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[ORD_Buckeye]

Thompson Named One Of Time's "Heroes Of The Environment"

Thompson, a distinguished university professor of earth sciences, was highlighted in the magazine?s October 6 issue as one of six scientists and innovators who are key to addressing global climate change.

Thompson, also an alumnus, is a National Academy of Sciences member and has been awarded the Tyler and Heineken Prizes (generally considered the "Nobels Prizes of earth sciences) and the National Medal of Science.

[Steve19]

Originally Posted by ORD_Buckeye

OHIO STAT ALUM NAMED TO WORLD BANK OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21906171~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~the SitePK:4607,00.html

Crocker (BA 1963) was also a finalist for the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in authoring the United Nations Namibian Peace Plan in the late 80s.

I met Crocker at a university function back in the late 80s or early 90s. He brightened considerably when I said I was from Columbus but I don't remember him saying that he was an Ohio State alum.

[ORD_Buckeye]

Research center to free chemistry from Earth's bonds

Research center to free chemistry from Earth's bonds

The Center forges a unique research collaboration among leading scientists in the field of astrochemistry from the University of Arizona, The Ohio State University, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and a group of chemists and physicists at the University of Virginia engaged in research to understand the fundamentals of chemical reactions.

[ORD_Buckeye]

Viet Nguyen, 28, was the first in his family to attend college and carried his relatives' hopes with him. Chris Sahm, 29, launched Saks Fifth Avenue's co-branded MasterCard credit card program and mentored troubled youngsters. Micah Springer, 23, survived cancer as a child, graduated from Ohio State University at the top of his class in aerospace engineering and was working on a Ph.D. and an MBA simultaneously.


Those are just the barest outlines of the promise-filled lives that were lost when the three students from the Stanford Graduate School of Business plunged off winding Highway 1 in a Jeep Friday night and fell some 600 feet to their deaths. They were on their way to a student retreat in Big Sur.

... After his accomplishments at Ohio State, Springer was focusing his engineering work on nanomaterials for biomedical applications. He hoped to use his MBA to ''bridge the disconnect between scientific technology and the real world,'' creating companies focused on cancer treatment, Bolton said.

[Buckeye513]

New solar tech is over the rainbow | News | TechRadar UK

Ohio State University chemists have created a new material that could revolutionise photovoltaic solar panels.

Today's solar cell materials are sensitive to only a limited range of frequencies, so they can only capture a small fraction of the energy contained in sunlight.

The new hybrid material - an electrically conductive plastic combined with metals including molybdenum and titanium - is the first that is sensitive to all the colours in the rainbow, allowing it to absorb all the energy contained in visible light at once.

Not only is the hybrid material more sensitive than normal solar panels, it also generates much more charge (more free electrons) than the researchers were expecting.

[jimotis4heisman]

OSU's still THE giant (The E-Team)

OSU's still THE giant

Ohio State's main campus has kept its place as the largest in the nation.
Here's what Ohio State said about it:
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For the third consecutive year, the Ohio State University is the nation’s largest university. New autumn quarter enrollment figures show the Columbus campus has the nation’s highest enrollment with 53,715 undergraduate, graduate and professional students.
Enrollment at all Ohio State campuses (Columbus, Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster) set a new record this year at 61,568, up two percent over autumn 2007. The previous record for enrollment was 60,589 in autumn 1991.

