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4-20-2004 Memos: 4/22/04Faculty volunteers sought for May Week \0The Alumni Association, along with the May Week Steering Committee and Student-Alumni Council, is planning the university’s traditional May Week celebration. Held during the first week of May since 1910, May Week traditionally has served to link students, faculty and staff, forging closer relationships within the campus community. Academic coordinators for May Week 2004 have planned a number of contests during the week to encourage students to meet and interact with faculty. One contest, for example, is a scavenger hunt, where the students have to learn information about certain faculty members — such as a pet’s name, favorite book or undergraduate degree and area of research — and will require personal contact with them. The questions will be posted online and students will have most of the week to find out as much information as they can. On May 6, faculty and student participants are invited to a dessert reception at the Hale Center, where prizes will be awarded. Faculty and staff are needed to volunteer for the scavenger hunt. This will involve responding to student e-mails or having students visit during office hours. To volunteer, e-mail toher.1@osu.edu.
The Center for Learning Excellence at Ohio State will host the first Urban Schools Conference April 28-30 at the Blackwell. Sponsored by the Ohio Alternative Education Advisory Council and the Ohio Department of Education, the conference will focus on practical, best practice strategies for reducing nonacademic barriers to school success in urban school settings. Those from all school settings with at-risk youth populations are encouraged to attend, including educators, administrators, school support staff, mental health practit-ioners, youth development workers, parents and other community stakeholders. For details and registration materials, call 292-0241 or visit the Web at www.alted-mh.org/Conferences/Urban%20Schools/urbanschools.html.
Jacqueline Jones Royster, professor of English and interim dean of humanities, will present “Utopian Desire and Radical Action in African American Women’s Essay Writing” at 4 p.m. May 5 at the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater as part of the 2003-04 University Distinguished Lecture series. The lecture series was inaugurated in 1996 as one of Ohio State’s highest honors for a senior faculty member. The lecture will be broadcast live online at www.osu.edu/lecture/index.html.
Christopher Edley, founding co-director of the Civil Rights project, a think tank based at Harvard University focusing on issues of racial justice, will deliver “Motivating People to Change Racial Attitudes” at 4 p.m. April 29 in the Saxbe Auditorium of Drinko Hall. The lecture is part of the President and Provost’s Diversity Lecture series and is free and open to the public. For details, contact Frank Hale at 688-4255 or visit the Web at www.osu.edu/diversity/buffer2.html.
In support of National Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, faculty from the College of Dentistry will conduct free screenings and evaluations for the general public from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. April 23 in the first floor clinic of Postle Hall. No appointment is necessary. Patients may receive referral information after the screening. For details, including directions and parking, call 293-2678 or visit www.headandneck.org/ohio04.html.
The College of Humanities Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities (ICRPH) will offer a number of free events open to the university community in April. Events will be held at the George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., unless otherwise noted. The scheduled events are: • Homeland Security working group lunch, 12:30 p.m. April 22 at the Blackwell. Speakers are Kathleen Woodward, University of Washington; James Early, Smithsonian Institute; Nathan Citino, Colorado State University; Laura Gurak, University of Minnesota; and Richard Brecht, University of Maryland. • ICRPH annual forum, “Language, Culture, Media and (Inter)National Security,” 3 p.m. April 22, the Blackwell. • “Where Town Met Gown: The Growth of the University District,” 4:30 p.m. April 29. Speakers are independent scholars Emily Foster and Linda Ridihal. For more information, visit the institute’s Web site at http://icrph.osu.edu/ or contact Elizabeth Lantz at 688-0265 or lantz.38@osu.edu.
Tony Leggett, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor and the Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics, University of Illinois, will give the Department of Physics’ 42nd Annual Smith Lecture at 8 p.m. April 22 in 131 Hitchcock Hall. Leggett will present “You Can’t Drink a Quantum Liquid.” For details, visit the Web at www.physics.ohio-state.edu/.
