OnCampus Newsletter for Ohio State faculty and staff.

The latest news and information for Ohio State faculty and staff.
Thursday, November 18, 2021

COVID-19

 

Please visit the Safe and Healthy Buckeyes website for the latest information on the university’s response to COVID-19.

Ohio State campus Buckeye Buy Supplier websites. A Roundtrip catalog from lab supplier BioLegend is now available in Buckeye Buy. See the Purchasing contract book page for more details on the contract and the catalog from BioLegend. Contact the Marketplace Team with questions.

COVID-19

 

Reminder to complete required COVID-19 testing during Thanksgiving holiday

As a reminder, employees with a vaccination exemption and those who have not taken action to complete Ohio State’s COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement are required to complete regular COVID-19 tests. During the time frame of Nov. 15 through Nov. 23, employees are required to test only once due to the Thanksgiving holiday. To schedule your appointment and learn more, visit the Safe and Healthy Buckeyes website.

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Headline news

 

Larger conservation areas didn’t protect animals in central Africa

Efforts to protect threatened and endangered species in central Africa might be more successful if they focused on a smaller geographic area, new research suggests. The study, which examined multi-species population counts in the seven main savanna national parks of central Africa, found that broader conservation efforts often led to decreased populations, likely because the lands were too large to manage effectively with the financial resources available.

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Master of Arts and/or PhD program in Workforce Development and Education. Looking to grow your career working with adults and youth in an education/training/staff development role? Explore the Master of Arts and/or PhD program in Workforce Development and Education to advance your opportunities. Classes are late afternoon or online to fit with schedules of Ohio State employees. Use the Faculty and Staff Tuition Assistance Plan. Graduates are university faculty, K-12 teachers, administrators, corporate trainers, human resource developers and adult learning specialists. Contact Program Chair Edward Fletcher here.

Awards and recognition

 

Advancing equity in biomedicine

The pandemic increased pressure on bioscience researchers. At work, they faced closed labs and hiring freezes of support staff. At home, they faced increased child care responsibilities and homeschooling duties. The College of Medicine is one of 22 institutions selected by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and its supporters to receive a grant from the COVID-19 Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists.

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Ohio State staff advance their leadership skills

Congratulations to The Women's Place Staff Leadership Series (SLS) 2020-21 cohort for completing the series in August and the 2021-22 cohort for being selected to start the next series in September. The SLS is a 12-month, experiential program that creates potential staff leaders from groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in key leadership roles. Learn who graduated and is better prepared to advance and take on new leadership roles and responsibilities and who was chosen through a competitive process for the 2021-22 cohort.

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Calling all Buckeyes! Don’t miss your chance to beat TTUN in the Blood Battle! Make an appointment to give blood by Nov. 24.

Grants and funding

 

Wolfe Foundation gives $5 million to fund chief clinical officer chair

Pending approval and appointment by the Wexner Medical Center Board and the Board of Trustees at their November meetings, the new Wolfe Foundation Chief Clinical Officer Chair will honor the leadership of its first designee and current chief clinical officer (CCO), Dr. Andrew M. Thomas, who has been instrumental in the Wexner Medical Center’s and the state of Ohio’s COVID-19 pandemic response. Upon Thomas’ retirement, the chair will be renamed the Wolfe Foundation – Dr. Andrew M. Thomas Chief Clinical Officer Chair.

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Applications open for annual OSEP awards

In collaboration with Ohio State Energy Partners (OSEP), the Office of Academic Affairs has opened a call for grant proposals that align with the university’s sustainability goals, advance Ohio State priorities and promote interdisciplinary and community collaboration. Submissions are due Feb. 11. Faculty, staff and students are eligible to apply. Awards range from $10,000 to $50,000.

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Earn your MBA by using Ohio State's Tuition Assistance Plan. The Working Professional MBA at Fisher College of Business is a top-10 nationally ranked program — and it’s now accessible 100% online. Take advantage of flexible weeknight or weekend scheduling and Ohio State’s generous Faculty and Staff Tuition Assistance Plan to earn your MBA. The 2022 application is open, so apply today or learn more by visiting our website.

Health and wellness

 

A better-fitting molecular ‘belt’ for making new drugs

The most common pharmaceuticals on the market are made by chaining together rings of molecules to create the drugs that treat conditions including pain, depression and leukemia. But creating those rings and forming them in a way that is tailored to each individual disease has always been a cumbersome and expensive process in medicinal chemistry. New research, published in the journal Chem, proposes a way to simplify that transformation.

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Potential role for ibuprofen in older adults’ immunity to RSV

New research suggests there may someday be a role for ibuprofen in providing older adults with lasting immunity against RSV, a virus commonly associated with infants and young kids that also rivals the flu as a dangerous wintertime infection for the elderly. RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, accounts for an estimated 14,000 deaths and 177,000 hospitalizations annually among U.S. adults over 65. RSV is problematic for older people in part because an initial infection isn’t effective at inducing a long-term immune response to the virus.

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National leaders discuss technology and health equity

How can the phone or tablet you use every day hold the key to unlocking health equity across our communities? Join leaders from National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIH/NIMHD), OhioHealth, Henry Ford Health System and Included Health, along with Dr. Timiya Nolan, Dr. Joshua Joseph, the College of Nursing and the Wexner Medical Center Nov. 19, at noon for a Health Equity through Diversity webinar.

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Upcoming events

 
Nov. 19

Book Club: "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Dec. 7

Ohio’s Opioid Settlement: Proceeds and Plans for Impact

Dec. 14

Just in Time Course Design workshop

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