Enrollment at the Columbus campus increased by more than two percent (1,147) students, and surpasses main campus student enrollment at other large universities such as Arizona State University at Tempe (52,734), the University of Florida at Gainesville (51,413), the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities (51,140), and the University of Texas at Austin (50,006).
The increase in enrollment was driven by higher student retention and more students transferring to Ohio State.
“Ohio State grows stronger each year, extending educational opportunities in keeping with our public mission and purpose,” said President Gee. “We are enrolling increasingly qualified students, who thrive and graduate in record number.”
As Ohio State students have become better prepared academically, more are staying in school and graduating. In 1994, 78 percent of freshman stayed to their sophomore year. The freshmen from 2007 returned to Ohio State this fall at a record retention level of 92.8 percent. Retention of sophomores and juniors has also increased dramatically.
Ohio State’s first-year class of 6,041students (Columbus campus), recruited from nearly 22,000 applicants, is the most talented and best-prepared in the university’s history in terms of test scores and class rank, continuing a trend that began 14 years ago. The average ACT score for the class was 27.3; the average SAT score was 1225. More than half were in the top 10 percent of their high school class and more than 90 percent were in the top 25 percent of their class. Approximately 19 percent are first generation students.
Diversity across the university remained nearly steady, with students of color accounting for 14.7 percent of the 2008 freshman class, and 13.9 percent of the total university enrollment. For the second consecutive year, there was a record high enrollment of Hispanic students (1,519). There were also record high enrollments of Asian or Pacific Islander students (2,968). Enrollment of African American enrollment remained nearly steady with 3,852 students, and enrollment of American Indian/Alaskan Native students increased by 4.9 percent to 237.
Enrollment figures also show a record high number of undergraduates (47,751), male undergraduates (25,100), and female undergraduates (22,651), with 49.1 percent of the entire student body comprised of women and 50.9 percent comprised of male students.
Approximately 80 percent (49,641) of students are from Ohio. Thirteen percent (7,991) are from other states, territories or are U.S. students living in foreign countries. International students comprise about six percent of the student body.
Enrollment of international students also increased nearly 8 percent to 3,936, with the highest numbers coming from the People’s Republic of China (977), Republic of Korea (731), India (717), Taiwan (229), and Canada (113).
Additional facts include:
* Students come from all 88 Ohio counties, and all 50 states/territories, including the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
* The number of students from Ohio increased 1.2 percent to 49,641. The number of students from other states increased 4.6 percent to 7,991.
* On the Columbus campus, minority populations account for 15.2 percent of the first-year class and 14.4 percent of the overall enrollment.
* Regional campus enrollment: Lima increased 5.1 percent to 1,409; Mansfield, down .05 percent to 1,545; Marion increased 2.4 percent to 1,673; Newark decreased 1.3 percent to 2,472; and Wooster increased 0.8 percent to 754.
* There were record highs set in total undergraduate enrollment, up 2.5 percent to 47,751; and professional enrollment, up .07 percent to 3,284. There was also an increase in graduate enrollment, up 1.3 percent to 10,533.
The entire enrollment report can be found here.

[ORD_Buckeye]

Ohio State pharmacy professor named to Institute of Medicine

News Room - The Ohio State University

A longtime scholar and educator in Ohio State University's College of Pharmacy is the first pharmacist from Ohio, and one of fewer than 10 pharmaceutical scientists nationally, to be elected a member of the Institute of Medicine, one of the National Academies.

Including Nahata, 23 Ohio State faculty currently serve as members of one of the national academies: the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences or the National Academy of Engineering. Nahata is among four IOM members at Ohio State.

To put the last paragraph in perspective, Case has 14 National Academy members on faculty.

[Apache]

Just think how amazing the human mind has become. Just think that there are human beings who think at this level. I am a relatively intelligent human being, but those who are listed here in this post far surpass even my imagination. I have read the "The Brief History of Time" numerous times. I still do not understand all of the concepts in that publication. One of my hobbies is trying to comprehend astrophysics. Perhaps one day I will have a grasp of these dynamics.

Something to Ponder: Origin of the Universe - What's the Latest Theory?

When it comes to the origin of the universe, the "Big Bang Theory" and its related Inflation Universe Theories (IUTs) are today's dominant scientific conjectures. According to these interrelated notions, the universe was created between 13 and 20 billion years ago from the random, cosmic explosion (or expansion) of a subatomic ball that hurled space, time, matter and energy in all directions. Everything - the whole universe -- came from an initial speck of infinite density (also known as a "singularity"). This speck (existing outside of space and time) appeared from no where, for no reason, only to explode (start expanding) all of a sudden. Over a period of approximately 10 billion years, this newly created space, time, matter and energy evolved into remarkably-designed and fully-functional stars, galaxies and planets, including our earth.

Here's what the experts are saying about the origin of the universe:

NASA: "The universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions."
(http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy...se/b_bang.html)

UC Berkeley: "The big bang theory states that at some time in the distant past there was nothing. A process known as vacuum fluctuation created what astrophysicists call a singularity. From that singularity, which was about the size of a dime, our Universe was born."
(Big Bang Cosmology Primer)

University of Michigan: "About 15 billion years ago a tremendous explosion started the expansion of the universe. This explosion is known as the Big Bang. At the point of this event all of the matter and energy of space was contained at one point. What existed prior to this event is completely unknown and is a matter of pure speculation. This occurrence was not a conventional explosion but rather an event filling all of space with all of the particles of the embryonic universe rushing away from each other."
THE BIG BANG)

PBS: There was an "initial explosion" of a "primordial atom which had contained all the matter in the universe."

If this is true, How did a speck have infinite mass? How did it expand to become the universe? What was time before this happened? If there is life on earth, no "intelligent life", who else is out there and how many civilizations have existed? Is there a being or power that made all of this happen?

My head hurts too much to continue.

