Richard Carmona lecture and media avail cancelled

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At a research-scale combustion unit at Ohio State University, engineers are testing a clean coal technology that harnesses the energy of coal chemically, without burning it. Here, doctoral student Elena Chung (left) and master's student Samuel Bayham (right) display chunks of coal along with pulverized coal (bottle, center) and the iron oxide beads (bottle, right) that enable the chemical reaction. Photo by Jo McCulty, courtesy of Ohio State University.

A lecture and media availability with former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, set for Wednesday, Jan. 23, has been cancelled.

Carmona, the 17th U.S. Surgeon General and The Ohio State University College of Nursing Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Health Promotion and Entrepreneurship, was to deliver a lecture and panel discussion on "Interprofessional Collaboration and Public Health Innovation to Transform Health and Health Care Systems " at 11 a.m., followed by a media availability at 2 p.m.

His visit will be rescheduled.

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