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May 2013
Welcome to CFAES Monthly, the newsletter for faculty and staff of Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. Your story ideas and submissions are welcome. Send them to cfaesmonthly@osu.edu.
CFAES's YouTube channel features a series of fun videos profiling our students. In this one, meet Sustainable Plant Systems major Henry Peller, who was recently named a Udall Scholar (0:49):
Diversity
'Our future depends on cultural intelligence'
Ohio State's Diversity Leadership Symposium was April 12, and one of the co-hosts was CFAES.
CFAES Diversity Catalyst Team honored
College kudos: CFAES's team won Ohio State's Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award last month.
News
ATI is a Power House at this year's Ohio Beef Expo
Three Ohio State ATI Murray Grey cattle, thanks to eight Ohio State ATI students, took home honors.
Teacher at Sea: Stone Lab's Greene to sail with NOAA
Angela Greene and others, says Stone Lab Director Jeff Reutter, "are constantly seeking new ways to be better teachers."
Transitioning family farms to the next generation
OSU Extension, farmer Roger Zeedyk says, "gave us the resources we needed to ensure we don't lose the farm because of bad estate planning."
Big hats, big fun, big crowd: CFAES Recognition Program
Some 600 people plus festive chapeaus were at this year's event April 4.
OARDC announces 2013 award winners at conference
Honors went out at OARDC's 2013 Annual Research Conference April 25 (w/ videos).
Gone (or soon to be going) fishing: Charter captains prep for new season, new teaching
Thanks to Ohio Sea Grant, more and more Lake Erie charter boat captains are also serving as educators.
Sustainability
Ohio State, led by CFAES, wins Environmental March Madness
The Bucks bagged a national title, but for sustainability, not slam dunks, environmental education, not excellent perimeter ball movement.
CFAES scientist breeds 30 percent faster-growing perch
Han-Ping Wang's genetically improved yellow perch should benefit fish farms, cut strain on wild stock.
CFAES students net Coca-Cola sustainability grants
Three of Ohio State's four recent campus sustainability grants have their roots in CFAES.
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Calendar:
- 5/10 - 5/11 Chadwick Arboretum Plant Sale, Auction, Gardening Fair
- 5/11 Plant Discovery Day
- 5/14 'Truth About Polar Bears and Global Warming': EPN Breakfast
- 5/14 Produce Safety Training, Summerton
- 5/14 Produce Safety Training, Old Washington
- 5/16 Strawberry Plasticulture Field Night
- 5/16 Sheep School
- 5/17 Ohio’s Non-Native Invasives
- 5/18 Tree School
- 5/21 'A Post-Racial Era in the U.S.?' CFAES Community Dialogue
- 5/23 Secrest After Hours
CFAES in the news:
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Rising Harvest Farms in Cleveland provides job training for people with disabilities
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 4/27 -
Digging a better ditch
Columbus Dispatch, 4/26 -
Report says harmful algae blooms on Lake Erie will become worse unless action taken
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 4/26 -
New iPhone app for tracking invasive species near the Great Lakes
WCPN, Cleveland, 4/25 -
Heavy rains grow toxic blooms
Columbus Dispatch, 4/15 -
New year, new risks as Ohio farmers plan crops
Columbus Dispatch, 4/10
