PublicAddressThe newsletter for alumni and friends of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University

Winter | 2012

Welcome HomeGlenn School’s Alumni Reunion Weekend

New faculty members are focused on food and energy page 8

John Glenn School of Public Affairs

School DirectorCharles Wise, Ph.D.

AdministrationMarc Protsman

Admissions and Student ServicesKathleen Hallihan, Ph.D. Director of Alumni & OutreachLisa Frericks

DirectorCaroline S. Wagner, Ph.D.Battelle Center for Science & Technology Policy

DirectorKenneth Kolson, Ph.D.Washington Academic Internship Program

Field DirectorEllie Valentine Associate Field Director

Edward RakhimkulovUkraine Parliamentary Development Project Outreach and Engagement Cindy HolodnakManagement Development Public AddressHank Wilson Director of CommunicationsHilary Carr Graduate Assistant

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As we take a moment to reflect on the past couple of months, I am very proud of where we have come from and where we are going. The

Glenn School has grown not only in student size, but in faculty as well. Our productivity rises as we embark in the areas of Energy, Food, and Health with grant awards to develop our research activities.

There are many attributes about the Glenn School that are inspiring and increase the engagement of our students, for example. We are extremely proud of one of our undergraduate students serving on the Ohio State Board of Trustees. Serving the university in this capacity and with the integrity put forth by Ms. Heidersbach, the Glenn School continues to pursue dreams of our students. We know that she has and will continue to serve with the utmost honor that defines the Glenn School. In conjunction with other university student groups, the Glenn School participated an evening to remember at the Election Night Extravaganza. Through student involvement and sincere dedication, this proved to be a night of excitement for all who attended. As the Glenn School extends its reach into the community, we see our graduate students appreciate and disseminate knowledge gained through their internship experiences. As you will read, one student describes her experience as helpful in connecting what is learned in the classroom to practical work-life.

With high productivity of our faculty members, we begin to see the research conducted being applied in the workforce. The Glenn School is proud to exhibit just a couple of our faculty’s accomplishments thus far in this issue of Public Address. Whereas, Professor Jill Clark discusses her grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture; Professor Craig Boardman elaborates on his new book to be shelved in the White House; Professor Noah Dormady’s award for outstanding economic analysis; Professor Trevor Brown to add a Navy research grant; and Professor Anand Desai’s productive research on simulations.

As our alumni base continues to grow rapidly, we are encouraged to see them succeed in life. We at the Glenn School are truly inspired and excited to offer the outstanding alumnus award to a member of the family whose achievements stand out. The award, given during our first Alumni Reunion Weekend, begins on page 10, and continues to describe what makes the Glenn School such a wonderful home away from home.

Letter from the Director

Charles Wise, Ph.D. Director John Glenn School of Public Affairs

Letter from the directorGlenn School Director Dr. Charles Wise talks about events in and around the school.

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On the board Evann Heidersbach serves as undergraduate student trustee on Ohio State Board of Trustees.

Summer internships Students get a chance to network and apply what they have learned in class.

Faculty achievementsNoah Dormady, Trevor Brown, Craig Boardman and Jill Clark are some of the faculty that have won awards and grants.

Model research Glenn School faculty and students develop visualizations and simulations to help understand complex problems.

Interdisciplinary interests bring new faculty to Glenn School.

Alumni reunion weekend A fun-filled and exciting three days.

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Undergraduate Program Graduate School Program

Summer internships: a chance to network and apply what students have learned in class

John Glenn School of Public Affairs student Evann Heidersbach, a fourth-year pursuing a B.A. in Public Affairs and a B.S. in Economics, currently serves as undergraduate student trustee on The Ohio State University Board of Trustees.

The board of trustees student trustee position is appointed by the governor of Ohio, and the application process starts with the submission of a personal statement.

“Selected applicants have the opportunity to meet and mingle with the current board members before an interview with the student trustee selection committee,” says Heidersbach. The committee identifies applicants, and the governor appoints the student trustee based on the committee’s suggestions.

“I was appointed as the undergraduate student trustee by Gov. Kasich for a two-year term beginning June 1, 2011,” says Heidersbach. The student trustee serves alongside community leaders on the board.

“Student trustees participate in all board activities and provide an on-campus, student perspective to board discussions,” says Heidersbach.

Serving on the board of trustees has shown Heidersbach just how important Ohio State is to the students, the city and the state, saying, “While my specific career path is yet to be determined, I know that some portion of my life — personal or professional — will include work in the public affairs arena.”

