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Now she has winessed Aiana
“gown o be an individual, become he
own eson” as a esul o he membe-
shi in 4-H. “She’s moe ougoing now,
and winning he couny ibbon in sew-
ing eally buil he conidence.” As o
Aiana, she says, “I like 4-H bee han
any ohe gou. You can do anyhing.”
Young eole like Aiana ae jus
who OSU Eension Educao Janice
Hanna had in mind when she woked
wih communiy leades o sa 4-H
clubs in he hea o he ciy. Hanna is
aoached Youngsown’s Communiy
Youh Dieco Andea Mahone, who
oenly admis she was a had sell a
is.
”I knew nohing abou 4-H,” Mahone
said. “I hough i was all hoses and
igs, and how could ha involve ou
childen in he inne ciy?” Bu alking
wih Hanna esuaded he o ake a
lea. Now he ciy has si 4-H clubs wih
100 membes, and Mahone is one o is
bigges ans. She ells anyone who wil
lisen: “We’e always ying o inven
new ogamming. Don’ einven he
wheel — 4-H aleady has i in lace.”
Lydia is glad o see i. She eels he
elaionshi wih Aiana gew songe
as mohe heled daughe wih he 4-H
ojec, and she aeciaes he caing
aduls involved in he 4-H ogam.
”I’s so good o see aduls and childen
woking ogehe o make a bee
communiy.”
To see a vdeo about the Yougstow
4-H progra, see OSU Exteso’s
YouTube chael at ://.y
cm/xi. MArtHA FILIpIC
Clubs Make IMpaCtIn Youngstown I n
t h
e
City4-H
Ariana Mostella and her mother Lydia o Youngstown never imagined the possibilities 4-H held in store; Youngstown proper now has six 4-H clubs with 100 members.
Lydia Mostella used to think “animals and arming” when she heard
“4-H.” Then a riend o her daughter Ariana talked about a 4-H photog-
raphy project, and their church youth program held a meeting about
starting a new 4-H club. “They mentioned you could take sewing and
writing. Ariana’s very creative — this was perect or her.”
Sing 2010 | volume 2 issue 2
Ao Iid: Acadic Prora p. 4 OARDC p. 7 ATI p. 10 Dopt p. 12 Ai p. 14
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a oi s uivriy
exi ogam ceaed
in he 1970s o omoe
ublic saey and a cleane
envionmen coninues
o be a souce o
economic sabiliy o
housands o Ohioans.
OSU Eension’s pesicide
Saey Educaion pogam oes
saewide aining, wokshos, cone-
ences, egulaoy udaes, and couses
o become a ceied commecial esi-
cide alicao. I’s a euied designaionse oh by sae and edeal egulaions
o anyone handling esicides in a hos o
woking envionmens, including gounds
mainenance o schools, weed conol
in co elds, mosuio conol in ciies,
and bed bug conol in housing.
though collaboaion wih he Ohio
Deamen o Agiculue, he ogam
ains abou 30,000 licensed commecial
and ivae esicide alicaos in Ohio.
“pesicides ae a useul ool, and hei
use is ciical o a lo o indusies and in
ublic healh, bu hee is a need o usehem esonsibly in a way ha minimies
any oenial hamul eecs o humans
and he envionmen,” said Joanne Kick-
raack, sae dieco o he OSU Eension
pesicide Saey Educaion pogam. “I
eaches eole how o manage esicides
eecively while uiliing Inegaed pes
Managemen (IpM) echniues. I’s no
o-esicide o ani-esicide. I’s a
esonsible-use ogam.”
I’s also a ogam ha many see as
necessay o secuing sable emloymen
duing he cuen economic umoil.“We haven’ seen a educion in numbes
o olks signing u o aining. peole see
he ceicaion o eceicaion ocess
as a necessiy o nding emloymen o
o say emloyed,” said Kick-raack.
Many comanies ha nomally ovide
aining ae cuing back, she said. the
pesicide Saey Educaion pogam is
seing u and lling ha need.
Fo moe: h://esed.osu.edu o call
(614) 292-4070. CANDACE pOLLOCK
Pesticide Education
Program Provides
Environmental,
Economic Benefts
osu exi h wyd Cy
cm r ry dr
Harvesting the Sun
The 85-acre feld just north o Upper Sandusky had been producing corn and
soybeans or years. But last autumn, just as the tractors came and hauled the
grain away, the roots o a new crop began to be planted there: 159,000 sola
panels that will yield enough clean energy to power about 1,500 homes.
Te same way it supports field-crop and other armers with their operations across
the state, OSU Extension has played a key role in the development o the 12-megawattWyandot Solar project — the only one o its kind in Ohio, the largest in the Midwestand one o the biggest east o the Mississippi.
“It was January 2009 when I took the first call rom Juwi Solar (a Boulder, Coloradobased company designing and building the acility) asking i Wyandot County wouldbe interested in a solar power generation project,” said Eric Romich, an OSU Extensioneconomic development and regional planning educator who also leads the WyandotCounty Ofice o Economic Development. “I looked outside at the winter weather. Itdidn’t sound like something that could be done here.”
But Wyandot County oficials ended up warming up to the idea, proactively pursuingan agreement with Juwi to develop the project. In the process, Romich said, the countylooked to OSU Extension or act-finding, studying the viability o such a novel enterprise, and organizing public orums.
Aer “a lot o eort to put this together so quickly and to be able to make inormeddecisions,” Romich pointed out, construction began in the all o 2009 on the countyowned field near the Wyandot County airport. Wyandot Solar has entered into a20-year power purchase agreement with American Electric Power (AEP) or purchaseo the output generated by the acility. In September 2009, Juwi sold the project to PSEGSolar Source LLC, a leader in development, ownership, and operation o utility scalesolar acilities.
