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Issue 28/March, 2004

Please click on http://outreach.osu.edu/newsletterindex.html if you wish to view this newsletter in a formatted version on the web.  Please forward this newsletter to others, or forward your list serve to Barbara Millisor, Millisor.1@osu.edu and she will send it on.  You may also send names and e-mail addresses of individuals who should be added to the mailing list to Barbara Millisor, millisor.1@osu.edu.   Contributions and suggestions should be sent to Karen Bruns, bruns.1@osu.edu.

April 30^th Keynote Speaker - Francille M. Firebaugh, Vice Provost for Land Grant Affairs and Special Assistant to the President, Cornell University.

Dr. Firebaugh will give the first annual James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture at this University-wide conference.  Ohio State - The 21^st Century Model for Outreach and Engagement is the theme of the conference that will be held from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Ohio Union.  In addition to Dr. Firebaugh's presentation, there will be an address by President Holbrook, breakout sessions and poster displays featuring the innovative engagement work of units.   Register online at www.outreach.osu.edu by April 16^th.  Please forward this announcement to colleagues and encourage them to join you at the conference!

College Annual Reports.   As a part of the College Annual Reports, deans again this winter are being asked to report on their college's engagement efforts through the O&E database. http://www.osu.edu/outreachprojects/index.php.   Many of you updated your projects this fall (and the date of last update is noted on the description).   We encourage you to update or add your engagement efforts in the database, or to work with your college office to ensure that your efforts are reflected in the college's annual report.

Highlights.

Join us for the March 8^th Lunch Bunch!  Catherine Girves (community leader) and Susan Colbert (OSU Extension Agent in University District) have been partnering with community organizations on new initiatives in the district.   These include expanded credit union services, youth programming, community collaboration, and much more.  Come and learn about these new efforts and how you can become involved.  The meeting will be held at Campus Partners, 1824 North High Street   (parking is available across the street in the Ohio Union Parking Garage), 12-1:30 pm.  Bring your own brown bag lunch.  Drinks and dessert will be provided.   Please RSVP to Barbara Millisor, 688-3041, or Millisor.1@osu.edu.  

Mark Your Calendars.

IMPORTANT DATES IN MARCH. 

·          Celebration of Japan Festival.    Come and celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Celebration of Japan Festival! The festival brings together a diverse mixture of traditional and contemporary artistic traditions from the Land of the Rising Sun, including dance, music, and theater performances, visual art demonstrations, and a variety of hands-on activities to engage even the youngest festival-goers!  Admission is FREE!  More info: http://www.dublinarts.org/events/coj.html
- March 6, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Dublin High School, 4000 Hard Road, Dublin.

·          The Ohio Learning-Work Connection supported by a grant from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services is holding WIA Regional Learning Exchanges which consist of one-day regional meetings designed to allow WIA youth councils, youth service vendors, and other youth-serving organizations an opportunity to share information and promising practices with other youth practitioners in their areas.  In addition, the exchanges will feature current information about WIA reauthorization as it affects youth programming. The exchanges will be held from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm at the following locations:

        March 9, Manchester Inn & Conference Center, Middletown, OH
        March 11, Baker University Center, Ohio University, Athens, OH
        March 23, Ramada Inn, Kent OH
        March 25, Findlay Inn & Conference Center, Findlay, OH
        March 30, Center on Education and Training for Employment, OSU

For additional information about the Regional Learning Exchanges, please contact Shawn Sweeney at 614-688-5674 or sweeney.179@osu.edu or www.ohiolearningwork.org.

• Working with Youth with Disabilities.  In cooperation with PACER Center of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ohio Learning-Work Connection presents a two-day training on working with youth with disabilities in career and employment-related programs, Disability Awareness:  The Basics ADA, Legislation, and Reasonable Accommodations Family, Culture, and Disability Service Coordination.  Sessions are highly interactive and use real world examples. Cost: $75 for 2 days (includes continental breakfast and lunch both days and resource materials).  For more information, please visit: www.ohiolearningwork.org or call Mary Labelle (labelle.1@osu.edu) at  614.292.8665 or fax: 614.292.8074.  Registration deadline:  March 10, 2004.
• - March 17-18, 2004, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm, Center on Education and Training for Employment Auditorium, 1900 Kenny Road.

• The Mid Atlantic Conference on Scholarship and Diversity.  This conference will be of interest to people working in higher education in the arena of diversity and is being sponsored by Virginia Tech's Office of Continuing Education.  It will showcase diversity as a legitimate and valued area of scholarship and research, and is for those studying and/or committed to issues related to race, gender, culture, class, sexual orientation, and disability.  Registration is $60.00, and hotel rooms are being held for conference participants at a rate of $76.00 per night.  To see a preview of the agenda go to http://www.conted.vt.edu/macsd/.  For further information, please contact Kathy Lechman at 614.247.7176 or Lechman.1@osu.edu.

            - March 18-19, 2004, Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center.

 

• 2004 Midwest Research to Practice Conference.  This site will provide you with information about the Midwest Research to Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education that will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 6-8, 2004.  Many Extension and agricultural education papers have been presented at the conference in the past as well as a plethora of papers from other disciplines.  The Call for Papers deadline is March 26, 2004.  Please share this information with others you believe may be interested in sharing scholarship at the conference or attending.  For further information and to register, visit http://www.iupui.edu/~adulted/mwr2p/index.htm

http://www.iupui.edu/%7Eadulted/mwr2p/index.htm.

