CFAES Stories

Learning
EPN expands leadership, launches dynamic year of programming
Chris Winslow, PhD, director, Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory, Ohio State, introduces the intergovernmental stewardship process for improving Lake Erie at the March 19, 2024 EPN program, "Our North Coast: An insight into Intergovernmental stewardship to improve Lake Erie from Ontario to Ohio.” Photo credit: Duane Gandelot
Discovery
One Week at Waterman
Drone shot of Waterman with CEARC in the foreground and dirt area where the MALC will be built
Engagement
Letting a partnership bloom
Learning
CFAES students embark on a cosmic culinary quest
Discovery
Cloudy waters causes African fish to develop bigger eyes
Discovery
NASA Deep Space Food Challenge Lands at CFAES
Discovery
Prescribed burn at Waterman ignites educational opportunities
Learning
Growing urban roots
Who We Are
Rooted in passion
Who We Are
Puskas named a Distinguished University Professor
Engineering a successful future
The road to research
CFAES Award Recipients from Undergraduate Student Council
CFAES Award Recipients from Staff Advisory Council
CFAES Award Recipients from OSU Extension
CFAES Award Recipients from Academic Programs
CFAES Award Recipients from Research and Graduate Education
Distinguished Professors of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
CFAES Endowed faculty appointments
Who We Are
Learning by doing
Cooking up a career
Who We Are
Raczkowski honored with Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
Growing true leaders
Who We Are
Real World Opportunities for a Bright Future
A passion for fashion
Everyday adventures
Who We Are
Tell Me Your Why: Mary Rodriguez
Join Us for the 2024 CFAES Farm Bill Summit
Discovery
Valued partnership reaps research rewards
A drone used to visually scan the field and assess crop heat signatures
Who We Are
Madi Layman fueled by love for agriculture
Helping hands build a brighter future
Learning
Maudine’s Berry Patch ice cream sold on campus
Matthew Chrusciel, a graduate student in FST who also serves as the ice cream manager for Ohio State, demonstrates how ice cream is made in the CFAES Dairy Processing Pilot Plant. Photo: Jaden Parise.
Ohio State expert has tips on Christmas trees
Healthy Holiday Appetizers
Poinsettia Care
Thanksgiving leftover makeover
Healthy Holiday Sides
How to cook a turkey
Engagement
Stone Lab educators working to clean up Lake Erie
Stone Lab research boat on Lake Erie.
Countdown to Thanksgiving
Who We Are
Growing kindness across Ohio
Students, faculty and staff planted succulents, keeping one for themselves and sharing another as an act of kindness. Photo: Ken Chamberlain
Featured in the news
Engagement
CFAES Homecoming 2023
Learning
From football to farming
Who We Are
2023 CFAES Alumni Award Recipients
Discovery
Researcher works to stop pathogens growing in your salad
Learning
4-H at the Ohio State Fair Builds Youth Workforce Skills
The 4-H Mobile Design Lab gives youth hands-on experience with a variety of tech tools. Photo:CFAES.
Discovery
Lack of affordable child care hurting farm families’ ability to grow their businesses
Learning
Cassidy Brozovich is following a career path that will take her to space
Discovery
CFAES professor wins ‘Oscars’ of engineering
Judit E. Puskas has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering Class of 2023 in recognition of sustained excellence in innovation and education, one of the highest professional distinctions an engineer can receive.
Who We Are
Dean Kress delivers State of the College to inspire and ignite potential
Parents of CFAES undergrad Austin Ayars launch memorial scholarship funds
Dustin Highnote builds community to help military and veteran students adapt to college life
OSU Extension distributes more than 175,000 meals to food-insecure areas in southeast Ohio
Discovery
2022 Distinguished Senior Faculty Research Award: Gireesh Rajashekara
Discovery
2022 Distinguished Graduate Student Mentor Award: Monica Giusti
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2022 Innovator of the Year Award: Rafael Jimenez-Flores
Discovery
Fresh produce anywhere, anytime
Chieri Kubota
Discovery
2022 Distinguished Junior Faculty Research Award: Laura Lindsey
Engagement
Celebrating Ohio's Urban-Rural Connections
Honoring Ohio’s best
Discovery
Diet plays key role in ADHD symptoms in children
A healthy diet could help kids with ADHD manage some symptoms.