Heidersbach has been active throughout the university since her freshman year, saying, “As an undergrad, I’ve sought opportunities to immerse myself in the total ‘buckeye experience’ as

a student, athlete and involved member of the campus community.”

In addition to being a member of the women’s varsity swim team, Heidersbach has participated in Committee of 88, John Glenn Civic Leadership Council, Leadership Ohio State, NEW Leadership Ohio, LeaderShape and the executive board of the Leadership Council.

Heidersbach also spent a semester with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors through the Washington Academic Internship Program and studied at the London School of Economics over the summer.

Heidersbach is preparing to apply to M.B.A./J.D. dual-degree programs, but is also looking for job opportunities, saying, “One can never be too prepared for post-grad life!”

Heidersbach’s two-year term will be coming to a close this spring, and she encourages undergraduate students to apply for the position, saying, “It has truly been one of the most stimulating and rewarding experiences of my life and has allowed me to serve the university in ways I never could have imagined.”

Glenn School’s Heidersbach serves as undergraduate student trustee on Ohio State Board of Trustees

Evann Heidersbach

Election night extravaganzaMore than 400 students came to Woody’s Tavern in the Ohio Union to watch election results, play political trivial pursuit, listen to speakers and a few were interviewed by CNBC. The watch party was co-sponsored by the John Glenn Civic Leadership Council, the Politics, Society, and Law Scholars and OSU Votes.

Molly HildebrandHildebrand’s

community outreach internship focused on preparing for a charter school’s first day in August. Stepstone Academy, in Guidestone, Ohio, is located in Cleveland’s central

neighborhood, and Hildebrand’s duties “kind of depended on the day.” From helping the fundraiser prepare information packets and calling local businesses to preparing the narrative portion for a Public Charter Schools Grant Program application to setting up a database of enrolled students, Hildebrand’s duties varied, though she appreciated the grant experience most. “Working in the office with the families and the school administration — trying to bridge some of the gaps — was a lesson in itself,” says Hildebrand.

“It’s helpful to connect a lot of what I’m doing now to what I did over the summer,” says Hildebrand. Her goal is to become a city manager, and she currently works for the city manager’s office in Upper Arlington and for the university. She plans to take a budgeting analyst or economic development position upon graduation.

Andrew CochranCochran’s

responsibilities at the Office of Information Technology included researching, writing and building content for the new Ohio.gov website. He also worked on a mobile strategy project,

saying, “a lot of people are bringing mobile devices into the workplace without the state knowing.”

Cochran worked with a policy analyst to create an outline of things to consider when creating mobile strategy policies. “I did a ton of research on that over the summer,” says Cochran.

The suggestions were passed on to the state’s Chief Information Officer at the end of the summer.

Cochran, who has a political science background, was not familiar with information technology before working at the Department of Administrative Services, but plans to use his experiences for class projects this year, saying “[it] was not an interest before the internship position, but I think I have an interest now because I’m so familiar with the field.”

Cochran encourages students to take internship positions, saying, “you learn about stuff here [at the Glenn School], but you get to apply it out there,” and, “it’s good for making contacts and learning the hands-on stuff.”

Cochran plans to work for the state or federal government upon graduation.

Stephanie Dominick

Dominick’s experience with Help Me Grow was positive, too, saying, “I started in June, and I worked 40 hours a week in the summer, and I loved it.”

Dominick’s responsibilities

included “administrative-type duties, like transcribing conference calls.”

“I learned a lot about the program transcribing question-answer sessions,” says Dominick.

Dominick was also responsible for collecting county documents for subsidy agreements. “Each county administers the program locally. Now we’re in the process of paying all the counties who’ve submitted their documents,” says Dominick.

Domick, who has an English background, also worked on a Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program grant, and gained experience working with deadlines and word limits and has been developing skills to maintain the program’s website.

Dominick heard about the internship position through the Glenn School’s weekly email updates.

The application process can take months, according to Cochrn and Dominick, for government internships, so they encourage students to start looking for positions early in the spring semester.

Graduate students often opt to spend the summer between their first and second years at internships. Graduate students Molly Hildebrand, Stephanie Dominick and Andrew Cochran returned to their courses at the Glenn School after holding positions at Stepstone Academy, the Ohio Department of Health’s Bureau of Early Intervention Services’ Help Me Grow program and the Ohio Department of Administrative Services’ Office of Information Technology.

