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Jan 24, 2020
Katrina Cornish (Innovator of the Year) joined Tim Raderstorf (Early Career Innovator of the Year) and Forrest Schoessow and Wesley Thio (Next Generation Innovators of the Year) on the court at the OSU vs Minnesota basketball game on January 23rd for recognition of their outstanding achievements. Congratulations to them all!
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Jan 24, 2020
The 2nd annual “Coolest Science Story” award to Xiaoying Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher, whose ‘Biodegradable plastics’ won with more than 12,000 votes! Click here to read the article!
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Jan 10, 2020
The votes are in, the people have spoken, and it’s clear you all care about the environment and about coming up with an alternative to plastics. The award for coolest Ohio State science story of 2019 goes to a team of researchers who are working on a promising biodegradable alternative to the plastic that covers grocery-store food. More than 12,000 votes were cast in the contest at Ohio State News. Click here to read more!
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Jan 10, 2020
The quest to keep plastic out of landfills and simultaneously satisfy the needs of the food industry is filled with obstacles. New research from The Ohio State University has shown that combining natural rubber with bioplastic in a novel way results in a much stronger replacement for plastic, one that is already capturing the interest of companies looking to shrink their environmental footprints. Click here to learn more!
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Dec 11, 2019
Congratulations to Tony Ren on his Best Student Presentation Award at the 2019 IEC! His presentation was titled "Liquid Guayule Natural Rubber, a Renewable, Multifunctional Rubber Additive." Alpha Technologies had the pleasure of partnering with Mr. Ren to achieve valuable test data for his research, as they partner with individuals that successfully invest in advancement. View the IEC Newsletter here.
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Dec 10, 2019
Congratulations to Katrina Cornish for winning the 2019 Ohio Faculty Council Technology Commercialization Award! Katrina was recognized for her work with her start-up company, EnergyEne, Inc., and guayule latex.
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Oct 1, 2019
Sometime in the mid-1990s, when Katrina Cornish saw a load of freshly picked tomatoes in a hopper being transported from a farm on the back of a truck. She didn't view that load of tomatoes as most people would. She wondered instead about the tomatoes on the bottom of the container and realized that the skins would have to be pretty tough to handle that much stress. Click here to learn more.
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Jul 29, 2019
Natural rubber is an extremely important, agricultural resource vital to all modern economies. It is curiously underappreciated because many people assume that all rubber is synthetic. However, the total rubber market is about 45 % natural rubber because synthetic rubber, which is made from fossil reserves, cannot replace natural rubber in many applications. Read more by clicking here.
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Jun 19, 2019
Katrina Cornish, an Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair in Bio-based Emergent Materials at the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), recently received the BioEnvironmental Polymer Society Lifetime Achievement Award for scientific excellence and impact in the field. Click here to read more!
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Jun 19, 2019
Institute for Materials Research faculty member Katrina Cornish received in quick succession three accolades for her impact in innovative research at The Ohio State University. Cornish, an Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair in Bio-based Emergent Materials at the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), received three Innovator of the Year awards between April and May. Click here to read more.
