The Science of Chocolate Flavor
Speaker: Sheryl Barringer, Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University
February 3, 6:30 p.m.
Gateway Film Center, South Campus Gateway
1550 N. High St.
Parking available in the South Campus Gateway Parking Garage; $1 per hour
Chocolate is a wonderfully complex flavor. The aroma of chocolate is determined by the tree variety, growing location, fermentation, drying, roasting, alkalinization, addition of other ingredients and conching steps. The tree variety and growing location have a minor effect on the flavor. Fermentation is a critical step where the flavor precursors are formed. Drying stops the fermentation. Roasting is the other critical step, where the precursors change into the characteristic chocolate aroma. Alkalization changes the flavor, and is used to make hot chocolate. Addition of other ingredients can introduce other flavors. Conching is the final step, which changes the flavor slightly.
Sheryl Barringer is a Professor and Graduate Studies Chair in Food Science and Technology at The Ohio State University. She received a B.S. in Food Science from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Food Science and Nutrition from the University of Minnesota. She teaches courses in fruit and vegetable processing, chocolate and technical problem solving, and was the 2001 and 2005 recipient of the College’s Outstanding Teaching Award. Most importantly, she loves good chocolate.
January 22nd, 2010
An Evening with Biographer Wil Haygood
Thursday, February 11
Reception: 6:30 p.m.
Program: 7 p.m.
Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
“Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson” is the third in a trilogy of biographies by author Wil Haygood about pivotal African-American figures that includes Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Sammy Davis, Jr. In each book, Haygood delivers a comprehensive biography and compelling case for their cultural importance.
Haygood will discuss his books and the art of writing the biography in this free program. Following the program, Haygood will sign copies of his books, which will be available for sale.
The program is sponsored by the Friends of The Ohio State University Libraries and the Lecture Committee of the OSU Libraries.
For more information, call 292-3387.
January 21st, 2010
Electronic Medical Records: Global and Local Perspectives
Wednesday, January 27
3:30-5 p.m.
Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave.
11th Floor
Lynda Hartel, Associate Director of the Prior Health Sciences Library, and Phyllis Teater, Interim Chief Information Officer for The Ohio State University Medical Center, will discuss the many issues related to electronic medical records in this free program at The Thompson Library.
This program is sponsored by the OSU Libraries Lecture Committee. Call 292-8999 for more information.
January 20th, 2010
Let the Games Begin: A Century of Sports Cartoons
An Exhibition at the Reading Room Gallery
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
27 West 17th Avenue Mall
Through April 9, 2010
Sports Cartoons the Subject of Exhibition at OSU’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
More than 50 sports cartoons will be on display as part of the exhibition Let the Games Begin: A Century of Sports Cartoons, on view at The Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum through April 9. The exhibition features original drawings by some of the most prolific and influential cartoon artists of the past century and includes likenesses of a wide variety of sports figures including Jack Dempsey, Dizzy Dean, Ted Williams, Willie Shoemaker, as well Ohio State athletics.
Editorial cartoons have a long history but the sports cartoon, as we know it now, evolved as a fixture on the sports page as athletic endeavors became more and more of a ubiquitous form of popular entertainment. Before television and higher-speed photography, sports cartoons were an important way for a commentator to communicate to the public the personalities on the field or to sum up an achievement or brewing controversy.
The cartoons featured in Let the Games Begin: A Century of Sports Cartoons span the 20th century from a time when boxing and horse racing captured the nation’s undivided attention to the end of the century and beyond, long after any remaining shreds of purity and innocence had been stripped from the public’s collective perception of the athletes it followed and admired. Drawn from several of the Cartoon Library’s collections, the works featured in this exhibit were published in newspapers from all over the United States. Artists featured in the exhibition include Willard Mullin, Arnold Roth, William Summers, Karl Hubenthal, the Columbus Dispatch’s Jeff Stahler, and more.
“Historic sports cartoon provide a wonderful window into the past. We are fortunate to have such rich holdings of these works in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum,” stated Lucy Shelton Caswell, Professor and Curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Let the Games Begin: A Century of Sports Cartoons was co-curated by Caswell and David Filipi, Curator of Film/Video, at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The exhibition was funded in part by the operating endowment of The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. A free exhibit brochure featuring an essay by David Filipi is available upon request. Caswell and Filipi co-curated the exhibition Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2008.