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Faculty News Research News

Dormady wins first-ever REMI award for outstanding economic analysis

John Glenn School of Public Affairs’ Assis-tant Professor Noah Dormady, along with two of his former col-leagues, have won the first REMI Outstanding

Economic Analysis Award in recognition of their paper, “Regional macroeconomic assessment of the Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan” published in the November 2011 issue of the journal Regional Science: Policy and Practice.

Dormady wrote the paper while a doctor-al student at the University of Southern California’s Price School of Public Policy with Adam Rose and Dan Wei.

This is the first time Regional Economic Models, Inc. has given out an award. REMI is one of the most widely used commer-cial macroeconometric modeling systems and is used by government decision-makers to test the economic effects of their policies before they’re implemented.

Brown to be on PAR’s Board of Editors

Trevor Brown has been nominated for a position to the Board of Editors of Public Admin-istration Review. PAR is a bi-monthly scholarly journal that has been

the premier journal in the field of public administration research, theory and practice for more than 60 years. PAR is the only journal in public administration that serves both academics and practitioners interested in the public sector and public sector management.

Brown wins research grant from the Navy

Professor Trevor Brown has won a grant from the U.S. Department of the Navy’s Naval Postgraduate School to further his research on contract design. The $78,000 grant provides Professor Brown the re-sources to assess how the characteristics of different goods and services and the relative bargaining strength of vendors impact whether the Department of Defense relies on fixed price or cost reim-bursement types of contracts. The results of this study will help the Department of Defense secure the best possible value when it buys goods and services. This new research will build on work Professor Brown has conducted with Yong Woon Kim, a graduate of the Glenn School’s doctoral program.

Boardman’s new book part of White House SoSP library

Dr. Craig Boardman’s new book, Cooperative Research Centers and Technical Innovation: Government Policies, Industry Strategies, and Organizational Dynam-ics has been added to the White House Office of Science and Technol-ogy Policy’s Science of Science Policy online library. The website pro-vides a central location

with news, information and research to help inform the federal government’s sci-ence management decisions. Go to the SoSP web site at, scienceofsciencepolicy.net/SoSPCentral

Faculty and Ph.D. students at the Glenn School are helping The Ohio State University’s Complexity Innovation Group explain some of the world’s most complex problems. Glenn School scholars are using two tools—simulations and visualizations—to model and depict systems that are too complex to understand by using recent developments in complexity theory.

The Complexity Innovation Group is a university-funded interdisciplinary group of Ohio State scholars that models and depicts the workings of systems in the field of complexity science. The Complexity Innovation Group includes researchers from the Wexner Medical Center, College of Engineering, College of Social Work, and anthropology and other disciplines. The Glenn School faculty members who are working on complexity problems include Dr. Anand Desai, Dr. Joshua Hawley, and Dr. Caroline Wagner of the Battelle Center for Science & Technology Policy. Several Ph.D. students are also studying complexity.

The scholars at the Glenn School are working on a particular area of complexity study: examining how simulation and visualization can help people think about complex problems. Simulation involves creating models that can explore outcomes when a complex set of variables influences the system. Visualizations are ways of presenting complex information in ways that are easy to digest. Desai explains why visualizations can help explain complex problems.

“You want to be able to provide sophisticated analyses to people who are very busy and who are subjected to a tremendous amount of information,” he says. This is a challenge that faces anyone

working in the public policy arena.Desai continues, “You can present

information in textual form, tabular form, and you can also draw pictures. Oftentimes it is much easier to absorb a lot of information if it is introduced in visual format, rather than tabular format. So then the question is, what are different ways in which you can present policy-relevant information that people will find easy to absorb?”

One common method for creating visualizations is to develop maps and layer information on the maps using colors, labels, and boundaries to show information. Another popular form of visualization is an “infographic,” created frequently to help explain information on Internet news websites. Creating visualizations is both a science and an art because it involves not only selecting the most important information to display, but also designing an image that will clearly and succinctly relay that information to viewers. Software programs designed to create certain types of visualizations help researchers create information-rich images.

Understanding complex problems takes special tools because complex problems cannot normally be understood by breaking the problem down into smaller parts.

Desai explains, “There is a complexity that cannot be understood by [only ] knowing how the components of the whole will behave. However,

from small kinds of tendencies result large outcomes and large behaviors.”

Desai mentions two examples of complex systems. We know when people clap during a performance, but clapping does not always result in a standing ovation. Some people may stand and applaud, but depending on the location of those people and whether the people can be seen by others in the audience, a few people standing may not result in a standing ovation.