Te project benefits Wyandot County in many ways: 80–100 jobs are being createdin the construction phase, with those workers receiving training in green energytechnologies; 14,030 tons o greenhouse gas emissions will be eliminated per yearand three area high schools will have small solar energy systems installed or scienceeducation and technology training. MAUrICIO ESpINOzA
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Ideniying local, sae, even naional esouces when aced wih nancia
diculies o unemloymen can be a sessul, conusing, and ovewhelming
ask. A new eo by Ohio Sae Univesiy Eension is saving Ohioans he
enegy by binging hose esouces diecly o hem.
“5 Couny Soluions” is a collaboaion among OSU Eension oces in Clinon
Highland, Geene, Fayee, and Mongomey counies ha ovides comehensive
inomaion deliveed imaily hough a web sie (://5cyi.
d) and social media, such as Facebook (://.ck.cm//
5-Cy-si/205783132240 ).
the eo maeialied ae DHL ulled ou
o Wilmingon, Ohio, in 2008, leaving 10,000
in suounding counies jobless o in nanciahadshi.
“Eension educaos in he ve counies go
ogehe and said, ‘Wha can we do o hel?
these had-woking eole had no ohe
jobs o un o,” said Susan Holladay, OSU
Eension educao in Clinon Couny.
the answe was a web sie ha deliveed
inomaion on sevices and ools ha
esidens may no have been awae o.
“the key was o use echnology o delive esouces o eole’s schedules,
said pa Binkman, OSU Eension educao in Fayee Couny. “We waned a
ool ha could be accessible 24 hous a day.”
toics include coing wih sess and job loss; esablishing nancial ioiiesand budgeing; couny esouces including amily sevices, caee cenes
and ood anies; sae, naional, business, and OSU Eension esouces
suo gous; inomaion on essenials such as ood, shele, and clohing
a inomaion; and is on avoiding scams. Launched in Novembe 2008, he
sie had nealy 3,000 visios by he end o 2009.
“this sie is o anyone acing economic hadshi and nancial diculies,
said Binkman. “I’s a one-so sho o being inomed o ools, esouces, and
sevices ha eis and a way o easily eaching hem.”
Ohe OSU Eension educaos involved in he eo include Chis Olinsky
(Mongomey Couny), rose Fishe Mekowi (Highland Couny), and Melanie
Ha (Geene Couny). CANDACE pOLLOCK
osu exi t ai oi
Fcd i Fici Difci
phoo couesy o Ohio Soybean
Sing 2010
s exi sy scii Rir
Jim bri, oi s uivriy
Eension soybean agonomis and small
gain oducion secialis, has eied
ae moe han 39 yeas o sevice o
Ohio co oduces.“Jim was an eemely oducive
eseache and souce o inomaion o
Ohio gain oduces, and an essenial
comonen o he Ohio Sae Univesiy
Agonomic Cos team,” said Mak Lou,
an OSU Eension weed managemen
secialis and Beuelein’s colleague.
Beuelein held he osiion o aea
Eension agonomis om 1970 o 1980,
and hen seved as he sae Eension
agonomis om 1980 unil his eie-
men.
Beuelein’s majo eseach emhasiswas on educing he cos o oducion
and inceasing yields hough he use o
balanced managemen sysems. He io-
neeed eseach in naow-ow and no-ill
oducion sysems, ealy laning, ski
ows, and imoved inoculans, among
ohe acices. He was a he oeon
in he evaluaion o numeous new ech-
nologies, and ovided eseach-based
ecommendaions o assis gowes in
decision-making and he adoion ocess.
“One o his gea senghs was his
eeciveness a showing gowes how
acices aec hei oabiliy, so hey
could make inomed decisions,” said
Lou.
Beuelein disilled his eseach nd-
ings ino a numbe o Eension bulleins,
eos, ac shees, and videos ha ae
widely used by gowes and consulans.
Beuelein was also he imay edio o
seveal ediions o he Oho Agrooy
Gude , and suevised he Ohio Soybean
peomance tials, he Ohio Soybean
Inoculaion tials, and he Ohio Whea
peomance tials.
In addiion o his eseach conibuions,
Beuelein was a gea collaboao wih
his colleagues a Ohio Sae and a ohe
land gan univesiies. He menoed su-
dens, Eension educaos, and aculy.
He also seved on he boad o diecos
o Ohio soybean and whea associaions,
and ovided sevice o he Ohio Seed
Imovemen Associaion.
Beuelein was awaded numeous
awads duing his caee including he
OArDC Dieco’s Innovao o he Yea
Awad o he develomen o ood-ye
soybean vaieies; he Ameican Sociey o
Agonomy Agonomic Eension Awad;
he Naional Associaion o Whea Gow-
es Ecellence in Eension Awad; heOSU Eension Ecellence in Eension
Awad; and he OSU Agonomic Cos
team Sevice Awad.
Beuelein eceived his bachelo’s and
mase’s degees a he Univesiy o
tennessee and his phD a he Univesiy
o Illinois. CANDACE pOLLOCK
Pictured: Jim Beuerlein
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Mid’ oCm hm:senR nmn Dircr
aCademiC programs
I didn’ ake long o ron Hendick o eel a home hee.
A Michigan naive, omely o he Univesiy o Geo-
gia, Hendick became he new dieco o he School
o Envionmen and Naual resouces on Novembe 1 o
las yea.
“Eveyone has been vey helul and suoive. I didn’
ealie how much I missed he iendly, down-o-eah naue
o Midwesenes,” he said. “My wie, Michelle, and I ae
boh om he Midwes, and i ook vey lile ime o us o
eel vey much a home, boh a Ohio Sae and in he
Columbus aea.”
A Geogia, Hendick was a oesso o oes ecology
and associae dean o academic aais in he D. B.
Wanell School o Foesy and Naual resouces. He
collaboaed on high-ole camus iniiaives elaed
o Geogia’s cuiculum, inenaional educaion, mino-
iy ecuimen, and gaduae educaion. He dieced
he Wanell School’s cuiculum develomen; aculy
ron Hendick sees a bigh uue, and a bighe soligh,
o he School o Envionmen and Naual resouces
evaluaion and develomen; and suden ecuimen,
insucion, eenion, advising, and lacemen. He augh
undegaduae and gaduae couses houghou his
enue hee.
