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Federal Ed Reforms May Backfire, Undermining Public Support
A major overhaul of federal education policy enacted with the goal of improving public education and closing the achievement gap between student subgroups may have backfired, undermining public…
COMPAS 2015-16: Sustainability
Ohio State's Center for Ethics and Human Values has selected the theme of Sustainability for its 2015-16 COMPAS Program
African American children in gifted education classrooms; dialect use and vocabulary understanding
Monique Mills, assistant professor, Speech and Hearing Science, is the author of a new study, “Narrative Performance of Gifted African American School-Aged Children From Low-Income Backgrounds,”…
Sociologist Says Confidence in Government Plays Role in Decision to Vaccinate
Kent Schwirian, professor of sociology, is coauthor of a new study suggesting that for some people, the resistance to vaccinations may be rooted in a mistrust of the government.
CBEC Open House
Last week’s CBEC Open House for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (CBC), the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) and Koffolt Labs community was a…
Misfortune Creates Opportunity
A new paper, co-authored by Orton Geological Museum Curator Dale Gnidovec, establishes the latest radiocarbon age for Jefferson's ground sloth. This, only the sixth radiocarbon age based directly on…
$17.9 Million NSF Grant Renewal Funds Center for Emergent Materials' Broad-Impact Science
The National Science Foundation's six-year, $17.9 million grant renewal for Ohio State’s Center for Emergent Materials, an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center,funds adventurous,…
Historian’s Ground-Breaking New Biography of Spain’s Most Famous Monarch Published This Week
History Professor Geoffrey Parker’s new biography of King Phillip II, Imprudent King: A New Life of Phillip II, published this week by Yale University Press, takes advantage of a treasure trove of…
NIH Funds Statistician’s Work toward Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Data Bank
Eloise Kaizar, associate professor, statistics, received $148,621 from the National Institutes of Health for her project, "Statistical methods to support a model pediatric traumatic brain injury data…