Stories tagged with: Environmental Studies

District 12 Science Day gets Appalachian kids excited about STEM

April 30, 2024 This year featured more than 110 students from eight counties in Southeast Ohio who competed in areas ranging from behavioral sciences and microbiology to physics, mathematics and engineering.

Rylan Wax and Case Woods

Fulbright Humphrey Fellows to visit OHIO for Professional Enhancement Workshop on climate change

March 19, 2024 Ohio University will host 12 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows for a Professional Enhancement Workshop focused on climate change from March 25-29,

The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows and several OHIO  representatives pose for a photo at the College Gate

PurpleAir Air Quality Project aims to increase health information, data collection across southeast Ohio

December 6, 2023 The project aims to provide residents in southeast Ohio with access to adequate, updated air quality information following the Canadian wildfires from the summer.

Natalie Kruse is shown looking at a computer screen that has air quality information on it

Voinovich students dive into summer public service internships

September 21, 2023 Students from Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service gained valuable experience working in a variety of internship programs over the summer.

Students from the Voinovich School are shown at their summer internships in this photo collage

Student David Lamp makes discovery of a lifetime: fluted point from first peoples in Ohio

June 26, 2023 David Lamp was on his hands and knees, trowel in hand, back at OHIO as a graduate student on June 2, when he made the discovery of a lifetime.

Archaeologist David Lamp works in a one-meter square part of a dig near Lancaster.

Commencement Spotlight: Laura Miller

April 26, 2023 As a student in the MSSR program, Laura Miller explained, it was incredible to collaborate and get to know other like-minded individuals who care about climate change prevention and sustainability.

Laura Miller is shown with her family

The efforts behind a greener Ohio University

April 17, 2023 Every day, students, faculty and staff work to make Ohio University a more climate-friendly place to live and learn. 

Three students work in a creek

Hailey Gifford found passion and power interning with ACLU of Ohio

April 6, 2023 Hailey Gifford wants to influence policy, and she recently found a home for that passion in an internship with the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio.

Hailey Gifford, portrait

Kehinde Moyosola Ositimehin followed her heart to OHIO, fisheries and water quality

December 10, 2022 Kehinde Moyosola Ositimehin follows her interests, even when they take her to places she doesn’t expect.

Kehinde Moyosola Ositimehin

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

October 21, 2022 Ohio University is home to a number of students, professional staff, and faculty working hard to help the environment.

Zero Waste Initiative 1

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

August 25, 2022 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.

Students at the Jackson County Fair

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

July 8, 2022 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.

Geoff Dabeklo UN headquarters

Neither wind nor ice could stop Kelly Love's fieldwork

April 6, 2022 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.

Kelly Love

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

March 25, 2022 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.

Nichole Mazzone
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