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  • What’s your biggest fear? A 15 to 30-minute classroom check-in for mental health

    January 12, 2023
    A few years before the pandemic, an undergraduate student mentioned the upcoming Halloween weekend and randomly mentioned that vampires were their biggest fear. Everyone laughed. But that comment rubbed up against so many other things I’d been hearing and reading: real fears and stresses that students were facing. In response, I developed a classroom mental health check-in that begins by simply...

  • Faculty from Colleges of Pharmacy, Arts and Sciences, present at 2022 Original Lilly Conference

    December 14, 2022
    At the 2022 Original Lilly Conference, Drake Institute AffiliateNicholas Denton, Ph.D., and Amy Kulesza, Ph.D., demonstrated that lab courses encouraging inquiry-based student learning and team-based learning enhanced undergraduate students' motivations to persistent in STEM, including sense of science identity, STEM community, project ownership, and networking. "In particular, students reported...

  • First of its kind GE Theme focuses on sustainability, student experience

    December 13, 2022
    When Ohio State announced plans to update its General Education curriculum in autumn of 2022, Drake Institute Affiliate Stavros T. Constantinou, PhD, associate professor of geography , recognized an opportunity for his education abroad course. First created in 2017, Geog 3753.02: The Geography of the European Union (EU) was offered in 2018 at Neapolis University Pafos in Cyprus, with nine students...

  • Ohio State’s University Libraries Present at POD Network Conference

    December 1, 2022
    Katie Blocksidge (library director, Ohio State University at Newark), Amanda Folk (associate professor & head of teaching & learning, University Libraries), Jane Hammons (assistant professor & teaching & learning engagement librarian, University Libraries), and Hanna Primeau (instructional designer, University Libraries) recently facilitated two presentations at the POD Network Conference in...

  • College of Dentistry implements digital dentistry technology, clinical experiences

    November 30, 2022
    Many dental schools have incorporated a digital dentistry exercise or component in their curriculum to remain up to date with the available technology. At Ohio State, a new faculty member in the College of Dentistry was the first to implement the instruction of digital dentistry technology into the DDS curriculum in autumn of 2022. In Operative Dentistry 4 (DENT 6534), Dr. Leonardi Nassani, in...

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