April 2004
New research out of psychology and a futuristic vehicle
designed at Ohio State provided major coverage for the university this
month. This report reviews all of the major coverage of Ohio State in
the top 50 U.S. markets (excluding reports in the Ohio media and athletics’
game stories) and selected international outlets. News service distributions
(Associated Press, United Press International,
Reuters) cited in some items suggest probable coverage by
other newspapers, radio, and television stations not monitored by the
university.
NEWSPAPERS
Major attention was focused on a new study by Charles
Emery, professor of psychology. His research found that people
who exercise to music may actually improve mental performance as well
as physical performance. Coverage included: Research
Story
Los Angeles Times, April
5
Chicago Tribune, April 11
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 5
Toronto Globe and Mail, April 16
London Daily Mail, April 14
Ottawa Citizen, April 8
USA Today, April 28; Associated
Press, April 27; United Press International,
April 14.
Charles Emery, professor of psychology. Article about
his research that found people who showed physical and mental gains as
a result of a regular exercise program lost their gains soon after they
stopped exercising. Research
Story
New York Times, April 13.
Mabel Freeman, assistant vice president for undergraduate admissions.
Quoted in article about how Ohio State showed only a slight decline in
the racial diversity of students admitted in the fall, despite the Supreme
Court decision that forced the university to change its admissions policies
regarding minorities.
USA Today, April 1; Ottawa
Citizen, April 8.
Peter Swire, professor of law. Quoted in article about
a decision by a Canadian judge who ruled that internet file sharing is
legal, which could be a potentially big setback for the music industry.
Washington Post, April 8; USA
Today, April 20; Chicago Tribune,
April 18; Christian Science Monitor, April 9
and 15.
John Mueller, professor of political science and Woody
Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center. Quoted
in articles about how continuing American casualties in Iraq may affect
public support for the war and for President Bush.
Los Angeles Times, April 18;
Associated Press, April 6.
Joshua Dressler, professor of law. Quoted in article
about a criminal case in California in which a deaf and mute women who
doesn’t use sign language was accused of trying to kill her newborn
baby. Dressler said it is hard to figure out whether the mother intended
to harm the baby in a case like this.
Los Angeles Times, April 25;
Boston Globe, April 22.
E. Scott Bair, professor and chair of geological sciences; Maura
Metheny, graduate student in geological sciences. Articles mentioned
their research that provided new evidence of how municipal water wells
at a famous toxic waste site in Woburn, Massachusetts came to be contaminated,
and how much contamination was delivered to residents. Research
Story
Chicago Tribune, April 19.
H.G. Parsa, associate professor of hospitality management.
Quoted in article about his research that found the failure rate of restaurants
is about 60 percent over three years, much less than the 90 percent rate
that is often quoted. Research
Story
Newsday, April 12.
john powell, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the
Study of Race and Ethnicity in the Americas. Article discussed
a 35-page report powell wrote detailing that segregation is entrenched
in Long Island, New York’s institutions - including housing, transportation
and education.
Boston Globe, April 15.
Roy Lewicki, professor of management and human resources.
Quoted in article about how he has discussed some episodes of the reality
TV series “The Apprentice” in his business classes. He said
the show is no more or less relevant than other materials he shares with
students.
Dallas Morning News, April
13.
Jack Nasar, professor of city and regional planning; Jean Marie
Cackowski, former graduate student in city and regional planning.
Article discussed their research that suggests views of nature are more
calming to drivers than city scenes. Research
Story
San Francisco Chronicle, April
21.
Herb Weisberg, professor of political science. Quoted
in article about how presidential candidate John Kerry’s views on
environmental issues might win him support from Democrats and some independents,
however, the environment is unlikely to be a major issue in the campaign.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April
16.
Peter Ward, associate professor of management sciences.
Quoted in article about lean manufacturing, a business philosophy designed
to cut waste and help companies operate more efficiently.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
April 6.
Stuart Zweben, chair and professor of computer and information
science. Quoted in article about the large drop in computer science
majors at U.S. universities, as students fear that high-tech jobs in the
future will be outsourced overseas.
Financial Times, April 5; Reuters
News Service, April 4.
William Liddle, professor of political science. Quoted
in article about how Indonesia’s president, Megawati Sukarnoputri,
faced a large test in the nation’s elections, with her political
party rapidly losing popularity with voters.
United Press International,
April 12.
Steven Devor, assistant professor of sport and exercise sciences.
Article about his research in rats that suggests ultrasound therapy does
nothing to help an injured skeletal muscle heal any faster. Research
Story
United Press International,
April 5.
Somnath Ghosh, professor of mechanical engineering. Quoted
in article about a novel computer program developed at Purdue that enables
users to translate a rough sketch of an object into a search of millions
of database entries for the exact item sought. Ghosh said the program
shows a lot of promise.
