CFAES Monthly: March 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. CFAES Recognition Program is April 16

    The CFAES Recognition Program is coming soon! Join your fellow faculty and staff members for this celebration of excellence on April 16 at 5:30 p.m. in the Archie M. Griffin Grand Ballroom in the Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St. in Columbus...

  2. Update on the Vice President’s Conversation on the Future of Extension

    Extension colleagues: It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than two months since we gathered at the VP Summit during Annual Conference to begin imagining and talking about the future...

  3. CFAES Facilities Master Plan is now online

    The CFAES Facilities Master Plan website is now linked to our college’s Facilities and Planning page. Or find it directly at cfaes-plan.sasaki.com...

Diversity Unity Community

  1. ‘Elephants in the Room’: CFAES Diversity Leadership Symposium is April 1

    Registration is open for CFAES’s 2015 Diversity Leadership Symposium. This year’s theme is privilege and is explored in a program called “Elephants in the Room: The Power of Privilege”...

More College News

  1. Communications unit launches new website

    CFAES’s Communications unit, previously known as Communications and Technology, launched its new,

  2. New or renewed CFAES appointments for Bebo, Davis, Worley

    Please join us as we congratulate three members of the CFAES team who have received new or renewed appointments...

  3. Francis, Sneller each receive $500,000 USDA grants

    Two Department of Horticulture and Crop Science faculty members, David Francis and Clay Sneller, each have received $500,000 grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grants were part of the FY 2014 AFRI Plant Breeding Projects...

  4. Salute! Scurlock inducted into Ohio Wine Hall of Fame

    At the annual banquet at the Ohio Grape and Wine Conference on Feb. 16, CFAES’s David Scurlock was honored by his peers and inducted into the Ohio Wine Hall of Fame. It’s the highest honor the Ohio wine and grape community can bestow...

  5. 93 examples of people working toward a College Goal

    On Feb. 8, ATI served as the Wayne County site for College Goal Sunday, a state-based volunteer program that provides free information and assistance to students and families who are applying for financial aid for postsecondary education...

  6. 11 reasons OARDC’s Chili Cook-off was a booming success — including for people and pets

    The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center’s 2015 Chili Cook-off, hosted by the OARDC Staff Council, provided some great food and competition, along with a chance for employees to give back to local charities...

  7. New tool for sharing land-grant universities’ impacts

    On March 2, the National Impact Database Planning Committee, a joint committee appointed by ESCOP and ECOP, announced two new projects that will help us tell our land-grant story...

  8. 22 new agribusiness leaders who now know more about ATI

    The Ohio AgriBusiness Association’s 2015 Leaders Achieving Unexpected New Career Heights (LAUNCH) class spent three days in Wooster in February...

  9. New foundation to deploy $200 million to spur innovation in food and agriculture

    The new Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, authorized by Congress as part of the 2014 Farm Bill, will leverage its initial $200 million in funding to solve pressing challenges in food and agriculture...

  10. ATI horse named best dam (producer) in the land

    The Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association has given Our Lady Countess, a horse that was donated to ATI, the 2014 Best Dam (Producer) Award. Her 2012 daughter is the very successful Bell Flower...

Sustainability

  1. April 2: Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond to speak on ‘The World Until Yesterday’

    Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs and Steel, presents a lecture based on his new book The World Until Yesterday at 6:30 p.m. on April 2 in the Ohio Union’s Archie M. Griffin Grand Ballroom, 1739 N. High St., in Columbus...