The Department of Chemistry’s Meek Lecturer for 2004, Elsa Reichmanis, director of polymer and organic materials research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, New Jersey, will present two lectures in 1000 McPherson Laboratory: “Materials Chemistry and Advanced Technology: A Collaborative Endeavor” from 3:30-4:30 p.m. May 6 and “Chemical Design Challenges in Polymeric Materials for Electronic Applications” from 3-4 p.m. May 7. For details, visit the Web at www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/seminars/.
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures will host an international conference on “Exile and Otherness: New Approaches to the Experience of the Nazi Refugees” from April 30-May 2 at the Mershon Center. For details, visit the Web at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/stephan30/conferences/ExileNother/Exile.htm or contact Alexander Stephan at stephan.30@osu.edu.
The Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, 905 Mt. Vernon Ave., will be hosting a one-day seminar from 8 a.m.-9 p.m. April 24 to address the history of the Mt. Vernon Avenue area. Registration is $10 and includes all meals and an evening performance by the OSU Jazz Orchestra. For details, contact Dustin Speakman at 292-4177.
Stefan C. Reif, director of Taylor-Schecter Genizah Research Units at Cambridge University Library in England, will deliver “The Importance of the Genizah for Jewish Scholarship” at 3:30 p.m. April 30 in 122 Main Library. A reception will follow the lecture. For details, call the Melton Center at 292-0700.
The Web Accessibility Center (WAC) is hosting a live satellite event from 2:30-4:30 p.m. April 22, in the Digital Union (third floor of the Science and Engineering Library). A moderated panel discussion “Untangling the Web: Making Online Teaching and Learning Accessible,” will explore the implications of accessibility for online education and suggest ways that faculty and staff can work together to address major challenges. Participants can join colleagues across the country in live discussion via satellite. Part of the PBS “Live Satellite Events for Educators” series, the discussion is open to all faculty and staff. • Beginning Spring 2004, the WAC will be offering a number of informational and hands-on workshops designed to help faculty and staff explore, develop and implement strategies for accessible Web design and development. “Web Accessibility — What Not to Do!” will be held from 3-4 p.m. April 27 in Central Classrooms 245. To register, contact the WAC at 292-1760 or e-mail webaccess@osu.edu. For details, visit the WAC Web site at www.wac.ohio-state.edu/events.htm.
Ohio State’s entirely student-run musical theater group, Off the Lake, will present its annual spring musical, FAME: The Musical, at 8 p.m. May 6-8 in Hitchcock Hall. Admission is a nonperishable food item, which will be donated to the Mid-Ohio FoodBank. Featuring a 35-member cast and a 15-piece orchestra, FAME offers the theatrics, music and dancing of this straight-from-Broadway production. OSU’s Off the Lake is a non-profit organization created seven years ago after students realized that there were few opportunities to participate in musical theater and to work for a charitable cause. Off the Lake is committed to providing an opportunity for any interested Ohio State student to explore his or her theatrical talents. For details, contact Joan Bryant, Off the Lake promotions director, at 299-2252 or bryant.202@osu.edu.
Early Interval will perform music from the Renaissance period at 8 p.m. April 28 in the LeFevre Art Gallery at Ohio State Newark. Instruments from the Renaissance period, including the lute, recorder and the da gamba, will be used during the performance. The event, sponsored by the OSU Newark Cultural Arts and Events Committee, is free. For details, contact Teri Holder, director of marketing and public relations, at (740) 366-9420 or holder.20@osu.edu.
Ohio State’s Jefferson Academy of Music is sponsoring a performance by the American String Quartet with cellist Margo Tatgenhorst at 2 p.m. May 2 at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St. The concert is part of the academy’s Chamber Music Sunday Afternoons series. A tour of museum exhibits will precede the concert at 1:15 pm. The program includes compositions by Brahms (String Quartet in A minor, Op 51, No. 2), Shostakovich (String Quartet in F major, No. 3) and Haydn (String Quartet in D Major, Op. 71, No. 2). Tickets are $24; $17 for students/seniors/museum members. For details, contact 292-2693 or jeffacad@osu.edu.
The Faculty Club is presenting an exhibit May 5-June 25 featuring the work of Ohio State graduates Donna Burns, a painter, and Abbe Cheek, a potter. An opening reception will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. May 4. For details, contact 292-2262.
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