· Congratulations to our national champions
· President Holbrook appoints senior vice president
· de la Chapelle, King are distinguished professors
· Theatre, Spanish-Portuguese lauded for teaching
· 12 are recipients of 2004 Distinguished Staff Award
· Alumni Association announces member benefits
· Ohio State trustees complete tuition increase
· Hanna, Taylor honored as athletes of the year
· Postlewait receives national humanities grant
· Four Buckeyes picked in baseball's draft
· Society's old name changed to honor Freeman
· WOSU-TV receives Corporation grant for digital
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| Spring Commencement
Erin Moriarty, award-winning CBS correspondent and two-time graduate of Ohio
State, addressed the university's newest alumni at spring commencement on
June 13. The graduates were among a class of 7,225 who received diplomas
this quarter — the largest class in university history. The ceremony also
marked the first Sunday graduation in Ohio Stadium since 1943. Four
individuals were honored for their contributions to society and academics,
and their dedication to the university. An honorary doctorate was presented
to David W. Harvey, an internationally recognized geographer and social
scientist. Distinguished Service Awards were presented to: Frank E. Bazler,
an enthusiastic supporter of his alma mater for more than half a century;
Virginia Hutchison Bazler, who with her husband, Frank, has served her alma
mater in many ways; and Manuel Tzagournis, vice president for health
sciences and dean of medicine and public health emeritus at Ohio State.
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Congratulations to our national champions
Ohio State's faculty and students bring honor to the university and themselves through the recognition they are receiving worldwide for their scholarly performance and promise. Some of the nation's
and world's most prestigious organizations and foundations have acknowledged the quality of the people that make Ohio State one of America's premier universities and a magnificent resource to the
citizens of Ohio and beyond. The university celebrates a banner year of faculty and student recognition.
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President Holbrook appoints senior vice president
President Holbrook has announced a plan to appoint Curt Steiner, former chief of staff in the governor's office and the Ohio House of Representatives and a well-known communications strategist, to the
newly created position of senior vice president for external relations. Steiner will lead an office that will help the president formulate and manage the university's external relations policies and messages.
He will oversee the University Relations and Government Relations functions and provide communications coordination with University Outreach and Engagement and University Development. He also will coordinate
communications strategy and act as liaison with the Alumni Association, a private organization independent of Ohio State. READ MORE >
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de la Chapelle, King are distinguished professors
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Provost Snyder has announced the designation of the title Distinguished University Professor for two Ohio State faculty members. The permanent title was conferred on Albert de la Chapelle, the
Leonard J. Immke Jr. and Charlotte L. Immke Chair in Cancer Research and director of the Division of Human Cancer Genetics; and on John N. King, the Humanities Distinguished Professor of English
and of Religious Studies, Department of English. Distinguished University Professors automatically become members of the President's and Provost's Advisory Committee. The Office of Academic Affairs
provides a $10,000 award annually for three years.
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Theatre, Spanish-Portuguese lauded for teaching
Provost Snyder has named the departments of Theatre and Spanish and Portuguese as the recipients of the 2004 University Departmental Teaching Excellence Awards. Each recognition carries with it a $50,000
cash award from the Office of Academic Affairs to be used to advance teaching in the departments. Among the criteria the committee looked at were commitment to excellence in teaching and learning, self-evaluation
of teaching and learning quality, development of faculty teaching, and provision of resources for students.
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12 are recipients of 2004 Distinguished Staff Award
Twelve staff members are the recipients of the 2004 Distinguished Staff Award, which recognizes staff with at least five years of continuous service for exceptional accomplishments, leadership
and service to the university community. The winners of this year's award significantly improve and enhance the quality of work-life in ways that make a substantial difference for their colleagues;
contribute to outstanding and sustained improvements in customer services; and develop creative solutions to problems that result in significantly more effective and efficient university operations.
