Anthropology, Amazonia, and Digital Frontiers

Gordon Ulmer
Ph.D. Candidate & Fulbright-Hays Fellow
Department of Anthropology
The Ohio State University

Friday April 7th
12:00-1:00pm
Ramseyer Hall 136

Gordon Ulmer is a PhD candidate and Fulbright-Hays fellow in the Department of Anthropology who has been conducting research in the Peruvian Amazon for nine years. Ulmer’s research examines the shifting domains of life and labor in Madre de Dios, Peru, the rapidly developing triple-frontier region where the national borders of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil convene. His dissertation is based upon 18 months of fieldwork with laborers who shift between ecotourism, park patrolling, gold mining and logging.

Student Achievement Recognition Awards

The College of Education and Human Ecology and the Department of Educational Studies present the Student Achievement Recognition Awards. We will be presenting the Dr. William E. Loadman dissertation prizes for the best dissertations in each program area. Lunch will be provided.

Tuesday April 25, 2017
Lunch @ 11:30am (Ramseyer 136)
Program @ 12:15pm (Ramseyer 100)

Please RSVP by Wednesday April 19th at http://whoozin.com/PW6-C9D-WJXK

Contact Tiffany Murray.978 with any questions.

EHE RMC Methodology Leadership Series & Software Series

There College of Education and Human Ecology’s Research Methodology Center (RMC) is pleased to present more exciting events in the Methodology Leadership Series and Software Series!

These events are free and open to all OSU Faculty, Students, Researchers and Staff. However, RSVPs are requested for our events.

Introduction to Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Dave Julian
Thursday March 30
1:00-4:00pm
EHE College Commons

Are you interested in maximizing the impact of you practice and research on communities? Community practice and community-based participatory research (CBPR) are methodologies that can be used to improve the lives of community members by involving them in addressing the issues that impact their daily lives. By doing so, practitioners/researchers can connect community members to the problem solving process, utilize their knowledge to improve results and provide immediate benefits. However, using these procedures can be challenging, especially in communities where trust is and understanding is low. In this presentation, scholars from the College of EHE Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE) will review various methodologies using real-world examples including recent work with the local American Indian/Alaskan Native community and efforts to evaluate web-based employment services. This presentation will provide valuable suggestions for individuals interested in applying principles of community practice and CBPR in their work.

Register here.

Introduction to Propensity Score Analysis in STATA
Nivedita Bhaktha
Monday April 3
1:00-4:00pm
PAES 110

Please join the RMC for this introduction to propensity score analysis (PSA). Propensity scores reflect the probability of assignment group (e.g. treatment, control) based on observed baseline characteristics. These scores can be helpful to researchers in analyzing treatment effects in observational/nonrandomized studies. Nivedita Bhaktha, doctoral student in the College of EHE QREM program, will introduce the basics on PSA using the STATA software program. Space for this event is limited.

Register here.

Introduction to NVivo
Eman Tiba, PhD Candidate- School Psychology
Emma Bosley-Smith, Master’s Student- Sociology
Paola Echave, Master’s Student- Sociology
Friday April 14
11:30am-2:30pm
Campbell Hall 100

Join the RMC for an introduction to the NVivo environment and learn more about this powerful software for qualitative data analysis. By participating in this workshop, you will (1) Understand the terminology and capabilities of NVivo, (2) Set up your own project in NVivo, (3) Learn to import and organize your materials. Participants should bring their own laptop with NVivo Pro already installed. You can get a 14-day free trial by clicking here.

Register here.

 

Multiple Perspectives Conference

The OSU ADA Coordinator’s Office is presenting a free conference on access, inclusion and disability April 12-13 on the Columbus Campus.

Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability: Seeing Disability at School, Work & Beyond
April 12-13, 2017

Registration is open here.

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, The Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation, The Battelle Memorial Fund and Disability Rights Ohio as well as the ongoing support of The Ohio State University, this year’s Multiple Perspectives Conference will be free to students, faculty and staff ($10 each day if you want lunch).

