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GreenSpotLight Awards
Congratulations to the 2023 GreenSpotLight award winners! Council President Pro Tem Dorans recognized three businesses on their successes over the past year.
Winners:
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CURA Faculty Affiliate, Bridget Freisthler Launches New Data Dashboards to Report Overdose
This week, CURA Faculty Affiliate, Bridget Freisthler, lead a team that launched the State of Ohio Integrated Behavioral Health Dashboard. These statewide dashboards were adopted…

Darryl Hood Receives New EPA Grant to Support CPH Research
This week, CURA Faculty Affiliate, Darryl B. Hood, received a new grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to support research analyzing the impact of…

Outreach and Engagement lists Harvey Miller as Engaged Scholar
Last week, The Ohio State Office of Outreach and Engagement featured CURA director, Harvey Miller, as an Engaged Scholar. CURA Faculty Affiliates and collaborators have been featured in…

National League of Cities Discusses Environmental Justice in Data
This week, the National Leauge of Cities published How Local Leaders Can Leverage National, State and Local Environmental Justice Data Tools on their website. This article discussed how…

Harvey Miller co-chairing a consensus study for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
This week, the Utilizing Advanced Environmental Health and Geospatial Data and Technologies to Inform Community Investment was announced by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and…

Outreach Recap: Ohio History Connection visit with The James Preston Poindexer Foundation
This week, CURA met with board members of the James Preston Poindexter Foundation, Poindexter Village Museum project manager, Shelbi Toone, and the Center of Folklore Studies gentrification course…

In the News: Hale Hall to host exhibit on Columbus' redlining history
In January, CURA director, Harvey Miller, and outreach coordinator, Gerika Logan, were interviewed for an article in The Larnern. This article highlighted the upcoming Undesign…

Research: The BARI-hoods Project: Neighborhood social determinants of health and postoperative weight loss using integrated EHR, Census, and county data
This month, an article was published in the journal Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. Keeley Pratt served as the lead author, and CURA director, Harvey…