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Latest ice core may solve mystery of ancient volcanic eruptions – A team of Ohio State University researchers has returned from an expedition in southeastern Alaska with the longest ice core ever drilled from a mountainous glacier. The find may shed light on deposits made through several ice ages, and may contradict existing theories on volcanic activity in the region. At 1,509 feet, the core is a record 492 feet longer than the previous core retrieved. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences at Ohio State, led this expedition - his 44th - to an ice cap that straddled the col, or saddle, between Mount Churchill and Mount Bona in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park on the U.S.-Canadian border. For years, scientists have believed that Mount Churchill was the source of a massive deposit of White River Ash that rose from at least two eruptions within the last 2,000 years. Contact: Earle Holland, (614) 292-8384; Holland.8@osu.edu; see http://www.osu.edu/researchnews/archive/bonaback.htm

Columbus Public Schools teams up with Ohio State to offer internship program –
At least 70 Columbus Public High School students are being exposed to the benefits of post-high school education as part of a 10-week annual internship program at Ohio State. The program also helps each student establish a good employment record and work habits. The students gain work skills, mentoring and academic enrichment, as well as internship credit for their high school transcripts. The university benefits by recruiting future students and staff, as well as by filling temporary summer vacancies. These recent graduates and incoming seniors will earn nearly $3,000 apiece for their work as housekeepers and food service workers, and the university will gain summer employees to help handle summer camps and new student orientation sessions. The program, a joint project of the Columbus Public School and Ohio State’s Office of Student Affairs, began last year with 41 students. Contact: Ruth Gerstner, (614) 292-8424.

Cancer researcher goes to the dogs to clear up prostate mystery – Only two animals in nature get prostate cancer – dogs and humans. So Dr. Tom Rosol, a veterinarian in The Ohio State University's Comprehensive Cancer Center, who has spent 19 years tracking the molecular intricacies of cancer metastasis, has turned to examining the canine prostate gland for clues. When prostate cancer spreads to the bones – as it does in 8 in 10 of all advanced cases – it actually stimulates new bone to grow rather than eroding it as what occurs when some of the most common cancers spread. Rosol’s findings were published recently in The Prostate. Contact: Michelle Gailiun, 614-293-3737 or