United Press International,
April 16.
Rattan Lal, director of the carbon management and sequestration
center. Article about a paper he co-authored in Science that
says the world faces serious climate, soil quality and food production
problems in the next 20 to 50 years if there isn’t a darmatic increase
in no-till farming practices. Such practices help soil retain carbon.
Research
Story
United Press International,
April 20.
Emily Patterson, visiting researcher in the Institute for Ergonomics.
Article about her research that has identified key strategies that might
make shift changes at hospitals safer for patients. Research
Story
United Press International,
April 26.
Neal Hooker, assistant professor of agricultural, environmental
and development economics. Article about his research that found
only about half the meat and poultry recalled in the United States because
of suspected health hazards between 1998 and 2002 actually was recovered.
Research
Story
United Press International,
April 26.
Terrence Horgan, research fellow in psychology. Article
about his research that shows Women are better than men at remembering
the appearance of others. Research
Story
Newhouse News Service, April
15.
Frank Schwartz, professor of geological sciences. Article
about his research developing a solid form of potassium permanganate that
may offer a solution for cleaning up decades’ worth of toxic solvents
polluting the environment. Research
Story
MAGAZINES
U.S. News & World Report,
April 19.
Ohio State is credited for providing information for maps the magazine
did showing parts of the country that are bracing for a massive invasion
of cicadas this spring.
New Yorker, April 5.
Richard Steckel, professor of economics. Steckel is one
of the main sources for a major article about work by him and others that
connects the height of populations with their overall health and economic
status. Research
Story Research
Story Research
Story
New Scientist, April 3.
Andrew Gould, professor of astronomy. Quoted in article
about how even small, relatively inexpensive telescopes can be very useful
to astronomers for various kinds of research.
LOCAL
The Columbus Dispatch
April 3
Pointing to an expected surge in cancer in the next three decades, Ohio
State University leaders are poised to spend as much $400 million during
the next decade to keep the school's cancer program on the national map.
The project is huge. Expected changes include doubling the size of the
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and creating a new outpatient-care center.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 5
WOSU (89.7 FM) became the first radio station in central Ohio to broadcast
in HD Radio technology. The Ohio State University-owned public station
is one of 75 stations nationwide to begin using the technology. The classical
station's news-talk sibling, WOSU (820 AM), is expected to begin broadcasting
in the digital format by the end of the year. "This new technology
will allow us to provide a remarkably improved product for our listeners,''
WOSU General Manager Tom Rieland said.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 7
A Pennsylvania State University scientist has been tapped to head Ohio
State University’s research programs beginning July 1. The OSU Board
of Trustees is expected to approve fusion energy expert Bob McGrath
as senior vice president for research at its May 7 meeting. In
that position, McGrath would join President Karen A. Holbrook’s
cabinet and oversee research grants of $426 million annually.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 5
Ohio State University's trustees approved spending an additional $2.5
million for renovations at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The renovation
budget now is $14.5 million. The center has decided, based on engineers'
recommendations, to replace, instead of renovate, its 300-foot glass facade
along the east side of the building's galleries. Air-handling units for
the galleries also will be replaced instead of being renovated.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 8
Former Ohio State University President Ed Jennings has
accepted another influential position at the school. In a last-minute
agenda addition, the board of trustees hired Jennings at its April 2 meeting
to help them with long-range planning and governance. "We consulted
Dr. (Karen A.) Holbrook before we made any move to contact him, and she
was comfortable with it," said board Chairman Zuheir Sofia. "He
is the board adviser but he’ll have to work with all of us."
Jennings agreed to a month-to-month contract that can be canceled by either
party with 30 days notice. He’ll be paid $10,000 a month.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 20
The twin NASA rovers are just the latest to search for life among the
stars. A small group of scientists and engineers has established a listening
post off Kinnear Road on the Ohio State campus. Called Project Argus,
it is the successor to Ohio State’s fabled Big Ear radio telescope
in Delaware County, which for 20 years was the world’s longest-dedicated
search for alien life. It was demolished for a housing project in 1998.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 26
Ohio State University scientists, writing this month in the journal Science,
say no-till farming not only builds better soil, it helps slow global
climate change by trapping carbon in soil instead of releasing its byproduct,
carbon dioxide, into the air. "When you plow, you are stirring up
the fire to burn up the organic matter," said Rattan Lal,
a soil scientist in OSU’s School of Natural Resources.
Increased levels of carbon dioxide have been associated with global climate
change.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 11
The article analyzes the use of pre-emptive strikes for dealing with al-Qaida
threats. Richard Herrmann, director of the Mershon Center at Ohio
State and a senior State Department official in 1991, said he
is ''not a fan of pre-emption and preventative attack. I'm afraid it throws
international law into chaos.''
