Ohio State Sustainability Education Townhall

People walking across the Ohio State Oval
Date
November 13, 2026
Time
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

About this event

Registration is now open for the annual Ohio State Sustainability Education Townhall.  This year’s event will be held on Friday, November 13th from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Ohio Union Traditions Room.  This annual event seeks to address current issues in sustainability education and build our community of faculty and instructors who are engaged in these topics.  This specific townhall offering includes a panel discussion on AI Impacts and the Six Dimensions of Sustainability.  Lunch is provided.   Please contact Gina Jaquet, Sustainability Institute Director of Education and Learning with questions.


This year's townhall agenda is as follows:

10:00am-10:30am
Welcome and Updates and Opportunities in Sustainability Education 
Maria Conroy, Professor - City and Regional Planning and SI Associate Faculty Director of Education 


10:30am-11:30am
Panel Discussion: AI Impacts and the Six Dimensions of Sustainability

Panelists:

Jeff Bielicki, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and Sustainability Institute, Associate Faculty Director of Research 

Daniel Gingerich, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering 

Greg Hitzhusen, Associate Professor of Practice, School of Environment and Natural Resources 

Gabe Lade, Associate Professor and C. Williams Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics

Paul Rosile, Associate Professor of Practice, College of Public Health 

Haitao Shang, Assistant Professor, School of Earth Sciences 

Panel Moderator:  Vicki Pitstick, Instructional Consultant, Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning 


11:30am-12:30pm
Lunch & Networking
 
 

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