Shriver to be inducted into Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame

Phillip Shriver, president emeritus of Miami University, will join 19 others being inducted into the 2009 class of the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in the Franklin County Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Columbus. Shriver is a Navy veteran of World War II, having served from July 1943 until January 1946.

Miami recognized for excellent programs

Miami University has received three awards from the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) Mid-America Regional Conference. The Mid-America district includes schools from Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and parts of Missouri and Pennsylvania.

New Web site provides Windows 7 information

In preparation for the recently released Windows 7 operating system by Microsoft, It services has created a Web site aimed at providing Miami faculty, staff and students with the latest information about this product.

Biology News Net, Monday, Nov. 2

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Thanks to a $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers from Miami University, University of Illinois, the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center and Texas A&M will study the papaya sex chromosomes and work to develop a papaya that produces only hermaphrodite offspring.

CSP (Convenience Store/Petroleum) Daily News, Monday, Nov. 2

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Miami University, Ohio University and University of Akron are participating in a new cooperative purchasing arrangement for convenience-store products and saving money in the process.

Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, Nov. 3

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Story about in-home and assisted-living care options for Ohio seniors and disabled adults shrinking because of the state's smaller 2010-11 budget mentions reports from Miami's Scripps Gerontology Center.