ASC Unit “Snapshots” Now Online

These profiles provide an information overview and highlight the individual strengths of each of our areas. They will be used primarily as an advancement (development and marketing) tool to help promote and raise awareness of our departments, centers, and programs. Since each snapshot will live online as a webpage and a self-print fact sheet, it can and will be continually updated and refined. Take a look: they are now linked from the unit directory on the ASC website.

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Earth Scientist to Receive Top Professional Award

Professor Emeritus Stig M. Bergström, earth sciences, will be awarded the International Commission on Stratigraphy 2012 Digby McLaren Prize and the International Union of Geological Sciences 2012 Scientific Award of Excellence, at the upcoming 34^th International Geological Congress in Brisbane, Australia. The ICS Digby McLaren Prize is awarded once every four years, recognizing an individual who has sustained a long record of significant internationally-important contributions to stratigraphy.

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Economics Summer Institute for Underrepresented Minority Faculty

Trevon Logan, associate professor, economics, is spearheading a national conference at Ohio State designed to support the advancement of mid-career economists from underrepresented groups. The Second Wave: A Research Conference, will take place June 1-3 at the Blackwell Inn.

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Botanist Receives Professional Merit Award

Allison Snow, professor; evolution, ecology and organismal biology, is one of four botanists nationally to receive the Botanical Society of America's highest honor, the Merit Award, in 2012.  The awards will be presented at the BSA's annual meeting July 11, Columbus, OH.  Snow is recognized for her outstanding contributions to botanical science in the areas of basic research, education, and professional service.  Snow served as BSA president in 2004-2005.

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Sociology Student Awarded Fulbright

Qorsho Hassan, an undergraduate majoring in sociology, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach English to high school students in Malaysia beginning December 2012. She will be graduating June 2012.

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ASC Students Awarded Boren Scholarships

Sofia Bachman (Spanish and Russian), Zoe Maani (Arabic and African American Studies),Cory Sabet (international relations and Chinese), and Brian Yeh (economics and political science) are recipients of a NSEP Boren Undergraduate Study Abroad Award for 2012-2013. Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad.

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French and Italian Student Awarded Fulbright

Adrianne Barbo, graduate teaching assistant, French and Italian, was recently awarded a 2012-2013 Fulbright Student Fellowship to teach English at a Moroccan university.

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Design Faculty Member Receives Award

Interior Design faculty member Susan Melsop has been awarded the inaugural Arts and Humanities Outreach Award, along with the Faculty Award for Excellence in Community-Based Scholarship, at the 2012 Ohio State Service Awards.

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Grad Student Elected
Design graduate student Allen Cochran recently was elected president of the Council of Graduate Students for 2012-13.

Tripartite Conference at Ohio State, May 31-June 3

Representatives from Ohio State; Rutgers, Brunswick, NJ; and the University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; will participate in the 7th Tripartite Workshop of the Americas on Biotechnology and Bioenergy. This long-standing  partnership tackles a wide range of significant global problems.
 

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Eye on the Sky: The Department of Astronomy’s Planetarium Getting Major Overhaul

The Planetarium will shut down on June 4 to be stripped down to bare cement and rebuilt. When it re-opens in late fall 2012, visitors can expect to be wowed by the 

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You could have a sandwich named after you!

Apply by June 3 for the 3^rd Annual Sloopy’s Sandwich Club.

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Conversation on Immigration Continues

Douglas Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University, will give a lecture on The Paradoxical Origins of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in America on Friday, June 8, 3-5 pm at Thompson Library. Massey will be awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Social Science, by President Gee at spring commencement.

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Prepare to be Amazed: Ohio State’s 2nd Titan Arum About to Bloom

The blooming of a Titan Arum, aka “Corpse Flower,” is a rare and spectacular event, which few ever get to see—or smell. Now, for the second year in a row, the Biological Sciences Greenhouse will open its doors to the public when its new Titan, “Jesse,” blooms this week. Watch Jesse’s progress, get latest info and updates on blooming and visiting hours at: http://bioscigreenhouse.osu.edu/titan-arum
Read about Titans in more detail at: http://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news/prepare-to-be-amazed-another-titan-arum-bloom-is-on-its-way

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Plant Ecologist Visits the Magnolia Detectives

Andi Wolfe, associate professor, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, paid a visit to the “Magnolia Detectives” in a North Carolina high school biology class last week. Read Wolfe’s blog and view her photos.

 

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Arts and Sciences Undergraduate e-Newsletter – May Issue

The May undergraduate student e-Newsletter provides links to important graduation information and encourages students to step back from the hectic close of the year by attending any one of many arts related events. To submit content suggestions or to be added to the mailing list, please contact Ann Rottersman. Newsletter Archives

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ASC Staff Book Circle

Arts and Sciences staff is invited to participate in this year’s Buckeye Book Community selection, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, through participation in an ASC staff book circle. Book circles will be held every other week as a brown bag over the lunch hour with a total of two meetings during August. Books are provided to participants at no cost. Registration is limited. Deadline June 8. Contact Ann Rottersman for more information

Thursday, May 24

Molecular Genetics Research Seminar Series continues with Rebecca Lamb on The poetry of reproduction: flower development in Arabidopsis thaliana, 4 pm, 001 Jennings Hall.

Thursdays in May Jazz Series presents the Ohio State Jazz Workshop, 7:30 pm, Ohio Union West Plaza

Thursday, May 24-Saturday, May 26

Dance Uptown: DIRT, 8 pm each evening, Plumb Hall Agricultural Arena, 2027 Coffey Rd.

Friday, May 25

Gospel and Spiritual Choir, 8 pm, Weigel Auditorium
 

Tuesday, May 29

University Band Concert, 8 pm, Weigel Auditorium
 

Wednesday, May 30

Wind Symphony, 8 pm, Weigel Auditorium

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