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WELCOME TO OSUToday, the latest news and information for faculty and staff of The Ohio State University for Monday, May 20. The deadline for submissions is noon the prior business day.

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OSU Surplus moves to PRSM Warehouse, 2650 Kenny Road: Be sure to attend the grand opening Surplus sale at the new location, on Tuesday (5/21) from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Featured sale items include overstock computing items, furniture, and exercise equipment. Surplus accepts cash, checks, credit cards, and money orders. Once items are sold, proceeds are shared with university departments who give their items to the store. If you have items to donate, please contact Brad Thomas at 292-6967. Like Surplus on Facebook.

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Collegiate Recovery Community

Ohio State is estimated to have 950 students seeking help for their drug and alcohol addiction. To ensure their success and retention, the Student Wellness Center in the Office of Student Life, in conjunction with Student Life’s Counseling and Consultation Service, University Housing, Dining Services, Student Health Services, and the College of Social Work, is creating a Collegiate Recovery Community. Planned program components include a recovery house, counseling, on campus support meetings, social events, and life skills workshops among other elements.

This program will help create a mainstream college experience for the student who is everything but mainstream, and permit them to have an extraordinary student experience while maintaining their recovery.
-- > Contact Student Life’s Sarah Nerad or visit go.osu.edu/recovery.


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-- > Contact: 292-2183 or giftplan@osu.edu

Headline news

Ground broken for new ag engineering building at OARDC Wooster campus

 A September 2010 tornado took it away. Now, support from elected officials and the state of Ohio will help bring back an even better version of the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering's building on the Wooster campus of Ohio State's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. The new structure will be the first "green" building on the Wooster campus, certified "Silver" by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. Shown here, an architectural rendering shows what the new building will look like.
-- > Read more: extension.osu.edu/news-releases


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Awards surge to $4.5 million for STEM scholars at State Science Day

More than 1,267 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students in grades 5–12 exhibited their projects at the 65th annual State Science Day on Saturday (5/11) hosted at the French Field House. The STEM scholars come from 279 cities and 301 schools in 71 counties, and they competed for more than $4.5 million in scholarships and awards. Ohio Wesleyan University was the largest scholarship donor.
-- > Contact: 488-2228 or oas@iwaynet.net
-- > Read more: www.ohiosci.org/ssd.htm


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Be proactive in managing your health, and schedule your 20-minute Your Plan for Health biometric health screening now. Benefits-eligible faculty and staff can use these values to complete the Personal Health & Well-Being Assessment (PHA). Why not be a role model for your colleagues and be way out ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline to complete the PHA? Avoid the summer rush, and schedule your screening now by visiting yp4h.osu.edu/ or call 292-4700.


Spring 2013 issue of College of Arts and Sciences’ ASCENT

This issue celebrates big news and big ideas, locally and globally. Among them, faculty in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature are implementing a $9.6 million U.S. State Department grant in four countries: Living Language explains how critical language institutes help students compete on a world stage. Chemistry major Elisabeth Bianco won a national nanoscience and nanoengineering competition: It’s Elementary gives the backstory; and Art Alumnus Matthew Failor, who now trains and races sled dogs, takes us on an Alaskan Adventure as he completes his second Iditarod.
-- > Read more: artsandsciences.osu.edu/ascent

Events this week

Writers Talk explores research, history

OSU student Anna Peterson discusses her research on abortion with Origins associate editor Patrick Potyondy, and Thurber House guest Tracy Chevalier discusses her historical novels, including the Girl with a Pearl Earring. Today (5/20) at 7 p.m. on WCRS radio, 98.3 & 102.1 FM and Wednesday (5/21) at 8 p.m. on WCBE radio, 90.5 FM.
-- > Contact: dangler.6@osu.edu
-- > Read more: writerstalk.org

Digital storytelling event at Thompson Library

Join the Digital Media Collective on Tuesday (5/21) with guests Karen Diaz and Alex Everett of OSU’s Digital Storytelling Program. Meet in the 11th Floor Reading Room of Thompson Library, from 10:30 a.m.-noon. Karen will talk about the program at OSU and interview Joe Lambert, founder and executive director of the Center for Digital Storytelling in San Francisco, via Adobe Connect. Digital stories created by members of the OSU community will be featured. All are welcome.
-- > Contact: Amy McCrory at mccrory.7@osu

Annual Mental Health Fair set for May 22

Be proactive and learn more about how you can take positive action in your life. Attend this year's Mental Health Fair on Wednesday (5/22) from 7 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Ross Heart Hospital Auditorium. Refreshments will be provided. Reps will be available from Psychiatric Emergency Services, Psychiatric Social Work, Child/Adolescent Inpatient Unit, Partial Hospitalization, the STAR Program, Neurotherapeutics, Depression Bipolar Support Alliance, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Behavioral Health Services, and OSU Nutrition Services. Biometric health screenings available.
-- > Schedule appointment: linktohealth.osu.edu/LinktoHealth/home.seam

Vaccine-autism controversy lecture

The Health Sciences Library Medical Heritage Center is hosting the 2013 Annual James V. Warren Memorial Lecture, “The Perfect Storm: The Roots of the Vaccine-Autism Controversy,”  on Wednesday (5/22) in 550 Prior Hall (reception at 4 p.m.; lecture at 4:30 p.m.) Jeffery Baker, professor of pediatrics and director of the History of Medicine Program at Duke University, will explore how the belief originated in the late 1990s and the subsequent controversies that arose.
-- > Read more: https://hsl.osu.edu

May 22: 'The good, the bad and the ugly of engaging schools'

Kate Harkin, director of Ohio State’s P12 Initiative will offer insights and suggestions on ways to establish productive and mutually beneficial relationships with schools - a foundation for research success - during the next STEM Initiatives Virtual Brown Bag Carmen Connect webinar on Wednesday (5/22) from noon-1 p.m. Jack Conrath, former superintendent of Whitehall City Schools and director of the College of Education and Human Ecology’s Superintendent’s Licensure Program will co-present.
-- > Contact: STEM Initiatives at steminitiatives@osu.edu
-- > Read more: go.osu.edu/harkin

Classes/workshops

May 22: Allowable Costs on International Projects

Determining how to manage funds expended in other countries is one of the more difficult budgeting and expending challenges principle investigators and research administrators face. This webinar will be shown Wednesday (5/22) in 113 Research Administration building from 1-2:30 p.m.
-- > Register: researchcalendar.osu.edu/index.php?eID=474

PI Portal Overview May 22

Members of the research community are encouraged to attend this hands-on session to learn about monitoring their research grants and contracts. Office of Sponsored Programs staff will provide a demonstration of the PI Portal including basic features, navigation, and answers to your questions. Targeted to researchers and their staff who already have access to the PI Portal, this session will be held Wednesday (5/22) in 460B Health Science Library from 2-3 p.m.
-- > Register: researchcalendar.osu.edu/index.php?eID=446


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Announcing the grand opening of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center at Dublin, a satellite hospital of the main campus VMC that provides 24/7/365 emergency care for dogs and cats. Located at 5020 Bradenton Ave. in Dublin, Ohio, we provide convenient access to high-quality emergency services. Our doctors work collaboratively with your family veterinarian to provide leading-edge care for your pets. For more information, call 889-8070 or visit vet.osu.edu/vmc-dublin.


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