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.
Deseret News, October 26, 2022
Featured expert(s): Zhi-Ping Zhong, Matthew Sullivan
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, SI affiliated faculty in Microbiology
Forbes, October 28, 2022
Featured expert(s): Scott Hardy
SI affiliated researcher, Ohio Sea Grant College Program
Columbus Business First, October 12, 2022
An Ohio State study aims to tell the stories of the Columbus neighborhoods destroyed by the highways built in the 1960s. ...
Featured expert(s): Harvey Miller
SI faculty advisory board, geography
Energy News Network, October 6, 2022
Several energy and utility questions are likely to come before the Ohio Supreme Court in the next two years, including cases involving coal plant subsidies, HB 6 corruption, and renewable energy project siting. ...
Featured expert(s): Ned Hill
SI affiliated faculty, public affairs, city and regional planning
New York Times, October 4, 2022
Mold in homes is a costly crisis that often accompanies hurricanes and flooding, and climate change is amplifying the rain that feeds outbreaks. ...
Featured expert(s): Karen Dannemiller
SI core faculty; civil, environmental and geodetic engineering
Independent, September 28, 2022
Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have contributed to a rise in wood volume or biomass of forests in the US, according to a new study. ...
Featured expert(s): Brent Sohngen
Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, SI affiliated faculty member
AP: US News, September 15, 2022
Featured expert(s): Brian Mittendorf
professor, accounting and management information systems
The Street, September 6, 2022
Automakers are looking to the sunny side of the street as a way to power their vehicles. ...
Featured expert(s): Giorgio Rizzoni
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ohio State College of Public Health, August 30, 2022
Professor and Dean’s Fellow in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, Dr. Darryl Hood was recently appointed to a 3-year term to serve on the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council (NAEHSC). ...
Featured expert(s): Darryl Hood
Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, SI faculty advisory board member
New York Times, August 25, 2022
Regardless of whether they hunt, gun buyers have long underwritten efforts to conserve and restore American landscapes for hunting with an excise tax that manufacturers pay on the guns, ammunition and archery equipment they produce. For the 2022 fiscal year alone, this tax generated a record $1.1 billion, nearly all of it from guns and ammo. The tax is now facing a challenge, with several dozen Republicans in Congress pushing legislation that would eliminate it as an infringement on the Second Amendment. ...
Featured expert(s): Christopher M. Rea
SI core faculty, John Glenn College of Public Affairs