The 2017 Ethel Louise Armstrong Lecture on Disability Art & Culture will be presented by Leroy, “Black/Brown International Disability Art/Hip-Hop” featuring art, music and narrative on April 12 at 3:30pm. Immediately following, a reception will feature Student Perspectives- Ethel Louise Armstrong Student Poster Competition. This lecture is at the Blackwell Inn on OSU’s Columbus Campus and is free and open to the public.

The 2017 Ken Campbell Lecture on Disability Law and Policy will be presented by Samuel Bagenstos, the Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan’s Law School. He has served with the US Department of Justice and recently argued Fry vs. Napolean Community Schools, a case at the intersection of the ADA and IDEA concerning a disabled girl who was prevented from using her service dog in school, winning an 8-0 decision. This lecture is at the Blackwell Inn on OSU’s Columbus Campus on April 13th at 3:30 and is free and open to the public.

Sample of concurrent Sessions:

  • Have Impact: Your Community, Ohio, Nationwide and the World?
  • Ohio AgrAbility: Disability Can’t Stop Ohio Farmers from Farming!
  • Access to Higher Education: Rights and Responsibilities
  • Inclusive Neighborhoods: Zoning Predictions under the Fair Housing Act and Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Unified Sports: Providing Recreational Opportunities in Postsecondary Education
  • On Inclusivity, Mental Disability, and Unimagined Types: Reconsidering Learning Spaces
  • Improving Employment Outcomes for Students with IDD across Ohio’s Statewide Consortium
  • Accommodations in the Work Place: Workable, Whacky and Wild
  • Disability/Race Disclosure, Intersectional Resistance and Radical Solidarity

 

 

 

FEEP Expo

Graduate Students- please consider attending the expo to support our FEEP program and to interact with future teachers and leaders in education.

This semester, we are piloting a FEEP EXPO, in which our FEEP students will display conference style posters presenting the service learning projects they completed in their placements, as well as their decisions regarding their planned future in education based on their FEEP experience. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to meet our students, learn about the impact they had in their field placements, and ask about their FEEP experiences.

Details about the EXPO are included below. Please feel free to attend any portion of these events as you are able. The format will be similar to a conference poster session.

The lo0cation for the EXPO is the College Commons in Ramseyer Hall 260.

Monday April 10th, 9:00-11:00am
Early Childhood Education planned major- students placed in Columbus, Whitehall, Hilliard.

Wednesday April 12th, 9:00-11:00am
Middle and Secondary Education planned major- students placed in Columbus, Whitehall, Hilliard.

Monday April 17th, 9:00-11:00am
Early Childhood Education planned major- students placed in Worthington, Upper Arlington, Southwestern, Focus Academy North.

Wednesday April 19th, 9:00-11:00am
Middle and Secondary Education planned major- Worthington, Upper Arlington, Southwestern, Focus Academy North.

Friday April 21st, 9:00-11:00am
TESOL, World Languages, Special Education, School Psychology, School Counseling and other planned majors- all districts/schools.

 

Around Columbus


Did you know? Columbus is the number 3 city in the country for women-owned businesses (WalletHub, February 2016)


The Columbus Coffee Trail

According to the Columbus Coffee Experience, Columbus has the best coffee scene in the Midwest. The Columbus Coffee Trail was created to help visitors and locals alike discover the variety of coffee Columbus has to offer. Visit any of the 24 locations to pick up a trail card. If you visit four or more shops, you can cash them in for a free Columbus Coffee T-Shirt at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The majority of the coffee shops are located within a one-mile radius of downtown Columbus and the Greater Columbus Convention Center.

Coffee Shops included on the Columbus Coffee Trail are:

·         Boston Stoker

·         Brioso Roastery and Coffee Bar

·         Café Brioso

·         Crimson Cup- Clintonville and Upper Arlington locations

·         Cup O’ Joe- Downtown, Lennox and Clintonville locations

·         Fox in the Snow Café

·         Bottoms Up Coffee Co-Op

·         Luck Bros’ Coffee House

·         Mission Coffee Co.

