These 21 Inspiring Women Are Making a Difference in Columbus Meet the 2026 Inspiring Women from Columbus Monthly and Columbus CEO, a diverse group of leaders making an impact in politics, science and community.

Proud to be a colleague of Prof. Ellen Mosley-Thompson, a truly inspiring climate scientist and human being:

Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report ‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

More information about the Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus project: cura.osu.edu/ghost-neighb...

A person by a table labeled The Ohio State University Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, and a banner that says experience history through 3D models

An auditorium with seated people listening to two people speaking

Person speaking to three other people

A person using VR goggles

I spent the morning in church, helping to promote the forthcoming Poindexter Village African-American Museum in Columbus among visiting museum officials from across the state.

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Dig the irony

As e-bike crashes send an increasing number of people to the hospital, cities search for solutions Cities look to registration, regulation and infrastructure improvement to cut number of e-bike injuries and deaths

This article starts by pointing out that the vast majority of injuries are cars and trucks hitting people on e-bikes rather e-bikes hitting people, but then spends the rest of the article talking about e-bikes hitting people. Awful reporting.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Earth gets brighter every year but progression is volatile, study finds Covid, light pollution regulations and faltering global economy affect location and intensity of brightness

“What satellites now reveal about our nights is not a tidy narrative of progress or decline. It is a dynamic portrait of a species reshaping its environment in real time, building, destroying, conserving, and collapsing, often all at once. The world is not simply getting brighter. It is flickering.”

OK, that makes sense. For some reason I thought that was per game

Wall with pictures and names of the six Ohio State faculty who have won Nobel Prizes

No football players here, @nytimes.com

FIFA ‘surprised’ by US backlash as transport costs skyrocket at World Cup Both a top US lawmaker and the governor of New Jersey ask FIFA to pay World Cup transport bill amid ticket hikes.

“NJ Transit is left with a $48m bill to safely transport 40,000 fans from the stadium to wherever they’re headed.” $48m / 40k = $1200 pp. Is that possible?

FIFA ‘surprised’ by US backlash as transport costs skyrocket at World Cup Both a top US lawmaker and the governor of New Jersey ask FIFA to pay World Cup transport bill amid ticket hikes.

“NJ Transit is left with a $48m bill to safely transport 40,000 fans from the stadium to wherever they’re headed.” $48m / 40k = $1200 pp. Is that possible?

Chef José Andrés warns of multi-year world famine from Iran war World Central Kitchen founder believes the war could cause a ‘silent’ collapse of the global fertilizer trade

The celebrity chef and humanitarian José Andrés has a warning for the suits in Washington and around the world: stop looking at the oil tickers and start looking at the soil.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

42% to 58% chance of collapse by 2100 😱

Fela Kuti is the first African artist to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame In December, the late Nigerian superstar became the first African musician to get a Grammy lifetime achievement award. Now he's making history as well at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Powerful musician, complex person. But very deserving of a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A titan, musically.

www.npr.org/2026/04/15/g...

We tried to stop the pharmacy drive-thru in the development on Neil and Buttles in Victorian Village back in 2022. We can’t go back in time, of course, but I see that is not included in the new code. At least not yet

Good to know. Too bad it’s not retrospective, even just for a few years

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Ohio State urban science center celebrates 25 years The Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) at The Ohio State University celebrated its 25th anniversary with a festive brunch and commendations from the Ohio House of Representatives and Senate...

Founded in 2001, CURA’s mission is research and outreach to foster more sustainable, resilient and connected communities in Ohio and beyond using geospatial science and technologies.

How Columbus is leading the way on World Quantum Day World Quantum Day spotlights the future of computing, and Ohio State is helping make Columbus a leader in quantum research, security and jobs.

It is and it isn’t World Quantum Day

Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’ Trump’s EPA chief Lee Zeldin’s presence shows how much influence climate deniers now have, experts say

These are not serious people

Love this

Circular emblem with a city skyline and the number “25” and the text “celebrating 25 years of CURA”

Happy 25th birthday to The Ohio State University’s Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA)!

cura.osu.edu

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Two books on a desk: 1) Spatial Analysis: A Reader in Statistical Geography; 2) Spatial Organization: The Geographer’s View of the World

Going through these old beauties with one of my PHD students who has a deep interest in computational approaches to geography theory. There are still a lot of ideas to be mined from these classics!

New research by Eric Dumbaugh and (my former post-doc) Jonathan Stiles shows that the locations of groceries, pharmacies, gas stations, and fast-food outlets along busy arterial streets are strongly associated with the death and injury of vulnerable road users.

Thank you!

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Science is the reason you live so long and enjoy things that would have been seen as magic a century ago. Science is the reason you are viewing this post.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Bringing Columbus’ lost Black neighborhoods to life COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A team of researchers is using technology and firsthand accounts to bring long-lost Black neighborhoods in Columbus back to life. Researchers at The Ohio State Univers…

NBC4 Columbus did a story on our Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus project where we are digitally reconstructing historically Black neighborhoods before they were divided and isolated by urban highways in the 1960s and 1970s

Groundbreaking Scheduled for Poindexter Village Museum - Columbus Underground More details have been revealed about a long-planned Near East Side museum, including a projected opening date. A groundbreaking ceremony for Poindexter Village African American Museum – Ohio History ...

Looking forward to the groundbreaking for the Poindexter Village African-American on May 6! The OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) will be there, showcasing our 3D digital urban models of Poindexter Village and surrounding neighborhoods