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CEM at Columbus City Schools’ Innis Elementary for Annual “Science Day”

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This wDSC08854eek the CEM mobilized a total of 45 volunteers to go to Innis Elementary school in Columbus, Ohio,  including undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff. About 450 students benefited from the program, with such demos as Energy Bike, Crystalline Snowflakes, Chemistry Show, Helicopters and Autorotation, How Does My Computer Work, and many others.

The program PI is CEM professor Nandini Trivedi (IRG-1), with staff support by Michelle McCombs and Erin Rinehart, and onsite coordination by Innis Elementary Teacher Theresa Barber.DSC08787 - crop

CEM Kicks Off 2015 Science Sunday Lecture Series, Hosts Dr. Jeff Childress (HGST)

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Science Sundays, a free lecture series open to the public, provides a wide range of current and emerging topics and issues in science that touch our everyday lives. Speakers are experts in their fields from on campus and around the world with experience in making their topics interesting and accessible for audiences of all ages, with or without a science background.

CEM kicked off this year’s program by hosting Dr. Jeff Childress, Research Director at HGST (a Western Digital company in San Jose, California). His talk, “Science and technology of data storage,” was widely attended at the Ohio Union and well-received. Childress articulated the needs and mechanics of data storage throughout our information age with hands-on hard drives, meaningful analogies and visual aids, history, humor, and science. The Science Sundays schedule is available at http://artsandsciences.osu.edu/research/science-sundays

Kawakami to Host Mini-Workshop: Spin Pumping in Magnetic Heterostructures

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Thursday, June 4th from 10:00am – 2:30pm, CEM’s Prof. Roland Kawakami will host a mini-workshop on Spin Pumping in Magnetic Heterostructures. It will feature talks by external speakers Paul Crowell and Michael Flatte, in addition to talks from OSU speakers Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Fengyuan Yang, and Chris Hammel.  The workshop will take place in the Smith Seminar Room, 1080 PRB. A link to the schedule is included here. Questions should be directed to Jamie Mollison (administrator) or host Roland Kawakami.

Volunteer at Science Day

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We need your help!Science Day 2015

Science Day at Innis Elementary
Thursday, May 7, 2015
8:00AM-11:00AM or 12:00PM- 3:00PM

CEM is in need of 50+ volunteers to participate in Science Day- a field day devoted entirely to science at Innis Elementary School on May 7th, 2015.

  • It’s really fun!
  • Make a difference at an inner-city school
  • Promote STEM to future scientists
  • CEM students and faculty are requested to participate in outreach annually

Stations include but are not limited to: silly putty, water rockets, lasers and gummy bears, paper airplanes, geodesic domes, bubbles and surface tension, germs, bugs, and more!

Volunteer opportunity is open to all at OSU. To sign up, please email Alex Reed(.1028).