CFAES Monthly: April 2015

Welcome to CFAES Monthly, the newsletter for faculty and staff of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University. Your story submissions are welcome. Send them to cfaesmonthly@osu.edu.

College News

  1. Ohio Sea Grant director retires after 42 years of service

    Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory, Ohio State’s island campus on Lake Erie, said a heartfelt “Thank you” to Jeffrey Reutter, who retired from his position as Ohio Sea Grant director on March 31...

  2. Next step after much success: Straquadine to return to Utah State

    Effective June 30, Gary Straquadine, Department of Agricultural Communication, Education, and Leadership chair, will return to Utah State to serve as vice provost and associate director, School of Applied Technology...

  3. Kaletunç picked for national program for women faculty in STEM

    Gönül Kaletunç of CFAES’s Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering was one of two Ohio State faculty members chosen to be fellows in the highly selective Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE) Program...

  4. Custer wins Darke County Agricultural Advocacy Award

    Congratulations to Sam Custer of OSU Extension’s Darke County office, who recently received the Darke County Chamber of Commerce’s Agricultural Advocacy Award...

  5. Steel elected VP of national communicators group

    Congratulations to Suzanne Steel of CFAES Communications, who will begin her four-year term on the Association for Communication Excellence board as vice president beginning at the group’s annual meeting in June...

Diversity Unity Community

  1. CFAES joins in YWCA celebration

    On April 1, Vice President and Dean Bruce McPheron joined four other CFAES faculty and staff members to attend the annual YWCA Women of Achievement awards program in Columbus…

More College News

  1. Construction Systems Management program is accredited

    The Board of Trustees of the American Council for Construction Education has announced the accreditation of Ohio State’s Construction Systems Management program, part of CFAES’s Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering...

  2. Program receives grant to study, improve grain bin safety

    The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation and Ohio Board of Regents recently awarded three grants to Ohio State totaling $577,595 to improve workplace safety. One of them went to CFAES’s Agricultural Safety and Health Program...

  3. ‘New frontier’: International workshop to explore non-coding RNAs in chronic disease

    MicroRNAs and other non-coding RNAs are involved in almost every cellular process imaginable. They are also linked to many chronic diseases. As such, these RNAs are also becoming targets for drug discovery, and the drugs are rapidly entering clinical trials...

Training

  1. Surprise! Conflict can be used for good

    Conflict is a part of our daily lives at work or at home. How we manage conflict has a direct impact on how fulfilled we feel about our work, the quality of work, and the quality of work from our respective teams or units...

  2. How to know and grow your strengths

    As a leader, it is important to know what talents you bring to the leadership table. Do you know what strengths you possess? Every leader possesses her or his own unique set of talents...

  3. How to grow your strengths even further

    Gaining a deeper understanding of your strengths and how to utilize them at work increases your chances of success...