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Headline newsOhio State, Cardinal Health, state of Ohio to invest $10 million to advance future of medical imagingOhio State, Cardinal Health and Ohio Third Frontier today (4/29) announced a new collaboration that will invest more than $10 million to help shape the future of the medical diagnostic industry. The collaboration will expand the molecular imaging research program at Ohio State’s Wright Center of Innovation in Biomedical Imaging to include a new Molecular Imaging Technology Center that will house OSU researchers, as well as Cardinal Health’s radiopharmaceutical manufacturing facility and nuclear pharmacy operations. In addition, a distinguished faculty position in radiopharmaceutical chemistry and other researchers will be added to Ohio State’s department of radiology. Ohio State President Gordon Gee is participating in the 10 a.m. announcement ceremony. Contact: mailto:Hoffman.511@osu.edu Spotlight on ... Writers Talk
Spotlight on ... is a new OSUToday feature created to promote the highlights, achievements and unique points of pride of each of the university’s departments, sections, units, etc. Send items to gammage.2@osu.edu to be considered for publication. Please limit text to 125 words and include contact info and a web link. Headline news Today: Film Studies Lecture and AwardThe Film Studies Program will host the 2009 Wexner Center Lecture, "The Two-Way Mirror: African American Films and the Transition to Sound" by Professor Ryan Friedman (English), at 4 p.m. today (4/29) in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater. After the lecture, the Film Studies Program will honor the winner of the 2009 Best Undergraduate Student Essay Award. A light reception will follow in the Cam’s On Campus café area. Contact: mailto:filmstudies@osu.edu or 292-6044. Read more: http://film-studies.osu.edu May 6 Wexner event to blend astronomy, artA sculptural exploration of the universe is the subject of a Wednesday (5/6) event at the Wexner Center for the Arts, jointly sponsored by the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics. MacArthur-award winning artist Josiah McElheny and OSU astronomy professor David Weinberg will discuss their collaboration on An End to Modernity — the “big bang chandelier” featured in the 2005 Wexner exhibition Part Object/Part Sculpture — and on the family of cosmologically inspired sculptures they have created since then. The event starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Wexner Film/Video Theater and is free and open to the public. Read more: http://oncampus.osu.edu/article.php?id=2811 Walkscape OSU encourages campus to think on your feetJoin the campus-wide experiment in creative bipedalism by going for a walk. Visit new places, take new routes, look with a fresh eye: walk by yourself, in pairs, in small groups, en masse. Document your experience somehow and contribute to the Walkscape Scroll on the Oval from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday (5/20). Sponsored by One Creative University: A project of Arts Initiative and the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities. Contact: mailto:Livingston.28@osu.edu. Read more: http://walkscapeosu.blogspot.com April 30 Libraries ReadAloud features Hudgins, McGrawThe OSU Libraries ReadAloud spring quarter schedule continues from 3-4 p.m. Thursday (4/30) at the Wexner Center Cafe. Andrew Hudgins, Department of English, will read from his newly released book Shut Up, You’re Fine! Poems for Very, Very Bad Children. Erin McGraw, Department of English, will read from her book, The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, named one of the best books of 2008 by The Seattle Times. Free refreshments. To listen to podcasts of previous programs or find ReadAloud on Facebook, visit http://library.osu.edu/blogs/readaloud/. May 1: Heart and Lung Research In Progress SeminarThe Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute's Research in Progress series continues at noon Friday (5/1) with a presentation by Carmen Cantemir-Stone, post doc researcher at Ohio State. The presentation, "Pten and Ets2 Fibroblasts-Specific Role in the Breast Tumor Microenvironment," takes place in room 165 DHRLI. Contact: mailto:whitney.works@osumc.edu or 247-7766 FTAD call for proposals: Mid-Career and Senior Faculty Learning CommunityThe OSTEP Mid-Career and Senior Faculty Program offers faculty a year-long opportunity to focus on their teaching as part of a community of peers. Based on a long-running program at Miami University, OSTEP is coordinated by FTAD and supported in part by a grant from FIPSE. Designed to revitalize the career development of tenured faculty at Ohio State by establishing collegial relationships across disciplines and reinforcing a faculty culture that brings the scholarship of teaching and research together. Application deadline is Friday (5/1). Contact: mailto:ftad@osu.edu or 292–3644. Read more: http://ftad.osu.edu/ostep/ Patterson lecture to be broadcast on WOSUOhio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut's keynote address at the annual Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture held Friday (4/24) will be broadcast several times in May: on WOSU Plus (34.1), from 9-10 p.m. on Fridays, May 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29; and on WOSU TV/HD (34.3), 11 a.m.-noon Sunday (5/3). For more information about the lecture, read http://outreach.osu.edu/docs/42409_PattersonLecture_PR.doc. Student panel on learning with technology May 5Are current students' experiences with learning dramatically different from students we've taught in the past? Faculty and staff are invited to join the Digital Union for "Future Students," a panel discussion with OSU undergrads and area high school students, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesday (5/5) in the Learning Collaboration Studio, 060 Science and Engineering Library. Find out what it means to be a student in a world with ubiquitous information access. RSVP to mailto:aubrecht.2@osu.edu or visit http://digitalunion.osu.edu/future for more info. French, Italian speakers invited to weekly conversation tablesFrench and Italian speakers in the university community are invited to join graduate and undergraduate French and Italian students at weekly conversation tables in the Crane Café. View a schedule at http://frit.osu.edu/news_events/default.cfm. There are also brown bag lunches on first Fridays at noon in 206 Hagerty for those in advanced French (400-level and above). The upcoming dates are Friday (5/1) and Friday (6/5). Career Connection, Graduate School host Interviewing Outside of AcademiaStrategies for effective communication in the high-pressure situation of a job interview is the focus of a workshop, Interviewing Outside of Academia, from 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesday (5/19) at 150 Younkin Success Center. Includes an overview to the interviewing process and a demonstration of how to answer challenging questions about why a PhD might be considering a job outside of academia. Space is limited. Co-sponsored by Career Connection and the Graduate School. Register online at http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/EventRegistration/Register.aspx?EventID=97. Dentistry presents DDS IDOL competition May 1The College of Dentistry’s Doctor of Dental Surgery and dental hygiene students will compete in their version of the American Idol competition, called “DDS Idol” at 5 p.m. Friday (5/1) in 1183 Postle Hall. Dental faculty members serve as judges. The event is free and open to the OSU community. Contact: mailto:Iannucci.5@osu.edu. Read more: http://www.dent.ohio-state.edu/admissions/Idol2008.php
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Ellen Mosley-Thompson, a world-renowned expert in global climate change and its effects leading to the loss of the world’s glaciers, has been named to the National Academy of Sciences. Mosley-Thompson is a Distinguished University Scholar in geography and a senior research scientist with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State. Her election to the country’s most prestigious scientific body was announced early Tuesday (4/28). Mosley-Thompson leads a highly respected research team focusing on paleoclimatology, the study of ancient climates. Read more: 
Wednesday evenings at 8:01 p.m., WCBE radio (90.5 FM) listeners get a glimpse of the writing life by way of Writers Talk, produced by Doug Dangler at the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing. Broadcast since September 2008, these interviews are derived from the 50-plus podcasts published on the CSTW web site (
