09-13-95 Highlights for New Academic Year, Part 1 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PREPARES FOR 1995-96 ACADEMIC YEAR COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University's "city within a city" will swell with the arrival of nearly 49,000 students in the next few days. Autumn Quarter classes begin Sept. 20. The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid anticipates 48,700 students will be enrolled at the Columbus campus, a slight decrease from last year's 49,542 total. Of these students, about 5,800 will be new, first-quarter freshman. About 6,000 students will be arriving at Ohio State's other campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark, and at the Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster. The freshman class will include more than 90 National Merit Scholars, one of the largest classes in the nation. Some highlights of the new academic year follow. # Admissions contact: Gail Capel Stephenoff, 292-5648. Note to reporters: The person listed as the contact for each item will have the best information about the story. However, feel free to call on our news services staff for assistance with these or other Ohio State news stories: Tom Spring, 292-8309, Spring.1@osu.edu; Amy Murray, 292-8385, Murray-Goedde.1@osu.edu; Ruth Gerstner, 292-8424; Gerstner.2@osu.edu; or Tracy Turner, 688-3682; Turner.44@osu.edu In the Colleges The College of the Arts will create an experimental teaching facility in the arts and technology, focusing particularly on the visual arts. The project is an expansion of the Emerging Technologies Studio, which employs interactive technologies, CD-ROM, and other multimedia approaches for instructional research and education. Advanced Computing Center in the Arts and Design, 292-3416. The college's administrative offices moved this month to Mendenhall Laboratory where they will remain during the renovation of Mershon Auditorium. Lois Foreman Wernet, 292- 8835. This year, the Department of Theatre will be piloting the Theatre of the New Eye, a multicultural project that will use multidisciplinary class work as a basis for producing new and innovative performance works. Much of the work will revolve around a "research to performance" method that will focus on selected themes. In the coming year, project participants will focus on "Rage and Violence in Our Communities." Lois Foreman Wernet, 292-8835. AmeriCorps, the nation's community service enterprise, has turned to the Reading Recovery program in the College of Education to help upgrade literacy in urban America. The college, in alliance with the Charles A. Dana Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Texas, is spearheading the effort to advance reading, math, and science skills of elementary children at risk of falling behind their peers. The college will work for two years developing the training program for the literacy portion of the project in its various sites across the country and to oversee the effort at Highland Avenue and Medary elementary schools in Columbus. Grants from the National Service Corp. and the Charles Dana Foundation will provide about $7 million during the next three years to fund the AmeriCorps project for Math, Literacy and Science in four states. "We're hoping to develop a model for the rest of the country, one that has children engaged in meaningful school work early enough that we capture their enthusiasm for learning and maintain it," said Gay Su Pinnell, professor of education and director of Reading Recovery. Developed in New Zealand, Reading Recovery was implemented in the United States over the last decade by Ohio State professors. It has become the most widely acclaimed reading program for children at risk of illiteracy. Gay Su Pinnell, 292-0711. In the College of Engineering, the welding engineering laboratories are tentatively scheduled to move next spring into the $9.2 million Edison Joining Technology Center (EJTC). College officials expect the move to further strengthen materials joining education and research at Ohio State. The center is being built on west campus to accommodate expansion of the Edison Welding Institute, and will be the site of all welding engineering labs. Dana Stone, 292-4064. The proposed Center for Integrated Design (CID) is planning several projects this year, following receipt of a financial commitment for an implementation grant from Ford Motor Company. CID is applying for academic recognition from Ohio State, and will be coordinating with faculty, industry and government representatives on interdisciplinary training workshops, courses and design-oriented research projects. Manjula Waldron, 292-2896. The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, is continuing its efforts to reinvent the land- grant university of the 21st century. The college, one of the first at Ohio State to restructure, is going a step further to more effectively and efficiently meet the research, teaching, and service needs of the public. The strategy includes building working partnerships across disciplines and with other colleges within the university, other universities, and diverse constituency groups. L.H. Newcomb or Marilyn Trefz, 292-6891. Stone Lab, the oldest freshwater experiment station in the country, is celebrating its centennial. The facility, on Gibraltar Island and Peach Point near Put-in-Bay, provides a variety of courses and research opportunities for faculty and students attending public and private universities in Ohio. Stone Lab is operated by the School of Natural Resources at Ohio