1. Athletics Director Andy Geiger to retire
2. Pride of the Buckeyes march in Inaugural Parade
3. Snyder taps committee to lead undergrad review
4. Improved Woody Hayes Bridge lanes reopen
5. Plant may warn of the death of tropical ice caps
6. New Kiplinger Fellows join Glenn Institute
7. Sedmak returns to OSU as executive vice dean
8. Culley named new university general counsel
9. Virologist honored for helping to battle SARS
10. Service project coincides with Alamo Bowl game
11. 50 best moments in football now on special DVD
12. Engineer honored for back injury research
13. Cheerleaders advance to national competition

What Happened to Hagerty? For alums who remember the less-than-ideal environment of Hagerty Hall, you might not recognize it today. This quarter, Hagerty reopened after a two-year renovation to provide students with a unique facility that offers self-paced, student-directed language instruction, a cafe offering real-time international TV broadcasts in a casual coffee-house setting, state-of the-art classrooms and development labs for faculty and student projects, a video-conferencing center, and a new 250-seat auditorium. The first floor houses the new World Media and Culture Center, which will integrate international satellite television, radio, print media, the Internet, and multimedia instructional materials into the traditional classroom environment. Shown here is a new computer lab that overlooks the beautiful new courtyard.

Athletics Director Andy Geiger to retire

Director of Athletics Andy Geiger will retire from his post June 30, 2005, President Holbrook has announced. Geiger, who has been the school's athletics director since April 1994, will remain at the university through June 2006. Geiger has led Ohio State as one of the most respected leaders in college athletics. He has overseen a program with 36 sports, nearly 1,000 student-athletes and an annual operating budget that exceeds $85 million. READ MORE>

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Pride of the Buckeyes march in Inaugural Parade

The Ohio State University Marching Band has been invited to officially represent the state of Ohio in the 2005 Presidential Inaugural Parade for President George W. Bush on Jan. 20, and will perform "Beautiful Ohio" as it passes the reviewing stand. The trip marks the band's fourth Presidential Inaugural Parade appearance. The group also was selected to march in the 2001 parade that celebrated President Bush's first inauguration. The Ohio State Marching Band is the world's largest all-brass and percussion marching band.

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Snyder taps committee to lead undergrad review

Provost Snyder has appointed a committee to perform a university-wide review of undergraduate education. Snyder asked the committee to consider several aspects of undergraduate education, including the General Education Curriculum, the number of hours required for graduation, the appropriate role of freshman seminars in undergraduate education, and who is teaching undergraduate courses. She also asked the committee to consider how well undergraduate education at Ohio State reflects university priorities such as diversity, research, interdisciplinarity, and outreach.

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Improved Woody Hayes Bridge lanes reopen

Work on the $9.8 million Woody Hayes Drive bridge and steam line extension will continue through spring of next year, but all four lanes of roadway are now open to traffic. An opening ceremony with the Honorable Steven B. Hayes, a Franklin County Municipal Court judge and son of legendary Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes as guest of honor. Judge Hayes was the first to travel over the new bridge in a 1951 (the first year that Hayes coached) truck and was followed by several former players of his father's football teams.

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Plant may warn of the death of tropical ice caps

View of the tissue structure of the plant

A simple stroll after a full day of field research near a high Andean glacier in Peru led glaciologist Lonnie Thompson to discover a bed of previously hidden plants that date back at least 50,000 years. And while that discovery is novel enough to please any scientist, it's the implication that those perfectly preserved plants may suggest that really excites him. Thompson is a noted a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State and a world-class glaciologist. READ MORE >

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New Kiplinger Fellows join Glenn Institute

Talented journalists from across the country have arrived at Ohio State to start the new Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism. Six journalists who have covered a diverse range of issues, from media content and decision making to race and ethnicity issues, police beats, courts, the Ohio Statehouse and national and local political campaigns, join the updated Kiplinger Program in its new home in the John Glenn Institute, a nonpartisan department at the university. Fellows will spend their six months in the program holding in-depth discussions with media leaders, completing a major journalism project, and interacting with students, faculty experts and policymakers at both the Columbus campus and the institute's Washington office. READ MORE >

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Sedmak returns to OSU as executive vice dean

Daniel D. Sedmak has returned to the University Medical Center as executive vice dean and associate vice president for health sciences. Sedmak left Ohio State in 2003 to serve as executive vice president and executive dean at Georgetown University Medical Center. He previously was a longtime Ohio State medical faculty member and pathology department chair, and served as interim dean of the college and interim senior vice president. In his new position, Sedmak will help oversee, coordinate and lead academic activities for the Medical Center, including working with the vice deans in research, education and patient care, and with academic department leaders.

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Culley named new university general counsel

President Holbrook has announced the appointment Christopher M. Culley to General Counsel for the university, where he had been serving as interim general counsel since October. As general counsel, Culley is Ohio State's chief legal officer and responsible for providing legal advice to the Board of Trustees, the president, and university officers and administrators as well as supervising all legal work on behalf of the university through the Office of Legal Affairs. READ MORE >

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Virologist honored for helping to battle SARS

Ohio State virologist Linda Saif joined Richard Gere, Tom Brokaw and other personalities last month at the New York Public Library to accept the 2005 Impact Awards presented by AARP The Magazine, the official publication of the American Association of Retired People and the country's largest-circulation magazine, to Americans "who improve the world we live in." A scientist at the university's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, Saif was chosen for her recognition because of her contributions to the worldwide battle against severe acute respiratory syndrome, said Gabrielle Redford, the magazine's senior editor. Saif is the only scientist recognized this year. READ MORE >

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Service project coincides with Alamo Bowl game

Ohio State's commitment to serving the community extended beyond the state's border to the site of the Mastercard Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, Texas, marking the sixth consecutive year that Ohio State helped repay the city hosting its bowl game by taking part in a project to benefit the local community. Approximately 100 people from Ohio State and Okalahoma State teamed up to make emergency food boxes that will feed a family of four for four to five days. READ MORE >

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50 best moments in football now on special DVD

A new DVD features 50 of the greatest games, players, coaches, moments and traditions of all Ohio State football history. The Buckeyes' 50 Greatest recounts the team's ultimate moments. Hosted by two-time Heisman trophy winner, Archie Griffin, The Buckeyes' 50 Greatest features more than 125 interviews, hours of memorable footage, and hundreds of rare photographs. READ MORE >

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Engineer honored for back injury research

Our back muscles support most of our body weight and enable us to do all the lifting we do in a day. So it's no surprise that back injury is the second most common reason for missing work, after the common cold. William Marras, professor of industrial, welding, and systems engineering and director of Ohio State's Biodynamics Laboratory, leads an effort to understand and prevent back injuries. His pioneering work recently garnered him an honorary doctorate from Canada's premier academic institution -- the University of Waterloo, which is known for research in spine biomechanics. READ MORE >

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Cheerleaders advance to national competition

The Ohio State cheerleaders travel to Walt Disney World this month to compete for the 2005 College Cheerleading National Championship. Ohio State recently won the Northeast Region competition to qualify for the national competition for the 16th time in the last 18 years. By winning their region, the Buckeyes received an automatic bid to the national competition. Ohio State finished 15th in the nation at the competition last season. The national competition will be televised by ESPN and aired at a later date.

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