Construction to impact Cannon Drive traffic

Utility work facilitating the construction of the Biomedical Research Tower will force the temporary closure of 80-100 additional spaces along the south end of the south Lincoln Tower lot and 80 spaces in the Wiseman Hall lot, for approximately four months. Limited alternative parking during this closure is located in the Sisson Hall lot, across the river from the Lincoln and Morrill towers, using the pedestrian footbridge to travel to and from the lot.

Additionally, the two northbound lanes of Cannon Drive from 10th Avenue to John Herrick Drive will be closed for approximately four months, but two-way traffic will continue in the remaining lanes. Please expect heavy traffic delays in this area during peak hours.

The northbound bus stop on the east side of Cannon Drive at 12th Avenue will be relocated to 10th Avenue and Cannon Drive.

Campus Campaign kickoff is Feb. 17

Campus Campaign 2004 will kickoff from 2:30-4 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Fawcett Center banquet rooms. Remarks by President Karen Holbrook and a performance by 17 members of the OSU College of the Arts Percussion Ensemble are scheduled.

The event is open to the university community. Refreshments will be available, as well as door prizes and informative displays.

For details, contact Tina Thome at 292-3065 or thome.3@osu.edu.

Senate, Faculty Council nominations sought

University Senate is seeking nominations of faculty members to serve on the senate and Faculty Council for the autumn 2004-summer 2007 term. The nomination deadline is Feb. 16.

Composed of 135 voting members, including 70 faculty members, the senate serves as the legislative authority of the university faculty in education and academic policy, and conducts much of its substantive business through 17 committees.

Faculty Council and the senate meet once a month each on the first and second Thursdays, respectively, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

To be eligible for senate service, faculty must provide at least 75 percent full-time service at any of Ohio State's campuses, including ATI and OARDC, and be willing to serve during autumn, winter and spring quarters of the three-year term of membership.

For more information about service requirements or to request a nomination form, contact the senate office at 292-2423 or e-mail wright.363@osu.edu.

'Daughter to Work' day facilitators needed

Workshop facilitators are needed for the 10th annual Take a Daughter to Work Day at Ohio State, which is scheduled for April 22.

Faculty and staff are invited to present a workshop in their area of interest or expertise. All workshops are one and a half hours in length and can be conducted at 9:45 a.m. or 1 p.m. Workshops are being conducted for children of faculty, staff and students, ages 9-17.

To submit workshop ideas or for more information, visit the Web at http://hr.osu.edu/daughter/.

FAES hosts diversity training series

The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences is offering "Generational Differences in the Workplace" on Feb. 24, one of a series of diversity training sessions scheduled for 2003-04. The session will explore the different generations in the workforce and how to improve communications.

These sessions, which are free of charge and open to faculty, staff and students, are two and a half hours in length and are offered twice, from 9-11:30 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m. Sessions are limited to a maximum of 25 participants and a minimum of 10, and will be held in the college's auditorium at 2120 Fyffe Road.

For details or registration forms, contact Kathy Lechman at 247-7176 or e-mail lechman.1@osu.edu.

ACCAD has mentoring program for women

Applications are now being accepted for Digital Animation: A Technology Mentoring Program for Young Women. The program is a free, two-week summer experience for high school women to be held June 21-July 2 at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). Students will work with women mentors at ACCAD, and will investigate technology through the creative applications of computer-generated animation and Web media.

The application deadline is March 1. The program is open to girls currently in or entering grades nine-11 in Columbus-area high schools. Applications are available online at www.accad.ohio-state.edu/womenandtech or by contacting the program office at 292-1053 or kvajda@accad.ohio-state.edu.

Vogel to discuss history of aviation

Joseph L. Vogel, an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Aviation, will present a brief history of aviation on Feb. 10 as part of the Faculty Club's Lunch and Learn series.

A retired colonel and 30-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard, Vogel will focus his remarks on contemporary changes in the aviation industry, such as the airline reservation system and pricing structure.

The buffet lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. with Vogel's presentation at noon. The cost is $8.25 for Faculty Club members and $10.25 for the public.