Engagement
Buckeye ISA is making an impact in the University District
Time and Change
The spark to take science success even higher
Discovery
Agriculture plays key role in limiting climate change
Agriculture plays a big part in keeping greenhouse gas emissions low, but land-use sectors will have to adapt quickly to help mitigate a climate catastrophe. Photo: Getty Images.
Time and Change
Donor support lifts up his water work
Time and Change
She follows her passion at CFAES thanks to scholarships
Learning
50 years of shaping students
Time and Change
‘Scholarships were critical to my education’
Learning
Frozen feat
Who We Are
Hitting his stride
Engagement
Riding for farmers who can’t
Who We Are
Where passion meets science
Engagement
Celebrating Ohio's Cities
Cleveland's skyline (Photo: Getty images)
Learning
4-H’ers rocket to national finals
Who We Are
A world of walleye
Engagement
‘Know more, waste less’
Engagement
Offering sunlight amid the storm
Who We Are
Thriving abroad even in a pandemic
(Rachael Cline sits at the top of Loughrigg Fell, north of Liverpool where she interned for a semester.)
Learning
CFAES has a new sustainable agriculture major. Here are 5 things to know
Engagement
Changing genes to save lives
(Photo: Getty Images)
Who We Are
CFAES announces winners of its Spirit of the Land Grant Award
Discovery
Improving the lives of community members
Mary Rodriguez works with community partners in Tanzania.
Learning
Code writers, world changers
Who We Are
Into the blue
Who We Are
Parenting in a pandemic
Joyce Chen (center) with her children (left to right) Bryn, Campbell and Emerson. Photo: Raimon Norris
Who We Are
A love affair with agriculture
Yolanda Owens plants as part of a Growing Power workshop. Photo: Yolanda Owens.
Engagement
Putting healthy food in reach
(Photo: Getty Images)
Engagement
Connecting through letters
(Photo courtesy of Olivia Preston)
Discovery
Can science make tomatoes even better for you?
State of the College 2021
Engagement
Saving Soil
Time and Change
Healthy food, land, and people depend on supported research
Who We Are
Sweat and generosity
McKalynne Helmke raised her steer, Refried, which was donated to feed families at the Ronald McDonald House. (Photo: Leanne Wise-Helmke)
Learning
Cutting-edge in Wooster
Science building external view front
Who We Are
Suzanne Gray’s School of Fish
Time and Change
Your support is needed to make the Waterman vision a reality
Discovery
Deep knowledge is the best ally
Linda Saif. Photo Ken Chamberlain
Who We Are
Coming home to nature
(Photo: Ken Chamberlain, CFAES)
Engagement
4-H roots lead to Big Apple ag venture
Former 4-H'ers Eric Tiu and Jameel Watson
Who We Are
An atypical semester begins
flowers in front of a college building
Discovery
Study: adding green tea extract to prepared foods may reduce norovirus risk
In the study, adding green tea extract to a film-forming substance created a safe-to-eat barrier that killed norovirus as well as two types of bacteria. Photo: Shutterstock.com
Who We Are
Sharing passion
Discovery
Why plant viruses matter
Who We Are
Coming back from COVID-19
Karl Danneberger is recovering after one month in the hospital.
Who We Are
They find joy helping others
The Joehlins with a CFAES student ambassador standing together.
Time and Change
Horses brought her, then cows won her heart
Who We Are
Painted P!nk
Crank and P!nk working together during their run at Westminster. (Photo courtesy of: 1TDC.com)
Who We Are
Taking time to celebrate our students
Brutus Buckeye
Time and Change
Video Stories
Sunrise photo of student feeding dairy cattle at Waterman.