State. Jeffrey M. Reutter, 292-8949 or Reutter.1@osu.edu. This coming year, the College of Human Ecology will celebrate its centennial by opening the Schottenstein Wing of the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection in the newly expanded Campbell Hall on Neil Avenue. The addition features a two-level gallery for the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection, along with storage and curation facilities. It also includes a two-story atrium which will serve as a student center and alumni meeting area and a state-of-the-art Ross Teaching Laboratory. The addition will also house the Lena Bailey Faculty Lounge, the Phi Upsilon Omicron Student Lounge, and faculty and staff offices. The $3.4 million facility was funded through gifts and state allocations. Programs in home economics were first offered at Ohio State in 1896 and the college has planned an 18-month celebration, beginning in January. Jerelyn Schultz, 292-8119, or Karen Wheel, 292-6761 or Wheel.1@osu.edu. Within the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences: -- The Department of Chemistry will move into the new addition to Evans Laboratory. The $14.6 million addition provides about 25,000 square feet of research laboratories and faculty offices for expanded chemistry programs. This facility will also serve as temporary space for the Department of Chemistry while McPherson Laboratory is totally renovated. The McPherson renovation is in the design stage now. The new chemistry building between Evans and McPherson is now called Celeste Laboratory. Matthew Platz, 292-6723. -- Students enrolled in courses offered by the Department of Geological Sciences will be able to take classes once again in newly renovated and expanded Mendenhall Laboratory. William Ausich, 292-7230. -- Faculty members in the Department of Statistics are participating in the new Biostatistics Center, a comprehensive data analysis, design, and research group. The center opened on July 1. Thomas Santner, 292-2866. The Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) is in the process of changing the name of its Bachelor of Science degree in the College of Engineering from Computer and Information Science to Computer Science and Engineering. The new name is more reflective of the actual program of study, and also will qualify the department to seek engineering accreditation for the program. The name change has been approved by the College of Engineering faculty. It must also be approved by the Board of Trustees and the Ohio Board of Regents. The arrival in January of Mary Jean Harrold from Clemson University will bring to five the number of faculty in the department who are recipients of the National Science Foundation Career Award or its predecessor, the National Young Investigator Award. Professors Tom Page and Dhabaleswar Panda received the award earlier this year. The department and Hewlett-Packard have been working together to bring advanced computing technology to Ohio State students. During the past year, the department installed new high-performance color work stations in faculty offices and in laboratories used for computer and information science courses. The department also is working with Hewlett-Packard to evaluate and deploy advanced networking technology, so that multimedia can be more effectively used in computer-and-information-science instruction and research. Stuart Zweben, 292-5973. The Lantern, the laboratory newspaper of the School of Journalism, is believed to be the first student newspaper in the United States to make its copy available via telephone. The audiotext service is available by calling 688-5465. The Lantern LINK (Lantern Information Network), provides national news, weather information, entertainment information, horoscopes, soap opera updates and sports scores. The Lantern hopes to add local and campus news to the service this fall. Ray Catalino, 292-6749. The College of Pharmacy will open an outpatient clinic pharmacy on Oct. 1 with long-range plans to make it an ambulatory teaching facility. Pharmacy students will be involved in all aspects of its operation. The pharmacy will operate under a pharmaceutical care philosophy with a stronger emphasis on patient-pharmacist communication, the provision of in-depth medication counseling, and pharmacist monitoring of therapeutic drug regimens. The pharmacy will serve Ohio State faculty and staff and patients discharged from University Hospitals. Aly Bradley, 292-2266. Twenty-one new doctoral students began classes in July, up from 10 two years ago. Pharmacy Day, a daylong open house featuring tours and presentations on admission requirements, curriculum, financial aid, and career opportunities, will be held Nov. 4. Sally Haltom, 292-7255. Career Fair, Jan. 16-19, will feature exhibits from about 60 employers from all types of pharmacy practices. The event is sponsored by Ohio State's Academy of Students of Pharmacy. Aly Bradley, 292-2266. For the first time, patrons of University Libraries can borrow directly from the collected holdings of all OhioLINK affiliated libraries. Through OhioLINK, a borrower can search for materials on-line from member libraries around the state, make a request, and have the material delivered to the user's home library in about three days. In comparison, the traditional interlibrary loan process takes two or more weeks. OhioLINK's 17-million volume central catalog contains books owned by Ohio's public universities, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Dayton, the State Library of Ohio, and community- and