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  1. $1 Million Grant Furthering Efforts to Eliminate Food Crisis in Africa

    availability and marketing of key staple commodities and cash crops. Ohio State's Office of International ... and tomatoes. "Food insecurity is a lack of food or the income to purchase that food and ... it's always been the cornerstone of development issues in Africa. Agricultural production has not kept ...

  2. $1 Million Study Tackles Role of Viruses in Safety of Fresh Produce

    has entered the plant tissue. For this portion of the project, the team will grow green onions and ... surface of the plant or has entered the tissue. After produce is harvested, it is often cooled and stored ... understanding of how viruses contaminate produce and what can be done to eradicate them, they will take their ...

  3. $320,000 Tractor Donated; Another on the Way

    auto guidance to Ohio State University's Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological ... loan of this tractor upgrades our teaching capabilities substantially," said Scott Shearer, ... department chair. "Previously, our teaching aids were nearly 25 years old and void of modern ...

  4. $5 Million Bioenergy, Bioproducts Project Offers Opportunities for Ohio Teachers

    March 4, 2011 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- The potential of tomorrow's bioenergy and bioproducts rests in ... today's classrooms. And Ohio State University is taking part in a multi-state project offering teachers ... teachers the resources they need to show students how STEM principles apply in the fields of biofuels and ...

  5. $5 Million Third Frontier Grant to Advance Granule Technology

    June 30, 2008 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- The performance of a liquid combined with the convenience of ... a capsule is the focus of a $5 million three-year Third Frontier Grant exploring advanced granule ... technologies that address the economic, health and environmental concerns of the turfgrass, horticulture and ...

  6. $6M Announced for Reconstruction of Tornado-stricken Building on Ohio State's Wooster Campus

    August 31, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- The state of Ohio's Office of Budget and Management has ... allocated $6 million in emergency funds to assist with the reconstruction of a building at ... of a Sept. 16, 2010, tornado that struck the Wooster campus.   The announcement was made Aug. 29 by ...

  7. 'An Ohio State Story': Lab Idea Yields 60 Local Jobs, New Green Industry

    doesn't take away crops from food production, adding value to the 70 million gallons of crude ... October 5, 2012 MANSFIELD, Ohio-- Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee liked what he saw ... being turned into polyurethane foam. But he was more fascinated by the story of how this factory came to ...

  8. 'Corn University' to Examine Possibility of 300 Bushel Corn

    January 25, 2011 ADA, Ohio-- In 1992, Ohio's corn crop achieved a record yield of 143 bushels ... University, part of the 2011 Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference, Feb. 24-25 in Ada, Ohio. Corn ... specialists from Purdue University, the University of Illinois and the University of Kentucky. Thomison's ...

  9. 'Environmental Stewardship and You': OSU Professor, Author to Speak This Friday (1/28)

    Ohio State’s Department of Horticulture and Crop Science. Call 614-292-2011 for more information. ... January 26, 2011 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State University’s John W. Simpson, who writes about ... people’s relationship to the land, including the role of politics, will speak on the subject this Friday ...

  10. 'Food, Faith and a Sustainable Future': Talk This Wednesday (3/30) at OSU

    March 28, 2011 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Jewish environmental educator Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb of ... Bethesda, Md., and Rabbi Benjamin Berger of Ohio State University Hillel will present “Food, Faith and ... (3/30) in the Barbara Tootle Room of Ohio State’s Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., Columbus.  Ohio State ...

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