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Welcome to this issue of our bi-weekly CSU Land-Grant e-News. We keep you in the know of happenings in the CSU 1890 Land-Grant Programs, Extension, and Agricultural Research and Development (ARD). Each issue brings you new and engaging content. Enjoy!

Oh, the bloom of this Magnolia...that's beautiful!

Photos and write-up by Brian Kampman, vegetable and small fruit technician

Magnolia stellata 'Waterlily', commonly known as star magnolia, in the Central State University Seed to Bloom Botanical and Community Garden on the Wilberforce campus is simply beautiful. This is a deciduous, large shrub-to-small-tree that thrives in USDA hardiness zones 4-8. It blooms between March and April and can get a spread of 8-15 feet, and tolerates our Ohio clay soils. It grows well in full-sun to-part-shade. Star magnolia is native to Japan.

In the News...CSU and climate-smart agriculture

RESEARCH

CSU to showcase agricultural research in Nashville

After months of preparation and toiling in research labs and test lots, more than two dozen Central State University undergraduate, faculty and staff researchers will depart campus Friday and head by road or by air

to the 2024 biennial Association of 1890 Research Directors (ARD) Symposium at the Gaylord Opryland resort in Nashville, Tenn. Read more. See the presenters (Illustration above by Cyril Ibe).

2023 in Pictures

FEATURED VIDEO (below):

CSU LAND-GRANT OPEN HOUSE

Watch the Solar Eclipse at the CSU Garden!

REGISTER BY APRIL 15 FOR A COMPLIMENTARY LUNCH!

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Land-Grant Communications Team

Lena Fields-Arnold

Communications Coordinator

Cyril Ibe, Ph.D.

Media Relations Specialist/Editor

Crystal Duckett

Media Relations Specialist

Alfred Robertson

Videographer & App Developer

Jesse Montgomery

Videographer & App Developer

Research and Economic Development & 1890 Land-Grant Programs

Morakinyo A.O. Kuti, Ph.D.

Vice President for Research and Economic Development & Director, 1890 Land-Grant Programs

Extension

Cindy (Alcinda) Folck, Ph.D.

Interim Associate Director of Extension

Agricultural Research and Development Program (ARDP)

Shafiqur (Shafi) Rahman, Ph.D.

Associate Research Director

Contact:

937.376.6276

landgrantcommunications@centralstate.edu

YOU CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH US

CSU Extension has offices in five regions in Ohio, covering 66 counties. You can contact Alcinda Folck, Ph.D., interim associate director of Extension, at (937) 376-6101, or via email: afolck@centralstate.edu.

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