority assigned

The board approved an amendment designating the university’s vice president for Human Resources, rather than the associate vice president for Human Resources, as the appointing authority for personnel issues related to the university’s classified civil service staff and public safety officers.

The amendment reflects an adjustment in title that changed the associate vice president for Human Resources to vice president for Human Resources. The vice president works on behalf of the board to negotiate, ratify, fund and otherwise administer any and all collective bargaining agreements on behalf of the university.

Amendments to Medical Staff bylaws approved

The board approved adoption of a series of amendments to the Bylaws and the Rules and Regulations of the Medical Staff of The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

The board also approved adoption of amendments to the Bylaws and Rules and Regulations of the Medical Staff of The Ohio State University Hospitals.

Amendments to Civil Service rules approved

The board approved adoption of several amendments to the Classified Civil Service Rules that clarify language, update rules to be consistent with university policies and to streamline processes in the management of Classified Civil Service employees.

The amendments address reclassifications; certification; classification program; applications; examinations; appointments; probationary periods; leave policies; performance management; removals or demotions; sick leave; reduction in force; payroll and compensation; and definitions of terms.

Easement granted

The board authorized the university to grant the following easement:

• To the Ohio Department of Transportation, an easement adjacent to the east side of Country Club Drive at OSU Newark to widen Country Club Drive and add a turn lane to improve traffic flow and better serve the Newark campus.

Golf Course membership dues increased

The board approved an increase in golf course annual membership dues fees.

They will increase from $575 to $590 for students; from $1,916 to $1,993 for faculty and staff; from $2,395 to $2,491 for alumni and affiliates and from $288 to $295 for children under 13 of a member. Daily course fees will not increase. Food and beverage minimums and tournament fees will not increase.

Clubhouse named

Trustees approved naming the clubhouse at Buckeye Field softball stadium after Phyllis Bailey, who served as professor of Physical Education at Ohio State for some 30 years.

She also was the first woman to serve as an assistant director of athletics (from 1974-94). Bailey provided significant contributions to the renovation of Buckeye Field, which nearly doubled the field’s capacity, added indoor and outdoor batting cages, a three-plate bullpen, a 650-square-foot press box, player clubhouse and locker room, new dugouts, coaches and umpires dressing room and concession areas.

Art gallery named

Trustees approved naming the Lima Community Heritage Art Gallery, located in Reed Hall at Ohio State Lima the Farmer Family Art Gallery.

The naming is in recognition of Martha Farmer, who started the theater program at Ohio State Lima in the 1970s and has provided significant contributions to that campus for more than 20 years, including support for construction and remodeling of the gallery.

The gallery is the arts center of the Lima campus, where plays, choral concerts, art shows and performing arts and lecture series are held.

Media room named

The board approved naming the media room in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center at the Les Wexner Football Complex the Jeffrey Greiner Family Media Room. The athletic facility was recently renovated to improve the teaching environment and to solidify the Buckeyes’ football practice facility as one of the nation’s best. The media room naming recognizes significant contributions made by Jeffrey Greiner to the renovation of the athletic facility.

Residence Halls renamed

Trustees approved renaming Park Hall and Stradley Hall as Park-Stradley Hall. Both buildings were constructed in 1958 and named in honor of Joseph Park, dean of men, and Bland Stradley, former vice president of Student Affairs. The two buildings are being renovated, and at the conclusion in 2013, they will be adjoined by an 11-story connector and considered one building. The new name continues to honor both Park and Stradley.

Next meeting

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Trustees will be June 23 and 24 at Longaberger Alumni House.

Board gives go-ahead for $2.5B comprehensive campaign

A campaign steering committee has been meeting since 2008, and the university officially has been in a planning phase for a campaign since 2009.

That steering committee recommended a transition into a “quiet phase” of the campaign in early March, and Trustees gave that plan their blessing with the vote at the April meeting.

Key characteristics and elements of the quiet phase include:

• Colleges and units will finalize their plans and goals by summer of 2012, and will recruit membership for 30 campaign committees.
• Universitywide trans-institutional objectives will be defined, and corresponding fundraising plans will will be integrated into the campaign plans of colleges and units.
• Leadership gifts will be the primary focus.
• Communicators and development officers will begin to talk more openly about the campaign and will celebrate lead gifts publicly.
• While the overall goal remains $2.5 billion, that goal and all college and unit goals will be finalized before the kickoff of the public phase of the campaign, which is scheduled for fall of 2012. The public phase will begin when between 40 percent and 50 percent of the working goal has been raised.