Learning
The value of a drop
CFAES senior Emily Beal spent a week in Ghana assisting at an orphanage. (Photo: Shelby Prieto)
Who We Are
Best of CFAES recognized during awards ceremony
Cathann Kress delivers her State of the College address.
Who We Are
Southern Ohio’s Endeavor Center is taking care of business
A view from the second floor of the Endeavor Center overlooking a seating area in the lobby, hallways linked with office spaces, and a Block O emblazoned on the floor. Photos: Bradford Sherman
Discovery
Summer in winter: Ohio’s red-hot greenhouse industry
Who We Are
One base at a time
Learning
Creme de la creme
In September, The Ohio State Dairy Judging Team won The World Dairy Expo. (Photo: Bonnie Ayars)
Who We Are
How Alisha Barton started a wave of kindness
The 40 days of kindness Alisha Barton launched was mentioned on the "Today" show. (Photo: Mitch Moser, CFAES)
Who We Are
LOOKING FOR ‘DIRTY, SUNBURNT, AND EXHAUSTED’
Katie Butler
Learning
Youth Leadership Cooperative Experience
Students in the Agriculture Business Management program at the Ohio Valley Career and Technical Center recently met with CFAES Meat Science Professor Lyda Garcia to learn about meat science and future career opportunities.
Discovery
Climate change lessons from Bangladesh’s disappearing farms
Engagement
Bad weather? Bad wine
(Photo: Getty images)
Learning
Solar Technology at Stone Lab
Stone Lab buildings are powered using solar panels on the roof and on a nearby pavilion. Photo: Stone Lab
Engagement
The native fruit you haven't heard of
(Matt Davies, an assistant CFAES professor, is helping spearhead a study to encourage more pawpaw cultivation in Ohio. (Photo: John Rice, CFAES)
Engagement
New counselor serves CFAES students
David Wirt was hired as part of Ohio State's effort to meet mental health needs on campus. (Photo: John Rice, CFAES)
Who We Are
Small fruits specialist leaving YouTube legacy
Gary Gao
Discovery
Much fridge food ‘goes there to die’
Engagement
Veteran farming program offers heroes help
Master Gardener Volunteer Amy Chenevy shows veteran Jeff Smallwood how to transplant tomatoes in the Heroes Garden. Photo: Mike Hogan.
Engagement
Sustainable secret to knee-high corn and gardens galore: Human waste-based compost
This plot of corn, part of a public research installation, popped up on campus in the spring.
Engagement
Dean’s Charity Steer Show brings in ‘unbelievable support’
Discovery
Livestock exposure could help baby’s immune system
Photo: Getty Images
Learning
Job offers plentiful
Connor Frame
Who We Are
Flower Power
CFAES professor Michelle Jones studies bacteria that help flowering plants flourish after leaving the greenhouse.
Discovery
A songbird’s fate
Student researchers (l to r) Liz Ames, Alicia Brunner, and Jay Wright with a Prothonotary Warbler tagged for the study. (Photo: Christopher Tonra, CFAES)
Engagement
Buckeye trailblazer
Floyd Poruban. Photo by Ken Chamberlain.
Learning
Construction on his mind
Wyatt (Kin) Sanders-Evans was invited to tour Air Force Two during his internship.
Discovery
Can we trick mosquitoes so they stop biting us?
Megan Meuti
Learning
Crops for change
Student farm advisor Chris Ratcliff operates a BCS machine to break up the soil on Waterman Farm on April 18. Credit: Casey Cascaldo | Multimedia Editor
Discovery
Beliefs about wildlife management are changing
Discovery
Algal blooms in Lake Erie’s central basin could produce neurotoxins
Cleveland skyline
Learning
Food, science, and the truth
Students involved in Citation Needed listen to invited speaker and author Kavin Senapathy in 2016. (photo: Department of Food Science and Technology)
Engagement
Growing for science
Stone lab
Learning
Saving birds one walk at a time
(Photo: Getty images)
Discovery
Study shows potential for Earth-friendly plastic
Learning
Round ’Em Up
Learning
Bacon Vending?