His eseach cenes on ne oo dynamics and he ole
o belowgound ocesses in nuien cycling.
He sees a bigh uue o his new home, and also a
bighe ligh on i.
“We have a lo o vey alened eole in he school:
aculy, sa, and sudens. the envionmen is vey much
a he oeon o he news and in eole’s minds, and he
school will lay a ominen ole boh on camus hee
and aound he sae,” he said.
“I’s vey much wihin ou each o become one o he
couny’s o envionmenal science and naual esouces
ogams. We have all o he necessay esouces.
We jus need o become a less closely guaded sece.”
KUrt KNEBUSCH
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Split between two colleges or 42 years, OhioState University’s Department o Entomology
has come home.
Since 1968, department aculty shared appointments with the
College o Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
and the College o Biological Sciences. But due to a recent
restructuring within the College o Biological Sciences and a
desire among CFAES administration to solely house entomology,
the department is now back where it originated.
“Both colleges wanted the department’s ull complement o
time and attention and it became clear that we could not serve
two masters. Over time it became clear that our uture would
be much brighter i we severed the ties with Biological Sciences
and ully invested with the College o Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences,” said Susan
Fisher, chair o the Department o Entomology. “Plus the move back to CFAES makes so much sense
We fit in well with the college’s strategic mission.”
Te merger primarily aects three entomology aculty: Fisher, whose expertise is environmental
toxicology; Glen Needham, known or his work on ticks; and Dave Denlinger, a member o the
National Academy o Sciences who studies insect temperature tolerance and reproduction. Te
three researchers always carried partial appointments with the Ohio Agricultural Research and
Development Center; now their ties to the college will be even stronger. Needham and Denlinger
will also retain partial appointments with the College o Biological Sciences.
With the move also comes the reappointment o Fisher as chair o the Department o EntomologyShe is serving her second our-year term.
“Faculty, sta, and students are devoted to this change. Tey are enthusiastic and see this as a
great opportunity,” said Fisher.
But the merger doesn’t come without its challenges, specifically economically.
“With the large deficit we are acing, it’s a bit scary, but Bobby (Dean Moser) has put so much
aith in us,” said Fisher. “We want to do our best to ensure that he made the right decision.
CANDACE pOLLOCK
DePARTmenT Of enTOmOlOgyReTuRns TO CfAeschair reappointed for second term
The College o Food, Agricultural, and Environmental
Sciences Ambassadors received the Excellence in
Leadership award at the 2010 National Agricultural
Ambassador Conerence, making this the third year
in a row they have won. This is the frst time a
school has won an excellence award three years in
a row. Congratulations, Ambassadors!
did you know?
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“We ft in well wi th the college’s
mission,“ Department o Entomology chair, Susan Fisher
Pictured: Dave Denlinger
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sd i oi s Univesiy class ae
heling he ownes o a home now unde con-
sucion ind ou i i can oicially be “geen.”
the class, “CSM 670— Geen Building and
Susainable Consucion,” is a new oeing
in he Deamen o Food, Agiculual, and
Biological Engineeing. Insuco Vicoia Chen
hoes o include a sevice-leaning comonen
each ime he class is oeed.
Duing wine uae, sudens assiseda local coule, ome college insuco
rosemaie rossei and he husband Mak
Lede. rossei was aalyed in 1998 when a
ee limb ell on he duing an aenoon bike
ide. Ae yeas o eseach, he coule has
designed hei new home nea Gahanna o
be a naional demonsaion home eauing
he conce o Univesal Design. Doens o
comanies and consulans have conibued
ime and maeials owad he ojec. (See
deails a ://.d.cm)
Lede and rossei also wan he home o
be as envionmenally iendly as ossible,
and hoe o achieve “geen” ceiicaion unde
he Leadeshi in Enegy and Envionmenal
Design (LEED) ogam, develoed by he
U.S. Geen Building Council (USGBC), and
a simila naional geen building ogam
oveseen by he Naional Associaion o Home
Buildes (NAHB). Lede is acing as he geneal
conaco, and he iniially aemed o eview
and comlee he guidelines himsel bu
was uickly ovewhelmed. Boh he LEED and
NAHB ogams have doens o guidelines ha
euie seciic measuemens and deailed
inomaion o ceiicaion.
Megan Welsh, a suden who ook Chen’s
class in he all, heled coodinae he
undeaking as a o an indeenden sudy.
“the class was divided ino eams o caeully
comb hough he ojec,” Welsh said. the
sudens ocused on he veiicaion ocess
oulined by boh LEED and NAHB and heinomaion euied o ualiy o ceiicaion.
the moe cedis hey can hel Lede ideniy,
he close he home will be o aaining “geen”
ceiicaion.
“the sysems ae comlicaed, in aicula
LEED o Homes,” Chen said. “Some sudens
ae amilia wih USGBC’s LEED ogams o
commecial buildings, bu he euiemens
and he veiicaion ocess ae dieen o
single-amily homes.”
Chen said he new class seems o be siking
a chod wih sudens.
“the class is aacing sudens om all sos
o majos, om ou own Consucion Sysems
Managemen majo o achiecue, civil
engineeing, ciy and egional lanning, sysems
engineeing— I’ve even had a coule sudens
om he business school and he law school,”
Chen said. “I’s no a euied couse unde any
cuiculum, bu sudens eally wan o wok in
his aea and lean moe abou envionmenal
susainabiliy and enegy eiciency. they’e
jus eally ineesed in i.” MArtHA FILIpIC
Fr mr irmi
Crci
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Drm Fd,
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http://abe.osu.edu/ .