Another example of a complex system is a riot or mob. “Every now and then people behave badly, but that doesn’t always yield a riot,” Desai notes. “Sometimes it just means someone threw a piece of burning paper in a trash can. Other times, that action evolves into unruly mob. … So observing individual activities doesn’t always predict how the whole will

behave.”Desai and the other scholars

working on complexity at the Glenn School hope that

their work will help them establish stronger ties

with the Complexity Innovation Group.

Glenn School faculty and students develop visualizations and simulations to help understand complex problems

Anand Desai

Jill Clark to help alleviate food deserts as part of $3.96 million project

Dr. Jill Clark will take part in a $3.96 million project that aims to en-hance food security by reconnecting farmers with consumers living in food deserts of the

United States.

The project — Building Local Govern-ment Capacity to Alleviate Food Deserts — will look at ways local government policies have helped or hindered direct linkages between producers and people living in food deserts.

“Our team will be working across the country to identify the best policy in-novations that support the local food economy and provide greater food access to communities most in need,” said Clark, whose research centers on food and agricultural system policy, planning and economic development along with sus-tainable food markets and infrastructure.

The grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will allow Clark, along with primary-investigator Samina Raja, University at Buffalo, State University Of New York, and co-investiga-tors Julia Freedgood, American Farmland Trust and Kimberley Hodgson of Cultivat-ing Healthy Places to create and provide policy tools and training to help local governments alleviate food deserts. Clark will receive more than $270,000 for her part of the project.

Keep up with the latest research from the faculty of the Glenn School by going to glenn.osu.edu/research

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The John Glenn School of Public Affairs welcomed four new faculty members this fall to focus on energy and food policy as part of The Ohio State University’s strategic plan. The university’s strategic plan outlines four core goals — Teaching and Learning, Research and Innovation, Outreach and Engagement and Resources Stewardship — as well as three discovery themes — Health and Wellness, Food Protection and Security and Energy and Environment.

Because of their research and work experience with food protection and security, Jill Clark and Neal Hooker were perfect additions to the Glenn School faculty. “Food is such a fundamental part of everyone’s life, and it’s a fundamental part of every place in the world,” says Clark. Clark has been with Ohio State since 2006 as director for the Center for Farmland Policy Innovation, and is excited to be working with students in her new position.

“As a society we have yet to make a place for [food] in government, so I think food policy is an exciting place to be as society realizes that ‘maybe we should have a department of food,’” says Clark.

“I think food is a really cool way of trying to teach a lot of different things, because we all have an opinion on food and interact with food. It’s a very accessible thing to use as a teaching tool,” says Hooker. With experience teaching across Ohio State’s campus, Hooker’s research interests include public policy, marketing and management issues within global food supply chains.

“It was my dissertation topic to look at international food trade, and through that I got really excited about how countries regulate food,” says Hooker.

While developing a food policy program at Ohio State, Hooker and Clark have been looking at other universities’ similar programs. Though food policy programs aren’t common at American universities, Hooker is particularly interested in Tufts University’s graduate food policy program in the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Hongtao Yi is a graduate of the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. With his focus on energy and environmental policy, Yi is excited to be at Ohio State because of the strategic energy and environment initiative, as well as the relevance of energy policy to this region.

“Traditionally, [energy policy] is an area that economists have done a lot of work, but we need a management perspective,” says Yi.

Noah Dormady was also hired for his experience with energy policy as well in his work in government and nonprofits. Dormady is excited to be working with the students at the Glenn School, saying, “Ohio State is on the right path forward, and I’m very happy to be part of that movement.”

“[Energy] is really a policy area that is interdisciplinary,” says Yi, “It’s so integrated that I can do so much work on it, and it’s really exciting that I can do work in this field: public administration.”

The Glenn School has plans to hire faculty members focused on Health and Wellness in the future.

Interdisciplinary interests bring new faculty to Glenn SchoolFocus on food and energy part of Ohio State’s strategic plan

JiLL CLArKProfessor Clark has a Ph.D. in geography from The Ohio State University and a master’s degree from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Clark’s research centers on food and agricultural system policy, planning and economic development, along with sustainable food markets and infrastructure. She is interested in the dynamics between urban and rural, producer and consumer, alternative and conventional, and global and local aspects of food systems. Current funded research focuses on opportunities for connecting food security and agricultural economic development policy initiatives, healthy retailing interventions,

and policy opportunities for growth of small and mid-size farms engaged in the food system.

