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Gov. Strickland announces agriculture center of excellence
The Ohio State University is a fitting choice for the state’s only center of excellence in agriculture, food production and bioproducts. The public research university was established in 1870 as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Gov. Ted Strickland and Eric D. Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, announced the Food Production, Supply and Safety Center of Excellence at the Ohio State University on Tuesday, March 30, at the university’s Food Industry Center in Columbus.
Ohio State’s center was named to focus academic and research activities on improving the quality of life through research, learning, policy development and outreach to ensure access to safe, health-promoting foods, according to Board of Regents officials.
Ohio’s agriculture industry contributes more than $98 billion annually to the state’s economy, officials said. The food and beverage manufacturing industry exports equal $25 billion annually. Currently, one of every seven Ohioans is employed in the agriculture and food industries, according to state officials.
“The Ohio State University is continuing its leadership as one of the nation’s preeminent land-grant institutions,” Fingerhut said. “Agriculture remains one of Ohio’s primary economic strengths, and the innovations created by this Center of Excellence will bolster our state’s global leadership within the industry.”
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TweetSinclair appoints director of academic advising
Sinclair Community College has named Phyllis Salter as its new director of academic advising.
With more than 24,000 students currently enrolled, Sinclair officials consider academic advising to be an essential element in the college’s ability to offer individualized, quality attention to each of its students.
Salter started her career at Sinclair in 1984 as an academic counselor in the extended learning and human services division, as well as an adjunct faculty member. She became a senior academic advisor in 2006 and has most recently served as interim director of academic advising.
“We are delighted to have a long-term senior academic advisor become the new director, and we’re looking forward to working with her,” said Gloria Goldman, Sinclair’s associate provost. “She has a long history with Sinclair and I know she will continue to serve us well and to the the best of her abilities.”
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TweetUD event to address health care for poor, uninsured
As President Barack Obama prepares to sign the final piece of landmark health care legislation, area doctors and students on Saturday, March 27, will discuss the issue as it affects low-income and uninsured residents in the Miami Valley.
The University of Dayton premedical program and Miami Valley Hospital are sponsoring the inaugural Health Care Symposium from noon to 6 p.m. at the UD Science Center.
The event is open to all local physicians and UD students.
The symposium offers two program tracks for students and doctors, giving medical professionals a chance to improve their understanding of health care issues for the uninsured, and allowing students to network with doctors to explore the career of health care.
The organizers of the symposium chose the theme of health care for the poor and uninsured because of the current national focus on health care reform and access.
Meeting the medical needs for the uninsured is a mounting challenge, said Dr. Mike Craig, a UD alumnus and retired Miami Valley Hospital physician.
“We don’t have a county hospital in our area, so the private hospitals have to take care of the needs of the indigent, which often comes at a considerable amount of cost,” Craig said.
Dr. Scott Morris, the keynote speaker, will address the growing concern of health care access. Morris is founder and executive director of Church Health Center in Memphis, Tenn., the nation’s largest faith-based clinic serving working uninsured people and their families.
The symposium is free to UD students. Physician registration is $50. To register, call (937) 229-3545 or click here.
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TweetAntioch College to examine history of Ohio Republican Party
Former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft will be one of the featured panelists April 3 at an Antioch College event to examine the history of the Republican Party in Ohio.
“The History of the Republican Party in Ohio: From Yellow Springs to Taft” is the fourth in a series of symposiums hosted by Antioch College’s Morgan Fellows that focus on issues in higher education and society.
Many Ohioans might be surprised to discover that Yellow Springs played an important role in the birth of the Republican Party in the state. Historical accounts relate that the party was largely created at a meeting in 1854 at Whitehall Farm in Yellow Springs, hosted by Aaron Harlan. Harlan later served briefly on the Antioch College board of trustees with Horace Mann, the college’s first president.
The symposium promises to generate a “lively conversation about the birth and original ideology of the party in Ohio, as well as its subsequent history and further transformations that formed the party as we know it today,” according to college officials.
