Institute for Local Government Administration and Rural Development (ILGARD)
The Institute for Local Government Administration and Rural Development (ILGARD) turns Ohio University's expertise into real-world assistance for Southeast Ohio and the state. The institute provides applied research and technical assistance to government and development organizations and serves as a public service learning laboratory for Ohio University students.
Institute for Local Government Administration and Rural Development (ILGARD) Projects
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- Local efforts focus on pollution reduction and better air quality for our region and beyond
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High on a hill, mere miles from Ohio University’s main campus, is the home of the Athens Supersite air monitoring station. This site, called a supersite because it measures a series of different air pollutants and meteorology, is run through a partnership between Ohio University’s Russ College of Engineering and Technology and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs.
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- Elbie Bentley is headed to National Geographic
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Elbie Bentley, an Ohio University graduate student studying cartography, has had a longtime dream to “make atlases and maps and work at National Geographic.”With an internship at National Geographic magazine next fall, helping to produce the publication’s special edition fold-out maps, she’s well on her way.
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- Voinovich School identifies gaps in Ohio wellness education
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The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs completed a policy analysis in February 2009 for the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) and the Ohio Department of Health’s (ODH) joint project to improve student health and education outcomes in the areas of physical activity, nutrition, tobacco use and HIV (PANT-HIV) in Ohio.The Voinovich School compared current Ohio health and wellness policies and curricula to the national K-12 standards to identify Ohio’s gaps and to provide recommendations for program integration.
Through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding opportunity, “Improving Health and Educational Outcomes for Young People,” ODE and ODH established the Ohio Coordinated School Health Program – HIV and Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco (CSHP-PANT) as a part of a five year partnership to improve K-12 health education outcomes and have a lasting impact on the health of students.The program works to ensure that schools not only support students academically, but socially and emotionally as well.
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- Collaboration at the Voinovich School helps clients, students
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The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs collaborated with an Ohio University professor to investigate the technical, financial, and environmental feasibility of her ammonia powered technology, bringing together professional staff and students to complete the project.
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- Maximizing Efficiencies and Building a Partnership Using Maps
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April 3, 2006, a valve failure on the fourth floor of Grover Center caused
damage to 70 offices, 12 classrooms, and WellWorks fitness center, causing more
than 200 Ohio University employees to work 18 hour days for one week to deal
with water and 338 classes to be moved to other buildings on campus, according
to an account on Ohio University’s website.Now, with the help of the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public
Affairs, if this type of situation happens again Facilities Management will
have the information at their fingertips to deal with the situation more
quickly.
The Voinovich School has been
working with Facilities Management since 2005 to convert all their data on
blueprints to GIS maps.GIS is a
technique used to create visual maps with the capacity to hold an unlimited
amount of data.Each feature, for
example a road, can contain information not only about the road’s location, but
also what it is made of, its speed limit, its slope, when it was last worked
on, etc.
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