[Apache]

Steven Hawking wrote this in an essay:

The early universe could not have been exactly homogeneous and uniform, because that would violate the Uncertainty Principle of quantum mechanics. Instead, there must have been departures from uniform density. The no boundary proposal, implies that these differences in density, would start off in their ground state. That is, they would be as small as possible, consistent with the Uncertainty Principle. However, during the inflationary expansion, they would be amplified. After the period of inflationary expansion was over, one would be left with a universe that was expanding slightly faster in some places, than in others. In regions of slower expansion, the gravitational attraction of the matter, would slow down the expansion still further. Eventually, the region would stop expanding, and would contract to form galaxies and stars. Thus, the no boundary proposal, can account for all the complicated structure that we see around us. However, it does not make just a single prediction for the universe. Instead, it predicts a whole family of possible histories, each with its own probability. There might be a possible history in which Walter Mondale won the last presidential election, though maybe the probability is low.

The no boundary proposal, has profound implications for the role of God in the affairs of the universe. It is now generally accepted, that the universe evolves according to well defined laws. These laws may have been ordained by God, but it seems that He does not intervene in the universe, to break the laws. However, until recently, it was thought that these laws did not apply to the beginning of the universe. It would be up to God to wind up the clockwork, and set the universe going, in any way He wanted. Thus, the present state of the universe, would be the result of God's choice of the initial conditions. The situation would be very different, however, if something like the no boundary proposal were correct. In that case, the laws of physics would hold, even at the beginning of the universe. So God would not have the freedom to choose the initial conditions. Of course, God would still be free to choose the laws that the universe obeyed. However, this may not be much of a choice. There may only be a small number of laws, which are self consistent, and which lead to complicated beings, like ourselves, who can ask the question: What is the nature of God? Even if there is only one, unique set of possible laws, it is only a set of equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations, and makes a universe for them to govern. Is the ultimate unified theory so compelling, that it brings about its own existence. Although Science may solve the problem of ~how the universe began, it can not answer the question: why does the universe bother to exist? Maybe only God can answer that.

The nature of God? It all blows me away.

[ORD_Buckeye]

Why is this thread being hijacked to talk about God? Aren't there numerous other threads for that?

Unless God graduated from Ohio State or has recently been appointed to its faculty, can we leave him out of here.

[ORD_Buckeye]

Getting things back on track:

Dr. D. Subbarao, Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Indiainfoline.com

[ORD_Buckeye]

Ohio State law professor a part of Obama's economic transition team.

Other advisers working on the team include Michigan State University assistant professor Lisa Cook; Ohio State University law professor Peter Shane; University of Colorado law professor Peter Weiser; Ginger Lew, CEO of the Czeck Slovak American Enterprise Fund; and Stanford University business professors Gregory Rosston and Peter Blair Henry.

Obama econ team filled with Clintonites - U.S. Politics & Elections - Politico.com - MLive.com

Not trying to make this a political thread. There's pride to be had in any professor being chosen as part of the President Elect's economic team regardless of his party.

[ORD_Buckeye]

Here's one area where I would have assumed that OU faculty might actually be better than us.

Bloomberg.com: Science

Needless to say, it opens up some interesting ideas about treating memory loss in Alzheimers patients.

[jimotis4heisman]

The Columbus Dispatch : Retired OSU professor wins rare Japanese honor

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- Retired Ohio State University professor Bradley M. Richardson, who has spent four decades building strong academic, cultural and political ties between Ohio and Japan, has received the second-highest award granted by the emperor of Japan.
Richardson was presented with a medal and proclamation signifying the Order of the Rising Sun during a luncheon here yesterday in the residence of Tamotsu Shinotsuka, consul general of Japan.
"Today is a historic moment for the Ohio and Japan relationship," Shinotsuka said, stressing the rarity of an award conferred by the emperor on foreign nationals who make significant contributions to relationships with Japan, America's staunchest east Asian ally.
Richardson, 80, professor emeritus of political science at OSU and an honorary consul general of Japan in Columbus, was joined by about a dozen family members and friends at the residence of Shinotsuka, Japan's official representative in Michigan and Ohio.
"To be honored by the country and by the leader of the country to which I've dedicated my career and my research is the best kind of honor that might exist," Richardson said.
Designated by OSU as a distinguished scholar, Richardson joined the faculty in 1965 when OSU was the principal university in the state for teaching the Japanese language. Today, 15 Ohio universities and colleges teach Japanese

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[fourteenandoh]

Originally Posted by ORD_Buckeye

Why is this thread being hijacked to talk about God? Aren't there numerous other threads for that?

Unless God graduated from Ohio State or has recently been appointed to its faculty, can we leave him out of here.

everyone knows god is a buckeye.