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4-7-2004 Memos• Provost candidate fora continue April 8 Open fora continue to be held for faculty, staff and students to meet with the finalists for executive vice president of academic affairs and provost. The fora provide an opportunity to meet and interact with the candidates and provide input to the search committee before final evaluations and recommendations are forwarded to the president. • Elizabeth Langland, dean of humanities, arts and cultural studies at the University of California, Davis, will meet with the university at 10 a.m. April 8 in the Faculty Club Grand Lounge. (Please note time change.) • Barbara Snyder, interim executive vice president and provost at Ohio State, will meet with the university at 2 p.m. April 12 in the Faculty Club Grand Lounge. The open fora can be viewed live over the Internet at http://streaming.service.ohio-state.edu/live1.htm. For details, visit www.osu.edu/provostsearch/.
Mario Cuomo, the longest serving Democratic governor of New York in modern history, will be the featured guest in Ohio State’s First Year Distinguished Speaker Series at 7:30 p.m. April 14 at Weigel Auditorium. Sponsored each spring by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and First Year Experience, the speaker series was developed to give first-year students the opportunity to interact with world opinion leaders. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young was the inaugural speaker last year. A limited number of free tickets are available at the first floor reception desk in Enarson Hall. For more information, contact Kelly Gribbin at 247-7465 or gribbin.1@osu.edu.
Christine Murakami, P-12 Project, Amy Burgess, Department of Athletics’ camp coordinator, and Adelia Gregory, Wexner Center for the Arts’ education program coordinator, will present “Ohio State Summer Programs for Youth” at the April 12 meeting of the University District Lunch Bunch, from noon-1:30 p.m. at Campus Partners, 1824 N. High St. Parking is available across the street in the Ohio Union Garage. Bring a brown bag lunch; drinks and dessert will be provided. R.S.V.P. to Barbara Millisor at 688-3041 or e-mail millisor.1@osu.edu.
Faculty judges are needed from all disciplines for the 2004 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum to be held from noon-5 p.m. May 12 at St. John Arena. The research forum provides a means for undergraduate students to share their research with members and friends of the OSU community. For details or to register to become a judge, contact Teresa Hagerman at 292-2872 or e-mail hagerman.1@osu.edu by April 9.
The second tier of OSU CARES/OSU Extension’s Best Practices Faculty Seminar for Hands-on Distance Education will be held from noon-1:30 p.m. April 19, and from noon-3 p.m. April 26. The two-part workshop will prepare faculty to use distance education technologies, including IP video equipment and complementary course management software, for courses, programs or conferences. Registration is limited and ends April 12. For details or to register, contact Terri Fisher at 688-4486 or e-mail fisher.456@osu.edu
Online registration opens at 8 a.m. April 14 and continues until April 22 for Take A Daughter to Work Day workshops, to be held on the Columbus campus April 22. Workshop details are available on the Web at http://hr.osu.edu/daughter. Workshops fill quickly and early registration is encouraged. All registration is online. For details, contact Margie Bogenschutz at 292-8586.
The Department of Comparative Studies, the Mershon Center and the Office of International Affairs are hosting “Religion, Secrecy and Security: Religious Freedom and Privacy in a Global Context” at 3 p.m. April 16 in 347 University Hall and from 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. April 17 at the George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave. The conference will begin with keynote lectures by Mark Juergensmeyer, UC Santa Barbara, and Steven M. Wasserstrom, Reed College. Seven individual papers will be presented on the second day of the conference. For details, visit www.comparativestudies.osu.edu/secrecy/.
Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR) in the Office of the Chief Information Officer has announced a new grant program for 2004, Research on Research: Student-Faculty ePartnerships. Full-time, undergraduate students will be supported by TELR to collaborate with a faculty member or members during summer quarter to develop a multi-media eportfolio documenting the faculty member’s research.
Urvashi Butalia, author and activist, will discuss “Interrogating/Speaking Peace: Women in Conflict Situations in India,” from 4:30-6 p.m. April 20 at the Mershon Center. A reception will follow. The lecture is sponsored by Women in Development and the Mershon Center. Butalia will address the role and impact of women in violent conflict situations in India, with special attention to Kashmir, and will look at communal conflict in general.
