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OHIO announces 2021 Sustainability Award winners Published: April 22, 2021 Author: Sam Crowl Ben Siegel
Ohio University’s Office of Sustainability is pleased to celebrate Earth Day with recognition of the 2021 Sustainability Award winners. The annual Sustainability Awards are given to individuals and organizations nominated by their peers for contributions during the previous academic year.
The Faculty Sustainability Award is given to an OHIO faculty member who has made exemplary contributions to their field through sustainability-related teaching, research, scholarship or service.
Amy Lynch
This year’s award is given to Assistant Professor of Geography Amy Lynch. Dr. Lynch is an urban planner with a conservation and environmental management background whose research is focused on green infrastructure and sustainability community monitoring. She was nominated for building her classes around experiential exercises that engage students with
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following 10 individuals to serve on key Administration boards and commissions.
Deirdre Hamilton for Member, National Mediation Board
Cynthia Hogan for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service
Catherine McLaughlin for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service
Shirley Sagawa for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service
Evelyn M. Fujimoto for Member, Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences
Lori Peek for Member, Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences
Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight?
In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying restrictions on human flight, teleportation, endless/consequence-free consumption, etc. As it is VR, it is inescapably VR you can lose yourself, but only to a point. This has to do partly with the technology’s bulkiness, but also its sensory limitations. Smell and taste, two fairly major components of regular reality key to memory, present-time enjoyment, and more do not factor into commercial VR equipment. Of course, this problem isn’t unknown to the score of researchers presently working on VR, and over the last few years, in labs all over the world, these researchers have made real advances in the realm(s) of sensorial verisimilitude. For this week’s Giz Asks, we reached out to some of them for insight into these developments.
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A new guide for communicating plant science Gustavo MacIntosh’s research at Iowa State focuses on plant cellular functions and soybean pest resistance. He took part in a multi-institutional effort to guide outreach efforts in the plant sciences. Larger image. Photo by Robert Elbert.
AMES, Iowa – A lot is riding on the continued advancement of plant sciences.
Take the food supply, for starters. Climate change and population growth will continue to pose challenges in the future, and crop production will require innovation and progress by plant scientists in order to keep pace. It isn’t an overstatement to say that populations around the world will go hungry if plant science stagnates, said Gustavo MacIntosh, a professor in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at Iowa State University.