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.
The Wall Street Journal, 3-Oct-18
Scientists have been tackling the vexing issue for decades, trying new tactics and engineering new equipment. Researchers have traveled to the high plains in Kazakhstan in pursuit. Companies and governments are spending heavily. Their mission: Grow more dandelions. ...
Featured expert(s): John Cardina, assistant professor of horticulture and crop science
WCMH-TV, 29-Sep-18
Faculty and staff from The Ohio State University teamed up with the City of Hilliard to set up six ecology work stations at Latham Park, off Cosgray and Scioto Darby Roads, for high schools students to learn about careers in environmental science. Students from Hilliard Davidson, Darby and Bradley high schools put on waders, viewed water samples through microscopes, and guided boats across the water to study fish and birds in the area. ...
WIRED, 29-Sep-18
Featured expert(s): Giorgio Rizzoni, director of the Center for Automotive Research
Risk & Insurance, 28-Sep-18
...It’s one brand of risk management to prepare your company for a sudden, temporary shortage of key materials caused by a natural disaster. It’s quite another to consider a long-term or even permanent absence of an essential ingredient or part. Climate change is increasing that risk for a variety of agricultural products. Changing temperature and precipitation patterns and volatile weather event exposures are turning once-arable land into inhospitable environments for certain tender crops. The list of those under known threat includes such core staples as coffee, avocados, wine grapes, chickpeas, peanuts and — sadly — chocolate and vanilla. ...
Featured expert(s): Phil Renaud, executive director of The Risk Institute
The Conversation, 28-Sep-18
The United States has led the world in establishing standards and regulations governing vehicle fuel economy, tailpipe emissions and safety. Over the past 50 years, these policies have made the world cleaner and safer. Now the Trump administration is moving to freeze fuel economy and tailpipe emission standards for new cars, instead of carrying forward with the latest round of improvements mandated under President Obama. ...
Featured expert(s): column author Giorgio Rizzoni, professor of mechanical and aerospace and electrical and computer engineering and director, Center for Automotive Research
Columbus Underground, 17-Sep-18
This summer, an expedition from the Ohio State University set out to the ends of the Earth to study one of Earth’s greatest threats. The team of scientists from OSU’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center first flew from Columbus to Lima, then to Cusco, and then drove for a day to a place called Quelccaya. ...
Featured expert(s): Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, School of Earth Sciences
Toledo Blade, 14-Sep-18
Featured expert(s): Chris Winslow, Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab director
Utility Dive, 13-Dec-18
Nicole Sintov conducts a study for time-of-use (TOU) designs and why customers are choosing that program over others. ...
Featured expert(s): Nicole Sintov, an assistant professor of behavior, decision making and sustainability
Indianapolis Business Journal, 21-Aug-18
... Amazon has also negotiated an unknown rate discount with American Electric Power in Ohio, where it received $77 million in tax incentives for three data centers in 2016. Late last year, Amazon dangled 12 more in exchange for reduced electricity rates, and AEP exempted it from surcharges other Ohioans must pay. “That’s de facto cost-shifting,” says Ned Hill, an economist who teaches economic development policy at Ohio State University. “Other businesses and households in Ohio are now bearing all the costs of those riders.” ALSO: Bloomberg Businessweek, Amazon Isn’t Paying Its Electric Bills. You Might Be ...
Featured expert(s): Ned Hill, professor of public policy and city and regional planning
The Columbus Dispatch, 22-Aug-18
Ohio State students started a new school year this week with a newly renovated Mirror Lake. Construction workers toiled in the sun Tuesday to plant shrubs and wetland plants. Two sat cross-legged in the shallow water, placing the plants one by one. Many students walking by snapped pictures on their cellphones. ...