When Ohio State professor Rattan Lal was awarded the prestigious Japan Prize April 8 and its accompanying $450,000 award, he had numerous options for how to spend the money. He could give it to his family. He could spend it on himself. He could take ...

Peer pressure isn’t just for high schoolers. It plays out on larger scales too. In fact, it plays out on the largest stage out there: international diplomacy. By using a complex data set of different countries, Ohio State associate professor Skyler Cranmer, Ph.D. candidate Benjamin ...

Climate advocacy group Defend Our Future is furthering its cause by supporting something important to college students: beer. Defend Our Future, a nonprofit group advocating for clean energy and climate solutions, hosted a panel discussion on Wednesday at the Land-Grant Brewing Company in Columbus. The ...

A new environmental organization on campus is hosting its first ecological restoration project Saturday by clearing ground along the Olentangy River bank for its future tree-planting events. The international organization, Society for Ecological Restoration, started a student chapter at Ohio State in Spring 2018. Membership ...

Last weekend, a group of Ohio State graduate students and their faculty adviser were awarded $40,000 in funding in the Smart Campus Challenge, a sustainability competition hosted by the Ohio State Energy Partners. Their concept: to install Ecosia — a search engine where 80 percent ...

For the final lecture of the 2019 Community Engagement Conference on Thursday, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson spoke to Ohio State faculty, students and other conference attendees about the importance of fighting climate change, as well as what people can do to slow it ...

Growing up in rural Ohio, Zac Graber was very active in his local 4-H, Farm Bureau and Future Farmers of America organizations. Little did he know back then in Liberty Center, Ohio, that these involvements would instill in Graber, a fourth-year in marketing, a passion ...

Passionate students, faculty and community members met at the Agricultural Administration Building on Monday to listen to bipartisan speakers discuss how to reach across the aisle to address issues of climate change. The speakers included state Rep. Kristin Boggs, several professors and Sarah Spence, the ...

A task force at Ohio State has released its years-long work for public feedback: a draft action plan to help central Ohio combat the issues that accompany climate change. This plan, compiled by researchers at Ohio State’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC), offers ...

As images of flooded streets, torn-down homes and distressed families fill Ohio State students’ televisions and news feeds, some took to The Oval Thursday to honor those affected by the storms, also hoping to send one message: climate change matters. Representatives from Keep Wayne Wild, ...