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September
1995
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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.
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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.
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