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  1. Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Pacific Trash Vortex (for the Week of Oct. 28, 2007)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/smart-stuff-twig-walkingstick-pacific-trash-vortex-week-oct-28-2007-1

    Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special; and ... calculations: 3 million tons equals 2.7 trillion grams. An empty 1-liter soda bottle weighs about 35 grams. ... Divide 2.7 trillion by 35 and you get (but might not want) 77 billion empty 1-liter soda bottles. ...

  2. Media Advisory: Ohio State's Board of Trustees Meets in Wooster Aug. 29; Campus Reconstruction Announcement to Be Made

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/media-advisory-ohio-states-board-trustees-meets-wooster-aug-29-campus-reconstruction

    August 27, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Ohio State University's Board of Trustees will meet on the ... greenhouses and other structures that supported critical research projects.   For more information, contact ...

  3. 'OARDC Is Key to Country's Future': USDA Deputy Secretary Merrigan

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/oardc-key-countrys-future-usda-deputy-secretary-merrigan

    campus on Oct. 27, accompanied by U.S. Rep. John Boccieri of Ohio’s 16th District, which includes ... http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~news/story.php?id=5825). “I’m saddened by the important loss of facilities and equipment,” said Merrigan ... delayed or lost research activity. They both expressed strong support for getting these research programs ...

  4. Webinars Help Consumers Put Dietary Guidelines into Practice

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/webinars-help-consumers-put-dietary-guidelines-practice

    offering a series of free webinars. The webinars are offered on the third Monday of the month through ... November at 10 a.m. On July 18, the webinar focuses on vegetables with "More Red. More Orange. More ... designed the webinars for any consumer who wants to learn easy, affordable ways to bring the concepts of ...

  5. Food Scientist Honored with Designated Professorship

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/food-scientist-honored-designated-professorship

    Ginni and Frank Bazler of Troy, Ohio, who pledged $200,000 over five years to support the designated ... hard to equalize our support to each of our areas of learning," Mr. Bazler said. "We need to ... funds to do that, or otherwise we may lose them to other colleges." Yousef, a microbiologist, is ...

  6. OSU Extension Partners with Penn State Extension to Offer Tour of Farm Markets, Promote Agritourism

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/osu-extension-partners-penn-state-extension-offer-tour-farm-markets-promote-agritourism

    and others interested in learning more about local food systems, food direct marketing and agritourism ... demonstrate successful operation of local food systems, according to Julie Fox, an OSU Extension direct ... farm direct-to-consumer marketing.  “The tour demonstrates how farms, farm markets and farm businesses ...

  7. Ohio Sea Grant Offers Great Lakes Climate Curriculum Workshops

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-sea-grant-offers-great-lakes-climate-curriculum-workshops

    May 24, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- This summer, Ohio Sea Grant and Ohio State University's Climate ... "Global Change, Local Impact" webinar series, in addition to the curriculum itself. Classroom ... webinar, on Oct. 19 from 10 a.m. to noon Eastern Time. Online registration for the webinar is now open at ...

  8. Herbicide-Treated Mulches May Provide Good Weed Control

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/herbicide-treated-mulches-may-provide-good-weed-control

    June 27, 2001 COLUMBUS, Ohio- Mulches pre-treated with herbicides may provide a new, better way to ... a specific herbicide, would be an effective alternative to applying chemicals directly onto the soil or ... is no direct application of herbicides on the soil or the plant, and the mulch itself determines how ...

  9. Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Can the Grandma Not Get Run Over By the Reindeer? (for the Week of Dec. 9, 2007)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/smart-stuff-twig-walkingstick-can-grandma-not-get-run-over-reindeer-week-dec-9-2007

    world's fastest human, meanwhile, tops out at 27 miles per hour in a very short sprint and is not nor ... http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~news/story.php?id=2766.) Sources included Canadian Geographic magazine's "Caribou in Canada" Web site (oo, ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/athletics/features/newsid_2116000/2116146.stm. "Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick," published by The Ohio State University College of ...

  10. Industry Decisions May Hold Key in Biotech Future

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/industry-decisions-may-hold-key-biotech-future

    May 27, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio — The recent setbacks in the global introduction of new biotech ... crops may be setting a precedent for how genetically modified (GM) crops will be produced and marketed ... regarding biotech crops may, ultimately, not result in the reduction of biotechnology, but simply put a new ...

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