Department of Animal Sciences

First, I would like to welcome you all to our Animal Sciences e-Newsletter. We want to reconnect to one of our most important support bases-the alumni of this Department. We invite you all to stop in and visit if you are in town and check out what is happening with your Department and University.

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In 1999, Dr. Henry Zerby joined the faculty of the Department of Animal Sciences at The Ohio State University. He was a man on a mission-rejuvenate the Meat Science Program and Laboratory. The animal sciences meat science program, made great by faculty emeriti of the Department of Animal Sciences needed someone with the energy and drive to bring it back to life. Henry Zerby took the challenge, and has not looked back.

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Since 1994, high school students spend three days every breezy October in Iowa at the World Food Prize Youth Institute. There they interact with other high school students, local leaders, and food experts from around the globe in a myriad of conferences, projects and presentations.

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With a desire to understand the future of the dairy industry in the United States and the onset of many new Dutch dairy farms in the Midwest, Ohio State University students from the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences went abroad.

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Elementary school students and teachers recently gathered on Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences campus to take part in a hands-on-learning event about Ohio's No. 1 industry--agriculture.

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Other than long grueling hours, early starts, late finishes, and a lot of learning on the spot, Chad Epley and Gabe Coleman's internships seemingly had little in common.

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