The 2018 Agricultural Policy and Outlook Conference will be Friday, Nov. 2, 2018.

The agenda and registration information will be posted this summer.

You can view the entire 2017 annual Ohio State University Agricultural Policy and Outlook Conference that was held on Nov. 9. Click here for more in information on the Agricultural Policy and Outlook Conference series.

Ohio State Academy of Teaching’s
Conference on Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Creating Inclusive Connections
Thursday, May 3, 2018

The Academy of Teaching’s Conference on Excellence in Teaching & Learning will be held Thursday, May 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center. This free event is for members of The Ohio State University community to share innovative and interesting, evidence-based ideas for the improvement of teaching effectiveness and student learning. The theme is “Creating Inclusive Connections.”

Join us for discussions about how we cross geographic, interpersonal, disciplinary, technological, instructional, societal, and many other boundaries to connect our students with ourselves, one another, and our subject matter.

Register here!

On April 11, the BuckeyeLearn team introduced a streamlined homepage design that will improve the learner experience by allowing a direct way to review available trainings on your transcript and search for additional training experiences. Change highlights include:

• more prominent “My Training” widget that provides a quicker view of your specific registered training
• less cluttered home page
• revised “To Do” widget that shares priority items for you and your direct reports
• new “Pending Evaluations” widget that allows direct access to open training evaluations

Questions about BuckeyeLearn? Contact the IT Service Desk at 614-688-4357 or through Self Service.

Date and Location Change

The workshop will now take place on Sept. 10, 2018, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus.

Stakeholders from academia, commodity groups, and industry will come together to share knowledge and experiences in the development and commercialization of biobased materials at the Advanced Biobased Systems Workshop: Pipeline to Commercialization.

“The workshop is an opportunity to gain understanding from the big picture perspective as well as case studies that illustrate the commercialization process, including challenges and overcoming them,” said event organizer Dr. Ajay Shah, assistant professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering (FABE)  and head of the Biobased Systems Analysis Lab.

“The Ohio Soybean Council (OSC) is excited to provide support for this workshop,” said Barry McGraw, OSC director of Product Development and Commercialization. “It fits our mission of expanding the development of soy-based products and technologies, improving the profitability of Ohio’s soybean farmers.”

Several Ohio State researchers and industry leaders will be sharing their ideas and experiences in the commercialization process for biobased fuels and products.

Industry leaders such as Mike Feazel, Co-Founder and CEO of Roof Max Technologies, LLC, will be sharing examples of the impact bio-based products have had in their areas.

“Roof Maxx is showing great promise as a biobased solution that can have a major impact on the roofing industry,” said Feazel. “The bio-based business model is proving viable, important for successful movement to bio-based production systems across many markets, which I see as a sensible approach for achieving economic and environmental sustainability.”

Feazel will present “Soy-based Emulsion for Extending Roof Shingle Life: A Case Study.”

Three FABE faculty will also be presenting at the workshop:

• Dr. Scott Shearer will present “Big Data Driven Optimization of Feedstock Logistics for Biobased Industries.”
• Dr. Katrina Cornish will present “Developing Applications for Natural Rubber Alternatives.”
• Dr. Ajay Shah will present “Techno-economic and Life Cycle Analyses: Why it’s important.”

“The goal is to develop greater understanding and networks that will lead to continue growth in this important industry,” said Shah.

Registration is $60, or $75 after Aug. 27, 2018. Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and access to a networking event following the workshop. The workshop is sponsored by the Ohio Soybean Council, OSU’s Sustainable and Resilient Economy Discovery Theme, OBIC, and BioHio.

Click here to learn more about the workshop’s sessions and speakers.

The forum is led by the Ohio Farm to School Leadership Team in partnership with Ohio State’s Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation (InFACT) program. It will be held April 25 from 3 – 8 p.m. at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati. The Ohio-focused event will actively engage the community in meaningful discussion about current and emerging issues, opportunities, challenges and barriers, and policy development related to serving local foods in schools.

Celebrate Ohio Days: My Plate, My State Dinner
Learn what qualifies as a school lunch program meal through a locally-sourced meal.

A Bus Trip From Central Ohio to Cincinnati
Ohio Farm to School is providing a shuttle bus for a small fee for conference participants from Columbus to the conference on April 25 – 26. The bus trip will eliminate the need to locate and pay for parking and will allow riders the chance to network, work, or rest along the route, rather than drive. The bus option will be offered to the Farm to School community members. You can choose your own departure and return time.

Click here for more information and to reserve your place today.

A morning to inspire, engage and invigorate. Two sessions will dive into the concept of leadership, giving you the knowledge, tools and confidence to be a more effective leader.

Mark Sanborn, author of The Fred Factor and The Potential Principle will be our featured keynote.

Following Mark’s keynote, we will have an expert panel of community leaders who will share their leadership insights. Gail Hogan, former co-anchor of NBC 4, will moderate the panelists, who include:

• Shannon Ginther – First Lady, City of Columbus; Columbus Women’s Commission Chair
• Anil Makhija – Dean and John W. Berry, Sr. Chair in Business, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University
• Angela C. Dawson – Executive Director, Ohio Commission on Minority Health

Wednesday, March 28, 2018
8 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Ohio Union Archie M. Griffin East Ballroom
$90 registration fee; deadline to register is March 19

Click here to register.

The Burgeoning Internet of Food: New Opportunities for Food, Food Systems and Health Informatics
Seminar with Matthew Lange, PhD

Wed, Feb 28, 3 p.m.
Parker Food Science and Technology, Room 120
2015 Fyffe Court, The Ohio State University

Part Semantic Web (SemWeb), part Internet of Things (IoT), and part blockchain: the emerging Internet of Food (IoF) holds promise to change the way we conduct science, assign value to commodities and processes, transact food business, and develop policy and intervention programs related to food systems.

A confluence of technologies underpinning the IoF support new economic models where companies compete to be more traceable, more transparent, and ultimately more trustworthy. At the same time, increasingly harmonized data structures and vocabularies enable data sharing/collaboration and publication/communication mechanisms spanning scientific disciplines, geographic boundaries, and dimensions of time and space from protein folding to earth observation.

At this seminar, Dr. Lange will highlight work being conducted at the International Center for Food Ontology Operability Data and Semantics (IC-FOODS@UCDavis) together with public and private partners, including The Ohio State University, to build IoF infrastructure.

Matthew Lange, PhD
Professional Food and Health Informatician and Research Scientist
UC Davis Food Science and Technology

Dr. Lange’s research program is helping to define and shape a new scientific discipline known as Food Informatics, while simultaneously enabling the engineering of a computable infrastructure for the burgeoning Internet of Food (IoF). Part Semantic Web (SemWeb), part Internet of Things (IoT), the IoF is the global, evolving knowledge base of food that exists as ontologies and linked object data (LOD) stores.

Refreshments will be provided
RSVPs are not required