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Headline newsThree OSU students awarded prestigious Fulbright-Hays GrantsThree Ohio State doctoral candidates have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays grant by the U.S. Department of Education. Matthew Curtis, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, Amelia Hubbard, Department of Anthropolog, and David McLaughlin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, are the recipients of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grants, totaling $105,000. There are only approximately 130 Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad awards presented annually nationwide. Read more: http://oia.osu.edu/content/view/774/380/ Honor a veteran with a spot on the honor brick walkwayRemembrance Park was established in 2006 to honor all veterans and especially those OSU alumni who died while in the service of their country. Once completed, an Honor Brick walkway will have more than 2,000 bricks displaying the names of those who have served our country. Road construction at Tuttle Park Place is temporary and will not disrupt the overall appearance of the park. Order your brick now so it will be in place to honor your veteran by this fall. Contact: Assistant Registrar Jerry Vance, mailto:vance.5@osu.edu or 292-7894. Read more: http://www.buckeyealumni.com/ QUIC program receives NACE Innovation Excellence AwardThe National Association of Colleges and Employers has awarded its 2009 Innovation Excellence Award to Fisher College's Qualified Undergraduate Interview Candidate program. Administered through the Office of Career Management, the QUIC program prepares students for a professional job and internship search through a series of online modules with quizzes and a mandatory mock interview. Once students complete the program, they become eligible to participate in recruiter interviews in the Office of Career Management. Read more: http://www.fisher.osu.edu/newsroom/headlines/index.php?folder=65&news=1238 Have a conference or workshop space? List it in onCampusonCampus, the faculty and staff newspaper at OSU, is publishing its annual Conferences and Workshops Guide in the June 4 issue. If you have a space to rent to internal audiences and want to be part of this year’s expanded listings, send an e-mail with the name of your venue, the address, a contact person or persons, a phone number and/or e-mail address, your Web site address (if available) and a 50- to 75-word description of your venue to Associate Editor Adam King at mailto:king.1088@osu.edu. Deadline is Friday (5/28). Today-May 17: Conference to honor Professor Harvey FriedmanToday (5/14)-Sunday (5/17), international scholars, disciples, and admirers of OSU Professor Harvey Friedman, the world’s leading mathematical logician, will be attending "Foundational Adventures," a conference in honor of his 60th birthday. The interdisciplinary conference will address his fundamental contributions to mathematics, computing science, philosophy, and music. Sessions will be held at the Pfahl Conference Center at The Blackwell Inn. Registration and conference program available at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/tennant9/friedman_conference.html. Read more: http://artsandhumanities.osu.edu/news/focus/default.cfm?do=story&id=5&date=2009:4 Author Ernest Gaines to speak, sign books today at OSU NewarkWorld-renowned author Ernest Gaines will speak at 7:30 p.m. today (5/14) in the Alford Performing Arts Hall in the Reese Center at Ohio State Newark. Gaines’ talk will be followed by a Q&A session and a book signing. Books will be available for purchase. The event is free. Contact: mailto:sanders.102@osu.edu. Read more: http://www.newark.osu.edu/IntheSpotlight/Features/FeatureThree.asp Today: Annual Foreign Language Center Career NightPlease remind students that the Fourth Annual Foreign Language Center Career Night, Putting Your Languages to Work! will take place from 5-7:30 p.m. today (5/14) in Hagerty Hall (first floor). Business, government, military and social agency recruiters will be on hand to answer questions and provide many opportunities for careers where students in any major can use their foreign language skills. View a list of recruiters at http://flc.osu.edu/newsEvents/events/default.cfm May 15: Rebekah Gee to present 'Winning the Fight Against Breast Cancer'Rebekah Gee, physician, women's health advocate, and daughter of OSU President Gordon Gee, will deliver "Winning the Fight Against Breast Cancer" at noon Friday (5/15) in the Veterinary Hospital Auditorium at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Her presentation is the keynote address for "Pink Week," a series of breast cancer awareness events and fundraisers hosted by the college’s Komen for the Cure team. Contact: mailto:weber.254@osu.edu or 292-3752. Read more: http://vet.osu.edu/4062.htm?ee_id=4062#schedule May 15: Ohio State celebrates International Day for Sharing Life StoriesOhio State's Digital Storytelling Showcase, from 10-11 a.m. Friday (5/15) at the Wexner Center Film/VideoTheater, will celebrate the Second Annual International Day for Sharing Life Stories. The theme for 2009 is “Journeys Towards Justice: Capturing the Stories of Human Rights in the Context of Migration.” Among the showcase videos, OSU will highlight several stories created by immigrants to the U.S. Contact: mailto:digitalstory@osu.edu. Read more: http://digitalstory.osu.edu/ Ohio State hosts Scarlet Gray and Ag Day May 15More than 600 Columbus area fourth and fifth grade students will visit campus on Friday (5/15) to learn about the world of agriculture through hands-on laboratory activities. Workshops include Chick-hatch, Mozzarella in Minutes, Baby horses are Not Ponies!, Canulated Cow, Ag Communications, Entomology and many more. Sessions begin at 10 a.m. in tents, arenas and classrooms on the agriculture campus (west of the Olentangy River). Read more: http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~sg-agday/ Mae Ngai to deliver Asian American Studies Lecture May 15Mae Ngai, award-winning author of and professor of Asian American Studies and History at Columbia University, will discuss the role of language and translation in the murder trial of Ah Jake, an unemployed Chinese gold miner in 1887. The event will take place from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday (5/15) at the Frank Hale Cultural Center. Lunch will be provided before the lecture. RSVP to mailto:hawkins.174@osu.edu. Sharma kicks off Kirwan Institute May brown bag lecture series May 15The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity will hold a series of lunch-time lectures during May. The campus community is welcome to attend and participants may bring their own brown bag lunch. All sessions will be held in 423 Mendenhall Laboratory at noon. The first is set for Friday (5/15). Madhuri Sharma, graduate research associate in the Geography Department, will present Racial/Ethnic Intermixing in Urban Residential Space: From Metro to Local: A Mixed Method Approach. Read more: http://Kirwaninstitute.org MLHR information session scheduled for May 20The Fisher College of Business Master of Labor & Human Resources program is hosting an information session from 12:45-1:30 pm. Wednesday (5/20) in Gerlach Hall for those interested in the MLHR program. Signage will direct you to the correct room in Gerlach Hall. Contact the Graduate Programs Office at 292-8511 or mailto:fisher_mlhr@fisher.osu.edu. Register online at http://fisher.osu.edu/prospective/graduate/mlhr/information-session. FDA speaker to talk about personalized medicine
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