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Elizabeth Gardiner awarded Borlaugh Fellowship
Elizabeth Gardiner was awarded a Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security ($29,323) to support her dissertation research in Burkina Faso on the impacts of land privatization on food security. The…
Examining social-ecological dynamics in Cameroon
The fieldwork of our MORSL postdoctoral researchers is featured on the website of the Office of international Affairs.
Sarah Laborde, Department of Anthropology, and Sui Phang, Department of…

ASC Spotlight
Pallavi Oruganti, an undergraduate researcher in our DECML lab is profiled on the Arts and Science College website.
Review paper in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
Our review paper on models of foot-and-mouth disease was published online first in the journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The lead author is Laura Pomeroy, a postdoctoral researcher…

NSF RAPID grant
An NSF RAPID is supporting our research on the impact of refugee pastoralists from Nigeria on the pastoral ecosystem in the Logone Floodplain of Cameroon. Here is the summary from the NSF website…

COMPAS photo contest
A MORSL fieldwork photo by our postdoctoral researcher Sarah Laborde has won first prize in the COMPAS Sustainability Photo Contest.

Ambio paper
Our paper Meta-studies in Land Use Science: Current Coverage and Prospects came out in Ambio. The paper came out of a workshop at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) …

Poster Presentation Brandon Mohr
Brandon Mohr, one of our undergraduate researchers in the MORSL lab, presented the findings of his study of depressions in the Logone Floodplain at the Fall Student Poster Forum, September 17,…

DECML featured on Discovery Themes website
Ohio State researchers from veterinary medicine, geography, anthropology, environmental sciences and public health are using statistics and computer simulations, along with field research, to…