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Student efforts lead the world, the state
 Winning is never easy, but it certainly looks that way if you have the spirit, talent and work ethic of students who recently took top honors in international and statewide competitions.

from "The Dirt on Midea" interactive CD-ROM frames


  •  Tanks for helping
    Ten dollars at a time, CBA Honors-PLUS student Regina Schneider hopes to raise $7,000 for Women Helping Women, a local crisis intervention agency. She and DAAP design student Jaleen Francois created original tank-style shirts with an "Every 45 Seconds" logo, to increase awareness of sexual assault. -- photo/Dottie Stover

    photo: Regina Schneider

     
    In June, a Distinctive Merit certificate from New York's Art Directors Club went to seniors in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning for "The Dirt on Midea," an interactive CD-ROM virtual reality tour of life in an ancient Greek village (above). "Midea" was selected from among 13,000 submissions from 50 countries in the international professional show, which is still exhibiting in the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia. Last year, the DAAP project topped hundreds of entrants and won the Columbus International Film and Video Festival's Chris Award, its highest honor.

  • Ohio's smartest radiologic technology students come from Raymond Walters College. UC's radiology club members defeated 14 other student teams from across the state at a student quiz bowl sponsored by the Ohio Society of Radiologic Technologists at the end of last school year.

  • The author of Ohio's best history dissertation is Sanjam Ahluwalia, PhD (A&S) '01, a native of India who teaches women's studies courses, world history and Asian women's history, gender and nationalism at Northern Arizona University. The Ohio Academy of History conferred its 2002 award for "Controlling Births, Policing Sexualities: History of Birth Control in Colonial India, 1871-1946."

Seeing the light
 Chemistry professor William Connick can make photons -- single particles of light -- work twice as hard as scientists thought they could, and the National Science Foundation is rewarding his creativity with a prestigious CAREER Award for promising young faculty. This breakthrough has several possible applications, such as easier conversion of nitrogen into ammonia for fertilizer and what Connick calls "the holy grail of the future," splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel. Last year, the chemist was the first UC researcher to receive a Beckman Young Investigator Award for his photon energy research.

Link:
Read more about William Connick's work.


Rebuilding 'Ground Zero'
illustrations: plans for ground zero rebuild
Preliminary plans for rebuilding the 16-acre grounds of the World Trade Center (above) are being developed by alumnus Richard Blinder's architectural and planning firm Beyer Blinder Belle. Blinder, DAAP '59, is known for his work restoring Ellis Island, New York's Grand Central Terminal and the Ford Center for the Performing Arts on Broadway.

Chosen from proposals submitted by groups representing more than 90 architectural, engineering and planning firms, Blinder's group is working with a transportation consultant to plan land uses, including retail space, commercial office towers and several acres devoted to a memorial -- for both the 2,823 victims of Sept. 11, as well as the six who died in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and whose memorial was destroyed.

Selected by the governor's Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the team has been meeting with victims' families, area residents, business owners and the general public to develop a master plan during the first half of next year. Occupancy will not occur before 2005. --illustrations courtesy of Lower Manhattan Development Corp.

Link:
Beyer Blinder Belle Web site
Lower Manhattan Development Corp. Web site