The Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute has announced 11 new Idea Grants awarded through the 2013 Intramural Research Program. These multiyear research grants, which total $1.4 million, are awarded for creative approaches to understanding and curing cancer. They are a way to help teams of scientists at …
More graduate business students at Ohio State will receive financial support for study-abroad opportunities under a new program in honor of Joe Alutto, executive vice president and provost and a former dean of Fisher College of Business at Ohio State. A $5 million fund has been created to launch the initiative, potentially as early as …
Gov. John Kasich has named John Carey, who served nine years in the Ohio House of Representatives and eight years in the Ohio Senate, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents. Most recently, Carey was assistant to the president for Government Relations and Strategic Initiatives at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth. As chancellor, Carey will …
Stadium recycling, the purchase of alternative wind power and excellence in environmental academics has helped propel Ohio State to six recent honors and awards earned through its efforts to be the “greenest” university in the nation. In 2008, Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. Since then, …
Just about everyone agrees that food and health are inextricably linked. But Yael Vodovotz goes well beyond that standard: The Ohio State food scientist focuses on creating new functional foods that potentially could prevent and treat chronic disease without demanding that consumers make major changes to their diet. Among the products under development: Soy-based bread …
Best College Reviews ranked Ohio State’s Recreation and Physical Activity Center the No. 5 university rec center in the nation. About the RPAC, BRC wrote: “For students who like their indoor, Olympic-sized pool to come with a bubble bench and a slide, there is perhaps no better option than the 500,000-square-foot recreation center that can …
Andrea Goldblum has been named Ohio State’s Title IX and Clery Act Coordinator. Goldblum, a compliance director at Ohio State, is part of the newly formed Office of University Compliance and Integrity, which was created in February 2012 to administer a University-wide compliance training program, develop a compliance monitoring program, and streamline the university policy-making …
Melinda Church has been selected to lead the Office of University Communications, reporting directly to Michael Eicher, senior vice president for Advancement and president of The Ohio State University Foundation. Church, who has led numerous communications initiatives at Ohio State, replaces Tom Katzenmeyer. In January, Katzenmeyer announced his acceptance of the position as president of …
After submitting their designs to the national 20th Annual Student Design Competition, Ohio State industrial design students placed in four of the 11 student category awards. Yutong Wu was awarded second place, with a $2,000 cash prize. Yunqi Yuan was awarded third place ($1,000). Morgan Perry and Justin Bechstein received honorable mentions ($250). The students, …
Ohio State’s Digital First initiative has been named a 2013 New Media Consortium (NMC) Center of Excellence Award, which recognizes the university’s success in the integration of technology with teaching, learning or creative expression. “Faculty across the Ohio State community are using these tools to enhance student learning and engagement,” said Mike Hofherr, associate vice …