Family-Friendly Halloween Trick-or-Treat event: Friday, October 18, 5-7pm on the CFAES Wooster Campus

Join us for a Family Fall Fest Featuring the Bug Zoo, Reptile Guests, Halloween Crafts & Pumpkin Painting! Pick up a FREE Pumpkin & Trick-or-Treat with the United Titanium Bug Zoo.

Chuy’s Tacos & Margaritas Food Truck on site! 

Located at the Wooster Science Building, 1680 Madison Ave, Wooster 44691, go.osu.edu/WoosterScienceBuildingMap

Hosted by The Ohio State University CFAES Wooster Campus Staff Council, the CFAES Department of Entomology, the Entomology United Titanium Bug Zoo, Entomology Graduate Student Association, and the CFAES Graduate Student Advisory Council.

Thank you to everyone who attended the annual Wooster Staff Council FunFest on August 1, 2024!

We had approximately 250 attendees- and unfortunately ran out of food due to the success of the event. We’ll make sure to order more next year, and also to make sure everyone gets a meal before allowing 2nds (and 3rds!)

Jeanne Semilia graciously took some fun photos to share. Thank you Jeanne!

Free Lunch for Everyone on the CFAES Wooster Campus!

Thursday, August 1, 2024 from 11am-1:30pm at the Secrest Welcome & Education Center on the CFAES Wooster campus.

Get a Set of the NEW CFAES Wooster Campus Stickers and Connect with your Colleagues!

Lunch includes a Hamburger or Hotdog or Vegan Burger, fruit, chips & Hartzler’s ice cream or Luigi’s Italian ice. You may also Enjoy Popcorn & Cotton Candy and Play Cornhole, Giant Jenga or Connect 4!

 EVERYONE IS INVITED: STAFF | FACULTY | GRADUATE, UNDERGRADUATE & ATI  STUDENTS | USDA COLLABORATORS (not open to the public)

This YP4H/Virgin Pulse Challenge is specific to CFAES (and our HR & OTDI partners), it grew out of our recent Wooster Staff Council 4 dubs weekly walking program, as we strive to provide opportunities to promote whole-self wellness for all Ohio State members. Create a team of 5, have some fun rivalry with your colleagues and earn 250 points for walking an average of 7000 steps per day! Challenge runs for just 4 weeks: July 1 to July 28.

Got to Challenge

Here’s what you need to know to get started.
Challenge Name: CFAES Walks for Wellness
Start Date: Jul 01
About the Challenge: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences invites you to join them in promoting whole-person health and wellness to sustain life through this team walking challenge. Gather your colleagues and create a team up to 5 participants. Individual participants can earn 250 points by tracking at least 196,000 steps, July 1 through July 28.
Challenge Rules:
Dates
• This challenge starts on Jul 01, 12 am local time, and ends on Jul 28, 11:59 pm local time.
• The last chance to upload your steps is Jul 31, 11:59 pm local time. Steps uploaded after this date won’t be counted in the final results. Try uploading daily—it’s more fun!
Teams
• Teams can have up to 5 participants.
• Try to have a full team of 5 to maximize your score.
Scores
• Team scores are based on total team steps.
• The more steps your team gets, the better your score.
• To contribute to your team score, upload steps from a fitness tracker or app.
• You can get credit for a maximum of 30,000 steps per day (so aim high)!
• The team with the most steps at the end of the challenge wins!
Good to Know
• If you leave the challenge, you have until Jun 30, 11:59 pm local time to rejoin. If you don’t rejoin by this date you won’t be able to participate in this challenge.
• Participant names and step counts may be shared with other challenge participants and administrators.
• You have up to 14 days to go back and enter steps prior to the upload deadline. Skip the heartache—join before the challenge starts and track daily!

Join us for 15-minute walks on Wednesdays at 11:30am.

All are welcome! Learn about your employee health and wellness benefits and the Your Plan 4 Health program.

Consistent participation = chance to win a $10 gift card* from Panera or Dick’s Sporting Goods. *qualifies as taxable income

June Gift Card Winners:
Margo Freed, Tim Frey, Therese Miller, Bailey Miller, Debbie Anderson, Cindy Eshler & Samaneh Tajik!

May Gift Card Winners:
Margo Freed, Fred Hickmann, Therese Miller, Bailey Miller, Debbie Anderson, Cindy Eshler & Samaneh Tajik!

April Gift Card winners:
Debbie Anderson, Cindy Eshler, Tim Frey, Berenice Montano, Samaneh Tajik & Gwen Short!

Program runs April – June, 2024. Incentive rewards and snacks made possible by a $200 Buckeye Wellness Innovator grant.

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Thank you everyone who attended the Wooster Campus Staff Council Annual Meeting. We had approximately 215 in-person attendees, and about a dozen on zoom.

We want to share the few slides presented (PDFslides_2024 CFAES-WCSC-Annual Meeting), and more importantly, the link to the video message that Dr. Tracy Kitchel, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty & Staff Affairs recorded. This video contains very relevant information to all Ohio State employees. Please watch the video and share with your colleagues!

Remember to join us Wednesday April 3 at 11:30 for our inaugural “4 Dubs” walk! We will meet at the Wooster Science Building Sculpture.  Wooster Weekly Wellness Walks will take just 15-20 minutes and occur weekly on Wednesdays through the spring, weather permitting.

Thank you to Jeanne Semilia for these lovely photos from the Annual Meeting!

Wooster Staff Council Annual Meeting & Chili Luncheon on March 7, 2024, 11:30am-12:30pm at the Secrest Welcome Center

Lunch begins at 11:30am | Panel & zoom connection begin at 12pm

Enjoy a FREE LUNCH and hear important updates from CFAES Wooster Staff Council and Wooster/ATI/Operations Leadership. Panel includes CFAES Associate Dean of Operations Graham Cochran, Associate Dean & Wooster Campus Director Andy Michel, Assistant Dean and ATI Director Kris Boone, and recorded message from Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs Tracy Kitchel.

Send questions about the Wooster campus or CFAES overall to Erin Parker.1390@osu.edu. Select questions will be presented anonymously to the panel.

ZOOM LINK for those who cannot attend in-person: https://go.osu.edu/WSCmeeting2024

We are hoping to reach as many as possible. Though this is technically a CFAES Wooster staff council event we want to invite everyone who happens to be in Wayne county on March 7 – we are just requiring an ID, with OSU or USDA.

CFAES Wooster Staff Council and Buckeye Wellness Innovators are inviting all faculty, staff, and graduate students to the All-Staff Wellness Program with OSU’s new President, Ted Carter.

Join us in the Wooster Science Building Room 175, Thursday, January 25, 2024 as we participate virtually in the event.

Snacks will be provided.

Event Schedule

9:00 am- Welcome by President Walter “Ted” Carter Jr.
9:10 am- Meditation and Gentle Stretching. All fitness levels welcome.
9:30 am- Remarks by Dr. Bernadette Melnyk, Chief Wellness Officer

Please mark your calendar and join us for this event!

Nominations for 2023-2024 CFAES faculty and staff awards are due November 30, 2023.
Being nominated can bring positive impacts to co-workers and supervisees, even if they don’t win. Criteria and nomination requirements for all awards, past recipients, and the link to submit nominations can be found at https://go.osu.edu/cfaesawardnominations
Awards specific to Staff are listed below. These awards are decided by the CFAES Staff Advisory Council.