| SEPT. 23, 2015 | TWEET! |
NEWS & UPDATES
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LASER Chosen by White House as Bright Spot in Hispanic Education
Established in 2010, LASER is the country's first hub for scholarship and mentoring that centers on Latinos and the knowledge and cultural production of the Latin/o Americas. |
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Deadline to Complete Your PHA: Sept. 30
The critical date for PHA completion is Sept. 30. Employees must obtain their biometric health values and complete the PHA to qualify for the most cost-effective health plans or Prime Care plans. If you would like to confirm you have completed all the requirements for earning plan choice and premium credit, visit yp4h.osu.edu for a step-by-step guide to verification. |
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Political Science Professor Shares $632,000 Lyle Spencer Research Award
Vladimir Kogan, assistant professor, political science; and Stéphane Lavertu, associate professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, are the recipients of a $632,778 award from the Spencer Foundation to fund research on education governance and accountability. The purpose is to improve understanding of the political institutions governing U.S. public education. |
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Communication Professor Explains Decision-Making with Physics Theory
In two new papers in the journals, Current Directions in Psychological Science and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Zheng (Joyce) Wang, associate professor, communication and Communication and Psychophysiology Lab director, and colleagues, suggest that thinking in a quantum-like way enables humans to confront complex questions and make important decisions despite limited mental resources. |
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The White House Recognizes the Importance of Decision Sciences
President Obama highlighted the importance of using decision sciences insights to better serve the American people in an Executive Order issued Sept. 15. These same themes permeate the research of the College of Arts and Sciences Decision Sciences Collaborative (DSC), an interdisciplinary community of scholars and researchers focused on the science of decision making. |
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Psychology Professor on Understanding Memory in Children
Vladimir Sloutsky, professor, psychology, and director of the Cognitive Development Lab, is lead author of a new study finding that children’s memories improve with time. The study, which will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal, Psychological Science, is the first to document two different but related cognitive phenomena simultaneously: so-called “extreme forgetting” and delayed remembering. |
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Above and Beyond Buckeye Awards Call for Nomination
The Arts and Sciences Staff Advisory Council (SAC) is seeking nominations for the Above and Beyond Buckeye Award, recognizing arts and sciences staff members who go above the call of duty and do great work each and every day. This year, award recipients will receive a $200 cash award. October nominations due Oct. 8. Please fill out the nomination form and e-mail it to ascsac@osu.edu. |
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Call for Nominations: Two Distinguished Teaching Awards
Nominations for the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer are due to the Office of Academic Affairs by Oct. 1. Faculty, staff and students use the same online form for either award nomination.
Since the inception of these awards that recognize teaching, scholarship and service, ASC faculty have received approximately two-thirds of the Distinguished Scholar, Service and Distinguished University Professor awards and more than half of the Alumni Awards for Distinguished Teaching. Last year, arts and sciences faculty garnered eight of 13 teaching awards. |
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Provost’s Discovery Themes Lecturer Program next Monday, Sept. 28
Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and former director-general, World Health Organization, will talk on “Our Common Future: Global Sustainability in the 21st Century,” Sept 28, 3:30 p.m., Mershon Auditorium. Co-sponsored by Sustainability COMPAS. Free and open to all. |
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Cartoon Crossroads Columbus CXC Comics Festival
