Three faculty emeriti, Jim Buffer, Walter Ersing and Jean Dickerscheid, all passed in 2018. Read about their academic accomplishments at Ohio State.
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New reading intervention works with all disabilities, all ages
A special education intervention, HEROES, has students learning to read faster in 12 weeks than in their first two years of school. Emily Rodgers, associate professor of reading and literacy, and Jerry D’Agostino, professor of quantitative research, evaluation and measurement, began the project after completing a major scale-up of the one-to-one intervention, Reading Recovery. The […]
Tactics to curb cheating less effective in disliked courses
Encouraging students to learn and master content, rather than pass a test, discourages academic cheating, according to research by Eric Anderman, professor of educational psychology. But his latest study is the first to show that emphasizing mastery doesn’t work as well to decrease cheating in courses students said they disliked. People with a high need […]
New ‘golden’ potato delivers a bounty of vitamins
An experimental “golden” potato could hold the power to prevent disease and death in developing countries where residents rely heavily upon starchy foods for sustenance. Mark Failla, faculty emeritus of human nutrition, co-led a study with Italian researchers to create a yellow-orange lab-engineered potato. Failla’s lab simulation of the digestive process showed a serving can […]
Better wages, more jobs can mitigate opioid crisis
As the opioid epidemic continues to claim American lives at a startling rate, EHE researchers are in the vanguard of those pursuing viable solutions. Research by Michael Betz, assistant professor of human development and family science, and Lauren Jones, assistant professor of consumer sciences, has found that even modest gains in employment and wage growth […]
Better lives, stronger Ohio: OSU Extension staff honored
Four staff with OSU Extension Family and Consumer Sciences were honored at the 2017 annual conference of the National Extension Association in Family and Consumer Sciences.