NOAH DOrMADyProfessor Dormady received his Ph.D. in Public Policy, Planning and Development from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles. His research and teaching area is public policy, focusing on the substantive areas of energy policy and environmental policy. His work evaluates the interactions between deregulated power (electricity) markets and Coasian market-based emissions controls (cap and trade), specifically focusing

on issues of market power and oligopolistic behavior. Dormady’s work also focuses on the economic impacts and consequences of environmental and energy policies at the national and subnational levels. His research is also applied to the study of collaborative public management, specifically environmental policies governed at the regional level.

NEAL HOOKErDr. Neal Hooker is Professor of Food Policy in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. His research explores public policy, marketing and management issues within global food supply chains. He is particularly

interested in how safety, nutrition and sustainability attributes are communicated, controlled, and (where appropriate) certified. These issues require special attention when considering the policy and international trade impact on different types and sizes of firms and farms and the responses of customers, consumers and stakeholders. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, a MA from the University of British Columbia (Canada) and a BA (Hons.) from Essex University (UK).

HONGtAO yiProfessor Yi’s teaching and research interests are focused on public policy theories broadly, and energy policy and governance specifically. His work investigates the interaction patterns among policy tools for renewable energy at the state level. He also examines the motivations for local governments’ investment in energy efficiency, and whether different types of governance structures for public utilities matter for the local energy investment. In addition to policy analysis, he conducts theoretical work to uncover the sources of policy change in the energy policy arena, through studying the formation mechanisms underlying the organizational network among government agencies, energy businesses and environmental NGOs, as well as citizens. Yi earned his doctorate in Public Administration and Policy from Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University in August 2012.

20The number of core faculty members at the Glenn School.

The Glenn School’s faculty has grown from 8 in 2006 to 20 in 2012. In addition to the core faculty there are 13 courtesy appointments.

Jill Clark Noah Dormady Neal Hooker Hongtao Yi

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Alumni Reunion Weekend Alumni Reunion Weekend

Homecoming means different things to each of us, but most likely involves a return to a place that evokes fond

memories. To that end, as part of its Welcome Home initiative, the John Glenn School of Public Affairs Alumni Society board and staff have engaged in a multi-year effort to offer numerous programs and events to welcome all alumni back to the Glenn School, regardless of whether they graduated from the former schools of public administration, public policy and management or from the Washington Academic Internship Program or others.

As part of this effort, the Alumni Society board and alumni rela-tions staff of the Glenn School launched the first major homecoming weekend package in October. Plans for the weekend’s events were based in part on results from a survey of alums sent out in fall 2011. The survey showed strong support for continued education opportu-nities as well as those allowing for networking or socializing.

In an effort to provide a selection of events that would appeal to alums and fit into their busy schedules, the planning commit-tee offered a Thursday night reception at Page Hall during which Guy Worley received the Outstanding Alumni Award preceded by remarks from Mayor Michael Coleman and Senator John Glenn. Reception attendees also heard a brief recap of highlights of the

school’s growth from Director Charles Wise.To fulfill alumni request for continued learning opportunities, a

full-day leadership forum was offered on Friday and included such highlights as a keynote “Step Back from the Baggage Claim” by author Jason Barger and a lunchtime discussion with Senator and Annie Glenn moderated by PASA president Molly Hildebrand. The afternoon sessions offered a choice of two breakouts tracks, Leading Organization Change and Entrepreneurial Management.

Saturday’s big game featuring Ohio State University Buck-eyes versus the Nebraska Corn Huskers kicked off with a fabulous tailgate hosted by the Moritz College of Law and the Glenn School. Besides delicious food, attendees were treated to the sounds of the OSU Men’s Glee Club.

The reviews of all events were extremely positive; however, we still need to reach and involve more alumni in the events. The Glenn School board and staff have already begun planning next year’s events and welcome feedback from alums who attended this year’s events and those who were unable to attend. The goal is to provide those programs and events which meet the needs of our alumni. In addition to your feedback, we want and NEED your involvement. Please share your thoughts with us or get involved in planning next year’s events or in one of the other sub-committees covering student affairs, communication or philanthropy. It’s as simple as sending an email to Lisa Frericks at Frericks.12@osu.edu

We look forward to hearing from you!

