Bartow J. Elmore’s book "SEED MONEY: Monsanto's Past and the Future of Food" (W. W. Norton) has been selected for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, given annually to aid in the completion of significant works of nonfiction on American topics of political or social concern. These awards assist in closing the gap between the time and money an author has and the time and money that finishing a book requires. Drawing on documents acquired via Freedom of Information Act requests, confidential files housed in corporate archives, sensitive interviews with company employees, courtroom testimony, and field research in Vietnam, Brazil, and beyond, "Seed Money" exposes how a company that once made Agent Orange and PCBs survived its complicated chemical past to seed our food future.   

The book, published with Cambridge University Press, is an anthology that is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens, focusing on how the War remade American landscapes, institutions and environmental thinking and how wartime developments shaped the contours of postwar American environments and environmental thinking. The book contains a chapter by Kip Curtis, history, and also is co-edited by Peter Mansoor, history; Thomas Robertson, US Education Foundation, Nepal; and Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Andrea Grottoli, professor of earth sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious 2020 – 2021 U.S. Fulbright Award to France. The research Grottoli will be conducting is in collaboration with the team of Jean-Pierre Gattuso at Sarbonne University’s Oceanographic Laboratory in Villfrance-Sur-Mer and will be a study on Mediterranean corals to determine how they are able to persist in stressful environments and how their survival can be enhanced through this century. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. 

The article was published Feb. 15, 2020, in Energy and Buildings. Clark’s research showed how total peak power demand in the country could be reduced by almost 10% with smart ventilation. Energy and Buildings is an international journal publishing articles presenting new research results and new proven practice aimed at reducing the energy needs of a building and improving indoor environment quality.

Ian Howat, professor in the School of Earth Sciences and director of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, has received the university's Distinguished Scholar Award. He is among the world’s leaders in the study of glaciers and ice sheets, using a wide range of observations from remote sensing and field studies to understand the dynamics and behavior of large ice sheets and how they respond to climate change.

The Council of the Royal Microscopical Society has unanimously voted to award Dean David B. Williams with an Honorary Fellowship. Since 1840, only 272 have been awarded to scholars from a variety of scientific disciplines worldwide. Professor Williams is synonymous with Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy (ATEM) having pioneered its development and applications to a broad range of materials.Over the past 45 years his work has led to a new understanding of materials and microstructural evolution, including segregation, precipitation phenomena, phase diagrams and phase transformations in metals and alloys. Among his achievements, Professor Williams is widely recognized for his prolific research in Al alloy metallurgy – particularly in his pioneering research into Al-Li alloys, as well as fundamental research in EELS and STEM-EDX microanalysis.

Lonnie Thompson was recognized by the Columbus Foundation as a True Original, which is an award celebrating those among us who expand our horizon as a community through groundbreaking, original work. Recipients received a $5,000 grant to make to the nonprofit of their choice. 

Qin received the prestigious Yuxiang Early Career Award in recocgnition for her research and achievements. The award aims to recognize outstanding Chinese and Chinese-American young scholars in oceanic, atmospheric sciences and related fields while also providing financial supprt and career opportunities for the awardees. 

T. V. "Babu" RajanBabu, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been recognized as a 2020 Arthur Cope Scholar for "research that has contributed important concepts to several areas of homogeneous catalysis, ranging from carbon feedstock conversion to polymer chemistry and enantioselective catalysis."

The Distinguished University Professor is the highest faculty honor at The Ohio State University. Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, the Lowber B. Strange Designated Professor in civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, received the award because her research has made a significant impact on advancing research in the application of Global Positioning Systems and Global Navigation Satellite Systems.