Story Ideas for Media 10/24/05

News

250 Years of Children’s Fashion on Exhibit – through May 2006. The Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection is ccurrently featuring a 250-year history of children’s clothing in the Geraldine Schottenstein Wing of Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Ave.
With over 550 items, “Toddlers, Teens and Tweens: 250 Years of Children’s Fashions,” the exhibit illustrates the history of children’s clothing styles and explores society’s views and influences on children’s clothing fashion. The exhibits range from the 18th century practice of swaddling to current fashion trends. The exhibit is free and open to the public through May 2006. See http://costume.osu.edu/Exhibitions/ttt/ CONTACT: Gayle Strege, Curator, (614) 292-3090.

Research

When Do Mosquitoes Prefer a Blood Banquet, or a Sugar Feast? Three Genes Make the Call. Entomologists have isolated three key genes that determine when female mosquitoes feed on blood and when they decide to switch to an all-sugar diet to fatten up for the winter. David Denlinger, professor of entomology at Ohio State University, hopes this discovery will lead scientists to other genes that help the mosquitoes survive cold weather -- in particular, those genes related to how insects handle the West Nile Virus when they enter a kind of hibernation. Denlinger holds a partial research appointment with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, Ohio.
Denlinger and Rebecca Robich, a former doctoral student at Ohio State and now a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, published their findings in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.CONTACT: Dave Denlinger, (614) 292-8209, denlinger.1@osu.edu. See:http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/feedgene.htm

Events

Fisher hosts international business case competition – Oct 25-29. Business students from Europe, Asia, Central America and the U.S. will converge on the Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business campus for the 2005 CIBER Case Challenge, Tuesday through Saturday (10/25-29).
Hosted by Fisher College’s International Programs Office and Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), the business case competition is organized by a group of undergraduate students in coordination with faculty and staff.
Teams of students from 12 colleges and universities will retreat to rooms at the Blackwell Inn for a grueling 24 hours to analyze an international business case and prepare a solution for presentation. A panel of multinational corporate executives and international business scholars will serve as judges. The business problem is kept secret from competitors until the start of the competition on Friday morning.
Teams will present during the preliminary round on Friday morning (10/28). The final round will take place in the afternoon in 140 Pfahl Hall, 280 W. Woodruff Avenue.CONTACT: Patricia Allen, Fisher College of Business, (614) 292-8937.

Veterinary lecture aims to improve life for indoor cats – Oct. 27. In honor of National Pet Wellness Month, the College of Veterinary Medicine is presenting a free public lecture. Dr. Tony Buffington, an internationally known feline expert, will talk about “Environmental Enrichment for Indoor Cats” at 7 p.m. on Thursday (10/27) at the Wexner Auditorium in the Veterinary Medicine Academic Building, 1900 Coffey Road. Buffington will outline easy ways to help make indoor cats healthier and happier through changes in their home environment. CONTACT: Melissa Lamb-Peale, (614) 292-3752.

Wexner Center reopens its galleries – Oct. 30. Following an extensive three-year renovation, the best in contemporary visual arts, performing arts, film and video will be reunited under the new Wexner Center roof. The reopening celebration, which is free and open to the public, takes place on Sunday (10/30) from noon to 5 p.m. with food, gallery and building tours, free T-shirts and more at the Wexner Center, 1871 N. High Street. The first exhibition in the newly luminous galleries will be on display. “Part Object Part Sculpture” features rarely seen works by some of the legends of contemporary art, including Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, and Eva Hesse. CONTACT: Karen Simonian, Wexner Center for the Arts, (614) 292-9923.

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