Glenn School Alumni Society welcomed alumni back to campus for homecoming

Where are you from? Powell, Ohio

Why the Glenn School? The Glenn School offered me a chance to take my experiences as a teacher and look at them from a public policy perspective. I also was excited to return

home to the Ohio State and Columbus community.

Favorite Class?Legal Environment of Public Organizations

Favorite teacher?Trevor Brown

What do you want to do with your Glenn School Degree?I want to work with reform-minded nonprofit organizations to improve educational opportunities for all children.

The Glenn School’s 2012 Leadership Forum brought alumni, students and faculty together in the name of leading organizational change and entrepreneurial management. Keynote speaker and author of “Step Back from the Baggage Claim” Jason Barger opened the day with an interactive presentation encouraging community leaders to step back, reconnect with their career choice of public service and identify ways to work with purpose and gratitude.

First-year Master’s of Public Administration student Kenneth Blacks says, “The keynote speaker was excellent. He offered me a perspective of being able to reflect and step back at times.”

Breakout sessions focused on two themes, Leading Organizational Change and Entrepreneurial Management and featured national, state and local leaders, including Barbara Poppe, executive direct of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, and Louis Zacharilla, co-founder of the Intelligent Community Forum.

Lunch was shared with Sen. and Mrs. John Glenn. Interviewed by second-year Master’s of Public Administration student Molly Hildebrand, the pair discussed sharing a life together through public service and offered advice and encouragement to students and alumni.

“The lunch with Sen. and Mrs. Glenn was awesome,” says Blacks, “Their wisdom is priceless. They are a true American success!”

Throughout the day, attendees signed a Glenn School timeline with the date and stories of how they became interested in public service, and the day closed with “What Inspires You to Public Service — A Celebration of Service.”

Mari-jean SiehlPresidentJohn Glenn School of Public Affairs Alumni Society

Welcome Home Alumni reception

Mari-jean Siehl laughs as Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman talks about the time Guy Worley worked for him during the presentation of the Outstanding Alumni Award. At right, Glenn School faculty member, Jill Clark, talks with alumni during the reception at Page Hall.

Leadership Forum

Buckeye tailgate

Class of ’92 scholarship given to Nathan ParkerThe John Glenn School of Public Affairs Class of 1992 chose to commemorate its 20th class anniversary by raising more than $3,500 to support a special class scholarship. Glenn School students entering their second year in a Master’s program were invited to apply, and Nathan Parker has been selected to receive the first of two class scholarships that will be given. Here is a little more about Nate:

The Leadership Forum focus on two themes: Leading Organizational Change and Entrepreneur-ial Management. Speakers included David Chese-brough, president & CEO of COSI and Bill Shkurti, former senior vice president for Business and Finance for Ohio State.

The Glenn School teamed up with the Moritz College of Law to throw a tailgate party before the Ohio State /Nebraska game.

Go to glenn.osu.edu/public-service to read Bill Shkurti, Kim Ratcliff and Nathan Parker’s stories about how they became inspired to public service.

Alumni and Friends

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Alumni and FriendsDale McGirr, MPA ’72, retired from his second career as an associate and senior finance/planning consultant at GBBN Architects after six years with the firm. His work with the global design firm was focused on creative financing, edge development in neighborhoods near colleges and universities, articles and presentations on campus edge development, and strategic business planning.

For 29 years prior to working at GBBN, McGirr was the senior vice president for Finance and Planning at the University of Cincinnati.

Starting just two months after the conversion from a City of Cincinnati university to a State of Ohio univer-sity, McGirr was a key member of the administration working to strengthen the university and transform it into a nationally recognized public research institution.

In addition to the traditional financial management roles, he led the Campus Master Plan effort starting in 1990, which has resulted in an internation-ally recognized campus transformation and the inclusion of the campus in the list of most beautiful campuses in the world.

He also led a transformation of six neighborhoods on the edge of the uni-versity into a vibrant district now called Uptown Cincinnati, which continues to draw private development investment and economic growth.

After fifteen years of service as associate state director for Ad-vocacy in the AARP Ohio State Office, ron Bridges, MA ’85 has accepted the position of State Director for the AARP of Kentucky. Prior to joining AARP, Bridges served as was vice president for Strategic Planning with the Health Coalition of Central Ohio (1993 – 1997), a network of employer health purchas-ing officials coalesced to find innova-tive solutions to concerns about health system capacity, access and value within the region.

In 1985, he joined the American Lung Association of Ohio as manager of community and government relations. In early 1989, he was promoted to the position of executive director, taking the helm of the Lung Association’s Washington, DC Affiliate.

