Month: November 2016

Presidential Fellowship Winner!

From the Desk of Thomas Magliery:

 

Please join me in congratulating Austin Raper for receiving a Presidential Fellowship in the Spring 2016 competition.  The Presidential Fellowship, the highest award given by the Graduate School for outstanding scholarship, supports the fellow in the final year of dissertation work.  Only 24 of OSU’s over 10,000 graduate students are recognized in each biannual competition.

Austin was a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Mount Union in Biochemistry, and he started at Ohio State in 2013.  Austin joined the lab of Zucai Suo in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.  He studies mechanisms of DNA damage tolerance and repair while pioneering new applications of single molecule techniques.

Congratulations, Austin!

Outreach Opportunity!

 

Are you interested in boosting your resume/CV with valuable outreach/teaching experience? Adding some diversity to your graduate school activities? Looking for a fun way to give back to the community?

Come join us in helping students at our local Hilltonia Middle School learn about fundamental scientific concepts, while performing fun and interactive activities! We currently have two events planned in December we are recruiting volunteers for, Friday, December 9th and another TBD but most likely Wednesday, December 14th. 

The time commitment is extremely flexible with these events! Sessions are held both in the morning and early afternoon, and only last about an hour each. So if you are considering volunteering but only available for a short time, attending for part of the day, even just 1 session, is certainly an option!

Also, if you are a CLSE TA, we have partnered with Judy Ridgeway to offer 5001 points for volunteering, a great way to make up some of those last minute points!

If you are interested or what more information, please respond to the OSBP contact, Effie Miller (miller.8028@osu.edu) or the MCDB contact, Daniel Del Valle  (delvallemorales.1@gmail.com), by Friday December 2nd. We will also be offering an optional session in BioSci (time TBA) on that same Friday to go over the activities and discuss any questions you might have as first time or returning volunteers!

Thank you!

Volunteer Opportunity!

Hello fellow science lovers!

Horizon Science Academy Columbus High School is looking for judges for our annual STEM fair on Saturday November 19, 2016.  Our schools is located at 1070 Morse Rd in Columbus. Judges should arrive at 8:30am and be finished about noon. We are looking for scientists, educators, and engineers. Come join us and have some science fun with the future minds in science and engineering. If you are interested, please fill our the google form at the link below.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact Jamie Doup by email:doup@horizoncolumbus.org.

Qualifications:
18 +, College degree (or in college), doesn’t have to be a science major

Incentives:
Breakfast, coffee, gift, & encouraging science minds.

If you know anyone who would be interested in judging please forward my email to them.  If you are associated with a student group who has a newsletter or other form of events communication please pass this along.

Thank you!

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Ms. Jamie Doup

STEM Coordinator  (Room 110)

Head of the Science Department

Scientific Research and Design Teacher

Horizon Science Academy Columbus High School

614-846-7616 ext. 1102