CFAES Faculty and Staff Highlights

Wellbeing Wednesday: Brought to you by the CFAES Buckeye Wellness Innovators

Practice gratitude in November
Regularly practicing gratitude has many benefits but ultimately improves your mind, body and spirit. Simply saying “thank you” or smiling more can foster optimism, increase happiness, build relationships and decrease stress just to name a few perks. Practice gratitude on at least 15 days to earn 250 points and entry to win $25 PulseCash. Learn more.

Strategies to boost your motivation
Explore tips and resources to help you build and ignite motivation. Learn more.

Nominations Now Open for CFAES Faculty and Staff Awards

The nomination window for the 2024-2025 College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences faculty and staff awards is open through November 29, 2024. Criteria and nomination requirements for all awards, past recipients, and the link to submit nominations can be found at https://go.osu.edu/cfaesawardnominations.

CFAES Hoteling Spaces

If you’re going to the Columbus campus for a holiday celebration and looking to get some work done before or after, consider reserving a hoteling space. With multiple locations across the Columbus campus, these hoteling spaces can be reserved for a few hours or the entire day, and are done so on a first-come, first-serve basis. Within the spaces themselves, many are equipped with monitors and docking stations, and the layout varies from cubicle-style workstations to open tables and meeting rooms. If you do decide to reserve a space, please note that you will need to bring your own device to work from. 

Updates and Impacts to Storage Limits and University Email Services

Ohio State is making changes to storage allowances for email, OneDrive, and Teams. In addition, email account forwarding policies will be changed. 

On Dec. 31, 2024, email account forwarding to outside email services will be discontinued.

CFAES Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Updates and Events

November 21 | 12:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.: Understanding the History of Ecology and Imperialism: The Importance of Indigenous Environmental Studies (Click the title to learn more and register.)

November 28 | 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.: The Language of Inclusion: Pronouns and Other Gendered Words (Click the title to learn more and register.)

Cannon Opens, CABS Service Changes Late November, Early January

The new Cannon Drive and Woody Hayes Drive intersection in Columbus opens in late November. Beginning November 18, the Campus Loop South (CLS) resumes service to Morrill and Lincoln towers, in addition to existing stops. Beginning January 6, the new Northwest Connector (NWC) route will provide service between Kenny Road, Carmenton, Midwest Campus, Morrill and Lincoln towers and the Transit Hub. The CABS On-Demand Mid-Tower stop will no longer be serviced during daytime hours; riders can use the CLS and NWC instead. The Buckeye Express (BE) moves to 11th Avenue. View additional CABS and CABS On-Demand service updates online.

Oh, Deer! Collaborative efforts to create and link deer management plans across Central Ohio

Join the Environmental Professionals Network for an evening program on Monday, December 2 with networking followed by a program focused on deer management planning with local wildlife practitioners, researchers and city managers. 

Pumpkin Composting Returns to Columbus Campus

Don’t let your pumpkins haunt the landfill now that Halloween is over. Now through December 2, faculty, staff and students living off-campus in Columbus can drop off pumpkins and gourds in the labeled dumpster at 2500 Kenny Road.

Registration is open for Ohio Maple Days Dec. 6-7

Ashland University Convocation Center | Ashland, Ohio
Friday, December 6 | 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Leaving a Legacy Through Transition and Estate Planning
A workshop on transition and estate planning featuring David Marrison and Robert Moore. Open to any landowner who wants to participate. Registration is available here.

Saturday, December 7 | 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | A Day for Maple 
Topics include an expert panel on filtering, cost-share programs, managing a timber sale, marketing for producers, and a grading and tasting session. Visit with vendors and enjoy a maple-themed lunch. Registration is available here.

The Ohio State Leadership Center Upcoming Workshops

December 2 | Change Style Preference: Strengthening Your Capacity to Lead Self & Others
Change, For Better or Worse? Change is both inevitable and frightening, but can also help increase a team’s efficiency if handled correctly. Are you equipped with the necessary tools to effectively handle change within your team? Register for this workshop to discover your change style preference and learn how to recognize and understand others’ change preferences to achieve more success in times of flux. Learn more here.

December 3 | Mission Possible: Positive Leadership online
Are you a positive leader? Organizations that have a positive culture are more productive, have happier employees and most importantly, happy and satisfied customers. No matter what the current situation is, or who is causing the negativity in your organization/team, it is vital that you create positive strategies that keep the team/organization strong. Join Beth Flynn, of the OSU Leadership Center for this workshop. Learn more here.

December 10 | Problem-Solving, Teamwork and Creativity for Success online
Teamwork can be hard! Have you ever been frustrated with a team member and how they approach a task? Why they problem solve differently than you? Why some people think “inside the box” and others can’t even “see the box”? This training will enhance your understanding of team dynamics in problem solving and increase group cohesion, effectiveness, and team building. Join Beth Flynn for this workshop. Click here for more information or to register.

December 13 | Effective Meeting Facilitation: Getting the Most Out of Your Group
A good facilitator makes the difference between the success and failure of a group. Have you ever left a meeting where the group’s decision still didn’t feel right or where everyone still wasn’t on the same page? Attend this workshop to learn how to be effective at facilitating people through processes that provide useful information and data in making decisions and developing ownership over those decisions.Learn more here.

Donate Business Clothing for Buckeye Careers' Student Career Closet

Help boost the confidence of every student by donating professional attire for the Career Closet. Your gently used office outfits could become somebody's first impression. Donate and make a difference in a student's life. All gently used professional clothing must be ready to wear - laundered or dry-cleaned and not needing repair. Coordinate clothing drop-off at Younkin Success Center before Dec. 13 by emailing Kristen Hill at hill.592@osu.edu.

Apply now for the University Outreach and Engagement Awards

Ohio State is seeking nominations of scholars, practitioners and graduate students for the 2025 University Outreach and Engagement Awards, which honor faculty, staff, students and community partners for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and community impact. Awards will be given in three categories: Community Engaged Scholar, Community Engaged Practitioner (for staff) and Community Engaged Graduate Student. Apply by Dec. 15.

Call for proposals: Programs of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship

To support and promote high-impact engaged scholarship, the Office of Outreach and Engagement has instituted a process to certify programs of excellence in engaged scholarship. The certification process seeks to identify and certify up to 20 projects annually that demonstrate excellence in community-engaged scholarship and meet the criteria of high-impact engaged scholarship. Submit a proposal by Dec. 15.

CFAES Principles of Community 

We affirm our conviction that racism and inequality have no place in CFAES. Our CFAES Principles of Community serve as a base for managing these actions. We all contribute to our community and our collective experience. You are encouraged to download and post the principles, discuss them during meetings, share them with others, and most importantly, use them as a guide in all that we do to sustain life.

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