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Ohio State Energy Partners has announced the Smart Campus Challenge, which encourages students to pitch and sell ideas to improve sustainability at Ohio State. Students with thoughts on how to fix campus sustainability problems are encouraged to submit project proposals to OSEP — which is ...

Filtering photos comes in handy for those who wish to enhance their appearance through social media posts, but a study done by an Ohio State doctoral candidate in communication suggests there is more to filters than the user’s motive behind the photo. Megan Vendemia, lead ...

Smart paint and smarter pedestrians: The Ohio State School for the Blind is implementing a paint invention that allows the visually impaired to cross streets more safely. “Smart paint” is being applied to the edges of crosswalks and is made with elements that cause “smart ...

The Ohio State University College of Nursing announced new funding for a community health workers training program through the Franklin County Board of Commissioners Department of Jobs and Family Services at a press conference Friday morning. The funding, consisting of $180,000, will support three new ...

An Ohio State doctoral student found in a recent study, published in the “Journal of Adolescent Health,” that two in five teenagers text while driving. Li Li, the lead author of the study and a PhD candidate studying epidemiology — the study of incidence, distribution ...

Ohio State University, in collaboration with Ohio Northern University and Kansas high school Olathe Northwest, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to broaden high school students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math pathways. The project, called “Promoting Engineering Problem Framing Skill ...

Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise across the nation, condom use is down and one STI in particular is becoming resistant to the antibiotics typically used to treat it. Gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia diagnoses have continued to increase over the past four years, while ...

The Wexner Medical Center’s Geriatric Emergency Department, which focuses on the care of older patients, is the first in the Midwest to achieve Level 1 accreditation — the gold standard for geriatric emergency care — by the American College of Emergency Physicians. The ACEM launched ...

Lake Erie and other large recreational bodies of water are no longer the only areas of concern when it comes to harmful algae. Smaller lakes and ponds, especially in agricultural areas, are being affected by toxins released from harmful algae, causing alarm for not only ...