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  • Cutting-Edge Lawn Care

    August 16, 2022
    Summer is a busy time of year for Mike Koeritzer of Facilities Operations and Development (FOD). The FOD landscape superintendent says he and his team are beautifying Ohio State’s campus as students return to school this fall.“We are cleaning up landscape beds, mulching, mowing, edging sidewalks to get the campus looking good,” Koeritzer said.To aid in the effort, and to address sustainability, K...
    An electric mower with a landscaper in the background cleaning up grass.

  • In the News: Aparna Dial on Protecting People and the Environment

    April 20, 2021
    Aparna Dial approaches sustainability with a view through three lenses: She immigrated to the United States from India. She’s a woman in a male-dominated field. And she’s been an eyewitness to the ways environmental impacts do not affect everyone equally.That perspective leads her to propel discussion and action when it comes to issues such as the inequities of environmental impacts and the barri...
    Aparna Dial

  • New Sustainable Design and Construction Policy

    January 31, 2021
    The Ohio State University adopted a new Sustainable Design and Construction policy (formerly Green Build and Energy policy), effective February 1, 2021. “This is an exciting development for the future of our campus,” said Aparna Dial, Senior Director, Sustainability and Strategic Services, Facilities Operations and Development. “By establishing an Ohio State-centric set of sustainability stand...

  • Coffee Ground, Literally

    January 27, 2021
    It’s one of the most iconic and majestic places on Ohio State’s campus. Whether it’s studying, taking pictures or exercising, students, faculty, staff and visitors flock to Mirror Lake, but the lake is more than just a place for Buckeyes to gather. It’s playing a key role in advancing the university’s sustainability efforts.In addition to adding 250-300 new plants around Mirror Lake in autumn 202...
    Mirror Lake.

  • In the News: Renovated Mirror Lake provides hydrogeology lab for students

    November 2, 2018
    On a crisp October day at Mirror Lake, senior Michael Madson surmises why dissolved solids in the lake have dropped in the past few months.He discusses a few hypotheses with Audrey Sawyer, assistant professor of earth sciences. Could it be seasonal? Or manmade: The fact that the renovation of the lake is completed and construction work is no longer stirring up the lake’s sediment? Maybe it’s biol...
    A man wearing waders in the water at Mirror Lake.

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