Arts and Sciences Alumni Cover Conventions for Huffington Post

ASC alumni, Jessica Wilt (2002, MFA, dance) and Pamela Powers Hannley (1973, BA, journalism) are two of eight citizen journalists selected from around the country to participate in Huffington Post’s OffTheBus– a citizen-based reporting project –covering the 2012 political conventions in a distinctively “un-Beltway point-of-view.”

Wilt is blogging from the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida and Hannley will be covering the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 

---

Mathematics Professor Recognized for Distinguished Service to Profession

Barbara Keyfitz, professor of mathematics, received the annual 2012 Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians (SIAM) Prize, for "contributions to further applied mathematics on the national level," at the SIAM meeting in July. View a brief video that recaps her prize lecture on the Role of Characteristics in Conservation Laws.

Buckeye Language Network Lab Grand Opening at COSI

The Buckeye Language Network is hosting a grand opening event from 6 to 8 pm on Thursday, August 30, at COSI, 333 West Broad St, to unveil its new lab space. The new LANGUAGE POD allows for more engagement with the public in language research. Graduate and undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences and other university areas will provide educational explanations to COSI visitors addressing what issue the researcher is studying, how the researcher is doing his/her study, why the researcher is studying this part of language, and how we ask and answer questions scientifically. For more information on the Buckeye Language Network, contact Laura Wagner, associate professor, Department of Psychology, at wagner.602@osu.edu.

---

Need a list of the students enrolled in a class?


ASCreports.osu.edu can help. Learn the many options you have for getting course or student enrollment data that you need. Find out who is trained on SIS eReports in your department and can help you run the course enrollment report. If you would like to sign up to be trained, go to SIS eReports Introductory Training. Check out our Guides for Getting Data to learn about data already available to you on campus. Questions? Ask Martha Nieset at ascreports@osu.edu.

August 30, 6-8 pm

Buckeye Language Network Lab Grand Opening
COSI, 333 West Broad St.
 

---

September 5 – December 30

Theatre Research Institute Exhibit: Dancing Dimensions: Movement through Time and Space, Thompson Library Gallery

---

Process of Crime, Distance, and Resistance among Black and Latino Boys
Criminal Justice Research Center presents Dr. Victor Rios—associate professor of sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Rios is the author of  Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (NYU Press). 

Seminar Thursday, September 6, noon to 1:30 pm
217 Journalism Building, 242 W. 18th Ave.

---

September 6 – October 11
Department of Art Visiting Artists and Lecturers Exhibition, Swing Space Gallery, 1556 North High St.
Opening reception: September 6, 5-8 pm

---

Science Sundays' Kicks off September 9
Don Saari, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics, and director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, kicks off the second season of Science Sundays, posing the question: We vote; but can we elect someone who we really don't want?  The event is free and open to all. Science Sundays is sponsored by the science centers and institutes of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Lecture: 3-4 pm: Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theatre
Reception: 4-5 pm: Ohio Stater’s Traditions room

---

September 10

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 2012 Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture featuring Peter Fenves, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature, professor of German and Jewish Studies, and co-director of the Program in Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University. Cartoon Room 1, Ohio Union, 3:30 pm

---

Through September 29

Bebe Miller: Tracing History, Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St.

---

Through October 20

Time and Place: An International Exhibition of Works on Paper, Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St.

 

---

See more events at artsandsciences.osu.edu/events

Visit the Arts and Sciences Communications Services website to find information about our services and to connect you with resources and guidelines. The site details how you can request everything from strategic planning and websites to business cards and letterhead. Additionally, we provide college branding, core messages, and visual identity guidelines.
 
Communications Services
College of Arts and Sciences
The Ohio State University
1010 Derby Hall
(614) 292-8686
asccomm@osu.edu

If you have information or announcements for News & Updates, please send an e-mail to asccomm@osu.edu. News & Updates is published every Wednesday; deadline for content is Monday at noon.