The Columbus Dispatch
April 11
Ohio, where 72 percent of voters use punch-card ballots, was on track
to become one of the first states to modernize its voting equipment. But
the goal to replace all punch-card devices by the March 2004 primary election
was thwarted. "The state of Ohio is presently in violation of the
equal-protection clause and Voting Rights Act,'' said Dan Tokaji,
assistant professor at OSU's Moritz College of law. "It's
incredible that the state of Ohio is dragging its feet now for four years
and will continue to disenfranchise voters,'' he said. "There are
clearly voting systems that are better than the hanging chad punch-card.''
The Columbus Dispatch
April 15
An Iraqi artist dramatizes issues that not too long ago would have been
dangerous to explore in his native country. Louay Assaf arrived in Columbus
last week to direct the world premiere of Identity , commissioned by Ohio
State University's Theater Department. The work is a search for identity
and a ''diary of destruction'' about Iraqi families and tribes whose lives
have been fractured by politics. ''Identity is about the need for reformation
of radical Islam and why (it) has become so violent and dangerous,'' Assaf
said.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 15
Most horse owners and breeders in Ohio say they are vaccinating their
animals for West Nile virus, which is much more deadly to horses than
humans. Vaccinations a year ago were credited with helping reduce the
number of horses infected by the mosquito-borne virus to about 100 --
down from 600 in 2002. But veterinarians are worried that some horse owners
will overlook vaccinating this year because they may perceive that the
threat is over. "We don't want them to think we have it under control,
because we don't,'' said William Saville, a veterinarian with
the Ohio State University Extension Services.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 15
A New York-based community group wants the Federal Reserve to stop the
sale of Bank One to J.P. Morgan Chase because the group says the banks
do business with what they call predatory lenders. Andrew Karolyi,
a finance professor at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of
Business, said community groups might not be able to derail a
bank merger but could delay approval or cause the Fed to seek concessions
from the banks.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 16
On an examination table in the basement of Ohio State University Medical
Center, Marge Rich clutched her head and wept. She just had been told
she had less than six months to live. Although Rich’s tears were
real, the symptoms and diagnosis were not. The Worthington resident is
a "standardized patient" at the university’s new Clinical
Skills Education and Assessment Center. The idea behind the facility,
which officially will open in September, is part of a trend in medicine
to train budding doctors, using real people. The goal is to standardize
how doctors interact with and treat patients and to improve the quality
of care, officials say.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 24
Columbus-area high-school students pledged to try baking cupcakes and
making fliers to persuade their peers to register to vote for the presidential
election.
"It's the little cheesy things that stick in your mind,'' said Patrick
Klein, a sophomore at Ohio State University who was advising
the students and who participates in OSU's John Glenn Institute for Public
Service and Public Policy, which encourages public service among citizens.
The institute co-sponsored yesterday's event.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 27
For a while, the scales of pretend justice tilted heavily against hip-hop
at Ohio State University last night. Luckily for the hat-turned-backward,
throwback-jersey-wearing, booty-licious crowd, along came the surprise
witness: an old-school DJ from back in the day. Testimony from Mix Master
Ice, formerly of U.T.F.O., was the closest thing to drama during the mock
trial, part of the 2004 African-American Heritage Festival, which is being
held all week on campus.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 12
Jacqueline Jones Royster’s Profiles of Ohio Women:
1803-2003 features 200 talented women, pioneers in their fields, with
deep-rooted Ohio connections. Royster, an English professor at
Ohio State, wrote the book in collaboration with the Ohio Bicentennial
Commission, the Ohio Women's Advisory Council and Ohioana Library Association.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 3
Size isn't the only factor in determining how easily an address number
can be read. Illumination, contrast and design also are involved, said
two vision experts at Ohio State University. James Sheedy and
Gregory Good of the College of Optometry were interviewed for
the article.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 4
Jane Martin, horticulturist with the Ohio State University Extension-Franklin
County, discussed how the cooler temperatures are affecting outdoor flowers.
The Columbus Dispatch
April 7
What do you get when you put a chemist, a psychologist and a food scientist
in the same lab? Ideally, the perfect Oreo cookie. The mass-produced sandwich
cookie has to taste, smell and crunch the same whether it’s sold
in California or Connecticut. Consumers demand it, said Ohio State
University food-science professor Jeannine Delwiche, whose specialty
is sensory science. A relatively new field, sensory science aims to measure
and quantify how people perceive the taste, smell, texture and appearance
of food. The OSU Sensory Science Group was founded in November 2000.
The Columbus Dispatch
March 31
Bruce W. Tuckman, an Ohio State University professor of philosophical,
psychological and comparative studies who has been studying time
management for 40 years, was interviewed for an article about time management.
Four years ago Tuckman started teaching a time-management class at OSU.
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