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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00694E">Stocker Lecture: Blake Wilson, 2015 Russ Prize recipient – Thurs., Feb. 23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#776F67">2015 Russ Prize Recipient Blake Wilson, a professor of electrical engineering at Duke University and co-director
 of the Duke Hearing Center, will present a Stocker Lecture on Thurs., Feb. 23, from 3:30-5 p.m. in Baker Center Theatre, followed by a reception from 5-5:30 p.m. Wilson is the co-inventor of the cochlear implant, which restores hearing and enables high levels
 of speech recognition with no visual cues for those with profound hearing loss. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#666666">Colleen Carow, MBA ’05, MA ’97, BSJ ‘93<br>
Senior Director of Communications and Identity Management<br>
Office of the Dean<br>
1 Ohio University<br>
Stocker Center 177<br>
Athens OH 45701-2979<br>
T: 740.593.1488<br>
F: 740.597.1410<br>
M: 740.707.3764<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="carow@ohio.edu"><span style="color:blue">carow@ohio.edu</span></a><br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#006633">Russ College of Engineering and Technology<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.ohio.edu/engineering"><span style="color:blue">www.ohio.edu/engineering</span></a></span> 
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