The campaign is scheduled to end June 30, 2016.

Along with the monetary goal, the other main goal of the campaign is for Ohio State to ascend from No. 11 to No. 1 in the nation among top public universities in total private support by the year 2020.

Newsbriefs, 4/21/11

April 20, 2011

Farrar to lead JamesCare Comprehensive Breast Center

William Farrar has been appointed director of the new JamesCare Comprehensive Breast Center, a new facility that opened in January. Farrar is one of the nation’s foremost experts in breast cancer detection and treatment as well as a leader in the central Ohio cancer community. Having trained as a surgical resident under Arthur G. James, the founder and namesake of Ohio State’s cancer hospital, Farrar has played an invaluable role in the university’s emergence as a national leader in cancer care.

Bill Cosby to help OSU honor Jesse Owens

Ohio State will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Jesse Owens’ historic performance in the 1936 Olympics in Germany with a series of events in conjunction with Ohio State’s spring football game and the Jesse Owens Track Classic.

Owens will be honored at a statue unveiling at 1:30 p.m. April 21 at Owens Memorial Stadium. A scholarship dinner hosted by comedian Bill Cosby follows at 7 p.m. at the Ohio Union. Proceeds will benefit the Ruth and Jesse Owens Scholars program and OSU’s track and field programs.

“The Jesse Owens Spring Game honoring America’s finest” will be played at 1:30 p.m. April 23 in Ohio Stadium. The football team will wear custom-painted helmets with commemorative decals saluting both the 75th anniversary of Owens’ Olympic achievement and military men and women. The Ohio State lacrosse game vs. Fairfield University kicks off the day’s events at 11 a.m.

The 2011 Jesse Owens Track and Field Classic also will be April 23 beginning at 6 p.m. and continuing April 24 at 10:30 a.m.

Nominate someone special for the Campus Campaign 2011 Awards

The university community is asked to consider nominating volunteers, coordinators, leadership, etc., to recognize exceptional work on this year’s Campus Campaign. The nomination form is available on the Campus Campaign website under volunteer resources atcampuscampaign.osu.edu.

The deadline for nominations is April 29, and nominations can be sent through campus mail or sent USPS to Campus Campaign, Attn: Tina Thome, 1480 W Lane Ave., Campus or Columbus, OH 43221; by e-mail to
ccampaign@osu.edu; or faxed to 247-6614.

Physics lecture: The world as a hologram

Leonard Susskind, the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University who was featured on the PBS series NOVA, where he discussed how he originated string theory will present “The World as a Hologram” at 8 p.m. May 3 in room 131 Hitchcock Hall for the annual Alpheus Smith Lecture in the Department of Physics.

Susskind will discuss the notion that the world as we know it is really just a projection of a flat surface, an idea that comes from probing the mysteries of black holes. Another way to put it: As we go about our three-dimensional lives, we are really living a two-dimensional existence.

The Smith Lecture began in 1960 and honors Alpheus Smith, former chair of Ohio State’s Department of Physics and dean of the Graduate School. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Physics and funded by a gift from the Smith family.

Free chemicals are just a click away

Environmental Health and Safety’s Chemical Redistribution Program provides usable chemicals to faculty and staff to be used on campus for university related purposes at no cost. Interested persons must register and request a login on the Environmental Affairs portion of the EHS website (ehs.ohio-state.edu) to view the available chemicals. As requests are filled, they will be delivered within a week. Those with questions should call 292-1284.

Ingram Autism Research Center seeks investigators

The Marci and Bill Ingram Autism Research Center requests applications from investigators at The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital to compete for various levels of seed support for autism-related research activities. The intent is to promote multidisciplinary collaborations among investigators in the field of autism at these two leading research institutions that will allow them to attack a comprehensive range of issues, from initial diagnosis through adulthood.

Proposals must be of high scientific merit, with a strong likelihood to obtain extramural funding. The deadline for full proposal submission has been extended to June 1. To receive proposal guidelines, contact
elaine.wakely@osumc.edu.

