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.
Voice of America,, August 10, 2018
Featured expert(s): Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science. director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center
Fox 28, 6-Aug-18
One of the iconic landmarks on Ohio State's campus is getting ready to reopen. A two-year renovation is over and later this week, students and staff will be able to once again head down to Mirror Lake. ...
Associated Press, 1-Aug-18
Even the dirt on the ground is making climate change worse, a new study finds... ...If something isn’t done, “we are really in trouble,” said Rattan Lal of Ohio State University, who wasn’t part of the study. He added that proper soil conservation techniques — such as avoiding plowing, off-season cover crop and leaving crop residue on the ground — can help keep more of the carbon in the soil. ...
Featured expert(s): Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science. director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center
IGS Energy Resource Library, Aug-18
The importance of sustainability and its impact on business practices has become undeniable. Recently there has been a global shift away from consumer-based economies and cultures to ones that are conserver-based. This shift, it is argued, will create more jobs, wealth and a higher quality of life for ensuing generations than current practices of consuming and degrading resources that are in finite supply. ...
Featured expert(s): Neil Drobny, Fisher College of Business
Dayton Daily News, 31-Jul-18
After nearly two years of construction, Mirror Lake — a crown jewel of Ohio State’s main campus — is being refilled with water, lined with new landscaping and outfitted with Wi-Fi. University officials are hopeful that the new design will permanently end the long-standing tradition of jumping in the lake before the Michigan-OSU football game. ...
Associated Press via Newsday, 31-Jul-18
The draft of an administration proposal says that people will drive less if their vehicles get fewer miles per gallon, lowering the risk of crashes. The Trump administration says people would drive more and be exposed to increased risk if their cars get better gas mileage, an argument intended to justify freezing Obama-era toughening of fuel standards... ...Giorgio Rizzoni, an engineering professor and director of the Center for Automotive Research at Ohio State University, said, "allow me to be skeptical. To say that safety is a direct result of somehow freezing the fuel economy mandate for a few years, I think that's a stretch." ...
Featured expert(s): Giorgio Rizzoni, professor of engineering and director, Center for Automotive Research
Business First, 27-Jul-18
Ohio State University is nearing its last steps in the restoration of Mirror Lake, a project the school undertook in late 2016. Now, the lake is filled to the brim with water – but it isn't nearly as deep as before. ...
WOSU All Sides, 26-Jul-18
For more than a decade, algal blooms have turned many Ohio waterways into thick, green mush, choking fish and turning the water toxic to humans. Runoff from farm fields is the biggest culprit... ...Join us today for a conversation on agricultural and algal pollution in Ohio lakes as we broadcast live from the Ohio State Fair. ...
Featured expert(s): panelist Jeffrey Reutter, PhD, former director, Ohio State University Ohio Sea Grant College Program
The (Medina) Gazette, 25-Jul-18
Hands shot in the air after Medina County Park District capital projects coordinator Nate Eppink asked, “Has anyone in the room been affected by algal blooms?”... ...Chris Winslow of the Ohio State University’s Stone Laboratory used Lake Erie as an example of a body of water that has sustained multiple algal blooms in recent years. ...
Featured expert(s): Chris Winslow, director, Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab
Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab
Cleveland.com, 25-Jul-18
Lake Erie's harmful algal blooms typically spend the summer in the Western Basin, but as the lake warms and winds from the west blow the blooms eastward, they merge with a separate, less toxic bloom of a different type of algae in the Central Basin. ...
Featured expert(s): Jeff Reutter, retired director of Ohio State's Sea Grant and Stone Lab