Kenny Yap was away at Ohio State University in the U.S. then, but returned in a few years with a formal knowledge of business and management--and a desire to make good on the sacrifice of so many fish.

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The 2005 study by Kumalasari Wardhana and Fabian Hadipriono of Ohio State University looked at 503 U.S. bridges that had failed between 1989 and 2000.

NPR: Study Answers Question of Why Bridges Collapse

Novells customers include the biggest of the big, heavyweights like Time Warner, the State of Ohio, MCI and the U.S. Postal Service.

FORBES: Net gains

Blackwell worked his way from Xavier to being elected mayor of Cincinnati, served as undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and was elected Ohio's state treasurer before winning his current office in 2000.

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The Ohio State University's Matthew "Dr. Fus" Stoltzfus' General Chemistry course enrolled over 100, 000 iTunes U students in the first year it was offered.

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