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Nov 27, 2018
In 2016, The Ohio State University's Office of International Affairs partnered with the Office of Research and Planning to assess the Fulbright Scholar Program. On November 26th, the Office of International Affairs released a full-length report detailing the findings of the study and outlining recommendations going forward.
A total of 360 Ohio State faculty and staff participated in the study's survey and focus groups, of which 39 of those participants represented the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES).
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Oct 11, 2018
The School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR), on behalf of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Northeast Forestry University (NEFU), located in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of China.
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May 9, 2018
Moses Ruendo is a tall Kenyan who has been farming for most of his life in Chuka County, Kenya – located in the rural Kenyan highlands. When the government sponsored an irrigation project, he hoped to stabilize production and get neighboring growers together to market their vegetable crops. But it was not so easy.
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May 7, 2018
The Office of International Affairs awarded nearly $150,000 as part of its 2017-2018 Academic Enrichment Grant competition, which supports faculty and students' international research.
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Apr 26, 2018
Eight faculty, students, and alumni in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) recently participated in and presented at the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) Conference in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, held from April 16 – 20, 2018.
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Apr 4, 2018
Two graduate students in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) have been selected to participate in the 2018 U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security, an annual 2-week educational program funded by the U.S.
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Mar 22, 2018
World Water Day, held by UN Water on March 22 each year, seeks to highlight the importance of freshwater. Still today, 2.1 billion people live without safe drinking water at home. Damaged ecosystems, together with a changing climate, affect the quantity and quality of water available for human consumption. This year’s theme, ‘Nature for Water’, explores nature-based solutions (NBS) to the water-related challenges we face in the 21st century.
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Feb 26, 2018
The Peace Corps has announced that Ohio State ranked No. 6 among large schools on the agency’s 2018 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. There are 62 Buckeyes currently volunteering worldwide. Since the agency’s founding in 1961, 1,821 Buckeyes have served in communities around the world.
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Feb 21, 2018
The Global Food Security Symposium, a platform for discussing the domestic and international community’s progress on addressing food insecurity, will be held from March 21-22 in Washington, DC. The event is held annually by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
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Jan 5, 2018
Agriculture in Tanzania is composed mostly of small holder farms, which average about 5 acres in size. Though 90% of Tanzanian livelihoods rely on agriculture, land productivity and soil quality have greatly diminished as a result of substandard agricultural practices and unaffordable fertilizers.
