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  • 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...

  • 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...

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