Ohio State’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Services, an office of the Multicultural Center, is sponsoring an OSU Town Hall Forum on GLBT Issues in conjunction with the University Diversity Council, the University Senate Diversity Committee and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. April 15 in the Conference Theatre of the Ohio Union. For details, contact 292-6200, e-mail glbtss@osu.edu or visit www.multiculturalcenter.osu.edu/.glbtss.
The Office of Faculty and TA Development is offering “Collaborative Learning I” on April 14 and “Collaborative Learning II” on April 21. Both sessions will be held from 3:30-5 p.m. in 150 Younkin Success Center. All instructors are invited to attend. The sessions will be facilitated by a member of the FTAD staff. This two-part series is designed to help instructors decide when and how best to use student groups in teaching methods. For details or to register, contact ftad@osu.edu.
Ohio State’s P-12 Scholars Program is seeking proposals for funding of up to $20,000 each for a maximum of four projects, with one to be focused on the University District neighborhood schools and/or the populations served by those schools. Proposals are due by 4 p.m. May 12, and are welcome from any department or discipline and may include collaborations between and among researchers and practitioners. For details, visit the Web at http://p12.osu.edu or contact Nancy Nestor-Baker at 688-3621 or NestorBaker@aol.com.
Volunteers are needed on April 18 for the Undergraduate Student Government’s second annual “Invest Yourself,” an event where faculty and student leaders pair up to visit students living in the University District. For details or to register, visit www.usgonline.net/investyourself or contact Beth Allen at allen.705@osu.edu.
The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences is offering “Diversity and Disability” on April 19, one of a series of diversity training sessions scheduled for 2003-04. The session will be led by ADA Coordinator Scott Lissner. These free sessions are open to faculty, staff and students. Each session is two and a half hours in length and is offered twice, from 9-11:30 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m. in the college’s auditorium at 2120 Fyffe Road. For details or registration forms, contact Kathy Lechman at 247-7176 or e-mail lechman.1@osu.edu.
Forum judges are needed for the annual Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, to be held from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. April 17. Judges are especially needed for the following areas: Biological Sciences; Business; Engineering; FAES and Human Ecology; Humanities; and MAPS. Faculty interested in judging should contact Kerry Hodak at hodak.2@osu.edu, or fill out the judge nomination form online at http://saweb02.studentaffairs.ohio-state.edu/councilgradstudents/secure/forum-judge.asp.
The Office of Financial Training and Documentation will offer a reduced schedule of workshops from April through July 2004 because of the systems upgrade scheduled for early fiscal year 2005. For the months of April and May, the following workshops will be offered: “Introduction to Your Fiscal Responsibilities at OSU,” “Earnings Operations at OSU,” “Working with the Office of Accounts Payable,” “Debits and Credits” and “Stewardship of Endowment and Gift Funds.” The free workshops are held in 231 Mount Hall. Online registration for classes is available at www.ctlr.ohio-state.edu/financial/finance.htm.
“The Benefits of International Volunteerism” will be discussed at the Association of Faculty and Professional Women (AFPW) luncheon, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. April 15 at the Faculty Club. Mary Merrill of Merrill Associates and Bill Merrill, semi-retired, will share their experience volunteering in Armenia through the International Executive Service Corps. The Faculty Club must receive reservations before noon April 13. For details, contact Jean Dodson, AFPW program chair, at 292-4453.
Strategic mediation is the topic of the annual Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution at the Moritz College of Law, to be presented at 4 p.m. April 8 in the Saxbe Auditorium, Drinko Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. Visiting lecturer Francis McGovern, professor of law at Duke University, will focus on a mediator’s thought processes in ways that extend beyond traditional concepts of mediation. McGovern was among the first in the nation to write about and to use alternative dispute resolution techniques to avoid or to improve the litigation process, and is frequently consulted by federal judiciary, state courts and institutions around the world. For details, contact Liz Cutler Gates at 292-0283 or gates.68@osu.edu.
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