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Provost's Discovery Themes Lecturer Program: Mary Robinson

The Discovery Themes Provost's Lecturer Program presents Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first woman President and leader of The Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, on Thursday, January 24, 2019.

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March 26, 2015 — Food and AgriCultural Transformation

Nutritional Genomics course

This novel course provides an introduction to the emerging field of nutritional genomics and translational medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases.

March 12, 2015 — Food and AgriCultural Transformation

Satellites and Food Security

On January 31, NASA successfully launched its first Earth satellite designed to monitor soil moisture globally, known as the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite.

March 6, 2015 — Discovery Themes

Starting the Conversation

As a research university, we have enormous potential to bring intellectual heft and focused collaborative efforts to solve some of the world’s problems that loom so large. In this regard, with Ohio State’s Discovery Themes Initiative, we selected three focus areas where we already have strengths to build on —Health and Wellness, Energy and Environment, Food Production and Security.

March 4, 2015 — Foods for Health

Can strawberries impact carcinogen metabolism in smokers?

Led by Steven Schwartz (Department of Food Science and Technology) - and collaborating with Yael Vodovotz (Department of Food Science and Technology), Christopher Weghorst (College of Public Health) and Steven Clinton (College of Medicine and Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center) - the new strawberry study will examine biological samples collected from smokers and nonsmokers who ingested a strawberry confection product.

March 4, 2015 — Food and AgriCultural Transformation

Navigating Ohio State’s Rich Collaborative Environment

When Michelle Kaiser, PhD, started as an assistant professor at The Ohio State University’s College of Social Work in 2012, she was immediately welcomed into a vibrant transdisciplinary team of researchers who shared her primary academic interest: food security and the effort to make healthy food available for all.