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OSU Student Farm CSA Seed-to-Sale Support
Get PDFCourse Code: AEDECON 4567This study examines the feasibility and strategic development of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program for the Ohio State University Student Farm. This research investigated the CSA operational models of four university-based farms and one private farm via qualitative interviews, while simultaneously assessing campus market demand through a broad sampling of 109 individuals from the campus community. The analysis identified three critical success factors: diversified financial structures that balance institutional support with earned revenue to ensure consistent labor, intentional community engagement, and formal risk-mitigation strategies. Survey results and market analysis indicated that faculty and staff are the optimal target demographic, with the strongest demand for weekly summer shares priced at $40 and high interest in staple crops like carrots and broccoli. Drawing from this synthesis, we recommend a pilot program with conservative initial scaling, summer-focused operations, and robust community programming to position the CSA as a campus engagement hub. This study contributes to the literature on sustainable food systems by demonstrating how student-farm CSAs can balance financial viability with pedagogical goals to function as university-integrated learning platforms while providing locally grown produce to the campus community.Academic Major: Environment, Economy, Development, and SustainabilityAcademic Major: Sustainable Agricultur
Exploring Environmental and Human Health Issues in Japan
Get PDFSTEP Category: Education Abroad2.5 weeks experience that connects the environment with human health
Toured museums, facilities, schools, and attended lectures
Connect with Japanese students and have a dialogue with them about similarities and differences between public health in Japan and the U.S.The Ohio State University Second-year Transformational Experience Program (STEP)Academic Major: Neuroscienc
Queer as in Queer Theology
Get PDFMore than half of LGBTQ+ persons in the United States identify as religious and as a group they are just over 5% more likely to identify as ‘highly religious’ when compared to their straight counterparts. Making light of this in the Christian theological context, “queer theology,” then, has become an ever-encompassing catch-all term for a wildly different series of scholastic, theological, exegetical, and hermeneutical traditions- constantly in tension with one another- serving as an umbrella term for this wide demographic that coalesces a group of pieces that seemingly share nothing in common beyond their often shared authorship from persons of queer or non-normative gender and sexual identities. Given this, doing any categorical analysis of ‘queer theology’ in religious studies has become increasingly difficult and will definitionally exclude certain groups whose work might not be ontologically or metaphysically dissimilar beyond a certain abstract metric established by a given author at hand.
Despite this, I will explore in this thesis what can be said definitionally about the discipline of queer theology. As aforementioned, many view the discipline as simply the tradition of theology done by people of queer identities; however, I ask here if this is all that can be said of the composition which defines this discipline of ‘queer theology-’ that it is merely a theology done by queer persons- and continue to articulate what can be said definitively about this discipline external to this given circular definition. Is there any way to categorically define queer theology? Is there any way to structurally analyze the tradition? Might we say in any meaningful manner that there exists a developed queer theological praxis?
It is in light of these questions and questions just like these that I have approached this project. In this thesis, I argue there exists in the literature four prominent views of which I have dubbed: (1) the identifying hypothesis, which argues queer theology is simply theology done by queer persons; (2) the theory hypothesis, which argues queer theology is theology that is the result of applied queer theory; (3) the affirming hypothesis, which argues queer theology is theology that affirms the identities and behaviors of the gender and sexual minorities; and (4) the considering hypothesis, which argues that queer theology is theology which considers members of the gender and sexual minority somewhat in their theological or dogmatic prescriptions- all of which I argue ultimately fall short at describing aptly the positive force ‘queer’ describes in the discipline of ‘queer theology.’ To resolve this, I ultimately offer my own hypothesis I call the ‘the processal hypothesis’ which argues [T → X ∴ N (=^T)] in that ‘queer theology’ (X) might be understood as the process of using theological claims (T) in good faith to come to non-normative conclusions (N) about gender or sexuality. My approach in the presenting the first four theses is descriptive, in that instead of asserting some sort of advantage of any of these hypotheses I am simply attempting to describe their presence in the literature, although I do ultimately turn in my own hypothesis to make some prescriptive claim in my last chapter wherein I present the processal hypothesis.No embargoAcademic Major: PhilosophyAcademic Major: French and Francophone StudiesAcademic Major: Religious Studie
Redesign of Kottman Hall Shared Spaces
No full textCourse Code: ENR 4900.01This project aims to redesign the first-floor lobby and outdoor spaces of Kottman Hall to better reflect the values of the CFAES community while improving functionality, inclusivity, and collaboration. The current Brutalist design does not align with CFAES’s mission of "We Sustain Life.", or the needs and values of students, faculty, and staff that utilize the building daily. Our redesign will create welcoming, adaptable spaces that foster engagement and interdisciplinary interaction.Key deliverables include a community needs assessment, a comprehensive design plan, an application for the Framework Space Grant, and a future management strategy to ensure sustainable upkeep. This proposal serves as a foundation for stakeholders to assess alignment with community needs, inform decision-making, and establish a sustainable framework for the project's execution. By revitalizing these shared spaces, we aim to create a more cohesive and engaging campus environment that honors the historical significance of Kottman Hall while promoting innovation and collaboration.College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Operations OfficeAcademic Major: Environmental ScienceAcademic Major: Environmental Policy and Decision MakingAcademic Major: Natural Resource Managemen
Inter-indexical Gender in Japanese Translation
No full textJapanese translators construct gender by assigning different speech styles to the speech of non-Japanese characters. Their usages of speech styles show three tendencies. First, the speech of non-Japanese white women is often translated into stereotypical Japanese women’s language. Such translations serve to naturalize the reserved, polite femininity associated with Japanese women’s language as if it is shared by women all over the world. Second, the speech of non-Japanese casual men is translated into a peculiar informal style used only by non-Japanese men. Such translations, by dividing Japanese and non-Japanese masculinities, work to sustain the hegemonic status of the polite Japanese masculinity. Third, the combination of women’s language features with plain sentence-final forms is utilized to the speech of women in Europe, North America and South America more frequently than that of women in Asia and Africa. In contrast, the speech of women in Asia and Africa is often translated with the honorific sentence-final forms. Such translations reproduce and reinforce the Japanese stereotypes of women in the former regions as informal and those in the latter regions as polite
