Samuel Hodge, professor of kinesiology, is the first African American to receive the SHAPE America Scholar Award since it was established in 1976. He was honored in April 2016 for his distinguished career and academic contributions. His extensive work focuses on training the next generation of professionals and advancing adapted physical education. Hodge also was […]
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Ohio State awards EHE teaching, research, advising
EHE Distinguished Professor Laura Justice became the first in college history to receive the university’s Distinguished Scholar Award in February. The internationally known speech-language pathologist was surprised with the award by Provost Bruce McPheron as she presented research to graduate students and faculty. Justice has made fostering children’s literacy learning and development the focus of […]
White House honors faculty Nunez, Piasta
The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics recognized Anne-Marie Nuñez in 2016 for 10 years of teaching and award-winning research. The associate professor of higher education and student affairs joined EHE last autumn from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Among her contributions there, she helped launch a program to educate graduate […]
Leading scholar named Flesher Professor
A college education may be more valuable than ever. A four-year degree provided Americans with a 12-percent to 14-percent private rate of return on investment during the 2000s. Matthew J. Mayhew shared this finding in his latest book, How College Affects Students: 21st Century Evidence that Higher Education Works, the most highly cited synthesis of […]
Cartoon characters effectively market healthy nutrition to kids
A team of superhero characters called Super Sprowtz is being used as a marketing strategy in elementary school lunchrooms to nearly triple the number of students eating from the salad bar. “We can harness the power of marketing to help us,” Drew Hanks said. Hanks’ team tested three methods in 10 public elementary schools in […]
Secret to successful schools costs nothing
Most factors that help schools succeed cost lots of money — think teachers, technology and textbooks. But a new study suggests one factor that doesn’t need cash and can play an important role in helping students succeed at even the most disadvantaged schools. That factor is what scientists call social capital: The network of relationships […]