Bridges began his public service/public affairs career with the Ohio General Assembly as a legislative aide to C. J. McLin, Jr.

Paul F. Price, WAIP ’00, was elected county court judge for Pike County, Ohio for a six-year term commencing Jan. 1, 2013. He resides in Waverly, Ohio, with his wife Carly and two sons, Jasper and Emmitt.

Jennifer Dring, MPA ‘01 has been named the first executive director for the Dublin Foundation. In her new role at the Dublin Foundation, Dring will manage current scholarship and grant programs, represent the Foundation in the community (Dublin, OH), and coordinate the Foundation’s fundraising activities.

Ellen Crivella, WAIP ’03, was recently pro-moted from project manager to depart-ment head, North America, Environ-mental and Permit-ting Services at GL Garrad Hassan, in Portland, Oregon.

After completing a grant-funded project at the American Library Association in Chicago, and becom-ing a certified project management profes-sional, Lynn Slawsky, MPA ‘09, will start a new job as curriculum coordinator for Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, in the Office of Medical Education. She will oversee the reaccreditation process of the medical school, and co-facilitate the develop-ment of a brand new medical school curriculum.

Sierra Austin, NEW Leadership ’09, received a bachelor of arts degree in Mass Media Com-munications from Wilberforce Univer-sity in 2010, a master of arts degree in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State University earlier this year, and is currently a Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Ph.D. student at Ohio State.

She currently teaches Gender, Sexuality and Race in Popular Culture.

Her research interests include pop culture and representation, black and hip-hop feminist theories, and African-American female literacies. Specifically, she is interested in analyzing stereotyp-ical misrepresentations of black women in the media, and understanding how misrepresentation affects self-percep-

Danielle Smith, MSW/MA ’10, receives the 2012 Wil-liam Oxley Thompson Award at the Ohio State Alumni Award ceremony. The William Oxley Thompson Award is presented to young alumni who have demonstrated distinctive achievement in a career, civic involvement or both.

Smith began working with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) - Ohio Chapter as a student intern in 2007. Just three years after graduating from Ohio State’s College of Social Work, she was named the organi-zation’s executive director.

Part of her rapid ascent stemmed from her role in pass-ing the law against human trafficking in Ohio. She also made her mark at the Ohio Statehouse as a leading advo-cate for social work. In addition, Smith created programs to help other young graduates pursue similar careers in advocacy, policy and lobbying.

“Danielle’s career achievements and civic engagement personify Ohio State’s tradition of excellence,” said Cyn-thia Webb, NASW - Ohio’s former executive director. “She personally and professionally demonstrates social work’s core values of service, social justice, and dignity.

Smith is active in a variety of civic organizations, includ-ing the Fellowship for Emerging Women Leaders, League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus, United Way of Central Ohio, and the Women’s Leadership Council.

Glenn School graduate Danielle Smith with Archie Griffin after she was awarded the 2012 William Oxley Thompson Award.

Guy Worley honored as Outstanding Alumnus of the Year for 2012

The 2012 Outstanding Alumnus Award was given to Guy Worley, MA, ’91, at the Glenn School’s Welcome Home Alumni Reception.

The Glenn School presents the Outstanding Alumnus Award an-nually to an alumna/alumnus of the Master’s or Ph.D. programs whose strong support of the school, its academic programs and its students is highly valued.

Sen. John Glenn, as well as Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, helped present the award.

Worley, who since 2007 has served as president and chief execu-tive officer of the Columbus Downtown Development Corp. and Capitol South Community Urban Redevelopment Corp., earned an undergraduate degree in economics and a master’s degree in public administration from Ohio State.

He played a key role in projects such as the Scioto Mile along the riverfront and Columbus Commons, which replaced City Center.

Before joining the development corporation, Worley was county administrator for the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, serv-ing as its chief executive officer.

Sen. John Glenn listens to Guy Worley talk about his career duing the Welcome Home Aumni Reception.

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More than 150 people came to a Page Hall to remember and honor David Wirick, a talented and respected teacher at the Glenn School who died July 19, 2012, at age 62.

“Dave was a renaissance man,” said Cindy Holodnak, director of the Glenn School’s Management Development Program. “He was such a reliable sounding board on almost any problem you might encounter. You could talk with him about project manage-ment or how organizations functioned or personality issues … his range of expertise was vast and deep.”

