Research Wins Propel Excellent Year at Ohio State

The Ohio State University continues to reach new heights in dynamic research.

Grace Wang, executive vice president of research, innovation and knowledge, highlighted a successful year in research on Thursday during a Board of Trustees committee meeting. Highlights include:

Establishing Carmenton: Carmenton is the newly named innovation district on west campus, which will bring private, public and academic sectors together to help develop new technologies and bring solutions to market.

Supporting faculty: The 43 projects awarded President's Research Excellence seed funding support Ohio State's goals to attract more externally sponsored research funding and address complex societal challenges.

Creating milestones in technology commercialization: University researchers filed 331 U.S. patents and filed 363 invention disclosures in fiscal year 2022.

Building new businesses: Eleven new startups were launched in the fiscal year, contributing to a total of 95 operational Ohio State startups.

Scoring big interdisciplinary wins in strategic areas: Researchers are involved in impactful spaces, from several multimillion dollar National Science Foundation grants in advanced computing and communication to $26.5 million to test new bus technologies and $17 million from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Center for Maternal and Pediatric Drug Research.

"We have built tremendous momentum in the strategic areas that I just revealed," Wang, who has been named president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, told board members. "We want to continue to nurture a campus-wide culture of innovation and entrepreneurship so that we can play a very significant role in Columbus, in central Ohio and in the state of Ohio and across the nation."

At another committee meeting, board members heard about Ohio State's successes in making progress toward sustainability goals. The university's carbon emissions have fallen 30% since it adopted a plan to cut carbon emissions to zero by 2050, and Ohio State has taken other major steps to address other sustainability goals.

Trustees also approved pricing for next season's football games, with some individual ticket prices for non-conference games as low as $39. Student tickets will remain at $34 per game, which is unchanged since the 2013 season. Trustees also approved an 8% increase of membership dues for the Ohio State University Golf Club.

The board also heard from three individuals who are survivors of sexual misconduct committed by former Ohio State physician Dr. Richard Strauss, who worked at the university from 1978-1998 and died in 2005.