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Nov 16, 2020
Dr. Barbara Kowalcyk and the Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention (housed in CFAES’s Department of Food Science and Technology) recently received almost $700,000 from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Purdue University’s Food Safety Innovation Lab (FSIL) toward improving food safety in Kenya. The team includes her department mates Kara Morgan and Ahmed Yousef as well as Sanja Ilic and Robert Scharff from OSU, three Kenyans, and two from The University of Florida.
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Nov 9, 2020
Rafael Quijada Landaverde, a Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Mary Rodriguez, is one of seven students combatting food insecurity in the US and Mexico. These Kirchner Food Fellows began meeting virtually in September and decided they would concentrate on using the $50,000 that the program enables them to invest in companies working on water: from water governance to irrigation or drinking water.
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Oct 7, 2020
The Office of International Affairs (OIA) has released its 2019 annual report on International Partnerships and CFAES played an integral role in contributing to the success by maintaining and establishing relationships with partner institutions in many different countries.
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Aug 10, 2020
COVID-19 has had an unparalleled effect on K-12 education. Join the College of Education and Human Ecology Aug. 11 6:30-7:30 p.m. for a conversation about keeping students, educators and staff safe. Featured are Sanja Ilic, associate professor, Department of Human Sciences, and Charlie Keenan, Maple Heights City Schools superintendent and president of the EHE Alumni Society Board of Governors.
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Aug 3, 2020
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) bestowed the dual titles of IICA Chair in Soil Science and IICA Goodwill Ambassador for Sustainable Development Issues on Dr. Rattan Lal during a virtual ceremony held Friday, July 17.
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Apr 10, 2020
The Ohio State University has ranked No. 6 among large schools on the Peace Corps’ list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities in 2020. There are 62 Buckeyes currently volunteering in countries around the world.
The university held strong at its No. 6 spot from last year’s ranking on the annual list. Consistently ranked in the top 10 for the last eight years, Buckeyes have shown their commitment to helping people in interested countries meet their need for trained men and women. The university is among three Ohio schools on the list this year.
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Mar 21, 2019
The Peace Corps has announced that Ohio State ranked No. 5 among large schools on the agency’s 2019 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. There are 62 Buckeyes currently volunteering worldwide. Since the agency’s founding in 1961, 1,883 Buckeyes have served in communities around the world.
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Feb 25, 2019
The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) was recently awarded a grant from the American Councils on International Education, with support from the U.S. Embassy in Astana, to establish a partnership between The Ohio State University and Kazakh National Agrarian University (KazNAU) in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Feb 15, 2019
Six faculty from Zamorano University in Honduras visited the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) from February 12-14 to strengthen research, student internships and service-learning collaborations with The Ohio State University.
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Dec 17, 2018
Dr. Mark Erbaugh, Director of International Programs in Agriculture, and Dr. Luis Cañas, Associate Professor in the Department of Entomology, traveled to the Pan-American School of Agriculture – popularly referred to as Zamorano University - in Honduras from December 6 – 12, 2018, to reaffirm and strengthen existing linkages on behalf of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES).