Buckeye Students AssistingLocal Couple to Build ‘Green’
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Homeowner Mark Leder, right, gets an assist rom representatives o the “Green Building” class to ensure his new home
is as environmentally riendly as possible. From the let is student Megan Welsh, assistant proessor Victoria Chen, and
student Jessica McClory.
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oard
Global Food ConCernsFoCus oF new CenTer For InnovaTIon
Mor ta 80 act ro 12 co at Oio stat
ar pooi tir xprti to addr oba i
i ood pp, ood poic, ad tritio ad at.
Backed by $3.75 million in university unding, the Food Innovation
Center will ocus on our themes: designing oods or health,
ensuring ood saety, advancing biomedical nutrition in disease
prevention and health promotion, and examining global ood
strategy and policy.
Te center is taking on a tremendous challenge, said Ken Lee,
proessor o ood science and technology and project director.
“Feeding the rapidly growing world population — a projected
8 billion by 2025 — will require a 40 percent increase in the world
ood supply,” Lee said. “At the same time, we are wasting 40 percent
o the current supply due to challenges in economics, saety,
health, nutrition, security, technology, and ood policy. But it’s this
kind o mission-oriented research that can tackle these issues.”
Dr. Steve Clinton, a co-principal investigator and proessor o
internal medicine, said the center capitalizes on Ohio State’s diversity.
“You can count on a ew fingers the number o academic institutions that have colleges
o agriculture, business, public health, and veterinary medicine, integrated programs in
human nutrition and ood science, as well as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, on one single
campus,” Clinton said. “Te new center can propel us to academic prominence and contribute
solutions to critical global challenges.”Te center is one o two new Centers or Innovation at Ohio State. Funded by the Oce o
Academic Aairs and Oce o Research, each is receiving $750,000 a year or five years. Te
other center is the OSU International Poverty Solutions Collaborative.
“Tere very well could be some synergies between the two centers,” Lee said. “We’re both
interested in health and well-being, and ood and poverty issues have similar challenges.”
More inormation on Ohio State’s Centers or Innovation is avai lable at http://research.osu.
edu/innovation/. MArtHA FILIpIC
Sing 2010
Center director Ken Lee:
Ohio State’s new Food
Innovation Center allows the university to harness
the intellectual, trans-
disciplinary resources to
aggressively attack crises
in ood production, supply
and saety.
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aric dii— rc
beaking down oganic mae in he ab-
sence o oygen o oduce mehane o
eleciciy and uel alicaions — is one
o he echnologies Ohio is being ono lead he way in he age o enewable
enegy.
Now, a aen-ending ocess devel-
oed by OArDC biosysems enginee
Yebo Li could double he amoun o
biogas oduced hough anaeobic
digesion, making his echnology moe
economically easible o lage geen
enegy geneaion in laces wih lage
biomass esouces — such as Ohio.
Li’s invenion is a “solid-sae biodi-
gese,” which makes i ossible o o-
duce mehane om abundan souces
o cellulosic biomass such as yad im-
mings and co esidue. Cuen biodi-
geses use liuid waseseams such
as manue and sewe sludge, limiing
he amoun o solids ha goes ino he
ocess, and wih i he oveall biogas
ouu.
“Biogas comes om he solids es-
en in he anaeobic digesion ocess,”
elained Li, an assisan oesso in
he Deamen o Food, Agiculual,
and Biological Engineeing and also a
secialis wih OSU Eension. “Cuen
liuid-hase anaeobic digeses used
in he Unied Saes can only ocess uo 14 ecen solids conen. My sysem
has been successully esed wih 20–40
ecen solids conen, subsanially in-
ceasing biogas oducion eiciency
comaed o eising sysems.”
Businesses and govenmen ae ak-
ing noice. Since 2008, Cleveland-based
quasar energy group (which has an
engineeing oice and a lab on OArDC’s
Woose camus) has been woking wih
Li o oimie
his echnology
o commecial
use. And las
Decembe, he
sae o Ohio’s
thid Fonie
Advanced En-
egy pogam
gave quasar a
$2 million gan o u he new echnology
— dubbed aDs , o inegaed anaeobic
digesion sysem — o he es.
It’s a Gas — and It’s Good or Environment, Economygr r itio ca dob bioa otpt, tc $2 iio Tird frotir rat
the gan will allow quasar o dem
onsae aDs echnology a is lagshi
biogas aciliy cuenly being buil a
OArDC, adding a solid-sae digesion
sysem o is liuid biodigese. the inegaed sysem will be able o ocess
ove 30,000 we ons o biomass annually
wih moe han 750 kW o elecical gen
eaion caaciy.
Mehane is a vesaile souce o clean
owe. I can be used o geneae elec
iciy and hemal hea; i can also be
cleaned, seaaed, and died o oduce
naual gas; o i can be comessed o
uel auomobiles (as comessed naua
gas, o CNG).
Ohe collaboaos in he thid Fon
ie gan include Ohio Sae’s Ohio Bio
poducs Innovaion Cene (OBIC), rock
well Auomaion, Seaman Cooaion
seee, and McCabe Engineeing.
Moe inomaion can be ound a
://qrryr.cm and
://.rdc.i-.d
iry. MAUrICIO ESpINOzA
quasar is building a
biogas acility on the
OARDC campus.
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scr arrm tkn ecym arc
T pati bd i scrt
Arbort ar o at a’a. Ad tat’ o K
Cocra, t aciit’ prora
dirctor, at it.
Cochran is taking a new approach to
managing the place, one that trades
overzealous tidiness or a deeper
understanding o the complex lie there.
“We’re not trying to completely control
this environment,” he said. “And we’re
not just letting it go. We’re trying to create
more o an ecosystem in the arboretum —
not an all-natural one, but a naturalistic
one — to see how it unctions.”
Tose leaves, he said, will decompose
soon. In the process, they’ll enrich the
soil, eed plants, and grow a vast network o beneficial microbes and insects. It’s
how a proper orest works.
