On Thursday (10/9) Mary Robinson came to the Wexner Center for a discussion with Fred Andrle (host of WOSU 820's radio program, Open Line) about women and international policy. Ms. Robinson is the former president of Ireland and is currently one of the Elders, a group of world leaders working toward peace, equity, and sustainability. She also shares my birthday!

Large colleges like OSU attract a lot of big-name visitors, from entertainers to researchers. Here's a list of people I've seen or met in my time here:
-Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys, on which the movie October Sky is based
-Bill Nye the Science Guy
-Kathy Sullivan, former astronaut and COSI director, current director of the Battelle Center for Mathematics and Science Education Policy at The Ohio State University’s John Glenn School of Public Affairs
-Al Gore, former vice president and director of An Inconvenient Truth
-Lonnie Thompson, OSU researcher who was recently named one of TIME magazine's "Heroes of the Environment" for 2008
-Leo Paquette, my o-chem professor who synthesized dodecahedrane
-Kathleen Sandman, my microbio lab prof who helped discovered histones in archaea
-and a plethora of other faculty who are truly distinguished in their own right; it's always a little trippy to pick up a paper or even a textbook written by someone who lectures you three times a week!