ALAN RANDALL: SRE’s Integrated Assessment Modeling Team

Convening the Integrated Assessment Modeling team has been important component of my duties in the first year of my rather modest part-time appointment as SRE Resident Scholar. The idea can be traced back to a 1-day workshop of SRE affiliated researchers at the beginning of summer, 2015: perhaps SRE should aspire to developing an Ohio […]

Mark Weick Visit

On September 21, 2016, Mark Weick, Director of the Sustainability Program Office at Dow Chemical, spoke with Ohio State students and faculty. His first stop was to an Intro to EEDS (ENR 2500) class taught by Dr. Jeremy Brooks and Dr. Brent Sohngen. There, he talked about the growing sustainability career field, as well as […]

Autumn 2016 Seed Grant Recipients

SRE is proud to announce the selection of the Autumn 2016 Seed Grant recipients! Their project proposals emphasize what it means to be transdisciplinary and innovative in sustainability and resilience research, and we are excited to see the results of their efforts. The Principal Investigators of the recipient proposals include Guzin Bayraksan, Keely Croxton, Karen […]

Bart Elmore named 2017 New America Fellow

Congratulations to History Professor Bart Elmore who has been named a 2017 New America fellow! He “will work on his book ‘Seed Money: How the Monsanto Company’s Quest for Power Remade Our World,’ which will offer the first global environmental history of the St. Louis firm, tracing Monsanto’s astounding evolution from making DDT to manipulating […]

H.S.H Prince Albert II of Monaco Visit

H.S.H. was shown around campus in order to introduce him to some of the many sustainability initiatives Ohio State has supported and instituted. He was shown the Venturi Buckeye Bullet, Ohio State’s electric race car, and he was also introduced to some of the University’s research and academic initiatives surrounding sustainability, as well as the […]

Meet Our New Faculty

SRE is thrilled to introduce our twelve new faculty to the OSU community. Read on to learn more about the ten faculty joining us this fall! Yongyang Cai earned his PhD from Stanford University, and his research interests include computational economics, integrated assessment models and climate change, environmental and resource economics, and decision making under […]

Welcome New Faculty

SRE hosted its New Faculty Orientation on August 16, 2016. The new team members were welcomed by members of the SRE Leadership team, including Nick Breyfogle, Linda Weavers, Robyn Wilson, Erich Grotewold, Rob Greenbaum, Elena Irwin, and Joseph Fiksel. Speakers at the orientation included Vice Provost for Academic and Strategic Planning Mike Boehm, as well […]

Greetings from Elena Irwin and Joseph Fiksel

It’s an exciting time at Ohio State. Sustainable and Resilient Economy is one of eight major new programs funded by the Discovery Themes initiative. We have created a ground-breaking interdisciplinary program that connects and supports faculty in various departments and centers across the university who are pursuing research and education in the broad arena of […]