COTA simplifies travel to campus

Do you ride the No. 84 bus? On May 2, the No. 84 will split into three lines, helping make travel around campus and central Ohio even easier. The new lines will be known as No. 80 OSU/Lennox, No. 82 Grandview/OSU and No. 84 Arlington/OSU. To get more information about where these lines run and their complete schedules, visit cota.com/import/84_Changes_pageWEB.pdf.

Tenure-track faculty asked to teach Freshman Seminars

Arts and Sciences Advising and Academic Services invites tenure-track faculty who have taught a Freshman Seminar in the past five years to consider teaching for 2011-12. Last year, faculty taught 61 seminars. Advising and Academic Services would like to again offer new students the opportunity to connect with faculty around interesting or cutting-edge areas of scholarship through small group discussions that Freshman Seminars offer.

For more information, contact Chinwe Okpalaoka at 292-4661 or okpalaoka.2@osu.edu.

A full house

April 20, 2011

Five new ADs join the OSU Libraries staff

By Julia Harris

When Carol Pitts Diedrichs assumed the helm of the OSU Libraries not quite two years ago, her roster of associate and assistant directors was more than a little depleted. In fact, she was soon faced with the daunting prospect of hiring a whole new slate of personnel.

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It’s back to the future for the OSU Libraries

April 20, 2011

Recent acquisition gives faculty easy access to older scholarly content

By Julia Harris

In 1995, there was no Wi-Fi, free or otherwise. There was no Google, no Wikipedia, no flatscreen televisions or tiny cellphones.

The landscape of technology, engineering and science has altered drastically, as has the way in which today’s researchers access and use information.

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40 years later, faculty and staff still turn to onCampus

April 20, 2011

The very top headline in the very first issue of onCampus, April 19, 1971, read: “Appropriations Delay Means Tight Budget.”

Even now, in the digital age, some things never change: 40 years later, the budget is tight, and onCampus is still here to share the news with Ohio State’s faculty and staff.

“I think it says a lot about both the publication and the Ohio State community that the paper has had such staying power,” said Jeff McCallister, onCampus editor. “People know that every other Thursday during the academic year, they’re going to have a paper waiting for them in their mailbox that’s going to be both informative and entertaining, and that’s why they keep picking it up.”

Prior to onCampus, Ohio State had experimented with several publications, including the Faculty and Staff Bulletin, a calendar of events and listings of faculty accomplishments published on 8 1/2-by-11-inch sheets of paper stapled together.

University administrators, however, admired a Michigan State publication, Blue Sheet, and felt Ohio State could benefit from a similar communication tool for faculty and staff.

“We thought it was a good idea, given the position we were in in 1971. We’d gone through the riots and we were trying to enhance the communication on this campus, so we started this little publication,” said Dave Pullman, Ohio State’s director of public relations in 1971 and a former Michigan State editor.

onCampus was intended to fulfill a different niche than the Faculty and Staff Bulletin. “We wanted to have something better-looking with a little more storytelling. The onCampus was more of a feature piece,” said Alberta Wilkes, who was onCampus’ first editor.

The stories and photographs that have been published through the years provide a mini history lesson, reflecting major events and trends (not to mention hair and clothing styles) at the university and in the United States.

And just like those hairstyles, onCampus has continued to evolve.

From the start, onCampus has covered faculty issues and faculty work, but along the way, the editorial focus has opened up to include more coverage of staff issues. The paper now even has a recurring feature about things employees do outside their work.

Other changes have included a distribution process that ensured campus mail delivery to all faculty and staff that has prompted some recent collaborations with other units. The Medical Center publication Insight is now inserted and distributed with onCampus, and further partnerships are expected to be announced soon.

University organizations began purchasing space in the paper in September 1992, and external advertisers were introduced in September 1993. Revenues from advertising cover operating costs for the paper, which keeps onCampus on its feet during times of tight budgets.

September 1997 marked the debut of the onCampus Guide, an annual special issue that serves as a year-round resource to Ohio State services, organizations, events and benefits.

onCampus also went online in 1999. Most stories are now posted at oncampus.osu.edu, and paid advertising was introduced there in 2009.

But the print edition continues to be one of the most well-read pieces at Ohio State, with 88 percent of employees reporting they read the paper.

— With reporting from Susan Wittstock

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