The event will focus on the Republican Party from its early years in the mid-19th century, and during the contentious post-Civil War era, as a party of business, the middle class and newly enfranchised African-Americans.
Taft currently is distinguished research associate at the University of Dayton. The panelists also include Nikki Taylor, associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati; John M. Elliott, professor of political science at Kenyon College; and Scott Warren, Arthur E. Morgan Fellow and former associate professor of philosophy and politics at Antioch College.
The event will take place from 2-4 p.m. in the Herndon Gallery in South Hall at Antioch College, One Morgan Place, Yellow Springs. It is free and open to the public.
For more information, click here.
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TweetUniversity of Phoenix to offer full-tuition scholarships
The University of Phoenix will partner with the Dayton Urban League to offer five full-tuition scholarships to help area job seekers and displaced workers become more employable.
The scholarships announced Monday, March 22, can be applied to an undergraduate or master’s degree programs at the University of Phoenix. Recipients can choose to attend a University of Phoenix campus or attend online to complete their degree.
“The University of Phoenix is excited about this opportunity to help people retool for reentry into the workforce,” said Chris Montagnino, the university’s campus director for Dayton and Cincinnati, in a media release.
To be eligible, applicants must have completed the Dayton Urban League’s Job Readiness Program within the last 24 months. The Job Readiness Program is a 48-hour training course that prepares people find and maintain employment through mock interviews, resume development workshops, life skills and computer training.
“This scholarship opportunity will make a huge difference for our clients who need to go to school to upgrade their skills beyond what the league has to offer, but lack the resources to do so,” said Robert E. Johnson, Dayton Urban League board chair.
Scholarship applications will be accepted from March 22 through April 30. Applications are available online at www.daytonurbanleague.org.
All scholarship recipients will be recognized and presented with a certificate of achievement at the league’s 2010 annual dinner scheduled for May at the Dayton Convention Center.
The University of Phoenix is a private, for-profit institution for higher education. It is the largest private university in North America and has more than 200 campuses worldwide. The university has an open enrollment policy, which only requires proof of a high school diploma, GED or its equivalent. For more information about the school, click here.
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TweetUD hosts ‘Take Back the Night’ rally and march
University of Dayton students will speak out against rape and other forms of sexual abuse and violence against women at a Take Back the Night event Monday, March 22, on the UD campus.
The university’s Advocates for Women’s Equality and the Women’s Center are sponsoring the rally and march, which is one of several events planned to observe women’s history month on campus.
The Take Back the Night event will start at 9 p.m. in the ArtStreet Amphitheatre with basic facts about rape and sexual assault. Two victims of sexual assault will share their stories, and people in the audience will be invited to speak out about their own experiences, according to university officials. The event will conclude with a march through the UD student neighborhood.
ArtStreet is located at the corner of Kiefaber Street and Lawnview Avenue.
Take Back the Night events have been held on college campuses and in communities since the late 1970s. Early events focused on unsafe streets, cities and campuses. Today, events highlight the problem of violence against women, as well as broader issues of sexual violence including sexual assault, dating violence, sexual abuse, domestic violence, stalking, sexual harassment, child abuse and other unhealthy relationships.
For more information, visit www.takebackthenight.org.
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TweetOle Miss considers ‘Star Wars’ rebel for mascot
University of Mississippi students are turning to a galaxy far, far away for their new on-field mascot.
The Ole Miss Rebels’ former mascot, Colonel Reb, was abandoned in 2003 because some people saw the antebellum figure as a caricature of a plantation owner.
Students are now campaigning to make Admiral Ackbar, the alien commander of the rebel alliance in “Star Wars,” the school’s new mascot, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The push for Ackbar “kind of started as a joke,” said Matthew Henry, one of the students who came up with the idea, to the Chronicle. “We’re not fully expecting Admiral Ackbar to be our on-field mascot.”