Te new philosophy shows in new
eatures: the Ohio Native Plant Garden,
which draws native pollinating insects;
Skip and Letty’s Water Garden, home
to not just fish and rogs but dragonfies
over it and birds that come drink there;
and the John Streeter Garden Amphi-
theater, a special spot or what might
be the arboretum’s biggest component
besides plants.
“Te Garden Amphitheater adds a
huge human element,” Cochran said.
Hundreds attend weddings, recitals, and
summertime science shows there. Tey
sit on rock, not plastic, seating, with the
sky overhead and with trees all arounda setting created on purpose. “We want
people to have a relationship with the
natural world while they’re there,” he said
A proposed new visitor center, stil
in planning, should strengthen that tie
even urther.
For Cochran, it all comes down to
connections: among plants, birds, bees
deer, slugs, ungi, and you, to name
just a ew. Plus soils, heat, drought, cold
rain, snow, wind, and sun.
“It’s such a diverse environment,” he said
“We want to respect the interrelationships
We want to understand them better.
KUrt KNEBUSCH
the idea being o gh naue less — and undesand i moe
abouT seCresT arboreTuM
Part o the Ohio Agricultural
Research and Development
Center (OARDC) in Wooster,
Secrest Arboretum spans
115 acres and houses some
3,000 plant types. The arboretum
is named or Edmund Secrest,
a orester and ormer director o
the Ohio Agricultural Experiment
Station (now OARDC), who made
the frst plantings in 1908.
1680 Madison Ave.
Wooster, OH
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tHE BEAt OF A DIFFErENt DrUMMEr
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here’s a distinctive sound that wats through the corridors o Halterman Hall during winter quarte
— the sound o Arican drumming. For the past six years, ATI has hosted visiting instructor Divine
Gbagbo, a Ghanaian musician and teacher. Gbagbo teaches drumming as part o the Music Culture
o the World class. Gbagbo is head o the music department at Mawuko Girls Senior High School in
Ho, Ghana. He is also a composer, with more than 50 choral compositions to his credit.
Arican musician, teacher opens new world or ATI students
“Te ocus o the class is the non-entertainment uses o music in
Arican cultures,” Gbagbo explained. “We talk about how music
is used to acilitate work and make labor easier, how it is used in
games and sport, and how it unctions as a symbol o authority.”
Gbagbo says he really enjoys introducing AI students to
Arican music because o the way they respond to it. “Te students
are rom such a dierent cultural background, and I admire the
way they are able to keep all the complex rhythms straight when
they’re drumming.”Gbagbo also speaks to other classes at AI. “He speaks to my
Agricultural Issues in Contemporary Society class about Arican
agriculture,” said aculty member Linda Houston. “We’ve had
several students sign up or the Ghana study abroad trip as a
result o Divine speaking to the class.”
AI’s relationship with Gbagbo began eight years ago during
one o the study abroad trips to Ghana led by Houston and
another AI aculty member, D. Elder. “We were walking past
a high school,” Elder said, “and we heard some olks singing on
the porch o the school. Divine was teaching them ‘Jesu, Joy o
Man’s Desiring’ by singing all the parts to them.” Tey met up
with him again at a conerence, where the choir he conducts
was scheduled to sing.
Now, in addition to teaching at AI during winter quarter
Gbagbo also assists with the study abroad trip to Ghana. “He
makes a lot o arrangements or us or guest instructors,” Elder
said. “But he also acts as our cultural liaison and translator. He
makes sure we don’t do anything culturally insensitive because
we don’t know better.”As to his presence on AI’s campus, Houston says, “It’s so much
more than just drumming.” Student Audrey Ackerman couldn’t
agree more.
“Mr. Gbagbo has taught us the importance o working
together while drumming, as well as letting our individuality
show through,” said Ackerman, a second-year foral design and
marketing major rom Oregon, Ohio. “He has a very contagious
passion or a lie filled with music. Tis has been my avorite
elective, and I hope I get the chance to go to Ghana this summer.
FrANCES WHItED
Pictured: Divine Gbagbo
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Pfi Gf Mgmt Pgm T off t aTIAsiing gol os now have anohe oion
t aricr tcic Ii d Ohio Sae’s Deamen o Hoiculue
and Co Science ae eaming u o make he oessional gol managemen (pGM)
ogam even moe accessible. Beginning in auumn 2010, sudens will be able o
comlee he is yea o he pGM ogam on he Woose camus. Sudens who
comlee he is yea successully will be able o ansiion o he Columbus camus
o he emaining hee yeas o he ogam.
Because AtI is an oen-enollmen camus, he oion o sa in Woose will enable
sudens who wan o be gol os bu choose no o sa on he Columbus camus
as eshmen a chance o ealie hei caee asiaions. Sudens who wish o sa
he pGM ogam in Woose sill have o ovide oo o an 18-hole gol handica o
10 o bee.
the is-yea pGM-seciic couses will be augh by poesso ray Mille, dieco
o he pGM ogam, and Chis Walsh, assisan dieco and omely he pGA golo a he OSU Gol Club, so sudens on he Woose camus have he oouniy o
ineac wih Columbus aculy beoe ansiioning o Columbus. “We also have he
goal o enabling Woose sudens o be acive in he Columbus pGM suden ogani
aion,” elained Gay Andeson, oesso o hoiculual echnologies, who will be
advising Woose pGM sudens. “We wan as much as ossible o ou sudens o
have he same eeience as he Columbus sudens.”
Woose pGM sudens will have laying ivileges a Hawk’s Nes, AtI’s 18-hole
ublic couse, simila o he ivileges Columbus pGM sudens have a he Scale
and Gay couses.
“this is uly a cooeaive e o beween Columbus and Woose,” Sehen Nameh
AtI dieco, said. “We hink he oenial benei o boh camuses is enomous.
FrANCES WHItED
Pictured: (let to right) Brok Plymale, Timothy Flanagan,
Candice Sulzbach, Jesse Carr, and Andrew Boehmer
Mike Murphy, who recently graduated rom
the PGM program, instructs one o “Morty’s
Kids,” a youth gol program sponsored by
the Morton Foundation.
