Stories tagged with: Environmental Studies

Zero Waste Initiative 1

OHIO students, staff work behind the scenes to keep campus, community clean

Ohio University is home to a number of students, professional staff, and faculty working hard to help the environment.

Students at the Jackson County Fair

Voinovich School partners with PORTSfuture Program to engage young learners in STEM-based experiences

Storm water displays can create residential storm water pollution scenarios by activating rain simulations and showing the results of mitigation and non-mitigation pollution prevention strategies.

Geoff Dabeklo UN headquarters

Geoff Dabelko sees opportunity and collaboration in complex nature of climate crises

Geoff Dabelko has spent most of his summer on the road collaborating with international and environmental ministers and United Nations diplomats to help address climate and security crises.

Rachel Martin

‘Complex problems are worth solving,' Alumna Rachel Martin uses her multidisciplinary degree to challenge modern-day conservation

Rachel Martin has some questions for the conservation world. 

Kelly Love

Neither wind nor ice could stop Kelly Love's fieldwork

Kelly Love, a graduate student in the M.S. in Environmental Studies program, is looking at different methods to determine the health of an ecosystem.

Nichole Mazzone

Graduate student’s project on sanitation, wastewater treatment to help low-income communities

Low-income households soon will have increased access to sanitation solutions thanks to a wastewater research project being completed by Nichole Mazzone, a graduate student in the Voinovich School.

Alexis Eberlein

Honors Tutorial College student Alexis Eberlein addresses human security issues relating to the environment

Alexis Eberlein credits the student leaders she interacted with on campus in her first semester for inspiring her to become involved in hands-on, impactful projects.

Student taking a water sample from a small pool of water in the forest

Appalachian Watershed Research Group begins second year of Pennsylvania stream restoration project

Ohio University’s Appalachian Watershed Research Group is entering the second year of work on the Robinson Fork and Ryerson Station State Park Mitigation Assessment project.

Photo of Paola Sofia Muñoz Gamboa

International environmental studies graduate gains immersive sustainability experience at OHIO

For Paola Sofia Muñoz Gamboa, sustainability and eco-friendliness have been at the forefront of her Ohio University experience.

John Sabraw painting on a canvas by a pond

Stewards of the Landscape

OHIO’s faculty and students are lending a nurturing hand to planet Earth by taking toxins from water to make artist-grade paint pigments and leveraging life-sized replicas of oil and gas pipeline with software models to prevent spills.

Photo of a brown and cream-colored spadefoot toad

What is the environmental impact of cultivating agave as a biofuel?

Ohio University graduate student Emily Kuzmick is examining the use of the agave plant as a biofuel. One chief question she’s exploring is the environmental impact of cultivating the plant.

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