Faculty appointed to chairs/professorships, other posts

The following faculty appointments reflect recent Board of Trustees approvals:

• Joshua Dressler has been named to The Edwin M. Cooperman Designated Professorship in Law in the Moritz College of Law. He previously was Distinguished Professor and Scholar at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. Consistently ranked among the top five criminal law scholars in the United States, Dressler is the author of a widely used textbook, Cases and Materials on Criminal Law. He earned his J.D. at the UCLA School of Law.

• Joseph Murphy has been named to The William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professorship in Educational Administration in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership, effective through June 30, 2006.

• Anthony B. Sanders has been named to The John W. Galbreath Chair in Real Estate in the Fisher College of Business, effective through Sept. 30, 2006. A professor of finance in the Fisher College, Sanders has held faculty positions at the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin. In 1997-98, he was director and head of asset-backed securities research at Deutsche Bank in New York City.

• Daniel D. Sedmak has been named associate vice president for health sciences education and vice dean for education in the Office of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Public Health. Sedmak had been serving as interim associate vice president. A graduate of the Ohio State College of Medicine, he joined the faculty in 1985 in the Department of Pathology, becoming chair in 1997.

• James J. Brudney has been named to the Newton D. Baker- Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law. Brudney, a professor of law, received a B.A. from Amherst College, a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University and a J.D. from Yale University. He was elected Outstanding Law Professor of the Year by the College of Law's Class of 1996.

• Mauro Ferrari has been named to The Edgar C. Hendrickson Designated Chair in Biomedical Engineering, effective through June 30, 2006. Ferrari is director of Ohio State's Biomedical Engineering Center, professor of internal medicine (oncology) and professor of mechanical engineering. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

• Sheldon W. Halpern has been named to The C. William O'Neill Professorship in Law and Judicial Administration. Halpern holds B.A. and L.L.B. degrees from Cornell University and is a member of the American Law Institute.

• L. Camille Hebert has been named to the Carter C. Kissell Professorship in Law. Director of the College of Law's Center for Law, Policy and Social Science, Hebert holds a B.A. from Kansas State University and a J.D. from the University of Kansas.

• Caroline C. Whitacre has been named interim associate vice president for health sciences research and vice dean for research in the College of Medicine and Public Health, effective through April 30, 2002. She also serves as chair of the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics. Whitacre holds a B.A. in microbiology and a Ph.D. in medical microbiology from Ohio State.

• Jay D. Iams has been named to the Frederick P. Zuspan, M.D. Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology in the College of Medicine and Public Health, effective through June 30, 2003. Iams received his B.S. in political science and his M.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He held a pediatrics residency at Phoenix Hospitals Affiliated Pediatric Program in Phoenix, Ariz., and his obstetrics and gynecology residency at Ohio State. He joined the University faculty in 1979.

Grant helps equip satellite child care center location in Buckeye Village

The Ohio State Child Care Center was recently awarded a CCAMPIS award of $165,000 per year for four years, for a total of $660,000. The Child Care Access Means Parents In School (CCAMPIS) program supports the participation of low-income parents in postsecondary education through the provision of campus-based child care services.

The CCAMPIS award will be used to help equip an Ohio State Child Care Center satellite location that will be housed in the new Student Family Community Center at Buckeye Village. The satellite center is designed to meet the needs of low-income single parent students on campus by providing 100 additional child care spaces, and to support the program activities of the ACCESS Program.

While the collaboration focuses on single parents, all Pell Grant-eligible low-income students will be eligible for the additional 100 spaces. The satellite child care center will be administered by the existing child care center and is expected to open in 2004.

Five University departments are collaborating to create the center: the Child Care Center (Office of Human Resources), the Knowlton School of Architecture, the College of Social Work, the Office of Student Affairs and the ACCESS Program (Office of Minority Affairs).

