Awards and Recognitions
October 15, 2020
Kip Curtis, environmental history
SI affiliated faculty
Kip Curtis, associate professor of environmental history at the Mansfield campus, will receive a $89,976 grant from the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program for the project "Growing the Growers: Leadership Training and the Development of Key Personnel for Engaged Production in the Mansfield Microfarm."
October 1, 2020
Chris Otter, history
SI affiliated faculty
Chris Otter's book entitled "Diet for a Large Planet" on the world food system and Britain's role in its creation is now released by U Chicago.
August 1, 2020
Christo Sevov, chemistry and biochemistry
SI core faculty
Christo Sevov received $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to further his research on developing new synthetic methods to prepare pharmaceutically relevant compounds using electricity. This Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) will support the work of Sevov and his lab to replace dangerous, expensive or harmful reagents with electrical energy, reducing the costs and hazards associated with large-scale production of medicinal compounds.
July 7, 2020
Abdollah Shafieezadeh, civil, environmental and geodetic engineering
Sustainability Institute affiliated faculty
Abdollah Shafieezadeh, civil, environmental and geodetic engineering and Sustainability Institute affiliated faculty, received a $249,638 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a novel, deeply integrated physics-based data-driven approach to assess and enhance the resilience of power transmission systems impacted by climatic extremes. The research is expected to help key decision-makers for the transmission infrastructure to characterize resilience under various uncertain future scenarios and identify optimal adaptation or mitigation strategies. The research program is complemented with educating the next generation of scholars in modeling hazards and infrastructure resilience through an interdisciplinary, research-integrated educational program, a strong commitment to increased diversity in student training and broad dissemination of the results.
June 24, 2020
Katrina Cornish, food, agricultural and biological engineering
SI faculty advisory board
Katrina Cornish was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers for high-performance, natural allergy-safe latex for medical and consumer products, supporting developing countries. 
June 23, 2020
Mary Rodriguez, agricultural communication, education and leadership
SI affiliated faculty
The North American Colleges of Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Educator Award recognizes educators who excel as teachers in the agricultural disciplines. Rodriguez was recognized as a recipient during the organizations virtual conference in June. Rodriguez currently instructs a variety of courses, including the Teaching Methods in Non-Formal Learning Environments, Community Leadership and Foundations of International Development. Throughout her time with Ohio State she has also taught Foundations of Personal and Professional Leadership, Research Methods, Teaching Methods in Non-Formal Learning Environments and Extension Education in Developing Countries to both undergraduate and graduate students. 
June 12, 2020
Ramteen Sioshansi, integrated systems engineering
SI affiliated faculty
Department of Integrated Systems Engineering (ISE) Professor and Associate Chair Ramteen Sioshansi will receive a national award that recognizes excellence in teaching operations research. Sioshansi will be formally presented with the award at the 2020 IISE Annual Conference & Expo which has been postponed to October 31 – November 3 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Candidates for the award are nominated for the instruction of an undergraduate course in operations research methods or applications. Sioshansi is being honored for the course ISE 3210 Nonlinear and Dynamic Optimization. The rigorous course was developed to meet the needs of students facing complex optimization challenges in their capstone course projects. You can read the full award announcement in the IISE OR Division Sping Newsletter.
June 11, 2020
Eden Lin, philosophy
SI core faculty
The Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching, and service of early-career faculty at the time of promotion and tenure and is selected by the college promotion and tenure faculty review committee. Lin was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure approved by the Board of Trustees. 
May 28, 2020
Kip Curtis, environmental history
SI affiliated faculty
Kip Curtis has joined the Office of Outreach and Engagement as a faculty fellow. In this role, he will continue his focus on the development and implementation of a replicable model of community engagement that results in expansion of the Mansfield Microfarm to other Ohio communities.
May 26, 2020
Jin Wang, electrical and computer engineering
Wang received the award in recognition of his contributions to wide bandgap (WBG) power electronics-based electric machine drives. He has been one of the leading experts and an early advocate for implementation of WBG power devices for applications including electric vehicles, medium voltage drives and electric aircrafts. The Nagamori Foundation was established in 2014 by Nidec Corp. founder, chairman and CEO Shigenobu Nagamori to contribute to the scientific and industrial development inside and outside Japan by commending those who engage in R&D activities, domestic and overseas, in the area of research and technology.