·         One Line Coffee- Downtown and Short North locations

·         Red Velvet Café

·         The Roosevelt Coffee house

·         Stauf’s- North Market, German Villiage and Grandview locations

·         Winan’s Fine Coffee and Chocolates

·         Das Kaffeehaus Von Frau Burkhart

·         Hemingway’s Coffee Nook

·         The Market Italian Villiage

·         Pistacia Vera


Twitter: @cbuscoffee

Instagram: @cbuscoffee

Diary Methods: Strengths and Pitfalls

Dr. Jen Wong
Assistant Professor
Human Science

The Ohio State University

Friday March 31st
12:00-1:00pm
Ramseyer Hall 136

Jen D. Wong is an assistant professor in Human Science (Program: Human Development and Family Science). Her research program bridges the fields of gerontology and developmental disabilities to identify ways to promote the daily well-being, health, and physiological functioning of caregivers in midlife and late adulthood.

 

Archiving and Sharing Data Workshop

Research Commons
Eighteenth Ave. Library, 3rd Floor
Monday April 10, 2017
1:00-2:30pm

Register: http://go.osu.edu/archiving041017

In this 1.5 hour in-person session, we focus on the last part of the data management cycle: preparing data for sharing outside of the research team, depositing data into repositories and archiving. Amanda Rinehart will discuss the difference between archiving and sharing, when and what to share, best practices for protecting respondent confidentiality, and how to find an appropriate repository. Jessica Logan will share her experience with depositing Sit Together and Read data sets into the ICPSR repository and provide best practices on how to get data ready to be deposited.

Presenters:

Amanda Rinehart
Data Management Librarian
OSU Libraries

Jessica Logan
Director of Research
Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy (CCEC)

This is the last workshop of a series of three that focus on the data life cycle. The video and power points from the first workshop: Know Your Data: Security and Compliance Issues are available. Power points and resources from the second workshop: Managing Active Data are also available.

This workshop is for all OSU faculty, postdoctoral researchers, staff and graduate students with examples from the College of Education and Human Ecology.

If you have any questions, please email Rebecca Chacko at Chacko.9@osu.edu.

Attention Graduating Students: Research Associate Positions Available

The Center for Study of Student Life currently has two full-time Research Associate positions open.

Position 1

The Research Associate leads, designs and implements quantitative and qualitative data analysis, reporting and distribution of new and existing assessment and research projects, including the national College Prescription Drug Study (CPDS) and the Study on Collegiate Financial Wellness (SCFW); assists with marketing, recruiting and client contact for CPDS and SCFW; assists in development research and assessment goals and plan work to attain these goals; performs complex statistical analyses; designs and implements data management and processing systems to code data and prepare comprehensive reports; writes and administers surveys; prepares research papers and manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals and presentation at regional and national conferences and workshops; prepares reports and visual representations of data; consults with various internal and external partners on appropriate research methods; provides guidance and mentoring to undergraduate research assistants and graduate administrative assistants; completes ad hoc requests.

Position 2

The Research Associate leads and coordinates quantitative and qualitative data analysis, reporting and distribution of new and existing assessment and research projects (e.g. University Graduation Survey); assists in development research and assessment goals and plan work to attain these goals; designs and implements assessment and research on select topics related to higher education and student affairs; performs complex statistical analyses; designs and implements data management and processing systems to code research data and prepare comprehensive reports; writes and administers surveys; prepares research papers and manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals and presentation at regional and national conferences and workshops; prepares reports and visual representations of data, including interactive dashboards; consults with various internal and external partners on appropriate research methods; serves as Qualtrics brand administrator for the university; provides guidance and mentoring to undergraduate research assistants and graduate administrative assistants; completes ad hoc requests.