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January 03, 2007
Our Top 20 stories from Earth to Pluto
Columbus Dispatch, January 2, 2007
Science produced headlines in 2006: The public and politicians, shocked by high gasoline prices, rediscovered alternative energy during the spring and summer. "We've been ignoring alternative energy for so long, bioethanol, and wind energy is becoming quietly competitive," said Tom Zawodzinski, a fuel cell researcher at Case Western Reserve University. Later in the article, Dan Akerib, a physicist and dark-matter researcher at Case, is quoted on the topic of dark matter, which is considered to be the glue of the universe. Read article.
December 20, 2006
Research knows no holiday
Columbus Dispatch, December 19, 2006
Many scientists who work at academic centers must squeeze their field research into a couple of months during the summer and several weeks between the end of fall classes and the beginning of winter classes. That often means working through Christmas and New Year's, and leaving loved ones behind for work. Ralph Harvey, a geologist at Case Western Reserve University, has spent 16 Christmases in Antarctica, scouring the continent for meteorites. Read article.
November 21, 2006
Picking up the pieces
The Columbus Dispatch, November 21, 2006
When Ralph Harvey scans Antarctica's icy terrain, it becomes clear just how rough-and-tumble the solar system was four billion years ago. At a minimum, the inner solar system had a rough coming-of-age moment," said Harvey, a Case Western Reserve University geologist who spends a month or so in November and December with a team that combs icy Antarctic wastes for meteorites. Read article.
November 20, 2006
OSU cancer project apparently in limbo
Columbus Dispatch, November 20, 2006
Ohio State University officials have worked for at least two years to bring a rare, expensive cancer-treatment machine to central Ohio. University President Karen A. Holbrook included a statement about particle therapy in her 2005 State of the University speech, and university leaders talked about it to state officials and doctors at other hospitals. Now, however, university leaders won't talk about the project, and uncertainty about how to pay for it might be the reason. Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Columbus Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University and Battelle were named in the 2006 Third Frontier proposals as possible partners in the Ohio State project. Read article.