Ohio State News Tips 6-20-14
LiFEsports
Camp features Career Day – June 23.
Former Ohio State basketball player and radio analyst Ron Stokes will be one of
the many professionals participating in the Learning in Fitness and Education
through Sports (LiFEsports) career day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, June 23
at various locations on campus.
More than 650
campers from disadvantaged circumstances will participate in sessions
structured to develop goal-setting, increase interest in attending college and
becoming career-minded. The presentations will highlight a number of careers to
include art, aviation, business, engineering, graphic design, law, music and
medicine.
LiFEsports
serves as one of the most comprehensive university-wide outreach initiatives
serving more than 2,800 youth, ages 9 through 15 over the past five years. For
a complete list of the schedule and participants,
CONTACT: Liz Cook, 614-292-7276 or cook.17@osu.edu.
Residence
hall renovation project wins gold. Last week, The Ohio State University’s South
High-Rise Project was awarded a LEED Gold designation. The $171 million project
contains 600,000 square feet of new and renovated space, connecting Park and
Stradley Halls and Smith and Steeb Halls and enhancement of Siebert Hall. The
Office of Student Life houses approximately 2,500 students throughout the three
buildings. The project has been awarded a green building designation of LEED
Gold, based on the 30 percent more energy savings than conventional structures,
the geothermal wells which power heating and cooling of the buildings, the
on-site water retention system, and other energy efficient features. SEE: http://www.fod.osu.edu/2014_leed-gold/index.htm.
All eyes
on the World Cup; Ohio State lab helps athletes prevent injuries and perform
better. Whether they
are competing in the World Cup or a weekend sports league, athletes can benefit
from research conducted at the Ohio
State Sports Biomechanics Laboratory is a state-of-the-art
facility for developing, validating and advancing the most cutting-edge injury
prevention and performance enhancement programs.
The Sports
Biomechanics Laboratory is a collaborative effort between engineers, athletic
trainers, physical therapists, physicians and coaches to measure how athletes
move.
This 3,500
square-foot facility is designed to be able to stimulate real-life sports
environments such as a pitcher’s mound, golfing tee box, batting cage, or
running track so that we can study the motion of the athlete’s body and the
forces acting at their joints. CONTACT: Matt Schutte, College of
Engineering, 614-247-6445, schutte.9@osu.edu.
Could
Politics Trump Economics As Reason for Growing Income Inequality? Study finds
decline in union strength played key role. Most research examining growing income
inequality in the United States has focused on economic causes, for seemingly
obvious reasons.
But a new
study suggests that a different cause – the politically induced decline in the
strength of worker unions – may play a much more pivotal role than previously
understood.
In fact, the
role that union decline has played in growing income inequality may actually be
larger than many of the favorite explanations offered by economists, such as
the education gap in the United States.
Among their
contributions to income equality: unions reduce pay differences within
companies and use their influence to lobby on behalf of the working and middle
classes, the researchers say.“The effect
that unions used to have on protecting the incomes of middle class and working
Americans has been underestimated,” said David
Jacobs, co-author of the study and professor of sociology at The Ohio State University.
SEE: http://news.osu.edu/news/2014/06/16/could-politics-trump-economics-as-reason-for-growing-income-inequality/.
CONTACT: David Jacobs, 614-292-6685, Jacobs.184@osu.edu;
or Jeff Grabmeier, 614-292-8457, Grabmeier.1@osu.edu.
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