97-09-05 Story Tips for Local News Media

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Our Web address is www.acs.ohio-state.edu.

FACULTY TRAVELS OHIO AS ROADS SCHOLARS--Sept. 11-12, 18-19.  Not
Rhodes Scholars, Roads Scholars.  Two busloads of Ohio State
faculty will travel through northeast Ohio Sept. 11-12 to get a
firsthand look at how their colleagues are working with some Ohio
businesses.  Called the Roads Scholars tours, the trips are
sponsored by the President’s Council for Outreach and Engagement,
a group formed by President Gee to extend the university’s
educational resources to every Ohio county.  Buses will leave the
Fawcett Center parking lot, 2400 Olentangy River Rd., Sept. 11 at
7:30 a.m. and return around 10 p.m. on Sept. 12.  Faculty will
visit The Wilds, Longaberger Basket Co., Amish country, OARDC at
Wooster, two Cleveland high schools, the Great Lakes Science
Center, the Cleveland Clinic and the Mansfield campus.  A second
group of faculty will take a similar tour Sept. 18-19 through
northwest Ohio.
CONTACT: Ruth Gerstner, News Services, 292-8424.

ASTRONAUT-VETERINARIAN RETURNS TO ALMA MATER--Sept. 13.  Richard
Linnehan, a 1985 graduate of the College of Veterinary Medicine,
is the featured speaker at the college’s annual alumni meeting,
at 10 a.m. in the Vet Hospital Auditorium, 601 Vernon L. Tharp
St.  Linnehan has logged more than 400 hours in space, including
the June 20-July 7, 1996  STS-78, the Life Sciences and
Microgravity Spacelab mission.  He is currently assigned the crew
of the STS-90 Neurolab, a 16-day, March 1998 Spacelab mission
dedicated to investigations on the effects of microgravity on the
nervous system.
CONTACT: Bonnie Bates, College of Veterinary Medicine, 292-1171.

WEXNER CENTER KICKS OFF SPORTS ART EXHIBIT--Sept. 13-Jan. 4.
Alexis Smith: My Favorite Sport opens at the Wexner Center for
the Arts, 1891 N. High St., at 10 a.m.  The exhibition celebrates
the myth and mystique of American sports.  The project--the
culmination of Smith’s 1996-97 Wexner Center Residency Award in
the visual arts--brings together the artist’s major works from
recent years, plus a new installation highlighting a selection of
unusual Ohio State memorabilia.
Also on Sept. 13, the Wexner Center will also host a 12 1/4
Tailgate Party with Alexis Smith from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.,
where Smith will explain her new installation and her public art
project for the Schottenstein Center.
CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center, 292-9923.

FARM SCIENCE REVIEW--Sept. 16-18. The three-day Farm Science
Review offers an estimated 125,000 people a look at some of the
newest innovations in agriculture, nutrition and gardening.  The
review is held at the Molly Caren Agricultural Center, U.S. Route
40 near London.
CONTACT: Suzanne Steel, College of Food, Agriculture and
Environmental Sciences, 292-2011. 

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--
Amy Murray, 292-8385; Ruth Gerstner, 292-8424; Tracy Turner,
688-3682; and Emily Caldwell, 292-8309.
Compiled by Amy Murray, University Communications, (Murray-
Goedde.1@osu.edu).


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:50:57 -0400 (EDT)]
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