By studying some of the tiniest organisms, geology major Allison Bryan is helping piece together the bigger picture of Arctic climate change over the millennia. The junior from Leipsic, Ohio, is part of an international, multi-institutional project looking for clues in a Siberian lake. She is pursuing the study in Germany this summer through an internship and scholarship.

“We’re trying to reconstruct the paleoclimate,” Bryan explained. At BGSU, she has been a lab assistant for Dr. Jeffrey Snyder, geology.

Funded by a two-year, $211,000 grant through the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Kelly Balistreri of BGSU’s Center for Family and Demographic Research is studying the relationship between socioeconomic status and obesity in children of immigrants.

Incoming freshmen from Cuyahoga and Knox counties are recipients of the inaugural Clarence Terry Jr. Memorial Scholarships.

The University will enter into a dining services management contract with Chartwells, a member of the Compass Group.

Dr. Jeffrey Moore, an internationally recognized expert in the field of organic materials and polymer chemistry, will be this year’s Heinlen W. Hall lecturer.

Huntington Bank recently donated to the University a building located within the BGSU Research Enterprise Park east of campus and Interstate 75.

BGSU was the first stop on Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut’s ongoing tour of the University System of Ohio campuses to discuss the institutions’ proposed centers of excellence.