The Office of Human Resources awards honorees a $1,500 cash award and a $700 increase to their base salary. Read about the 12 winners online. READ
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Alumni Association announces member benefits
The Ohio State Alumni Association announces the addition of seven new benefits to the OSUAA membership package. These include a 31 percent discount on an annual subscription to Buckeye Sports Bulletin;
an a^?oeAlumni Association Packagea^?? (reduced rates plus complimentary breakfast and parking) at The Blackwell; discount tickets to Paramount Kings Island (online purchases); availability of the university's
IBM discount program for alumni; group rates on pet insurance through the Alumni PetHealth Plan; discounted Faculty Club dues for Alumni Association Life Members; and discounts on food, game play
and merchandise at the Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe. READ MORE> back to top
Ohio State trustees complete tuition increase
The university's Board of Trustees have approved a previously announced increase for undergraduate instructional and general fees at the Columbus campus for the 2004-05 fiscal year. The 13.4 percent
increase will go into effect autumn quarter. The total cost for a resident undergraduate to attend Ohio State's Columbus campus and live in university housing during the upcoming school year will
increase $1,435, or 10.1 percent, for a total of $14,262. The board also approved a 9.9 percent tuition increase for undergraduate students at the university's regional campuses in Lima, Newark,
Mansfield and Marion and the Agricultural Technology Institute in Wooster. READ MORE >
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Hanna, Taylor honored as athletes of the year
Student-athletes Allison Hanna and Dan Taylor have been named the 2004 Ohio State Female Athlete of the Year and Male Athlete of the Year. The award was voted on by a panel of university administrators
and coaches for the 2003-04 season. As the top Buckeye athletes, Hanna and Taylor will represent Ohio State on the Big Ten ballot to select the Suzy Favor Female Athlete of the Year and the Jesse
Owens Male Athlete of the Year. Each school in the Big Ten nominates one male and one female student-athlete and a panel of media selects the winners, which will be announced later this summer.
Hanna and Taylor will be honored at halftime of a football game this fall. READ MORE >
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Postlewait receives national humanities grant
Thomas Postlewait, professor of theatre, has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study George Edwardes and the transformation of London Theatre from 1878 to 1916.
His goal is to study Edwardes' multi-faceted career, and in the process provide a microhistory of the artistic, economic, social and political aspects of London theatre and its audiences in the
decades prior to WWI. Postlewait also received a university seed grant to support the project.
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Four Buckeyes picked in baseball's draft
Four Buckeyes, Scott Lewis, Drew Anderson, Josh Newman and Trent Luyster, were taken in the first-year player draft held last week by Major League Baseball. Lewis was a third-round pick by the
Cleveland Indians; Anderson was a 13th-round selection by the Cincinnati Reds; Newman was picked by the Colorado Rockies in the 19th round; and Luyster was taken by the Chicago Cubs in the 39th
round. READ
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Society's old name changed to honor Freeman
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Her dedication to educating students and passion for helping the community are two reasons why students in Ohio State's Mortar Board Chapter of Mortar Board Inc. unanimously voted to name their organization
in honor of Mabel Freeman, assistant vice president for admissions and the First Year Experience. For 90 years, Mortar Board has been a senior honor society at Ohio State. The organization's new name is The
Dr. Mabel Gilbert Freeman Mortar Board Chapter of Mortar Board and is one of only eight nationwide to be named after alumni. Freeman began her Mortar Board involvement in 1965 as an Ohio State student and later
served as an officer. Since then she has been an adviser and a two-term national president. READ MORE >
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WOSU-TV receives Corporation grant for digital
WOSU-TV recently received a Digital Distribution Fund grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to fund construction of a digital master control and operations center. The Digital Distribution
Fund provides funding to both individual stations and to multi-station collaborations for digital transmission equipment to inaugurate new digital services with particular emphasis on educational
and rural broadband services. The grant will be matched through the WOSU GO Digital! campaign. The GO Digital! campaign began last July in an effort to raise $7 million of the $11.4 million required
for the conversion to digital broadcasting. READ MORE >
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