Happy New Year!
Our semester is off to a nice start with enrollment strong – nearly 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students are pursuing a degree with SENR! Our faculty and instructors are teaching seventy distinct courses this semester and many additional opportunities to learn about and engage in environment and natural resource topics are planned. We would be delighted to have you join us for one, or all, of these activities.
In SENR forty-five undergraduates completed their BS degrees and 8 students completed their graduate degrees with us autumn semester - please join me in proudly welcoming them as our newest alumni! Students engaged throughout the semester in a variety of learning activities, and we are grateful to have had the good fortune to have many alumni and professionals share their expertise in and outside of the classroom with our students. Thank you for joining us and contributing to the quality and impact of our courses and providing meaningful opportunities for our students.
With our ENR Alumni Society (ENRAS), we were also able to recognize the newest members of our Honorary 100 this past semester and look forward to continuing this tradition. Wrapping up the semester, fifteen student teams of seniors at Ohio State presented their ENR capstone projects in collaboration with clients to address real world environment and natural resource challenges at our December Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) program celebrating World Soil Day. Learn more about this event and view highlights here.
As I shared last month, Dr. Robyn Wilson has joined our leadership team and will serve as our acting associate director of SENR. I also want to share that Associate Director Dr. Doug Jackson-Smith has been appointed to the Kellogg Endowed Chair in Agricultural Ecosystems Management at Ohio State (learn more here). This is a wonderful honor and exciting leadership role for Doug to advance Ohio State’s agroecosystem science research, outreach, and teaching programs and we want to extend our congratulations to him.
Best wishes,
Eric Toman
Professor and Interim Director
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