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Spending four years with a student-run philanthropy effort that raises money and awareness in support of children fighting cancers provided Imran Nuri with professional development skills and mentors.

Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak hit Ohio, Moms2B has worked with LifeCare Alliance to deliver food to moms in the program, as well as the same spirit of support that has been a hallmark of the program since its inception.

Brining programs, training and solutions to communities to help people deal constructively with political unrest and conflict — and address the underlying issues — is what drove the Divided Community Project to be created at The Ohio State University.

Doug Danforth and Nick Khan have developed a VR training tool to help teach Ohio State’s medical students, emergency medicine residents, and first responders SALT triage. Danforth, who has a background in designing VR simulations for medical students, and Kman, a FEMA first responder and professor of emergency medicine, collaborated with other medical center faculty and designers from the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD).

The harmful algal blooms that manifest on Lake Erie in the summer can be as murky a concept to understand as they look. But it’s important to recognize the distinct and sometimes dangerous impact these blooms can have beyond the Great Lakes’ banks: Harmful algal blooms are capable of producing toxins that can cause skin rashes, GI problems and varying degrees of damage to a person’s liver, kidneys and nervous system.

Almost half of Ohio’s lakes, wetlands and streams are tainted with nutrient runoff — fertilizers and animal manure, intended for land, but carried into bodies of water by rain and gravity. Once in the water, those chemicals threaten plant and animal life, water supplies for humans and local economies that depend on water recreation. Could floating islands peppered with nutrient-chomping plants be part of a solution?