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COLLEGE OF FOOD, AGRICULTURAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: AT A GLANCE Influential Alumni Successful 39,700 living alumni FIELD TO FAUCET 27,000 alumni living in Ohio 3,700 Graduates undergraduate Multi-college and multi-university initiative and graduate to ensure clean water report employment or students acceptance to graduate 92% or professional school within 6 months ATI Agricultural Technical of employed graduates OARDC Institute stay in Ohio The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center 77% Leads the nation in the have participated in at number of two-year degrees in Nation’s largest university agbioscience research enterprise least one study abroad agriculture and related sciences Nearly $40 million annually in sponsored research experience 40% Nearly 400 projects at any one time Distinguished Linda Saif: Faculty and Staff The Ohio State University College of Food, Over $2 million Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) is Wolf Prize in Professor Rattan Lal, recipient annually college faculty members, a large, diverse college supporting 10 academic units, Agriculture of the von Liebig Award and recipients of the Alumni Award the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development the Norman E. Borlaug Award in scholarship support awarded 37 for Distinguished Teaching Center, Ohio State University Extension, and two-year degree programs offered by the Agricultural Technical Professors David Denlinger staff members, recipients of Institute. The college has campuses in Columbus and and Linda Saif, National 49 the Distinguished Staff Award Wooster, and has a presence in all 88 Ohio counties. Academy of Sciences members It serves as the home for 330 faculty members, more than 3,700 undergraduate and graduate students, and 1,230 staff members. The Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center CFAES Signature Areas 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT OHIO STATE’S • Food Security, Production and Human Health youth participants • Advanced Bioenergy and Biobased Products certified 216,000 • Environmental Quality and Sustainability ST building 1 adult and teen volunteers LEED 22,500 The Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park A teaching, research, and outreach center OSU The aquatic gateway to the Ohio State main campus OUTDOOR LABORATORIES EXTENSION Chadwick Arboretum Secrest Arboretum FSR More than 1.5 million educational contacts each year Farm Science Review Waterman Farm One of the nation’s largest Brings $4.6 million in federal funding for nutrition 9 research stations agricultural outreach events education to Ohio across the state Nearly $10 million: Increased profits for Ohio farms and agri- Howlett Hall businesses credited to Extension’s C.O.R.N. Newsletter GREEN ROOF 130,000 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC attendees every year CFAES provides research and related educational programs to clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis. For more information: go.osu.edu/cfaesdiversity. For Deaf and Hard of Hearing, please contact Ohio State University Extension using your preferred communication (email, relay services or video relay services). Phone 1-800-750-0750 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST Monday through Friday. Inform the operator to dial 614-292-6181. cfaes.osu.edu June 2015.