Pictured: Emily Corrick and Brok Plymale
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sc lsrvic md gi o
$106,327 in scholashi suo o Ohio
Sae Univesiy’s College o Food, Agi-
culual, and Envionmenal Sciences. the
Scos LawnSevice Scholashi Fund
will be a cuen use und and will ovide
ull in-sae uiion o wo sudens.
“the Scos LawnSevice Scholashi
Fund in he College o Food, Agiculual,
and Envionmenal Sciences will be a e-
mendous hel o ou sudens, esecially
in he cuen economic climae. Ohio
Sae and is sudens ae mos gaeul
o his geneous gi, and o ou conin-
ued aneshi wih Scos LawnSevice,“
said Bobby Mose, vice esiden o
agiculual adminisaion and dean o
he college.
reciiens will also be awaded an
inenshi wih Scos LawnSevice a is
cooae headuaes in Maysville,
Ohio, oviding hands-on woking ee-
ience. the inenshis will be yea-long
and will vay in ime seasonally anddeending on he sudens’ schedules.
“the scholashi and inenshi ceae
an eciing oouniy o uhe ou
aneshi wih Scos LawnSevice,”
said Bill randle, chai o he Deamen
o Hoiculue and Co Science. “tying
he business eeience hough he
hands-on inenshi wih he academic
scholashi is a win-win o eveyone.”
the ogam is inended o ovide
suden-eciiens wih insigh, ee-
development
tm sckd crdi i r wih
assing along hei love o naue and
he oudoos. thei infuence insied hisOhio Sae educaion and long-em caee
in he College o Food, Agiculual, and
Envionmenal Sciences (CFAES).
Sockdale’s ahe, Mike, seved as a
baili in he Eie Couny common leas
cou o 43 yeas. He handled dicul
siuaions a wok all day and waned a
calming envionmen o eea o duing
o hous. Wih his wie, Bey, he bough
15 aces ouside Sandusky o build a
home and aise hei amily.
sc lsrvic D vr $100,000 i
sr sd scri oi sience, and eosue o he oessional
lawn cae and landscae indusy.
“this is an ousanding oouniy o
us o develo a woking elaionshi wih
o alen a he univesiy,” said pee
Koda, senio vice esiden, Scos
LawnSevice. “the Scos Miacle-Go
Comany and Scos LawnSevice ae
oud o be able o hel eae young
aduls o oessional oouniies in
ou wokoce.” JANE CArrOLL
I was hei ime sen ogehe on he
land ha le an imin on he young
Sockdale. His ahe bid-wached and
laned ees on he land. His mohe liked
o gaden and belonged o he Sandusky
Gadening Club.
“My mohe used some scienic
ems o descibe he geeney aound he
lace,” Sockdale said. “I was aound hisinomaion enough ha I knew I waned
a caee ha involved he oudoos. Wild
lie managemen seemed an ideal diec
ion.”
In 1955, he gaduaed om Ohio Sae
wih a bachelo’s degee in oology and
comleed ou yeas o rOtC. He seved
wo yeas in Gemany wih he Amy
and hen euned o Ohio Sae, eaning
a mase’s degee in oology in 1959.
“Lo and
behold, I
was in he
igh lace
a he igh
ime. the
univesiy
n e e d e d
a wildlie
secial is
in he E-
ension se-
vice, and I
was hied,”
said Sock-
dale, who
seved as
an Ohio
Sae o-
esso and
Eension
s e c i a l -
is o 28
yeas.
Sockdale eied a 55 and ceaed an
esae lan ha suos ogams he
caes abou. His wo chaiable gi an
nuiies (CGA) bene Ohio Sae’s wildlieogam in CFAES’ School o Envionmen
and Naual resouces, he Naionwide
and Ohio Fam Bueau 4-H Cene, and he
poessional Gol Managemen ogam.
“Wih CGAs, you’e making a mave
ous invesmen,” he said, adding ha he
inees ae is highe han mos vehicles
“In addiion, you have he saisacion o
knowing ha you inenions will be ca
ied ou as you wish ae you lieime.
tErrI StONE
sPeCIal oPPorTunITy
For sTaFF, FaCulTy,
and reTIrees
Fr y mmr oi
s’ , cy, r
rir i
55 yr , y
my d cri
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f y r
CFaes. a Cga mk
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dirc.
Fr mr di,
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pd givi
(614) 292-2183 r -mi
nry bckyLongtime Extension
specialist provides CFAES
with planned gifts
Students David Peier and Corey Pangborn, at let, are the frst recipients o the Scotts LawnService
Scholarship; also pictured are Ashley Zirkle, Scotts Lawn Service Technical Manager o Lawn Care, and
Bobby Moser, vice president o agricultural administration and college dean.
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tom Cow has had success boh on and ohe gol couse. He is a ome Ausalian
Amaeu Chamion and also wen on o
eesen Ausalia in he Eisenhowe
Inenaional teams Chamionshi. Ae
moving o he Unied Saes in 1973, Cow
ounded Coba Gol. today i is one o
he o manuacues o gol euimen.
Cow’s bes-known design is he “Bafe,”
he s uiliy wood. this ye o club
ovides layes wih geae feibiliy
om dicul lies.
the poessional Gol Managemenpogam (pGM) had he good oune
o be conneced o tom Cow hough
one o hei sudens, Josh Sueve. the
wo me while Josh was inening las
summe a a ivae couse in Jackson,
Wyoming, 3 Ceek ranch. Josh elayed
Cow’s inees in pGM, and CFAES
Develomen coodinaed he visi along
wih he Deamen o Hoiculue and
Co Science.
On he evening o Oc. 23, a eceionwas held a he Naionwide and Ohio Fam
Bueau 4-H Cene o welcome tom Cow
o camus. He gave an eneaining alk o
he sudens and donos abou gol club
design. the ogam was a big hi wih he
aendees. On Sauday, Cow wached
he Buckeyes bea Minnesoa om he
pesiden’s Suie in the Hoseshoe.