Wirick was born in Feb. 4, 1950, in Defiance, Ohio.

In 1970, he earned a B.A. in politi-cal science from Kent State University. In 1977 he completed an M.A. in public administration from The Ohio State Uni-versity.

Before teaching at the Glenn School, Wirick worked for the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and the Ohio Department of Mental Retarda-tion and Developmental Disabilities; Man-agement Sciences for Health in Boston as well as the National Regulatory Research Institute at The Ohio State University and Babbage Simmel and Associates in Columbus.

“Dave Wirick was such a great instructor for the Glenn School because of how much he truly enjoyed teaching,” said Lynn Slawsky, one of Wirick’s students. “Explaining budget, project, and innova-tion management practices seemed fun for him, which made it fun for us students as well. His personal stories about working in government brought theoretical concepts to life. His genuine pondering of students’ questions bolstered our understanding and confidence,” she said.

Wirick was awarded the Glenn School’s Outstanding Teacher Award three times from students at the Glenn School. “He was so well-liked as a down-to-earth instructor, my graduat-ing class of 2009 gave him an Outstanding Teaching Award,” Slawsky said. “Three years later, he eagerly talked me through the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification process. Though he passed away a couple months before I finished studying, his dedication to sound management practices inspired me to keep working towards the certification. So, I dedicate my PMP credential to him, and will always be grateful about how encouraging he was towards me and all his students’ endeavors.”

He is survived by his wife, Ellen R. Kreider, and daughter, Katherine Kreider Wirick and her husband Gavin Farnsworth. He is survived as well by his father Kenneth D. Wirick and wife Ramona and his sisters Carol Corney and Cathy Fuller.

Memorial service at Page Hall for David Wirick.

David Wirick, three-time winner of the Glenn School’s Outstanding Teacher Award, dies at 62

tion, and the political and material lives of black women and girls.

Her works have appeared in The Journal of Research on Women and Gender, as well as Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (forth-coming). Her latest research, which she will present in the upcoming months at Ohio State’s 3rd annual Hip-Hop Litera-cies Conference, and at the Film and Media: Pleasures of the Spectacle Con-ference in London, England, focuses on women in hip-hop, the politics of exclusionary citizenship practices and feminist social change. Sierra is also an alumna of the YWCA Chase Gen Y Leadership Program.

Sheena Crawford, NEW Leadership ’11, has just started a new faith-based non-profit organization called God’s Design: The Ultimate Christian Network. This nonprofit launched in October 2012 and in just one month already has hun-dreds of Christian events, businesses, and supporters. The program Project LOVE seeks to strengthen all families in Columbus, Ohio, focusing on stable family structures, and the organization as a whole focuses on empowering and encouraging the Christian community.

Crawford AKA Lady Love focuses on showing and encouraging love accord-ing to God’s greatest commandment and plans to expand the organization and the program throughout the state and the country. Visit www.GodsDe-sign.org for more information.

Lingzhi Li, MPA ’12, is working as a research assistant at The Ohio State University Medical Center.

rob robol, JD/MA ‘12, just wrapped up shooting on a feature mixed-martial arts film called, ”Trapped.” Robol served as the associate producer of this movie, which is about a disgruntled teenager with a troubled past who enters an MMA tournament to face the man who killed his parents. The movie is scheduled for release in 2013, and the cast includes Michael Biehn (“Terminator”, “Abyss”, “Aliens”), Martin Kove (“Karate Kid”) and Anderson Silva (current UFC Middleweight Champion).

Mark Scheffler, MPA ’01, has been named board chair of the Association

of Leadership Programs (ALP). Scheffler is the executive director at Leadership Akron. ALP is the national association of community leadership programs that fosters community awareness and involvement for leaders in cities and regions across the country.

Brittany Falkowski, MPA ’12, has a new job as project coordi-nator at the Ameri-can Institute for Reserach (AIR). AIR is one of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world.

Michelle Crandall, MPA ’93, who cur-rently serves as the director of admin-istrative services for Dublin, Ohio, was featured on the International City/County Management Association’s website. Founded in 1914, the ICMA advances professional local gov-ernment worldwide. You can read the profile story at: tinyurl.com/cqvuhh8

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Former Director of the Congressional Budget Office Alice Rivlin shakes hands with Glenn School Assistant Professor Jason Seligman after she gave a talk at this year’s Barbara K. Fergus Women in Leadership Lecture. You can watch a video of her talk at: glenn.osu.edu/fergus/rivlin.