SCHEDULE
Seminars are 11:00AM to noon on Friday
Kottman 244 / Fisher 121

March 23: Agricultural and Plant Proteomics in South Africa
Bongani Ndimba, Specialist Researcher ARC; Associate Professor UWC; National Contact Point - EU FP7

March 30 No Seminar

April 6: Enological Research Leading to Improved Ohio Wines and an Expanding Grape-Wine Industry
Todd Steiner, Director of the Ohio State University Enology Program, Dept. Horticulture and Crop Science, OARDC, Wooster, OH

April 13: The Effect of Pesticides and Pesticide Combinations on Honey Bees
Reed Johnson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Entomology, OARDC, Wooster, OH

April 20: Commission on Pathways through Graduate School and Into Careers – A Graduate School Initiative
Angela Brintlinger, Associate Professor of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Literatures, Columbus, OH

April 27: Title TBA
Erich Grotewold, Professor, Plant Biotechnology Center and Dept. Horticulture and Crop Science, Columbus, OH (biosci.ohio-state.edu/pcmb/osu_pcmb/faculty_sites/Erich/index.html)

May 4: Title TBA
Ann Salimbene, Assistant Dean for Administration, Ohio State University Graduate School, Columbus, OH

May 1: Natural Resource Research and Monitoring at Cleveland Metroparks
1 Terry Robison, Manager of Field Research, Cleveland Metroparks, 4500 Valley Parkway, Fairview Park, OH

May 18: Fitness effects of gene flow from transgenic crops to their wild relatives
Allison Snow, Professor, Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (biosci.ohio-state.edu/~asnowlab/home.html)

May 25: The Changing Domestic and International Landscape for Agricultural Biotechnology and Biosafety
Gregory Jaffe, Director, Biotechnology Project Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, DC

June 1: Intellectual Property Creation at OSU, Seeking Patents, and Partnering with OBIC
Kenneth Anderson, Program Director, Ohio BioProducts Innovation Center, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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If you are going to be here for the quarter to semester switch (Summer, 2012) you are a transition student, here’s what you should be doing now:

1. Get those science and math GEC’s done before the conversion if you’ve been putting them off.  The courses will be longer with more material covered under semesters.  That goes for any other course you’ve been dreading.
2. If you are thinking you might want to switch to one of the Sustainable Plant Systems specializations and have not taken biology yet, take Biol 113.  Biol 101 and Pl Bio 101 will not count in the new major.
3. Start preparing yourself mentally for taking FIVE 3 hour courses a semester instead of THREE 5 hour classes.  A common mistake for students moving from quarters to semesters is to not take enough classes. You’ll need a minimum of 121 hours to graduate under semesters, so if all courses were done under semesters that’s 121÷ 8 = 15.1 hrs/semester.
4. You will most likely have classes all 5 days a week.  It will be harder to schedule those Mondays and Fridays off.
5. About half of your courses will meet only on M, W, F and the other half of your courses only on Tu and Th so if you miss a M and/or W, you’ll miss 1/3 to 2/3 of those M,W, F courses.