Last semester, Ohio State Energy Partners announced the Smart Campus Challenge, the first-ever, venture capitalist-style student sustainability competition that encouraged students to pitch and sell their ideas on sustainability. Since then, six finalists were selected, and a pitch session on Saturday determined winners of the ...

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 ...

Environmental policy expert Ibrahim Abdul-Matin spoke to faculty, staff and Ohio State community partners at the annual community engagement conference entitled “Partnering for a Resilient and Sustainable Future” on Wednesday. Abdul-Matin is an integral player in sustainability efforts, especially in New York City, as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Undergraduate Student Government has paired up with Ohio State fraternities to make football Saturdays more sustainable by providing recycling bins for aluminum cans at their block parties, events held by many fraternities before each home football game. Will Baumgart, USG deputy director of sustainability, said ...

The introduction of energy-efficient SportsArt equipment to Jesse Owens South and the RPAC has brought a new meaning to burning off fuel at the gym. The new state of the art equipment cost roughly $25,000 and features treadmills, ellipticals and stationary bikes which allow users ...

In high school, Michael Milam would use the Cleveland Public Library’s laser cutter, a part of its public “workers space,” to create wooden cutouts for fun. After hanging one in his car next to his paper tree air freshener, an idea struck him. Milam, now ...

Serdar Tufekci’s first Ohio State office was in the windowless basement of the Baker Systems Engineering building, back when he was a graduate student in 1994. But 24 years later, he sits in an office in the same building with windows on the fourth floor ...

Ep. 6: Updates on Ohio State Energy Partners On this week’s episode, we sat down with Serdar Tufekci, CEO of Ohio State Energy Partners, to take a deeper look at what the university’s newest public-private partnership has planned in terms of campus sustainability. The partnership ...