Classified Senate names Rhonda Wallace Employee of the Month for October 2020 Published: February 3, 2021 Author: Staff reports
Classified Senate has named Rhonda Wallace, administrative specialist for the departments of Primary Care and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine in the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Employee of the Month for October 2020.
This recognition is Classified Senate’s way of awarding those employees who have shown outstanding individual achievement and performance of their jobs, while inspiring and supporting the achievement of others.
Criteria for selection include:
Productivity and commitment to quality;
Initiative and taking on additional responsibilities
Wallace was nominated by Marilyn Maher and Shawn Kerger with additional details from Michelle Bobo. The following is a sample of the comments made about Wallace in the nomination:
OHIO recognizes three 2020 Konneker Medal recipients Published: January 25, 2021 Author: Staff reports Ohio University The Konneker Medal for Commercialization and Entrepreneurship.
Two alumni and one former faculty member have been awarded the Konneker Medal for Commercialization and Entrepreneurship. Amanda Epp ‘07, Alan Schaaf ’10, and Lawrence Lynn were selected for the 2020 recognition.
The Ohio University Foundation established the Konneker Medal for Commercialization and Entrepreneurship to recognize current and former faculty members or students who have demonstrated excellence in innovation, invention, commercialization and entrepreneurship. The award is named in honor of Wilfred Konneker, an OHIO alumnus with a distinguished record in research and entrepreneurship. The maximum number of allowed awardees per year is three and has not been met before this year.
OHIO professors advance international astronaut and space biology research Published: January 20, 2021 Author: Staff reports
Ohio University faculty are part of a team of researchers who have published a special compilation of papers that is being described as the largest set of astronaut and space biology data ever produced.
Nathaniel Szewczyk, Ph.D., professor of molecular medicine at the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Sarah Wyatt, Ph.D., professor of environmental and plant biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, coauthored six of 29 papers recently published by NASA in a special compilation of
Cell Press journal articles called “The biology of spaceflight.” The OHIO researchers are among more than 200 investigators from dozens of academic, government, aerospace and industry groups to contribute to the articles.