The annual budget for the CCAMPIS program grant (the cost of running the current Child Care Center plus satellite start-up costs) is $3.1 million -- 5 percent annually will be financed with federal funds, with the remaining 95 percent financed through state funds and other means. The CCAMPIS grant is provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education.

Institutions of higher education that have a total amount of all Federal Pell Grant funds awarded to students enrolled at the institution for the preceding fiscal year that equals or exceeds $350,000 are eligible to apply for the grants.

CCAMPIS presented 222 awards this year.

Learning through service

Seven mini-grants awarded to faculty

Faculty members across Ohio State are creating new opportunities for their undergraduate students to serve the community while learning, thanks to the leadership of Golden Jackson, associate professor of consumer and textile sciences, and Susan Robb Jones, assistant professor of educational policy and leadership.

Jackson and Jones received a grant last year from the Corporation for National Service under its Learn and Serve America Initiative. They structured the three-year, $389,961 grant project to award mini-grants of up to $5,000 each to other faculty.

The first seven grant recipients will either develop new courses containing service-learning components or add service-learning components to existing courses. They partner with local service agencies and schools in order to select service activities that meet needs identified by communities.

Service learning allows students to enhance their mastery of academic goals while practicing skills in real-life settings and heightens their awareness of the power to solve community problems.

The seven grant recipients in Round I of the awards are:

Service Learning in Intensive Writing and Reading -- Anne Bower, associate professor, English, and Jacquelyn Spangler, assistant professor, English. Working with two Marion City Schools, students will mentor and tutor K-6 students in reading and writing. They will also create a "lending library" of teaching materials.

Medical Communication with Latinos -- Raquel Diaz-Sprague, adjunct instructor, Allied Medical Professions, and Sandra Cornett, clinical assistant professor, Adult Health. Students will observe and assist at La Clinica Latina, a free primary care clinic operating out of the OSU Rardin Family Practice Center, to increase their awareness of ethical and medically relevant cultural issues and develop language skills necessary for serving the medical needs of Latinos.

Small Animal Surgery: Solving Pet Overpopulation -- Larry Hill, clinical instructor, Veterinary Medicine. Students will engage in clinical rotation at the Animal Clinic of the Franklin County Animal Shelter. They will educate the public about the benefits of spaying/neutering as well as assist in the clinic where surgical sterilization services are performed.

Geriatric Dentistry and Public Health -- Abdel R. Mohammad, professor, Oral Medicine and Geriatric Dentistry, and director, Geriatric Dentistry Program. The OSU College of Dentistry partners with the Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc. Students and faculty will visit St. Mark's Health Center in the neighborhood east of Ohio State and another site to be chosen to provide comprehensive oral health care and tobacco cessation education.

Essay Writing: The U.S. Folk Experience -- Martha Sims, senior lecturer, English. In partnership with the Columbus Urban League and Bethany Presbyterian Church Senior Programs, students will collaborate as interviewers and researchers to create a collection of oral histories of longtime residents of the Mount Vernon neighborhood. Along with becoming stronger writers and critical thinkers, students will gain real-world knowledge of cultural diversity and community.

Media and Technology in Education -- Rick Voithofer, assistant professor, Educational Policy and Leadership. Students in this basic educational technology course will be paired with 10 public school teachers located in the neighborhood east of Ohio State. They will work to integrate technology into the public school classroom as well as find and review technology-based educational software for teachers.

Universal Design: Teaching the Benefits -- Susan Zavotka, associate professor, Consumer and Textile Sciences, and Margaret Teaford, assistant professor, Allied Medical Professions. Students will learn about Universal Design applications and provide safety checks and in-home assessments for older adults living in the community. They will develop workshop materials on home modifications and will pilot these teaching materials with OSU Extension's Family & Consumer Sciences agents in Franklin and Geauga counties.

To apply for a Service-Learning Initiative mini-grant, visit www.service-learning.ohio-state.edu/SummerSeed.htm or contact Susan Willson Brooks at 299-5991 or by e-mail at brooks.123@osu.edu.