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Ancient Fossilized Sea Creatures Yield Oldest Biomolecules Isolated Directly from a Fossil
 Remains of 350-million-year-old aquatic sea creatures uncovered in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa challenge the conventional wisdom that complex organic molecules could not survive fossilization. William Ausich, professor, earth sciences, and PhD candidate Christina O’Malley, extracted the molecules directly from individual crinoid fossils in the laboratory. Their results appear in the March issue of the journal, Geology.
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Ann Hamilton Recognized by International Association of Art Critics
 Ann Hamilton, Distinguished University Professor, art, was awarded Best Project in a Public Place by the International Association of Art Critics United States for her installation, the event of a thread at the Park Avenue Armory.
Geography Graduate Student Receives Fellowship
Austin Kocher, graduate student, geography, received a 2013 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) from the Social Science Research Council. Kocher's research focuses on the shifting immigration in the southeastern U.S. and the movement of people across borders. His dissertation concerns the legal geography of U.S. Immigration Courts.
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The Department of Physics’ 51st Annual Smith Lecture: Superposition, Entanglement and Raising Schrödinger’s Cat
 David J. Wineland, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics, describes his ground-breaking work on quantum state manipulation that constitutes the first steps toward building a revolutionary super-fast computer based on quantum physics. Thursday, April 4, 8 pm, Fawcett Center. Free and open to the public.
Foreign Language Center Career Night
Students are invited to explore careers that utilize their foreign language and culture expertise. Recruiters from government, military, and globally oriented businesses will be on hand with information; resumés will be accepted. April 4, 5-7:30 pm, Hagerty Hall’s Crane Café.
Public Art Project Seeking Phrases
As part of Finding Time: Columbus Public Art 2012, Brooklyn artist Janet Zweig will complete her project “Columbus never...”, a generative sentence that has been written by the people of Columbus and placed phrase-by-phrase on a blank wall behind Key Bank at 88 E. Broad St. Zweig's first five words ("Columbus never came here, but") were presented in June 2012, followed by 12 phrases chosen from hundreds of online submissions. The deadline for the final phrase to complete the sentence is March 31. Submission guidelines are available online.
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