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  • Supporting Students in the Aftermath of Tragedies

    January 26, 2023
    Tragedies, such as the recent violence at Club Q in Colorado Springs and in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park, can occur at any point in semester and can deeply affect students. Given that experiences outside the classroom can impact student learning and academic performance (Ambrose, 2010), how can instructors support their students while they process reactions to traumatic events? In the aftermath...

  • TIES Academy awards annual Scholarship Incentives

    January 12, 2023
    Five innovative approaches that address current issues in academic nursing education were recently selected for the 2022-23 Educational Innovation and Scholarship Incentive Program . "The most exciting result of TIES awards is the benefits to the education of the future healthcare workforce," says Drake Institute Affiliate and Co-Director of TIES Academy Joni Tornwall. "The work they do today to...

  • 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...

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