Our Earth Day celebration brought together students, faculty and professionals for an evening filled with conversation, performance and student growth and development. Twenty-six ENR Capstone projects were on display with a wide range of environment and natural resources topics addressed, but all aimed at advancing student’s practical application of the knowledge they have gained as a student at Ohio State and collaboration to address real world environment and natural resource challenges and meet real needs stakeholders and clients have in our communities. It is impressive to know these students will join the cadre of other students who have had this experience and are now working in their careers.
Photos from the EPN Signature Earth Day event are available here.
The ENR Alumni Society recognized five students with the 2023 Lee Johnston Leadership Award at their annual membership meeting held on April 20. Antonio Zodda, Dani Alabyadh, Grace Gutierrez, Anna Rose, and Emily Kruse (shown in the photo above) received the 2023 Lee Johnston Leadership Award. Presented by Kevin McCarty, ENRAS vice-president, the award recognizes undergraduate students who demonstrate outstanding student leadership and involvement in the School of Environment and Natural Resources. Please join SENR in congratulating these student leaders!
We hope you will join us for another celebration on June 5 where our Environmental Professionals Network and our ENR Alumni Society will honor Ohio’s Environment and Celebrate its Champions. This year’s Honorary 100 induction ceremony will kick off the morning celebration at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center followed by a presentation by Bill Stanley, state director of The Nature Conservancy in Ohio, who will share about the importance of natural resource management in Ohio and creating diverse partnerships to solve Ohio’s water, landscape, agricultural and forest conservation challenges. Following the address, a field-trip to the Waterman Agricultural and Natural Resources Laboratory will be offered, where participants can learn about the work to advance crop management education and research of the CFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration, as well as research on a 28-acre forested site led by School of Environment and Natural Resources Associate Professor Matt Davies to examine the effects of honeysuckle removal strategies, advance native pawpaw studies, and to study forest conservation grazing.
Learn more about this celebration and learning opportunity here.
I look forward to connecting with you soon.
Sincerely,
Eric Toman
Professor and Interim Director
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