Call 292-2262 for reservations.

Fontanella to discuss Spanish photography

Lee Fontanella, professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will deliver "Early Photography in Nineteenth-Century Spain and Literary Chronicle" at 4 p.m. Feb. 5 in 122 Main Library. 

Fontanella is one of the premier historians of Spanish photography and the author of 10 books, including the prize-winning Photography in Spain in the Nineteenth Century and Charles Clifford: Fotografo en la Corte de Isabel II.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities.

For more information, contact the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at 292-4958 or e-mail Rebecca Haidt at haidt.1@osu.edu.

New interdisciplinary seminar series offered

Noel Cressie, professor of statistics and director of the Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences, and Ken Jezek of the Byrd Polar Research Center, are organizing an interdisciplinary seminar series for winter quarter on remote-sensing data.

The seminars will be held from noon-1:30 p.m. Wednesdays in 212 Cockins Hall; refreshments will be available for the first half hour.

• On Feb. 11, Richard Pogge, Department of Astronomy, will present "Imaging the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope."

• On Feb. 18, Carolyn Merry, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, will present "Use of Remote Sensing in Civil-engineering Applications."

R.S.V.P. to sses@stat.ohio-state.edu. For details, e-mail Cressie at cressie.1@osu.edu.

Presenters sought for women's science event

Faculty and staff are invited to present workshops to small groups of girls during the 23rd annual Women in Science Day, to be held April 2 at Ohio State. The program, sponsored by the Association for Women in Science of Central Ohio (AWISCO), demonstrates that science and math can lead to stimulating careers, economic independence and opportunities for creative leadership. Approximately 300 girls from 20 schools will be attending.

Workshops should last 60-100 minutes beginning at either 9:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m., and be presented by women or mixed-teams with men. Interested faculty and staff should submit workshop details, including title, time(s), location and maximum number of students.

The deadline is Feb. 16. For details, visit the AWISCO Web site at www.awisco.ohio-state.edu or contact Raquel Diaz-Sprague at 268-1488 or diaz-sprague.1@osu.edu.

Babcock to discuss gender divide

Linda Babcock, the James M. Walton Professor of Economics at the H.J. Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, will deliver "Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide" at noon Feb. 5 in the Saxbe Auditorium in Drinko Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Law, Policy, and Social Science.

Babcock will present research from experiments, surveys and naturally occurring negotiations that suggest that men initiate negotiation far more often than women, and discuss the psychological and sociological factors responsible for these differences as well as suggest interventions to eliminate the gender gap.

Babcock is the author of the book, Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide.

For details, contact Liz Cutler Gates at 292-0283.

Humanities institute offers February events

The College of Humanities' Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities will offer a number of free events open to the university community in February. Events are to be held at the George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave., unless otherwise noted.

The scheduled events are: Feb. 6, 2:30 p.m. translation workshop; Feb. 7, 6 p.m. through Feb. 8, 3 p.m, a marathon reading of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sebastian Knowles, English; Feb. 11, noon, Space and Place Working Group, organizational meeting; Feb. 13, 3:30 p.m.,(2 Lazenby Hall), "Computational Cladistics in Historical Linguistics," Donald Ringe, University of Pennsylvania, Historical Linguistics Study Group and Phylogenetic Discussion Group; Feb. 16, 4 p.m., "A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought Since 1830," Stephen Kern, History for Horizons: Lectures by New Senior Faculty; Feb. 19, 4 p.m., "The Miami Language and Culture Revitalization Project," Daryl Baldwin, director of Myaamia Project at Miami University for Endangered and Minority Languages and Cultures Working Group; and Feb. 20, 11:30 a.m., film group meeting, Jared Gardner, English.

The events are designed to encourage cooperative research among scholars in the humanities from OSU and elsewhere, to promote the engagement of the humanities with public culture beyond the university, and to foster interdisciplinary education.

For more information, visit the institute's Web site at www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/hi/ or contact Elizabeth Lantz at 688-0265 or lantz.38@osu.edu.