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Zero waste

Attention, Buckeye fans: Add some green to your scarlet and gray and help turn Ohio Stadium into a zero-waste zone.

Recycling or composting game-day food scraps and paper items is the university's newest sustainability effort. Other projects include campus-wide recycling, energy research, green curriculum, and green building practices.

If you're visiting the 'Shoe, find out what you need to know and check our progress after every home game.

You paid it forward!

  

Buckeye alumni and friends have stepped up and made the Students First, Students Now initiative a success. The program has beaten its $100-million goal by $16 million.

Find out more about the program and a student who benefitted.

"What I did this summer"

  

Chris Gaw studied heart disease at the Cleveland Clinic. TJ Stewart interned at DreamWorks. Stephanie Sobek learned about conflict resolution in the Middle East. They're just three Ohio State students who spent their summers "off" doing internships, research projects, and study abroad.

Read their stories--in their own words.

Immigration conversation

Ohio State has kicked off a year-long, university-wide dialogue on immigration, featuring everything from a conference and visiting speakers to the required book selection for the incoming class of 2011.

See the full schedule of events.

Pelotonia: On the road again

Pelotonia 2011 has raised $9.6 million (and counting)--and every cent goes to cancer research at Ohio State. Nearly 5,000 riders and countless volunteers came out this year to make the third annual Pelotonia an overwhelming success.

See if you recognize any of the riders.

Share your pride

O-H-I-O: Haleakala

An Ohio State alum, who is now an Ohio State dad, shares his pride on top of Haleakala Volcano in Maui, Hawaii.

More O-H-I-O images.

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September 2011

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