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Professor Jeffrey Bielicki co-authored a paper that has been accepted by the peer-reviewed journal Energy. The article, written with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, shows systems that generate electricity from geothermal heat can take advantage of a circulation of fluids that automatically develops between the surface and the subsurface. Carbon dioxide produces a stronger and more vigorous circulation than does brine — the fluid that is typically used in geothermal electricity applications. As a result, the energy in this flowing carbon dioxide can be more readily converted into electricity. » Click here to see an animated video of the "thermoshiphon" effect.

Dr. Trevor Brown’s book “Complex Contracting: Government Purchasing in the Wake of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Deepwater Program” has won the Section on Public Administration Research (SPAR) annual book award for public administration scholarship. The SPAR Book Award Selection Committee said the book's “important research, high-quality writing, will have a significant and lasting contribution to the public administration literature, with strong impact on the practice of public administration.” Brown and his co-authors, Matthew Potoski, University of California, Santa Barbara, and David M. Van Slyke, Syracuse University, will be presented their award at the the 2014 ASPA conference in Washington, DC.» Click here to learn more about the book "Complex Contrating."

Two Glenn School MPA students —Shanell Davis and Donald Wiggins — are on a team with two Knowlton School of Architecture students and a City and Regional Planning student who made it to the final four of HUD’s inaugural Innovation in Affordable Housing competition. The Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition is a new HUD initiative to encourage research and innovation in affordable housing, to raise practitioner and future practitioner capacity, and to foster cross-cutting team-work within the design and community development process. » Click here to learn more about the competition

Professor Caroline Wagner has an article titled “The Price of Big Science: Saturation or Abundance in Scientific Publishing?” in the inaugural edition of Policy and Complex Systems, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal. » Click here to download a copy the journal

The United States Senate confirmed Kathryn Sullivan, former director of the Battelle Center at the Glenn School, as under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere. She is the tenth administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s top science agency for climate, oceans, and the atmosphere. » Click here to learn more

Professor Neal Hooker was a guest on WOSU’s All Sides with Ann Fisher discussing the nutrition labels proposed by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. » Click here to listen to the program

Dr. Trevor Brown and Glenn School doctoral candidate Rudy Hightower provided their expertise to a WCMH-TV news story on Ukraine. Brown has served as the U.S. project manager for the Parliamentary Development Project, a U.S. Agency for International Development funded organization that provides technical assistance to the Ukrainian parliament. Hightower, a retired naval intelligence officer, was most recently in Ukraine in Dec. 2013 and witnessed the occupation of Independence Square in Kiev by anti-Yanukovych protesters. » Click here to see the broadcast

In a blog posting for Ohio State’s Food Innovation Center, Professors Jill Clark and Neal Hooker look at the Food and Drug Administration’s major food policy proposals to amend serving sizes and update the Nutrition Facts panel found on packaged foods. » Click here to read the post

Professor Jill Clark was interviewed by Australia’s public radio station, ABC, regarding the alternative agrifood movement while she was in Port Macquarie giving an invited talk for the Australian Agriculture and Resource Economics Society. » Click here to hear the interview

Dr. Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech presented testimony to the Ohio House Public Utilities Committee on Wed., Feb. 26th, 2014 at the Ohio Statehouse. The hearing was to consider the adoption of Bill H.C.R. 43 to establish a sustainable energy abundance plan for Ohio, including exploring the development of new nuclear reactors and using different radioactive fuels, such as Thorium. Schuelke-Leech discussed the implications for national security and economic competitiveness for the United States, as well as for the global nuclear governance structures and standards.

Dr. Josh Hawley, director of the Ohio Education Research Center and an associate professor at the Glenn School, will serve as principal investigator on $949,000 project to evaluate the professional development needs of early learning and development professionals to provide appropriate learning environments for the socio-emotional development, cognitive, language and literacy learning, as well as physical development needs of children from birth till they enter kindergarten. The grant, from the Ohio Department of Education, was awarded to a team of researchers from The Ohio Education Research Center. » Click here to learn more

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