· Circle of Bliss exhibit shares Buddhist culture
· Political Science ranked fourth best in the world
· Bloomfield, Welker named 'local legends'
· Fisher is No. 1 in African-American MBA enrollment
· 10 faculty receive prestigious Fulbright awards
· OSU alumni have strong presence in Peace Corps
· Battelle study: OARDC is 'economic engine'
· Magician has plenty of tricks up his sleeve
· Robotic truck races across desert with no driver
· OARDC joins WHO's SARS network
· Dentistry students serve low-income students
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| Circle of Bliss exhibit shares Buddhist culture
John Huntington, professor of history of art, wasn't trying to create a blockbuster art show when he first conceived of The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, an exhibition now
showing at the Columbus Museum of Art. His interest was in assembling a smaller exhibition that would highlight the spiritual significance of artwork rarely seen or understood by non-practitioners
of Buddhism. When the Columbus Museum of Art added the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a second venue, his "little" show took on a life of its own, leading to the creation of an exhibition
with 150 major works of Indian, Nepalese, Tibetan, Chinese and Mongolian art accompanied by a 600-page catalog that is garnering Huntington and co-curator Dina Bangdel international accolades
for their groundbreaking scholarship. The exhibit runs through May 9 at the Columbus Museum of Art. READ MORE > |
Political Science ranked fourth best in the world
Ohio State's Department of Political Science ranks as fourth best in the world, according to a new study done at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Ohio State ranked behind
only Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford universities among the world's top political science departments. The rankings were based on the number and impact of journal articles published by each university's
political science faculty. READ MORE >
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Bloomfield, Welker named 'local legends'
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Clara Bloomfield, an internationally recognized expert in leukemia and lymphoma and cancer scholar at Ohio State, and Mary Jo Welker, a leader in the support and development of family medicine at the University
Medical Center, were honored as "local legends" by the American Medical Women's Association at its annual meeting in San Diego last month. The local legends project is a partnership between the association
and the National Library of Medicine designed to celebrate the accomplishments of America's top women physicians.
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Fisher is No. 1 in African-American MBA enrollment
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education recently ranked African American MBA student enrollment at the nation's 25 highest-ranked business schools. The Fisher College of Business at Ohio State
was the top-ranked program in both percentage of African American students and progress of African American student enrollment. With a 150 percent increase in the number of African American MBA
students from 1999-2003, Fisher College countered the overall trend of declining African American student enrollment. According to the Journal, African American MBA student enrollment nationwide
has dropped by almost 11 percent since 1999. In addition, Fisher College had the highest percentage of African American MBA students with 10.3 percent.
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10 faculty receive prestigious Fulbright awards
Ten faculty from Ohio State have been awarded grants from the J. William Fulbright Scholars Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and managed by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
The 10 are among some 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who received the prestigious grants to lecture and conduct research abroad. Ohio State's Fulbright winners are: Julia F. Andrews, history of art; Carole
K. Fink, history; Jason Chien-Hsin Hsu, statistics; David S. Kraybill, agricultural, environmental and development economics; Victor J. Mayer, geological sciences; John F. Moe, English; Laura A. Podolski, Spanish
and Portuguese; Daniel D. Smeak, veterinary clinical sciences; Hugh B. Urban, comparative studies; and Joseph B. Williams, evolution, ecology and organismal biology. READ MORE >
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OSU alumni have strong presence in Peace Corps
Ohio State has been recognized by the Peace Corps for earning a top-25 spot in the corps' list of "Top Producing Colleges and Universities," which ranks institutions based on the number of alumni
who currently serve as Peace Corps volunteers worldwide. Ohio State ranks 14th among large colleges and universities, with 63 alumni representing the university and the United States in the more
than 70 countries in which the corps is currently serving. Volunteers commit to 27 months of training and service overseas. During that time, they learn to speak the local language and adapt to
the culture and values of the people they serve. The Peace Corps mission is to promote world peace and friendship by promoting a better understanding of other people.
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Battelle study: OARDC is 'economic engine'
A recent report by the Battelle Memorial Institute says that the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center "is a consistent source of new products, processes, and techniques that help
make Ohio's agricultural producers among the most productive in the world," and called OARDC "a substantial economic engine for the state of Ohio." OARDC is the research arm of the College of Food,
Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, and works closely with University Extension. The study found that OARDC expenditures contribute $142 million in economic output each year that results in
1,576 jobs, directly and through a multiplier effect.
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Magician has plenty of tricks up his sleeve
Joshua Jay is not your garden-variety senior English major at Ohio State. He's an internationally known magician who's traveled to 48 countries and performed for celebrities. He had two books on
magic published before he was 21. (He's now 22.) He is frequently invited to lecture at conferences of his peers, and he edits a column in the magazine MAGIC. In other respects, Jay is a typical
student. He's active in Sigma Alpha Mu. He plays a couple hours of pick-up basketball most evenings. He studies hard and makes the honor roll each quarter. He dutifully plows through a hundred pages
of a Gaskill novel before bedtime or finishes Charlotte Bronte's Villette before heading out to a jazz club or a movie. True, he does jet across several time zones for the occasional performance
or lecture. But magically, he's found a way to balance his studies with his life's passion. READ
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Robotic truck races across desert with no driver
At 2.5 tons and 9 feet high, the truck that Ohio State University engineers are about to race across the Mojave Desert could literally crush the competition. And it would do so without a driver.
Of course, the truck won't be squashing its rivals — the purpose of the competition is to design vehicles that can drive autonomously and avoid obstacles, rather than run them over. With no human
intervention and only global positioning system and local sensing data to guide it, the truck must find its way across the desert as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Grand Challenge taking place this month. READ MORE >
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OARDC joins WHO's SARS network
An Ohio State agricultural lab has joined an international network of research facilities created by the World Health Organization (WHO) to study and monitor deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS) and the virus that causes it. The Food Animal Health Research Program of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center's (OARDC) Wooster campus — recently was invited to become a
member of the WHO International SARS Reference and Verification Laboratory Network. The OSU facility is one of three U.S. labs playing a part in the network, which has a total of 18 members.
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Dentistry students serve low-income students
More than one-third of Ohio's middle school-age children from low-income families have untreated dental disease. Some 100 students from the College of Dentistry recently helped combat this problem
by offering free dental services to children from the Columbus' Boys and Girls Club during the second annual Give Kids A Smile Day, part of National Children's Dental Health Month. Along with receiving
dental screenings, cleanings and education, each child will take home a kit that includes a toothbrush and toothpaste, activity sheets and brochures on good oral health. The event was designed to
reach children from low-income families who cannot afford oral health care services.
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