Ohio Pre-college Student STEM Opportunities

Need-Based Aid and Student Outcomes: The Effects of the Ohio College Opportunity Grant

This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the effects of need-based aid policies on first year college persistence rates. In Fall 2006, Ohio abruptly adopted a new state financial aid policy which was significantly more generous than the previous plan. Using student-level data and very narrowly defined sets of students, I estimate a difference-indifferences model to identify the prog...

The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Classtranscribe: a new tool with new educational opportunities for student crowdsourced college lecture transcription

ClassTranscribe is an open-source, web-based platform that leverages crowdsourcing to address the problem of accurate, reliable and fast transcriptions of college lectures. Completed transcriptions provide search functionality that augments existing lecture recordings and enable enhanced educational features including closed captioning.

Supporting Students in Recovery on College Campuses: Opportunities for Student Affairs Professionals.

Despite the significant attention that drugs and alcohol receive on college campuses, few resources and supports are available to students who are recovering from an addiction. Student affairs professionals are uniquely positioned to support these students with a variety of strategies. This article summarizes what is currently known about college students in recovery and ways that student affai...

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Challenges and Opportunities

Regenerative capacity of mammals is limited and can rarely regenerate a specific organ or tissue fully. Due to these limitations, regenerative medicine seeks efficient and safe cell sources for regeneration of damaged tissues and organs or treatment for incurable diseases. Human embryonic stem cells (HESCs) hold two important properties called self renewal and pluripotency. However, the use of ...