 

 OTHER IMPORTANT DATES:

 

·          University District Lunch Bunch.  Join us in April for "Ohio State Summer Programs for Youth."  Do you know youth who would like to be involved with Ohio State's summer programs?  If so, this Lunch Bunch session is for you.  The Ohio State P-12 program is posting this summer's programs for youth on their website http://p12.osu.edu.  Christine Murakami from the P-12 Project will talk about the website, the audience it reaches and the programs they have listed.  If you are a community member, this session will give you ideas for activities for your children, and a way to promote your youth programming.  Bring your own brown bag lunch.  Drinks and dessert will be provided.  Please RSVP to Barbara Millisor, 688-3041, or Millisor.1@osu.edu.  

- April 12, 12-1:30 pm, Campus Partners, 1824 North High Street.

 

• The Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy at The Ohio State University is co-sponsoring a conference entitled:  New Generation Resource Policy for a Region in Transition:  Land Use, Agriculture, Environment and Health in the Great Lakes Region.  This conference is funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy at OSU, and the Elton R. Smith Endowment in Food and Agricultural Policy at Michigan State University.  This is the fourth and final workshop in a series designed to examine environmental issues in the Great Lakes Region. Previous workshops dealt with environmental policy, TMDLs and Land Use Change Models.  This workshop focuses on the Great Lakes as a region in transition.  Changes in land use and land cover patterns, agriculture and the natural environment are examined within the context of their interrelationship, their implications for human health, and the opportunities to design policies acknowledging their interdependence.  The goal of this workshop is to move toward a coherent regional policy that addresses forces of change as they impact the health of individuals and communities. Visit http://www.aec.msu.edu/landuse/ for further information and to register!
• - May 12-14, 2004, Maumee Bay Resort and Conference Center, Oregon, Ohio.

Other Notices.

**OSU Reading Recovery and Early Literacy Inc. is now offering its state-of-the-art training facilities for rental. Centrally located at 807 Kinnear Road, the Literacy Collaborative Conference Center hosts groups from 5 to 120. The Conference Center features on-site technology set-up, close access to many dining and lodging options, and ample free parking. From the intimate library to the open and well- lit training room, the Conference Center's facilities will add to the

success of your next meeting. For further information, contact Clifford Whitehead Jr. at 688-4977 or visit http://www.lcosu.org.

Ohio State Outreach Links.

**Visit websites at Ohio State!  A number of colleges and units have developed their own websites related specifically to outreach and engagement initiatives, and we invite you to visit these sites to see how they impact the university as well as the community-at-large.  This month's newsletter highlights the Department of Chemistry-- http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/outreach/.

Grant Opportunities.

**The EPA invites applications for funding under the P3 Award program to support research in sustainable solutions to environmental challenges. Projects may be conducted in a wide range of categories, including agriculture, built environment, ecosystem, materials and chemicals, energy, resources and water. Approximately $500,000 is expected to be available for 50 awards of up to $10,000 each. Institutions of higher education located in the U.S. are eligible to apply as the recipient of a grant to support teams of undergraduate or graduate students.  Application Deadline:  March 25, 2004. More information is available at: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/p3/designs_sustain_rfp.html.

**NSF, NIH and ED jointly invite proposals for research projects to improve student learning and achievement in preK-12 science or preK-12 mathematics, with an emphasis on middle and high school. Technology should be a part of the intervention or used in an essential manner in the analysis of the intervention.  Application Deadline:  The categories of proposers identified in the Grant Proposal Guide are eligible to submit proposals, which are due April 30, 2004. Required letters of intent are due April 1, 2004; proposals are due May 10, 2004. More information is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04553

**The National Telecommunications and Information Administration invites applications for funding under the Technology Opportunities Program. This program supports funding demonstrations of new telecommunications and information technology applications for the provision of educational, health care, or public information in the nation's public and nonprofit sectors. Approximately $12.9 million is available for awards. Cost-sharing of up to 50 percent is required. Eligible are nonprofit entities, public sector organizations and state, local and tribal governments.   Application Deadline:  April 27, 2004. More information is available at:  http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/04-3296.htm.   To assist potential applicants with proposal development for the current $30 million solicitation, the Advanced Technology Program will hold several mini-conferences around the country during the first week of March. Sites for the 3-hour workshops include: Atlanta (March 1), Boston (March 3), Chicago (March 5), Dallas (March 1), Gaithersburg (March 9), Los Angeles (March 5), and Seattle (March 3). More information is available at: http://www.atp.nist.gov/atp/proposers.htm

**NSF invites proposals for Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program, which seeks to establish innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. Approximately $30.8 million is expected to be available for 38 awards of up to $3 million per award over five years. Only academic institutions in the U.S., its territories or possessions that grant the Ph.D. degree in the sciences and engineering may submit proposals. Application Deadline:   Required preliminary proposals are due April 29, 2004; full proposals, which are by invitation only, will be due Oct. 29, 2004. More information is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf04550

**The Lemelson-MIT Program for Invention and Innovation supports InvenTeams, which are formed by high school students, their teachers and industry mentors for the purpose of inventing something of value for their school or local communities. Grants of up to $10,000 each are awarded annually to teams under the supervision of science, mathematics or technology teacher applicants. Teachers from public, private, charter and vocational programs are eligible. Application Deadline:   May 7, 2004. More information is available at: http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/InvenTeam/info.html

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Barbara Wells Millisor

Program Assistant

University Outreach and Engagement

The Ohio State University

5066 Smith Laboratory

174 West 18th Avenue

Columbus, OH  43210

614.688.3041

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millisor.1@osu.edu