technical- college libraries. William J. Studer, 292-6151. The Libraries' new Book Depository/Archives building is open on Kenny Road between Lane Avenue and Ackerman Road. University Archives has moved its offices and collections from Converse Hall. According to William Studer, director of University Libraries, the $3.7-million facility provides dense storage of lesser used library materials in a warehouse-like setting with closely controlled temperature and humidity conducive to preserving paper. Materials stored in the Book Depository will be retrieved for users several times daily. William J. Studer, (614) 292-6151, or Raimund Goerler, 292-2409. The Health Science Library has re-opened at 175 W. 11th Ave., It will be in the Jesse Owens Recreation Center South pending remodeling of its permanent facility. William J. Studer, 292-2409. Students in the university honors program will again be volunteering their time at the Indianola Middle School. Last year, more than 70 students volunteered an hour a week. Honors program officials expect 50 students will volunteer this fall, with 30 more being trained. The students assist in the classroom, provide tutoring, monitor the playground, and help with music lessons, art lessons, computers and sports. More than 140 honors students, including 100 first-year students, will discuss Alan Lightman's book, Einstein's Dreams, in small groups with faculty members on Monday of Welcome Week. The students read the book during the summer. This project, part of the John Rudolph Honors Book Program, brings an academic twist to Welcome Week and begins to introduce honors students to the faculty. The book-reading program will be repeated winter and spring quarters with the authors joining the group each quarter for discussion. This year, each new honors student will be matched with an upper-class honors student known as a peer mentor. The peer mentor serves to help the new student adjust to Ohio State. In addition, peer mentors go to honors survey classes to discuss involvement with the honors program. Honors staff are planning Leadership Ohio State, a year-long leadership development program available to students. David Strauss, 292-3135 or Strauss.15@osu.edu. Officials at the Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster are expecting nearly 800 students, up from 740 a year ago, in what would be the second largest enrollment in the school's 23-year history. So far, 68 students have indicated that they will be studying in the school's new Associate of Science degree program. That compares to original estimates of 25 to 30. The degree option allows students at Ohio State's Wooster campus to earn the first half of a bachelor's degree, then transfer to the Columbus campus. The program resulted from interest among students who wanted to continue their education in agriculture, but were frustrated because some of their credits from Ohio State ATI's traditional technical program did not transfer to Columbus. "Students have been looking for this for a long time," said Bill Anderson, director of the institute. "Since ATI's inception, students have wanted to transfer to other universities. This Associate of Science degree program gives them greater flexibility. They can go to the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences with nearly perfect transfer of credits. This didn't always happen in the past." To accommodate future students, Ohio State officials are planning a complex of 118 apartments to open in two years. Three of every four students must relocate to attend Ohio State ATI, a result of the institute's statewide mission. Bill Anderson, (614) 292-7115 or (216) 264-3911, ext. 1212; or Liana R. Huff, extension 1216, or Huff.28@osu.edu. The Ohio State University-Mansfield will break ground in November for the John B. Conard Learning Center, which will house the Center for Academic Enrichment and a "distance learning" room that will allow two-way video instruction from the Columbus campus and other remote locations. The building also will have study rooms, a lecture room, computer labs, classrooms, and staff offices. Kirk Philipich will join the Mansfield campus winter quarter as the first full-time business faculty member at an Ohio State regional campus. The hiring of Philipich, who has a doctorate in business administration from Indiana University, will help the Mansfield campus offer employees of area companies the opportunity to complete a business degree. Ohio State-Mansfield's "Poised for Advancement" Campaign has generated $2.1 million in gifts and pledges. Funds will go to scholarships benefiting dozens of students, the Conard Learning Center, a new baccalaureate program in business administration, and faculty research and development activities. Rodger C. Smith, (419) 755-4215. Elementary econometrics will be offered for the first time this fall at The Ohio State University-Marion. Also known as Economics 444, the course is a market-oriented approach to economic principles and research methods. The course will benefit area marketing personnel responsible for their company's market research and analysis of survey data and for marketing managers who do forecasting for their company. The course, to be taught by Colin Feng, is part of the Marion campus efforts to add business courses to the curriculum and develop a business degree program. Lori Stevenson, (614) 389-6786. [Submitted by: Carolyn Glover (cglover@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) Mon, 18 Sep 1995 09:53:45 -0400] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.