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247 Sports, June 23, 2020

Ohio State athletics does well on the playing surface but the Buckeyes but also are invested in helping the environment when it comes to their athletic facilities. On Tuesday, the Scarlet and Gray were recognized by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USG Corporation as the winner of the sixth annual USG NACDA Sustainability Award for the work done on the newly-constructed Schumaker Complex, the Covelli Center and the Jennings Wrestling Facility. ...

REI Co-op Journal, June 22, 2020

Lonnie Thompson is racing against time and his health to unlock the secrets of our past in the world’s melting glaciers. ...

NPR, June 22, 2020

Rattan Lal just won a quarter of a million dollars for his scientific research on dirt. Or as he prefers to call it, "soil." ...

Indian Express, June 22, 2020

Professor Rattan Lal, the winner of this year’s World Food Prize — considered the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in agriculture — says we must improve our soil health to not only to boost crop productivity, and make farming profitable, but also to mitigate the effects of climate change. The founder director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center (CMASC) at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana alumnus spoke to Manraj Grewal Sharma via Skype. ...

Columbus Dispatch, June 21, 2020

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx ticked off the ways the Smart City challenge grant would change Columbus. ...

NBC , June 21, 2020

Robert Taylor has lived on the banks of the Mississippi River in Reserve, Louisiana, his entire life. Both of his parents worked in the local sugar refinery when plantations made up this stretch of the river between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. ...

Toledo Blade, June 20, 2020

The World Food Prize could be an award you’ve never heard of — it doesn’t have quite the star power of the Nobel Prizes. The prestige of the prize grows with the realization that increased agricultural production to feed the world is a necessity. At the same time, combating the warming environment protects food production by fighting desertification. ...

Pittsburg Post-Gazette , June 20, 2020

The World Food Prize could be an award most people have never heard of — it doesn’t have quite the star power of the Nobel Prizes. The prestige of the prize grows with the realization that increased agricultural production to feed the world is a necessity. At the same time, combating the warming environment protects food production by fighting desertification. ...

Chemical and Engineering News, June 15, 2020

Climatologist Lonnie Thompson’s voice is still full of wonder when he talks about seeing the Quelccaya Ice Cap for the first time. “It was so beautiful, like looking at layers on a cake,” he says of looking up at an icy cliffside in 1974. Like many mountain glaciers, Quelccaya comprises stacked layers, each one representing a year of compressed snowfall and a potential wealth of historical information about climate variations. The Ohio State University scientist had traveled to the ice formation, located in the Andes Mountains in southern Peru, to collect samples. ...

Business Journal Daily, June 15, 2020

A group of economists and engineers from seven universities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, including John Russo, have published a letter sent to the governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia warning that the projected impact of the petrochemical industry won’t be as great as initially thought. ...