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Campus as a Living Laboratory

The Ohio State University's Campus as a Living Lab (CALL) program gives students, faculty and staff a chance to make a difference on campus through research efforts that are university-focused in scope.

What is a Living Lab?

At Ohio State, Campus as a Living Lab is the integration of applied teaching and research to university operations, serving a dual purpose of fostering education and research, while reducing the university’s ecological footprint. 

We invite the campus community to submit their ideas to our Idea Foundry

Browse the database of past projects

Participate in a Living Lab

A living laboratory project is a paper, poster, report, video, and or any form of research that analyzes an operational issue related to Ohio State’s campuses.  A faculty or staff member must be a sponsor of the project and the participating student must receive academic credit.