Ohio State fosters project-based learning opportunities and applied research to advance sustainability knowledge in practice, including on and around its diverse properties, with its external partners, or anywhere you can find a Buckeye.
To help coordinate, promote and empower these efforts, the Sustainability Institute facilitates collaboration with academic units and university partners to track and enhance the wide range of project-based sustainability learning and applied research activities that occur inside and outside of the classroom environment, including those that use our campus facilities as a living lab.
Campus as a Living Lab: Ohio State leverages our properties and buildings to serve as a learning lab for sustainability research, innovation and learning and to shape new solutions by providing a test bed for applying and scaling research.
Partnering for Learning: In collaboration with local municipalities to global industry leaders, Ohio State's students, faculty, and staff address sustainability challenges at a variety of scales through project-based learning.
Check out projects and research that others have submitted in our database.
See all of the projects on our interactive map.
Instructions:
Use the below form to submit information about your project or research. The submission will be reviewed and then posted to the database.
Project types: please select the type that most closely matches your project or research.
- Living Lab Research - the utilization of our physical campuses for research to generate new knowledge (e.g. studying biodiversity along the Olentangy)
- Campus as Living Lab - a project that applies existing knowledge to our physical campus to improve sustainability (e.g. introducing rain gardens on campus to reduce stormwater runoff)
- Project with Partner Organization - a project that partners with an external organization to provide an experiential learning opportunity
- Research Center - recognizing an Ohio State research center working on sustainability issues
- Sustainable Campus - a sustainable feature on one of our campuses (e.g. geothermal heating/cooling)