Cartooning superstars Art Spiegelman, Jeff Smith, Kate Beaton, Craig Thompson, Jaime Hernandez, Bill Griffith, Jeff Lemire and Francoise Mouly headline a group of guests and exhibitors at a comics literary festival Oct 1-3. The event is sponsored by Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), a new group that unites a dozen Columbus arts organizations; partners include Ohio State’s Popular Culture Studies, LASER, Wexner Center for the Arts and Billy Ireland Cartoon Library. Events, on campus and downtown, include an evening of rare, little-seen animation masterpieces; a massive comics expo; and a show featuring cartooning superstars speaking about RAW Magazine. |
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LASER Hosts Black and Brown Comix Expo
Concurrent with the CXC Comics Festival: the first annual SOL-CON: The Black & Brown Comix Expo, Oct 2-4, hosted by LASER (Latino & Latin American Space for Enrichment and Research) and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Featured artists include Lalo Alcaraz, Jaime Hernandez, Frank Espinosa and Eric Dean Seaton. All events are free and open to the public. |
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Fall Conference: Sustainability: Visions and Values
The Sustainability COMPAS kicks off with a free two-day conference, Oct. 1-2, 11th Floor Thompson Library, featuring a set of distinguished speakers to frame the basic problems facing us: What are we trying to sustain? What political, economic and legal structures are needed to pursue sustainability at both the national and international levels? What sacrifices should current generations be willing to make for the sake of future generations? |
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Arts Entrepreneurship Education Conference
The Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise hosts the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education Second Annual Conference on Friday, Oct. 16 and Saturday, Oct. 17 in 141 Sullivant Hall. Arts Entrepreneurship educators, program directors, students, working artists and the curious are invited to this second national meeting dedicated to arts entrepreneurship education. The conference will focus on helping participants engage with new pedagogical techniques and the larger issues surrounding the field of arts entrepreneurship education. |
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Performance Mashup
The Mitch Show, created by Mitchell Rose, associate professor, dance, is a film/performance mashup, which brings together his comic films and audience-participation performance pieces. It will be presented Friday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 3 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Barnett Theatre in Sullivant Hall. For tickets visit the Theatre Box Office or call (614) 292-2295. |
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EVENTS
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Sept. 24
Protect and Serve: The Relationships and Struggles between Law Enforcement and the Public; 3 p.m., MLK Room, Hale Hall
Samuel C. Chu Memorial Lecture in East Asian Studies with Shigehisa Kuriyama; 4 p.m., 165 Thompson Library
Barnett Speaker Series: Philanthropy, Ethics and Art Panel Discussion with Blake Byrne and Ron Pizzuti; 4:30 p.m., 141 Sullivant Hall
Jazz at Mirror Lake; 5:30 p.m., Browning Amphitheatre (rain location: Weigel Auditorium)
Sept. 24-25
The Pacific War at 70; Ohio State Columbus Campus
Sept. 25
Alexes Harris, A Permanent Punishment for the Poor; 12:30 p.m., 248 Townshend Hall
David Schmidtz, After Solipsism; 3:30 p.m., 350 University Hall
Reception, Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne; 6 p.m., Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St, Suite 130
Guest Artist: Cory Mixdorf, trombone; 8 p.m., Hughes Auditorium
Sept. 26
Symphony Orchestra; 8 p.m., Weigel Hall Auditorium
Sept. 28
Teaching and Research Statements; 2:30 p.m., U.S. Bank Conference Theater, Ohio Union
Provost’s Discovery Themes Lecturer: Gro Harlem Brundtland, Our Common Future: Global Sustainability in the 21st Century; 3:30 p.m., Mershon Auditorium
Sept. 28-29
Lab Series: Hold Please!; 7 p.m., New Works Lab
Sept. 29
Fair & Efficient Grading; 11:30 a.m., 150 Younkin Success Center
Scott Snyder, The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States; 12 p.m., Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Carole Joffe, University of California - Davis; 12:30 p.m., 038 Townshend Hall
Kia-Hui Tan and Fellows present Ysaÿe and Friends; 8 p.m., Weigel Hall Auditorium
Sept. 30
Rick Baldoz, The 1965 Immigration Act & the Changing Contours of the U.S. Border Regime; 4 p.m., MLK Auditorium, Hale Hall
Sept. 30 to Oct. 4
Raw Theatre: Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays; Drake Performance and Event Center
Through Oct. 16
Global Gallery Exhibit: Amadeo Modigliani; Hagerty Hall Lobby
Through Nov. 7
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne; Urban Arts Space, Hopkins Hall Gallery, and the facade of the former Long's bookstore |
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