Glen Mills is busy these days. It’s planting season for the manager of the Waterman Farm Agricultural and Natural Resources Laboratory.
But a high priority at the moment is to sow seeds in the Garden of Hope so cancer patients in the JamesCare for Life program have vegetables to pick throughout the summer.
Ohio State’s challenge is not an easy one: How does it balance its desire to offer high-quality health benefits to faculty and staff while costs continue to rise at an unsustainable rate? The solution will mean changes to the current benefit plan and partnering with employees to make well-being part of the culture.
Tail-wagging and game-playing brought a cheerful mood to the libraries during finals week. The Ohio State libraries hosted Study Break Spot and Pause 4 Paws during one of the most stressful weeks of the year for students.
The workers who may have the most to gain from attending company social events may be the ones who actually get the least value from them, a new study suggests.
A scientist’s gender can have a big impact on how other researchers perceive his or her work, according to a new study.
Young scholars rated publications supposedly written by male scientists as higher quality than identical work identified with female authors.
Newly released results from a health and wellness survey at Ohio State match what previous research has shown to be true: Respondents who reported higher beliefs in their ability to engage in healthy lifestyle behaviors also reported more participation in behaviors that support their overall health.
Maryjo Mundey grew up in Shelby, a small blue-collar town in north-central Ohio, figuring she’d simply follow the footsteps most of her friends and family did: “You got married, worked hard and raised your family,” she said. But in the back of her mind, something was missing. “I always wanted to go to college.”
Six miles from the Ohio State Mansfield campus is a little-known gem of a facility that both Ohio State and North Central State College hope will become a destination conference center for the region and beyond. The James W. Kehoe Center for Advanced Learning in Shelby, originally the Shelby Mutual Insurance Co., is a massive brick structure that greets travelers on SR 39.
Marion students plan on celebrating the end of the academic year April 13 at Springfest, a free daylong festival. And the public is invited too.
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Patricia Enciso, Teaching and Learning, has been elected vice president of the Literary Research Association for a four-year term. She currently serves as a board member of the association, which promotes research in the understanding and development of life span literacies in a multicultural and mulitilingual world.
Sanghamitra Chaudhuri, Educational Studies, was awarded the Elwood F. Holton III Research Excellence Award for “Reverse Mentoring: A Social Exchange Tool for Keeping the Boomers Engaged and Millennials Committed,” the article she co-authored with Rajashi Ghosh, Drexel University.
Donald Rucker, Medicine, was appointed chief operating officer of the IDEA Studio at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He also is associate dean for innovation at the College of Medicine.
What is antibiotic resistance? What can be done to prevent antibiotic-resistant infections?
How is “fracking” a game changer?
The only way that I can narrow my favorites down is to name the books that I recommend most often.
My research and pedagogy are centered on sustainable urban design, community development, and sociocultural factors in design, so it’s no surprise that my favorites are books related to cities and urban sustainability.
7:30 a.m. may come early, but that doesn’t keep the Wakeup Startup crowds from forming at Ohio State’s Technology Commercialization Office.
What is Cognitive overload? Cognitive overload is a theory used in education psychology that refers to a learner that is receiving too much information at one time. You can also think about this as information overload.