Ackbar fever has gripped the campus, according to the Chronicle. Henry and his friends created a popular Facebook page and Twitter account for the squid-like character, along with the Web site notatrap.org. The site name is a reference to Akbar’s most famous line in “Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi:” “It’s a trap!” The site features a photo of Ackbar wearing Ole Miss colors and a logo for the “Ole Miss Rebel Alliance.”
The school’s student body voted in February to develop a new mascot, and this month a student committee is to be named to propose one. Henry said he talked to one student who plans to gather signatures in support of Admiral Ackbar, the Chronicle reported.
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TweetUD professor featured in rock documentary
A forthcoming book by University of Dayton history professor Larry Schweikart inspired a documentary film about rock ‘n’ roll’s part in ending the Cold War and bringing about the dissolution of the former Soviet Union.
The upcoming film, “Rockin’ the Wall,” is based on a chapter in Schweikart’s book, “7 Events that Made America America: And Proved that the Founding Fathers Were Right All Along.”
“The communists kept out television and literature, but as Mikhail Gorbachev said, ‘We couldn’t keep out rock and roll,’ ” Schweikart said.
The movie is described as a documentary told from the perspective of rockers who played at the time on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and from survivors of communist regimes who recalled the lifeline that rock music provided.
A film crew in late February shot footage of Schweikart teaching a class in Sears Recital Hall on the UD campus.The crew also interviewed former Soviet Union refugees on campus and filmed at St. Paul’s Orthodox Church in Dayton and the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
To date, the crew also has interviewed musicians Robbie Krieger of the Doors, David Paich of Toto, and Leslie Mandoki, a European star who escaped communism, among others.
Schweikart’s previous book, “A Patriot’s History of the United States,” which he co-authored with University of Washington Tacoma history professor Michael Allen, reached No. 13 on the New York Times Bestseller List (paperback nonfiction) on March 7. It debuted at No. 18 on Feb. 28.
Schweikart has appeared on the Fox News Channel’s “Glenn Beck” show.
“Rockin’ the Wall” is planned for a summer release, according to UD officials. “7 Events that Made America America” is scheduled for release in July.
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TweetUrbana University receives grant for community read
Champaign County residents will be invited to read the book “trouble don’t last” by Shelley Pearsall this fall as part of a community read funded through a grant from the State Library of Ohio Board.
Urbana University, on March 2, was awarded the $10,000 grant through the State Library’s Choose to Read Ohio program - a statewide initiative to encourage the reading of Ohio literature together across Ohio communities.
The university’s education majors will prepare lesson plans that will be shared with area teachers who participate in the project, said Ann Corfman, associate professor of education and CTRO grant co-director.
“We hope fifth and sixth graders throughout Champaign County will be introduced to the book next fall and will want to share what they have learned about the Underground Railroad with their parents and families,” Corfman said in the university release.
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TweetMiami makes Top 50 for best video game design program
Miami University “pwn’d” other colleges in a national ranking of video game design programs.
Miami’s digital games studies program was named Monday, March 1, as one of the “Top 50 Undergraduate Game Design Programs” in the nation by the Princeton Review and GamePro magazine.
The Princeton Review surveyed 500 schools in the U.S. and Canada this academic year for the quality of the curriculum, faculty, facilities and infrastructure, as well as data on scholarships, financial aid and career opportunities.
“The game industry is a force to be reckoned with, larger than Hollywood and the music industry,” said Glenn Platt, co-director of Miami’s Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies. Gaming also has applications beyond entertainment, such as in the government, military and medical fields, Platt said.
Miami’s program focuses on two tracks: game design and game development, or how to make games understandable, motivational and fun. The digital game studies program is a collaboration among various departments, including interactive media studies, art, English, computer studies, education and the University Libraries
The ranking “speaks to the importance and effectiveness of a multi-disciplinary curriculum,” Platt said.
In gamer slang, “pwn” means to conquer to gain ownership.
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