Making Headlines
The following articles reflect our commitment to share sustainability-related accomplishments across the university — representing its colleges, departments, institutes, centers and other units — in the areas of research, student engagement, campus stewardship and collaborations with the public and private sectors.
Landscape Architecture Magazine, July 23, 2020
When Halina Steiner tested new sediment-collecting infrastructure in her lab at the Ohio State University (OSU), she noticed a mysterious magnetism pulling people toward the bits of beveled foamboard she had crafted into sediment collectors. ...
Featured expert(s): Ryan Winston
food, agricultural and biological engineering, SI core faculty
Cleveland.com, July 22, 2020
FirstEnergy Corp. tried and failed more than once to convince state lawmakers to subsidize the company’s two Ohio nuclear power plants, but was unable to achieve its goal until Larry Householder became speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives in 2019. ...
Featured expert(s): Ned Hill
city and regional planning, public affairs, SI affiliated faculty
WOSU, July 22, 2020
The Ohio State Highway Patrol says the number of traffic citations issued to speeders traveling at more than 100 miles per hour increased significantly during the pandemic. ...
Featured expert(s): Harvey Miller
geography, SI faculty advisory board
National Geographic, July 22, 2020
A rare, translucent, black-and-white crystal that sat in a box for 30 years has led scientists to a startling discovery: The East Antarctic ice sheet, which holds 80 percent of the world’s ice, may be even more vulnerable to warming than once believed. ...
WEWS, July 21, 2020
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four of his associates have been arrested on charges in relation to “what is likely the largest bribery, money laundering scheme ever perpetrated against the people of the state of Ohio," one that allegedly involved at least $61 million passed through a 501c4 organization controlled by Householder and other entities for the purpose of passing HB6 in 2019, a law that provided a $1.5 billion taxpayer bailout to FirstEnergy. ...
Featured expert(s): Ned Hill
city and regional planning, SI affiliated faculty
WEWS, July 21, 2020
As part of a study with the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Ohio EPA, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District will provide samples of its wastewater treatment plants to determine the presence of coronavirus ribonucleic acid (RNA) fragments, according to a release from the ODH. ...
Cleveland.com, July 21, 2020
A monitoring study coordinated by the Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio EPA will take samples from the state’s municipal sewage and wastewater treatment systems to determine the presence of coronavirus fragments. Data from the samples could provide an early warning for COVID-19 in a community and help researchers understand disease trends, the Ohio EPA said in a release Tuesday. ...
NPR, July 16, 2020
The American Economic Association, or the AEA, is the biggest and most important professional organization of economists in the country. And it recently made a statement saying that it had, quote, "only begun to understand racism and its impact on our profession and our discipline." ...
Featured expert(s): Darrick Hamilton
John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Sustainability Institute faculty advisory board
Columbus Dispatch, July 16, 2020
Ohio State University is seeking approval for a combined heat and power plant that it calls the “cornerstone” of its energy plan and private energy partnership. ...
Architectural Digest, July 15, 2020
If you feel like there’s dust everywhere, you’re not wrong. There is dust in outer space. On Earth, we get volcanic ash, air pollution, and, at one point, a biblical wave of loosened topsoil called the Dust Bowl. But the most interesting dust in the universe is probably hiding under your bed. ...
Featured expert(s): Karen Dannemiller
civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, SI core faculty