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Thursday, April 15, 1999

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 Ohio University Names Vice President For Research

John "Jack" Bantle, associate dean for research in the College of Arts and Sciences at Oklahoma State University, has been named vice president for research at Ohio University. He will begin his position Sept. 1.

Bantle's responsibilities will include providing leadership for advancing and promoting the university's mission in a broad range of research activities. He also will develop and manage externally sponsored research and technology commercialization.

Since 1991, Bantle has served as associate dean for research in the College of Arts and Sciences at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla. He also is a regents professor in the university's Department of Zoology. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in biology at Eastern Michigan University, his Ph.D. in zoology and developmental biology at Ohio State University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Medical School.

For more information, please visit the University News Services Web site to read the full text of this press release.

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Notes of Interest...

• Athens radio station WOUB-AM will interview Dr. Danny Wallace and Dr. Gary Hunt at 10 a.m. today. Dr. Wallace is the Dean of the School of Library Information Science at Kent State University, and Dr. Hunt is Associate Dean for Administration, Ohio University Libraries. The event is part of National Library Week.
• A two-part panel discussion about Kosovo will feature four international politics specialists from Ohio University's Political Science Department today, and Tuesday, April 20. Part one of the panel discussion will be tonight at 7 p.m. in Room 227 of Bentley Hall, and the second part will be at 7 p.m. in Bentley 127 on April 20. The four speakers are Associate Professor Sung Ho Kim, Professor Harold Molineu, Assistant Professor Patricia Weitsman, and Associate Professor David Williams.
• Free childhood immunizations will be offered by the mobile health unit of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine according to the following schedule: April 20, from 3 to 5 p.m., Ramada Inn in Nelsonville; and April 30, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mac-N-Bec's in Albany. Free immunizations also will be provided at area kindergarten registrations as follows: Morrison, today, 8 to 11 a.m.; Chauncey, April 19, from 12:45 to 5 p.m.; Trimble, April 22, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; The Plains, April 26, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; and Coolville, April 28, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 1-800-844-2654.
• Transportation from Athens to Columbus is available. Click here for details.
• The Ohio University Calendar of Events is now available online. Visit http://redbud.cats.ohiou.edu/calendar/ to access.
  

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