The American Ecological Engineering Society (AEES) awarded professor Jay Martin with the 2024 Odum Award. The Odum Award is the highest honor bestowed by AEES, and recognizes a lifetime of achievement and contributions during one's career to research, education, and practice in the field of Ecological Engineering.

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Robert E. Stewart Engineering-Humanities award recognizes an outstanding individual for their contributions to the advancement of the interaction of the profession and the humanities. Patrick Sours was named the 2024 award winner in part for leading the Global Capstone program in FABE, facilitating long-term community impact projects focused on technical challenges co-defined, co-designed and co-implemented by students and a range of community partners around the world, including numerous water improvement projects. 

Abdollah Shafieezadeh, Lichtenstein Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to research “Strategic Infrastructure Risk Management: Using Value of Information to Inform Resilience Decisions” in South Korea. From August 2024 – May 2025, Shafieezadeh will examine a novel approach that quantifies the benefit of reducing risk assessment uncertainties during natural hazards. The project strives to empower stakeholders to make informed decisions about where and how to invest in resilience measures effectively.

Sandip Mazumder, professor and associate chair of administration, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to research “Greenhouse Gases, Radiation, and Global Warming: Modules for Education and Research” from January-May 2025. With the Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship, Mazumder will collaborate with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru, India, on a project that increases awareness of global warming and its causes.

Smitha Rao's work at the intersection of environment, development, and social policy includes (1) extreme weather events and contextual vulnerability, (2) improving adaptive capacities among communities to deal with climatic and other stressors, and (3) understanding the effects of air pollution on environmental health and improving access to clean energy. With community partners, she is co-leading a multi-phase research project [Weather and Aging Resilient Model (W.A.R.M)] with support from the City of Columbus and the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging to understand the perspectives and experiences of disasters and disaster preparedness among older adults and persons with disability living in affordable housing communities. Additionally, this project involves service providers working closely with these communities to understand barriers to and experiences of disaster preparedness to strengthen current systems of care. Rao's community-focused work engages graduate and undergraduate students across disciplines in research aimed at improving community lives and capacities in the face of environmental and climate challenges.

Shang-Tian Yang has been involved in bioprocessing research for more than 40 years and has 12 related patents, including several licenses for commercial development. His research group developed the first 3D cell culture system that can mimic in vivo tissue environment and be used reliably in high-throughput screening of chemicals for their embryotoxic potentials and/or as cancer drug targets. His current research involves biocatalysis, fermentation for value-added products from biomass and industrial wastes, metabolic engineering, stem cell and tissue engineering, and biochips for high-throughput cell-based assays and biodiagnostics. A prolific researcher, Yang has published more than 375 journal papers, proceeding articles and book chapters in bioprocess engineering.

Srinivasan Parthasarathy directs Ohio State’s Data Mining Research Laboratory, which is a part of the High End Systems Group and affiliated with the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research. He is the founder and co-director of the Data Analytics major. He also co-leads the Responsible Data Science Community of Practice as part of the Translational Data Analytics Institute leadership team. He has designed award-winning novel architecture-conscious data structures and tiling strategies to enhance chip utilization and out-of-core performance on single-node and cluster systems. Parthasarathy was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to high-performance data mining and network analysis.

A world-renowned polymer expert, Judit Puskas’ groundbreaking research in the field of polymer science and engineering has significantly impacted her field and society. Her outstanding leadership and mentorship abilities inspire and educate the next generation of scientists.

The AAAS Fellowship, recognizing scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications, is one of the most prestigious honors a U.S. scientist can receive. Fellows are elected by their academic peers. Aylin Yener, professor of electrical and computer engineering, computer science and engineering, and integrated systems engineering, was recognized for distinguished contributions to the fields of communications, information theory and signal processing, particularly for the development of wireless physical layer security and design principles of sustainable energy harvesting wireless networks. 

The AAAS Fellowship, recognizing scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications, is one of the most prestigious honors a U.S. scientist can receive. Fellows are elected by their academic peers. Matthew Sullivan, professor of microbiology and director of the Center of Microbiome Science, was recognized for pioneering studies of viral economics to study viruses in complex communities via quantitative sample-to-sequence pipelines, and linking viruses to hosts, and studying viral impact in the marine environment.