Josh Sueve said, “M. Cow’s visi o
Ohio Sae uned ou o be eveyhing we
had hoed i would be. the sudens vey
much aeciaed his alk on he oundingo Coba Gol, and he oeed valuable
insigh ino many o he dieen ojecs
he pGM sa is woking on o imove
he ualiy o he ogam. Bes o all,
ae aending he Buckeye ooball
game on Sauday moning, he has
become an insan die-had
Buckeye an. We eally
eel ounae o have
had M. Cow choose
o visi ou ogam, and we hoe he
comes back again soon.”
Following he game, tom oued he
pGM suie on he way ou o visi heoosed pGM diving ange sie a
Waeman. tom’s old iend and ellow
gol legend, Mike Hudan, was hee o
shae his ange sie dawings. Cow was
imessed wih he wok and enhusiasic
abou he ossibiliies. the highligh o
tom’s visi was going o Hudan/Fy
Envionmenal Gol Design o see
Mike’s collecion o gol memoabilia.
the weekend waed u wih a
wondeul dinne wih he pGM sudens
and sa. tom is ecied abou heogam and wans o eun. Cow said, “
am delighed wih he young eole in he
pGM ogam. I was a abulous visi and
I was enomously imessed.”
Fo moe inomaion abou
poessional Gol Manage
men, conac Kaen race
a (614) 247-8754. SArAH
GrAFNEr
last all brought more than ootball to Ohio State. On Oct. 23 and Oct. 24, Tom Crow,
one o gol’s legendary fgures, visited The Ohio State University or the frst time.
leGendary GolFer vIsITs ohIo sTaTe
PGM Assistant Director
Chris Walsh and PGM Club
president Andrew Moore
present a ramed photo
o the ’Shoe to visiting
lecturer Tom Crow, ounder
o Cobra Gol.
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the College o Food, Agiculual, and Envionmenal
Sciences Alumni Sociey ecognied 16 individuals a
is annual alumni awads luncheon on Mach 6, 2010.
Congaulaions o all o ou eciiens.
CFaes aluMnI soCIeTy PresenTs annual awards
Diiid ami ard
In on, om he le , Vice pesiden and Dean Bobby Mose wih awad eciiensruh Sade, B.S., Family resouce Managemen; Jack Sade, B.S., M.S., Hoiculue
tey Wehkam, B.S., pouly Science; and in he back, om he le, todd Beckwih,
B.S., Agiculual Economics; D. todd Kan, B.S., Daiy Science; David thobahn,
B.S., Daiy Science; and Ben Eicha, B.S., Animal Science.
Mriri srvic ardVice pesiden and Dean Bobby Mose, le, wih awad
eciiens Hay Ba, B.S., M.S., ph.D., Daiy Science;
and J. robe Wambod, Disinguished Univesiy
poesso Emeius.
Iri ardVice pesiden and Dean Bobby Mose wih awad
eciiens Adiala Ekwamu, ph.D., plan pahology;
Luis Noel Alao, M.S., Agiculual Economics, ph.D.,
Agiculual Economics and rual Sociology; and
Shih-tong Ding, ph.D., Animal Sciences.
Y pri acivm ardVice pesiden and Dean Bobby Mose, le, wih awad eciiens Aaon Ane, B.S.,
Animal Sciences; Amy Sudebake, B.S., Agibusiness and Alied Economics; and
punaika raanaiwong, M.S., ph.D., Food Science and technology. No icued:
Kisohe Cobin, B.S., Animal Sciences; and rebecca Scabough, B.S., Co
Science, B.S., Food, Agiculual, and Biological Engineeing.
alumni
board uPdaTes t CFaes ami brd fcr!
Ae you ineesed in geing moe involved wih you alumni sociey? We cuenly do
no have oenings on he boad, bu can always use some hel on ou commiees, which
include Awads and recogniion, Advancemen, and Fellowshi (Falles and ohe evens)
Conac ray Mille a (614) 292-5320 o [email protected] o moe inomaion.
p prid — Ricrd li
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prid ec — Jm lrd
scrry — Mi sdr
trrr — M pi
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the CFAES Alumni Sociey scholashis have been awaded
o he 2009–2010 academic yea, and he eciiens wee
ecognied a he Alumni Awads Luncheon on Mach 6 a he
Fawce Cene.
this yea’s eciiens, all o whom ae College Ambassados
ae:
h lm, a senio animal sciences majo om Monclova
in Lucas Couny. Hanna is acive in Alha zea panes, andsudied aboad in Bail in Wine 2009.
Ry Cki, a senio who is double-majoing in anima
sciences and agibusiness and alied economics om plain
Ciy. ryan has wice seved as easue o Alha Gamma
Sigma Faeniy, and cuenly seves as pesiden o he
CFAES Suden Council.
si n, a junio animal sciences majo om Noh
Canon. Sehanie is a membe o he daiy judging eam
he English Convesaion ogam wih inenaional sudens
and sudied aboad in Bail in Wine 2010 wih Alha zea
panes.
Ji Rimir, a junio agibusiness and alied economics
majo om rossbug. Jusin is an Alha zea panes membe
and sudied aboad in Bail duing Wine 2009, and is acive
in OSU AgBusiness Club.
ly wicmyr, a ood science and echnology junio
om Oawa, Ohio. Lynn seved inenshis wih Hiel Can
ning Comany and Smih Daiy.
the Sociey esablished he endowed scholashi in 2007
o assis junio and senio sudens who had demonsaed
leadeshi caabiliies hough acive aiciaion in college
o univesiy aciviies, and who had mainained a minimum
2.8 GpA.
Donaions in any amoun can be made o he FAES Alumn
Sociey Undegaduae Scholashi Endowmen Fund (und
numbe is 11000-622310). the Sociey can gow he endow
men ino one o he signican scholashi unds in he
college. Wih you hel as one o ou 36,000 living alumni
giving a only he $100 level each, we can aise he endowmen
level o a eachable goal o $3,600,000. I we can do his, he
sociey can eend a heling hand o moe sudens and in
geae amouns han we cuenly do. Conac he College
Develomen Oce a (614) 292-0473 o ray Mille, Alumn
Coodinao, a [email protected] o inuie abou how you
migh hel his und gow.
