Ohio State’s School of Environment and Natural Resources is at its greatest size in its 54-year history with a combined 1,001 Bachelor of Science, Master and Doctoral students enrolled this past spring semester. We were thrilled that 167 B.S., 10 M.S., 10 MENR, and 3 Ph.D. degrees in Environment and Natural Resources were awarded at the university's graduation ceremony two days ago.
Most of the graduating B.S. recipients participated in an EPN networking event held on April 20, 2022. These students presented their semester-long capstone project on a wide variety of environment and natural resource related issues, including fish and aquatic biodiversity assessment, invasive species treatment research, management of semi-natural areas, habitat restoration, and disturbance impacts on soils and vegetation.
Learn more here about student research activities.
Looking ahead, on June 14 we are excited to welcome you to the next EPN Breakfast, in the form of in-person only summer field trip event, If you listen carefully…It Sounds Like Love. This three-hour morning program based at The Point at Otterbein (Westerville) will take participants through a series of immersive experiences both indoors and outdoors exploring prairie restoration and ecological preservation activities in the rapidly growing corridors of northern Franklin and southern Delaware Counties.
Paris-based (with Ohio roots!) Artist Cadine Navarro has captured the sounds of nine dormant Ohio prairie seeds and applied them in a truly unique, transformative installation It Sounds like Love inside Otterbein University’s Frank Museum of Art. Below is link to a video clip featuring the amplified sound vibrations of nine native Ohio prairie grass seeds and images visible on glass panels using a traditional Japanese art of floating ink, which begins with 22 concentric circles of deep, black ink floating on water and, here, moved by the sound vibration of the seeds and captured in glass.
Watch this one minute preview to learn more.
Following Navarro’s exhibition, participants will move outdoors to engage with regional environmental scientists and naturalists at sites along the Alum Creek Multi-Use Trail, drawing connections between these seeds, the arts, the sciences, and highlight the many regional partnerships and strategies underway to restore native prairies and other habitats in north central Ohio.
Space is limited for this event, so register soon at go.osu.edu/epnjun22
We hope you can join us in June!
Joe Campbell and Cecil Okotah
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