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Headline newsNCI grant to boost leukemia research At Ohio StateThe National Cancer Institute has awarded the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute a five-year, $11.5 million Specialized Program of Research Excellence grant to study and treat leukemia. The SPORE grant represents a milestone for the leukemia program at OSUCCC-James, which is only the second recipient of such an NCI grant directed at leukemia research. Read more >
OSU's Buckeye Bullet 2 exceeds speed record
Today: Take a Lap Around the Oval with university leadershipPut on your walking shoes and take a lap with university leaders today at noon. “Take a Lap Around the Oval” is the official kickoff for Your Plan for Health’s 2009 Hit the Road with the Buckeyes challenge, so wear your HTR T-shirts and pedometers. Free food samples and bottled water, health/wellness vendors with giveaways and raffle prize drawings. President Gordon Gee, Larry Lewellen and other members of OSU leadership will share opening remarks at noon in front of Bricker Hall. Arrive early to get your raffle ticket!. ODOT's online SR 315 Halftime Report contains helpful infoThe Ohio Department of Transportation has completed the first phase of a two year construction project to improve State Route 315 from I-670 to Ackerman Road. The work impacted campus area traffic this summer. ODOT has posted a SR 315 Halftime Report on its web site that contains details pertaining to the current status of the project and includes an interesting Q and A (see page 13). ORRP assistance available for student researchersThe Office of Responsible Research Practices offers special office hours autumn quarter in 215 Physical Activities and Education Services building to help graduate and undergraduate student researchers preparing Behavioral and Social Sciences Institutional Review Board submissions and exemption requests. Staff will help students and their advisors navigate IRB forms, policies and review procedures. No appointment is necessary. Dates and times listed at http://orrp.osu.edu/irb/workshops/studentassist.cfm. Contact: mailto:barnard.15@osu.edu Faculty and staff men’s basketball season ticketsMen’s basketball season tickets are currently on sale for OSU faculty and staff. If you have not received your online ordering information or would like to become a new season ticket holder, contact the OSU Athletic Ticket Office at (800) GOBUCKS or mailto:athletic.tix@osu.edu. The deadline to pay your 2009-10 season ticket invoice is 5 p.m. Friday (10/9). Read more: http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com (click on the TICKETS link) National Parks series premieres Sept. 27 on WOSU TVWOSU TV will premiere The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns, at 8 p.m. Sunday (9/27). Filmed at some of nature's most spectacular locales — from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska — the series is a story of people from every conceivable background. The entire series will air through Friday (19/2) at 8 p.m. on WOSU TV. Read more: http://www.wosu.org/national-parks/ 10th Annual Marialuisa Ferrari Lectureship Sept. 28Professor Ben Rich, Alumni Association Endowed Chair of Bioethics in the School of Medicine at the University of California at Davis, will present “Palliative Care Education and the Culpability of Cultivated Ignorance” at the 10th Annual Marialuisa Ferrari Lectureship for Life on Monday (9/28) at the Biomedical Research Tower Auditorium. The lecture, part of a mini-symposium from 11 a.m.-2:15 p.m., will discuss “Pain Patients’ Perspective.” Free event; boxed lunches provided. To register, contact: Trish Marcum at 293-7371 or mailto:Trish.Marcum@osumc.edu. MLHR information session scheduled for Sept. 29The Fisher College of Business Master of Labor & Human Resources program is hosting an information session from noon-1 p.m. Tuesday (9/29) in Gerlach Hall. Signage will direct you to the correct room in Gerlach Hall. Contact: Graduate Programs Office, 292-8511 or mailto:fisher_mlhr@fisher.osu.edu. Register online at http://fisher.osu.edu/prospective/graduate/mlhr/information-session. Oct. 1: College of Social Work sponsors It's Only Weed, Right!?The College of Social Work is sponsoring "It's Only Weed, Right!?" from noon-4:15 p.m. Thursday (10/1) in 115 Stillman Hall. CEU available. Learn to separate fact from fiction by learning the latest research on both health and impairment effects of marijuana. Open to the public. Early registration discounts available. To learn more or register, visit http://csw.osu.edu/trainingforprofessionals/trainingcalendar/091001. Graduate Student Career Group meets Oct. 8If you work with graduate students that may be interested in learning what specific qualities they have to offer employers, or that have considered pursuing a career path different from their original plan, please inform them about the Graduate Student Career Group at Ohio State. The group meets six times on Thursdays, from 3-4:30 p.m., starting Thursday (10/8). Space is limited; students must commit to attending every session. Contact: Stacie Stormer, mailto:stormer.5@osu.edu or 688-3898. Read more: http://careerconnection.osu.edu/graduatepro.asp
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Ohio State’s Buckeye Bullet 2 team on Wednesday (9/23) eclipsed its own international speed record set in 2007. The Bullet’s 299.91 mph speed, pending certification before it can be called an official record, far surpasses the certified record of 132.129 mph set by the Buckeye Bullet 2 in 2007. The hydrogen fuel cell powered landspeed streamliner racer and its engineering student team are making the record attempts in the Salt Flats in Utah this week. Read more: 
