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Headline newsSnows of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost
Headline newsStaff Conversation with President link correctedThe link to Monday’s USAC Staff Conversation with the President was posted incorrectly. The link is here and can now be reached on the USAC web site, http://www.usac.osu.edu/. USAC regrets the error. Introducing new grants for teaching and learning with technologyLearning Technology in the Office of the CIO announces two grants for advancing teaching and learning with technology. The Impact Grant offers support for large or key departmental courses; applications due Friday (12/4). The Professional Development Grant promotes personal or departmental professional development opportunities; applications due Friday (2/5/2010). Q&A sessions for the Impact Grant will be held from 10-11 a.m. Tuesday (11/10) and Friday (11/20) in 060 Science and Engineering Library. Contact: mailto:ltgrants@osu.edu. Read more: http://lt.osu.edu/grants Experience the Arts events on campus
Benefits Open Enrollment tip – online enrollmentOpen Enrollment Online, http://hr.osu.edu/oe/ is accessible 24 hours-a-day through Friday (11/6). Review existing medical, dental and vision coverage, elect a flexible spending account – current participants must re-enroll – and cancel short-term disability coverage. Open Enrollment Online is accessible with a valid OSU Internet User ID (name.#) and the password established for that account. Refer to the login page for information about activating that account or re-setting its password, if needed. Faculty and staff who do not wish to enroll online may print all appropriate forms from Open Enrollment Online and submit to Human Resources by Friday (11/6). Prior Health Sciences Library web site: Take a quick surveyYour feedback is requested to help in the redesign of the Prior Health Sciences Library web site. Opinions of library customers are being sought to inform the redesign process as much as possible, so please take a couple of minutes to complete this short survey, at http://library.med.ohio-state.edu/article.cfm?ID=5208. Results will be analyzed and used to help build a better web site. Contact: Joe Payne at mailto:Joseph.Payne@osumc.edu Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, & Disability: Call for PapersA call for papers and student poster presentations has been issued for the Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, & Disability: Future History conference, to be held Tuesday (4/27)-Wednesday (4/28). Submissions are due Saturday (11/7). This year’s conference examines disability as an individual experience, a legal construct and a social reality. The full call for papers and conference updates are available at: http://ada.osu.edu/conferences.htm. To be on the mailing list for the conference, contact mailto:ADA-OSU@osu.edu. Events this week Brazilian theme featured on the big screenThe Center for Latin American Studies presents Cheiro do Ralo (Drained) at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (11/4) in 180 Hagerty Hall. Lourenç, the owner of a secondhand shop, finds pleasure in taking unfair advantage of his customers. This behavior amuses him, until he finds it necessary to relate to his customers using a currency that is strange to him – namely affection – from the very same characters he imagined were under his control. The free film is in Portuguese with English subtitles. Read more: http://clas.osu.edu Nov. 4: AIA Columbus Honor Awards Keynote LectureDouglas Stockman will present the AIA Columbus Honor Awards Keynote Lecture at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday (11/4) in the Knowlton Hall Auditorium (KN250). An experienced world traveler, Stockman joined colleagues from BNIM Architects to form El Dorado, Inc., in order to address the important and strong connection between designing and making architecture, and blurring the boundary between the two. Read more: http://www.knowlton.osu.edu/lectures Nov. 5: Windows 7 Day at Ohio StateThe Office of Student Life and the Digital Union invite you to Microsoft Windows 7 Day on Thursday (11/5) in the Science and Engineering Library. The day includes a general info session at noon in room 070 that highlights new features and improvements, and a Q-and-A session in room 390 at 3:30 p.m. that focuses on changes in Windows 7 that affect system administrators. The event closes with an Xbox 360 Halo 3 gaming party from 6-9 p.m. in 165 Thompson Library. Read more > Nov. 6 Kirwan Institute lecture addresses HIV/AIDS in Papua New GuineaPublic health policy and social forces related to national HIV programs in Papua New Guinea are the focus of a lecture to be held at noon Friday (11/6) in 423 Mendenhall Laboratory. The featured speaker is Lawrence Hammar, research scientist at the Center for Interventions, Treatment, and Addictions Research at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University. The event is presented by The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. The campus community is welcome; bring your lunch. Read more > Product Design for Sustainability Conference Nov. 7The Society of Business and Engineering is presenting a Product Design for Sustainability Conference from 9:30 a.m.-noon Saturday (11/7) in 140 Pfahl Hall. RSVP to mailto:watsek.1@osu.edu. Joseph Fiksel (Center for Resilience) is the moderator. Guest speakers include Bhavik Bakshi, Center for Resilience, and Blaine Lilly, ME/ISE Department. Contact: Caroline Tragni at mailto:tragni.2@osu.edu. Read more: http://sobe.org.ohio-state.edu/index.html Events next week Mershon faculty panel to discuss U.S. options in AfghanistanShould we bring our troops home, increase their number, stay the course, alter our strategy? "Afghanistan: The Choices," a discussion of the way forward for the U.S. in Afghanistan, will take place at 5 p.m. Monday (11/9) in 035 Psychology Building. Panelists include Richard Herrmann, director of the Mershon Center; John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies; Peter Mansoor, Raymond E. Mason Chair in Military History; and Alam Payind, director of the Middle East Studies Center. Former Open Line host Fred Andrle will moderate. Register at: http://afghanistanthechoices.eventbrite.com/ Workshop helps those facing grief during holidaysJoin University Faculty and Staff Assistance Program counselor Lisa Borelli for "Facing Grief During the Holidays” from 5-6 p.m. Monday (11/9) at OSU Health Plan (formerly Managed Health Care Systems), 700 Ackerman Road, Suite 580. The workshop is designed to help you identify symptoms of grief, stress and depression and teach coping skills and resources that can help. The workshop is free but registration is required and space is limited. Contact: 292-1709 or mailto:borelli.3@osu.edu OSU Renewable Energy Workshop Nov. 12Ohio State will host its second annual Renewable Energy Workshop on Thursday (11/12) at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster. Hear updates on wind, solar, bioenergy and biofuel production and use in Ohio; see practical ways to use less energy and save money; and tour OARDC’s state-of-the-art biomass processing and research facilities. More than a dozen experts from Ohio State and industry will speak. Contact: Mary Wicks, mailto:wicks.14@osu.edu. Read more: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/bioenergy/ (click on the link under Events) |
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The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain, conducted by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson, OSU professor of earth sciences, and his colleagues. Their predictions, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (
OSU Theatre opens its season with a new play and a Tennessee Williams’ classic. Art exhibition openings in Hopkins Hall Gallery and the Urban Arts Space, an inaugural concert by Scarlet Winds, and the Resident and Visiting Artists Dance Concert join traditional fall favorites — the OSU Marching Band, Men’s Glee Club, and the 17th Annual Musical Celebration Concert. Check out the 
