OARDC researchers contribute to state, national, and international knowledge in key areas.  The top ten grants follow.

• Stephen Myers, together with partners at Battelle, received $11,589,847 from Ohio’s Third Frontier Wright Centers of Innovation program to develop the Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center.
• Joyce McDowell received $1,652,752 from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services for the Ohio Family Nutrition Program (FNP). The FNP reaches 65,000 Ohioans with research-based nutrition information on making healthy food choices with a restricted budget.
• Floyd Schanbacher, Lynn Willett, Fred Hitzhusen, Mark Morrison, and Zhongtang Yu received grants totaling $1,644,751 from the Department of Energy and the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service for research on using anaerobic digestion to produce renewable energy.
• Joe Ottobre, Laura Tiu, Geoff Wallat, Han Ping Wang, and Macdonald Wick received $792,021 from USDA’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service for an aquaculture research and development initiative
• Lance Williams, Virginie Bouchard, Patrick Goebel, Richard Moore, and Deborah Stinner received $531,000 from USDA’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service to research landscape scale disturbances in an agroecosystem: Impacts on aquatic and riparian environments in the Sugar Creek watershed, Ohio.
• Mo Saif, Dave Benfield, and Randy Rowe received $506,504 from USDA’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service to research emergency detection and response systems for emerging animal and plant diseases.
• Marv Batte, Greg Davis, Stan Ernst, Tom Worley, and Shawn Wright received $450,000 from USDA’s National Research Initiative to research an extended-season berry production and marketing system to enhance viability of small Appalachian farms and rural communities.
• Emilie Regnier, John Cardina, Clive Edwards, and Steve Harrison received $433,000 from USDA’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service to research the role of the Eeotic earthworm in the colonizing behavior of giant ragweed.
• Lydia Medeiros and Jeffrey LeJeune received $299,992 from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service to research the incidence, significance, and control of Listeria monocytogenes in the home environment.
• Imed Dami received $275,458 from Ohio Grape Industries to research viticulture and enology to improve wine quality and production efficiency in Ohio.