| AUG. 12, 2015 | TWEET! |
NEWS & UPDATES
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Save the Date!
Join Executive Dean Manderscheid for the first annual Arts and Sciences Welcome Address and Reception to kick off the school year and celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the College of Arts and Sciences, Sept. 3, 1:30-3 p.m., Hughes Hall Auditorium. Emails with an RSVP will be sent next week. |
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Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme Update
Planning the first phases of the Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme got under way July 27. Planning leaders are Angus Fletcher (English), Susan Melsop (Design), Margaret Newell (History), Lisa Shabel (Philosophy) and Norah Zuniga-Shaw (Dance). Susan Williams, vice dean of arts and sciences; and Mike Boehm, vice provost for academic and strategic planning, are serving as the theme’s co-architects. |
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Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne
Displaying work by some of the most significant, compelling artists of the past 50 years, Urban Arts Space and Hopkins Hall Gallery present Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Aug. 25 to Nov. 7. Exhibit features Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Mike Kelley, David Hammons, Tony Smith and more. Urban Arts Space reception, Sept. 25, 6-8 p.m., is open to all. |
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The Science of Language & The Language of Science
Laura Wagner, associate professor, psychology, received a three-year, $400,000 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) grant. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, associate professor, linguistics, is co-principal investigator. The 10-week internship at COSI includes classes, research training, informal science education and museum interactions. After three weeks, students are matched with Ohio State faculty researchers. |
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University Libraries Encouraging Materials Return, in Final Weeks
The University Libraries' Triple R Program encouraging returning long-checked out materials is in its final month. Beginning Sept. 4, the threshold for blocking borrowing privileges will be reduced from the current $75 to $50 for all library customers, including faculty and staff. Faculty and staff with long overdue items will be billed through the University Bursar. |
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New Book by Brustein and Roberts
William Brustein, vice provost for Global Strategies and International Affairs and professor, political science, history and sociology; and Louisa Roberts, graduate student, sociology, are authors of the newly published book, The Socialism of Fools?: Leftist Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism (Cambridge University Press, July 2015). |
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ASC Alumni Awards: Nominations Due Sept. 15
The College of Arts and Sciences is accepting nominations for the following Arts and Sciences Alumni Awards to be presented at the annual awards dinner April 15, 2016:
- The Distinguished Achievement Award recognizes arts and sciences alumni whose work and contributions have been nationally or internationally recognized as outstanding in their fields.
- The Young Alumni Achievement Award recognizes an alumnus/a, 35 years old and younger, demonstrating distinctive achievement in career, civic involvement or both.
- The Distinguished Service Award honors exemplary service by an alumnus/a.
You may nominate an arts and sciences alumnus/a for one or more of these awards. Nominations due Sept. 15. |
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Data Analytics Major Profiled
The new data analytics major, co-directed by the Department of Statistics, and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering with curricular partnerships in the College of Medicine and Fisher College of Business, is profiled in the American Statistical Association’s AMSTATNEWS. Christopher Hans, associate professor, statistics; and Srinvasan Parthasarathy, professor, computer science and engineering, are featured. |
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