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THE OHIO JOURNAL of SCIENCE A-1 the Ohio Journal Of VOL. 118(1) THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE A-1 The Ohio Journal of Volume 118 No. 1 April Program SCIENCEAN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL Abstracts The Ohio Journal of Science ISSN 0030-0950 EDITORIAL POLICY Failure to Receive The Ohio Journal of Science Any claim of failure to receive subscription issues of the Journal General must be submitted to The Ohio Academy of Science within six The Ohio Journal of Science(OJS) has published peer-reviewed, months of date of issue of the missing number. original contributions to science, education, engineering, and technology since 1900. The OJS encourages submission of manuscripts relevant to Ohio, but readily considers all submissions Indexing that advance the mission of The Ohio Academy of Science to foster The Ohio Journal of Science is indexed by: curiosity, discovery and innovation to benefit society. 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Ford Motor Company (retired) 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast (BTSU 228) Energy Sustainability in the Transportation Industry 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM Meeting Registration (table outside BTSU 228) 8:45 AM Annual Business Meeting for the Membership Mylander Room (BTSU 207) (see agenda below). 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Poster Session (Room 202) Note: all posters will be displayed in both morning and afternoon sessions. 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM Podium Sessions Noon Box lunch pick up (at registration table) ike Tamor received his PhD in Physics from the MUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch in 1982, whereupon he joined the Ford Scientific State of the Academy Research Laboratory.
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