Through Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) funding, The Ohio State University, in collaboration with Cleveland State University, and Case Western Reserve University, are committed to developing and launching a successfully-proven program to train and place Ohio Public Interest Fellows in state government. Our primary objective is to grow the capacity of Ohio’s public sector and the future workforce to integrate scientific-technical insight into policy-making and to foster a culture of dialogue and collaboration between state government and academia. These Fellow graduate students drawn from scientific-technical academic backgrounds, will support their host organizations’ work, develop as public-interest scientists, engineers, and analysts, and assist in critical stakeholder-discovery for the Fellow program’s planning. We look forward to seeing our Ohio-grown Public Interest Fellows build bridges in the public sector while contributing their technical education to solving important policy challenges in 2022 and beyond.
Michael Pires, Project Manager, John Glenn College of Public Affairs
