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http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/icerosetta.htm

Lonnie Thompson is one cool dude.

Discovery of 1,800-year-old "Rosetta Stone?"for Tropical Ice Cores

Two annually dated ice cores drawn from the tropical Peruvian Andes reveal Earth's tropical climate history in unprecedented detail -- year by year, for nearly 1,800 years.

Researchers at The Ohio State University retrieved the cores from a Peruvian ice cap in 2003, and then noticed some startling similarities to other ice cores that they had retrieved from Tibet and the Himalayas. Patterns in the chemical composition of certain layers matched up, even though the cores were taken from opposite sides of the planet.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson[/SIZE][/FONT]

In the April 4, 2013 online edition of the journal Science Express, they describe the find, which they call the first annually resolved "Rosetta Stone" with which to compare other climate histories from Earth's tropical and subtropical regions over the last two millennia.

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The Thompsons have drilled ice cores from glaciers atop the most remote areas of the planet?the Chinese Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, Kilimanjaro in Africa, and Papua Indonesia among others --to gauge Earth's past climate. Each new core has provided a piece of the puzzle, as the researchers measured the concentrations of key chemicals preserved in thousands of years of accumulated ice.
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http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...widows-gift-to-help-veterans-and-herself.html
Sad but inspiring story about a current OSU law student paying it forward:

Widow?s gift to help veterans, and herself

On April 7, 2007, an insurgent detonated a 500-pound explosive buried in the road beneath the truck in which Jon Grassbaugh was riding in Zaganiyah, Iraq. He and three other soldiers were killed.

Widowed at 22, Jenna Grassbaugh struggled through her grief, trying to find a balance between holding on and moving on.

Nearly six years later, she thinks she has found a fitting way to move forward: The second-year law student at Ohio State University has donated $250,000 (half of her husband?s life-insurance benefit) to the Moritz College of Law to fund an effort to help veterans.

On April 5, the college will announce the Capt. Jonathan D. Grassbaugh Veterans Project, through which law students, aided by professional lawyers, will provide legal assistance to veterans returning from deployment.

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Ohio State is launching a campaign to try to match her donation ? for a total of $500,000.
That would provide more than 2,00
0 hours of legal help in the 2013-14 academic year. The idea is for students to work under the supervision of lawyers.
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Kudos to the USO and Tampa Bay Rays!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b...ise-return-rays-game-disguised-085858272.html

*video in link*

Deployed dad makes surprise return ? disguised as catcher while daughter throws first pitch

This one might get you misty: Nine-year-old Alayna Adams threw out the first pitch before Thursday's Tampa Bay Rays-Boston Red Sox game. She was told she'd been selected by the U.S.O. for the honor, partially because her father, Lt. Col. Will Adams, had been deployed overseas in Afghanistan for most of the past two years.
Before Alayna threw her pitch, a message from Dad played on the video board, saying he'd see her soon. Indeed he would.
Because it turned out the whole thing was a ruse orchestrated by the U.S.O and the Rays. Lt. Col. Will Adams was, in fact, dressed in catcher's gear, crouching behind home plate, awaiting the throw from his daughter.
When he caught the ball and flipped up the catcher's mask, Alayna looked at him for a second, realized what's going on, ran full speed toward him and launched herself into his arms.
Dana Adams, Will's wife and Alayna's mom, didn't know about the surprise either. Soon, she joined them in tears.
"I thought it was a dream," Alayna said a few innings later, when the family was interviewed on TV.
"I had no idea," Dana added.
According to a report from the Tampa Bay Times, Lt. Col. Adams arrived on Wednesday and stayed in a hotel that night to keep up the surprise. He told the Times:
"That was the hardest part. Being back home and not being able to see them."
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Dad's return would have been memorable anyway it happened, but this sure had style points. And it made a lot more people tear up.
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JEEEEEGS!

http://cancer.osu.edu/mediaroom/rel...ion-To-New-Cancer-Hospital-At-Ohio-State.aspx

The Coughlin family who own JEGS Automotive Inc., one of the largest and most successful automotive equipment companies in the nation and a record-breaking racing team, recently made a $10 million gift to The Ohio State University Foundation to help transform cancer treatment and research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center ? Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC?James).
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During its June 7 meeting, The Ohio State University Board of Trustees recognized the gift and approved naming the main first-floor lobby of the new James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in honor of the JEGS Foundation.
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The Coughlin family ? including Jeg Coughlin Sr. and sons John, Troy, Mike, and Jeg Jr. ? said they were inspired to make the donation to help those whose lives have been touched by cancer.
Jeg Coughlin Sr. of Delaware, Ohio said he hopes that the family?s gift ? and seeing the JEGS Foundation name and the pizzazz of having the racing organization represented in the lobby ? will inspire others to give back.
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Previously, the family had donated $15 million to cancer research at Ohio State and Nationwide Children?s Hospital, including funding the Jeg Coughlin Chair in Cancer Research at the OSUCCC?James, currently held by Maura Gillison, MD, PhD, a leading expert in the study of human papilloma virus (HPV) and oral cancer.
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:cheers: to one of the nation's great research library systems!

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#7 Among Public University Libraries
OSUL Retains Top 10 Status in ARL Rankings
[FONT=Arial,Arial][FONT=Arial,Arial]Each fall, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) releases its Expenditures Index (annual ranking of the ARL libraries). In the latest rankings, The Ohio State University Libraries remained in the top 10 among public university libraries at #7, down slightly from last year?s #5 ranking. This is the second year in a row OSUL has ranked in the Top 10. Among all 125 ARL member libraries, OSUL ranked #17. A more detailed breakdown of the rankings will be included in next week?s [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Arial][FONT=Arial,Arial]NewsNotes.
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http://www.arlstatistics.org/about/arl_index

Harvard and Yale have been 1-2 probably forever, with scUM moving back into the top-5 the past few years. Penn State, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin are also regulars in the top-20, with Indiana just behind. The next Ohio school on the list is UC at #72.
 
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Another reason why Ohio State matters for all the citizens of Ohio in ways that Fredo et al can never approach.

On top of our $2.5B endowment, we have a roughly $1 billion untied investment fund. We're considering allocating $100MM for venture capital and economic development use to benefit the state.

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2013/08/ohio-state-considering-100m.html

While other schools are more focused on bankrupting themselves with grandiose building plans and delusions of glory that will never come to pass and that the state will soon have to bail out those dreams of glory and while one fixates on educating kids from the Chicago suburbs who got Shaq'd by the University of Illinois admissions department, THE Ohio State University is out there actually trying to make the state of Ohio and her citizens better off and putting her money behind her words (unlike Roderick McDonald at OU who puts his mouth where he thinks the money is). Consider that the next time you bitch about our political influence.
 
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