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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.”

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extension

2 | news fROm The COllege Of fOOD, AgRICulTuRAl, AnD envIROnmen TAl sCIenCes

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



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



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




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



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

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http://abe.osu.edu/ .

Buckeye Students AssistingLocal Couple to Build ‘Green’


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.



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.



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.




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.

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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




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.

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sPeCIal oPPorTunITy

For sTaFF, FaCulTy,

and reTIrees

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(614) 292-2183 r -mi

[email protected].

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.




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.

Sing 2010



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.

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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

ADDrESS SErVICE rEqUEStED

news fROm The COllege Of fOOD, AgRICulTuRAl, AnD envIROnmenTAl sCIenCes

Sing 2010

Cotuu is oduced by he College o Food,

Agiculual, and Envionmenal Sciences a the Oh

Sae Univesiy. View Cotuu online a ://c

.d/mi-d-dr/mi/c-

sci Cmmici d tcy

Mi edir: Maha Filiic

C edir: Suanne Seel

edir: Kim Winingham

Crii wrir: Jane Caoll, Mauicio Esin

Maha Filiic, Saah Gane, Ku Knebusch, ray

Mille, Candace pollock, tei Sone, Fances Whi

gric Di: Kim Bown

prr: Ken Chambelain

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

[email protected]

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.

continuum spring 2010

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