College o Food, Agiculual, and Envionmenal
Sciences alumni (including gaduaes o AtI and he
School o Envionmen and Naual resouces) ae
invied o aiciae in Falles 2010 when he Buckeyes
will lay hei second game o he season agains he
Univesiy o Miami Huicanes. Game ime has no been
announced. We will eun o he newly enovaed Fench
Field House hee hous beoe game ime o dinne,
he annual silen aucion o he CFAES Alumni Sociey
Scholashi Endowmen, ne ellowshi wih iends om
yeas gone by, and o couse he Buckeyes vs. Huicanes
cones in he sadium. We ae aiciaing again his yea
wih he univesiy-wide reunion Weekend. Wach o he
deails in he summe issue o Cotuu coming o
you in ealy summe.
Game ickes will only be available o hose alumni who
ae gaduaes o he College o Food, Agiculual, and
Envionmenal Sciences and d-yi mmr t
oi s uivriy ami acii, Ic. tickes mus
be uchased wih ou ailgae even. You ae limied o wo
ickes e household, no e membeshi. I is ou desie
o maimie he numbe o alumni who can aend reunion
Weekend. the eson uchasing he ickes mus be he
eson who uses he ickes. Anyone who esells hei ickesmay lose uue ighs o uchase ooball ickes hough
he Alumni Associaion and ou Sociey.
Long-ime season icke uchase holdes o alumni who
eceive season ickes via he pesiden’s Club, Buckeye
Club, Faculy/Sa, o Vasiy O wIll not be eligible o
eceive ickes hough Sociey reunion Weekend, bu we
hoe you will join us o he ailgae. Alumni who eceive
ickes o he Miami game hough he Alumni Associaion’s
loey will no be eligible o eceive ickes hough reunion
Weekend and again we hoe you will join us o he ailgae.
All alicaions will be double-checked wih univesiy
daabases o ensue comliance wih his olicy. We eec
he demand o his game o eceed ou suly and hus a
loey will be held o deemine he icke allocaion. Moe
deails will be announced as we conm all inomaion o
reunion Weekend ‘10.
So eseve you Se. 11 weekend now, and lan o
be wih us o reunion Weekend and CFAES Falles.
GO BUCKS!
CFaes Fscdd rs. 11, 2010
Alumni Scholarship News
Alumni Society President Ann Ball joins the society’s 2009–2010
scholarship recipients. From the let are Justin Rismiller, Hanna Lemle,
Stephanie Neal, Ann Ball, Lynn Wischmeyer, and Ryan Conklin.
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he Ohio Sae Univesiy Alumni Associaion, Inc.
ollege o Food, Agiculual, and Envionmenal SciencesAlumni Sociey
00 Agiculual Adminisaion Building120 Fye road
olumbus, OH 43210-1010
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Cotuu is oduced by he College o Food,
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Mille, Candace pollock, tei Sone, Fances Whi
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Cotuu is oduced hee imes a yea by Ohio
Sae Univesiy’s College o Food, Agiculual, an
Envionmenal Sciences, is Ohio Agiculual res
and Develomen Cene, and OSU Eension. You
he audience—eole ineesed in agiculue an
issues. this ublicaion is disibued hough cou
Eension oces and a Ohio Sae evens. I you
have uesions o commens, wie o: Cotuu216 Koman Hall, 2021 Coey road, Columbus, O
43210-1044 o [email protected] . Fo addess
changes, conac Ambe pasenak a 614-247-2745
the College o Food, Agiculual, and Envionmen
Sciences and is academic and eseach deame
including Ohio Agiculual reseach and Develo
Cene (OArDC), Agiculual technical Insiue (At
and Ohio Sae Univesiy Eension embace hum
divesiy and ae commied o ensuing ha all
eseach and elaed educaional ogams ae ava
o clienele on a nondisciminaoy basis wihou e
o ace, colo, eligion, se, age, naional oigin, se
oienaion, gende ideniy o eession, disabili
o veean saus. this saemen is in accodance w
Unied Saes Civil righs Laws and he USDA.
Bobby Mose, ph.D., Vice pesiden o Agiculua
Adminisaion & Dean
2021 Coey roadColumbus, OH 43210614-292-2011
203 reseach Sevices BWoose, OH 44691330-263-3780
by D. Mr
Vce Presdet
for Agrcultural Adstratoad Dea, College of Food, Agrcultural,
ad Evroetal
Sceces
S O
The advantages o a large university came to light this spring when
The Ohio State University was designated as the sole university to
be a part o the Center o Excellence or Food and Agriculture by
the Ohio Board o Regents.Tis designation acknowledges the great need or the work we do in the
College o Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, as well as
the benefits o being able to collaborate with scientists across our great
university rom medicine, public health, veterinary medicine, biological
sciences, business, and social work.
It also acknowledges the importance o the world-needs that we address:
With a world population o 6.7 billion, projected to grow to over 9 billion
by 2040, sustaining growth in ood production is o singular importance
to human survival. Each day, more than 860 million people go hungry.
Tis Center o Excellence will ocus on ood, broadly defined, and our
major themes that build upon the strengths o Ohio State aculty rommany colleges and departments: Foods or health, ood saety, biomedical
nutrition, and global ood policy. Global issues to be explored include
the impact o climate change, natural disasters, availability o water, and
inectious disease, and the “digital divide” on the availability and saety
o the ood supply.
Clearly, bigger is better when it means scientists can collaborate with
those rom other disciplines to best address critical world issues.