Discovery
Green tea cuts obesity, health risks in mice
Green tea. Photo: Getty Images
Discovery
Experimental blood test accurately spots fibromyalgia
Dr. Kevin Hackshaw examines fibromyalgia patient Barb Hartong at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Who We Are
CFAES loves its buckeyes, and also all their friends
Who We Are
From Personal Tragedy to Worldwide Mission
Learning
Student Researchers Shine
Harrison Fried
Engagement
Ardent supporters: David and Ginny Brown
Engagement
Urban agriculture in Ohio
Discovery
Culprit found for honey bee deaths in almond groves
Learning
The Brain Behind Beannut Butter
Discovery
Nightime light has profound impacts
Who We Are
These Boots Are Made For Walking
Discovery
Beech trees are dying, and nobody’s sure why
Discovery
Why was Rudolph’s nose so bright?
Discovery
Could you find a partridge in a pear tree in Ohio?
Engagement
Ohio Sea Grant at 40
Discovery
Tough shrub could help fight hunger in Africa
Learning
ASM Club Lends a Helping Hand
Discovery
Climate change threatens farmers in Bangladesh
Discovery
CHAIRE: Exploring the animal/human bond
Who We Are
Greenhouse Guru
Learning
From Ohio to Puerto Rico
Learning
Taking Classroom Lessons to the Streets
Engagement
Hope Grows
Engagement
His Work Involves Keeping Your Water in Harmony
Engagement
Farm Science Review: ‘I Love the Atmosphere Here’
Who We Are
Beer and Sustainability: Not Mutually Exclusive
Sustainability manager Vinny Valentino behind the bar at Land-Grant Brewery.
Who We Are
Pioneering Champion of Diversity
Discovery
Study: Algal blooms impact fish vision
Engagement
SmartAg4.0 to Bring Innovative Ideas to Dairy Industry
Who We Are
What You Can See at Stone Lab (and When)
Engagement
Transformative Generosity
Discovery
Endangered Species Act
Discovery
They Made the World’s First ‘Intelligent Sprayer’
Picture of sprayer researchers in lab
Who We Are
Athlete extraordinaire Zack Bazile
Zack Bazile won the 1st individual NCAA track and field title for Ohio State since 1993.
Learning
Ohio’s Richest Soil Dwindling
Discovery
Summer Travelers Beware: Bedbugs on the Rise
Susan Jones, a CFAES entomologist, works to help consumers prevent bedbug infestations
Learning
For the Love of Food
Who We Are
Rattan Lal: Our Soils Rock Star
Learning
Student farm sprouts success
Engagement
Youths Fight Opioid Epidemic
Who We Are
More than safe
Discovery
Making Nutritious Food Available to All
Engagement
‘Every Ohio State Fan Should Have One’
Engagement
Trees Please
Who We Are
Commitment to Future Buckeyes
CFAES students in front of stadium
Learning
Saving a Wetland
The Carmack Woods capstone team (l-r) ecological engineering majors Jake Radeff, Lucas Froelich, Monica Backs and Patrick Sanders and biological engineering major Gio Papio.
Discovery
Defying the Laws of Nature
Who We Are
All in the Family
Photo of Nick Erf with his great-great-great uncle Oscar Erf
Who We Are
A.B. Graham's Legacy
Learning
Diving Into Research
CFAES student Madeline Lambrix nets phytoplankton samples
Engagement
Combating Ohio's Opioid Crisis
Image of bottles of oxycodone
Learning
4-H From the Edge of Space
A picture of the August eclipse
Discovery
Taking a Bite Out of Food Waste
Rotting fruit and vegetables laying in a waste pile
Discovery
Mapping Food Insecurity, Hunger in Ohio
The fresh produce isle of a grocery store
Engagement
Digging Deeper into Human-Animal Connections
Some young children interacting with a penguin