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Working toward a cleaner Lake Erie at Stone Laboratory Growing up in Cleveland, Harrison Fried loved to care for his aquariums, maintaining a healthy world for his fish. It’s a hobby that blossomed into a larger passion: to preserve the environment we all live in. At Stone Laboratory, Ohio State’s island campus on Lake Erie, Fried got to embark on a research study that he hopes will encourage improvements to the lake’s ecosystem.
Can music reduce livestock aggression? From the time she was a little girl, Nicole Lorig has always been passionate about two very different things – music and animals. So when the aspiring veterinarian came to Ohio State to study animal sciences, it made sense to add a minor in music to her studies. Soon she was at Ohio State’s Swine Center, observing the reactions of pigs to classical music.