Let the Games Begin: A Century of Sports Cartoons is in conjunction with Hard Targets, an exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts from January 30 through April 11, 2010.
January 20th, 2010
Flora & Fashion
Botanically Inspired Apparel, Textiles, Accessories & Buttons
January 21-June 12
Opening preview January 20
5:30-7:30pm
Snowden Gallery
The Historic Costume & Textiles Collection
Geraldine Schottenstein Wing
Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Avenue
RSVP 292-3090
January 18th, 2010
From January 19 through February 24, OSU Libraries patrons will have free access to 43,000 ebooks provided by “ebrary, Inc.” Access is being provided for 37 days as part of a pilot project to study patron use of ebooks. The ebooks cover a variety of subjects in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and medicine and range in level from popular to scholarly. Marsha Hamilton is the contact person at 614-247-7461.
January 18th, 2010
The Granary Books Collection: An Exhibit
January 16 – March 21, 2010
William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library
Opening Event: Thursday January 21, 2010, 7 p.m.
For over 20 years, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers to investigate verbal/visual relations in the time-honored spirit of independent publishing. Granary’s mission to produce, promote, document, and theorize new works exploring the intersection of word, image, and page has earned the Press a reputation as one of the most unique and significant small publishers operating today.
At the January 21 opening, Steve Clay, Granary Books’ founder and editor, will give a short presentation. Steve Clay, Granary Books, www.granarybooks.com
Granary’s project has been strengthened by a growing involvement in the organization, preservation, and sale of archives, manuscripts, and rare books by important contemporary writers and artists. While publishing remains central to Granary’s purpose, Granary is also deeply involved with a widespread and local community of writers, poets, and artists. For years Granary occupied a gallery space in Soho, hosting countless public events, lectures, and readings while curating exhibits related to books, book art, poetry, and writing. We believe that Granary’s publishing, preservation, and community outreach has significant long-term implications for the fields of writing and book art. Since the mid-’90s, Granary has sought to produce, promote, and contextualize scholarship investigating an emerging history of small press publishing, poetry, and artists’ books. Many of the books we have produced in this vein, including Johanna Drucker’s essential The Century of Artists’ Books, Jerome Rothenberg and Steve Clay’s A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections About the Book & Writing, and Steve Clay and Rodney Phillips’s A Secret Location on the Lower East Side are now being used as textbooks at the college level, further opening and legitimizing the field for a new generation of scholars and practitioners.
Granary Books remains committed to publishing innovative written and visual work, observing progressive scholarship, and supporting adventurous bookmaking while exploring the relationships between seeing and reading, reading and seeking.
The Ohio State University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library is proud to own a nearly complete collection of all of Granary Books’ publications.
Gallery Hours:
-Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
-Wednesday and Thursday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
-Sunday: 12 - 6 p.m.
Rare Books & Manuscripts Library
1858 Neil Avenue
January 18th, 2010
Students can win $750 for planning and documenting a research project; faculty members can win $250 for helping a student from their class develop a high-quality research project. Read more about the OSU Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Prize.
January 14th, 2010
The first in the series, “Conversations in the Humanities, with Fred Andrle,” will be presented on Tuesday, January 19, 5-6 p.m. in Thompson Library Room 202.
“From HIV to H1N1: A Look at Community Responses to Infectious Diseases,” is a panel discussion hosted by Humanities Institute Associate Fred Andrle, with Michael Para, MD, Pomerene Professor of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine; and Larry Schlesinger, MD, Division Director, College of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. It is co-sponsored with University Libraries.
The program is free and open to the public.
January 13th, 2010
“Jaroslav Malina: Crossing Paths in Painting and Design,” a symposium sponsored by the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute and the Department of Theatre, will be held Wednesday January 13 at 10:30 a.m. on the 11th floor of the Thompson Memorial Library, 1858 Neil Ave. Speakers include theatre scholars Dale Unruh and Dennis Cristelles, Czech designer Marketa Fantova, and Ed Valentine from the OSU Department of Art. OSU Professor Joe Brandesky, who has curated several exhibitions of Czech theatre design and led OSU study tours to the Czech Republic, will convene the symposium.
In conjunction with the symposium, the exhibit “Jaroslav Malina: Paintings and Designs” will be on display through January 15 at the Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St. Professor Brandesky, who curated the exhibit, will lead a guided talk on Tuesday, January 12, from 3:30-5:00 p.m.
All these events are free and open to the public.
January 6th, 2010
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