Mollie Blackburn
Principal Investigator: MOLLIE BLACKBURN, Department of Teaching and Learning
Project Dates: 08/01/2015 – 10/31/2016
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $40,471
Project Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
Exploring the teaching of LGBT-themed young adult literature in a queer friendly high school
This teacher research project explores what happens when junior and senior high school students at an arts-focused charter school, which explicitly strives to create and maintain a queer-friendly context, opt to take a semester-long course focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* (LGBT) themed literature. The course centers on literature representing LGBT people, including a wide range of genres and modes. In response to this literature, students will produce writing ranging from informal journal entries to formal essays and multimedia presentations. The teacher researcher will teach and document the course by recording course discussions, gathering course materials and student work, and interviewing students and other stakeholders in the school. This study strives to provide teachers and teacher educators with strategies to design and implement LGBT-inclusive curricula so that they might make their schools more inviting for LGBT students to learn, flourish, and contribute to the enrichment of others.
Tzu-Jung Lin
Principal Investigator: Tzu-Jung Lin, Department of Educational Studies
Project Dates: 8/01/2015 – 7/31/2016
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $29,998
Project Sponsor: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Scholarly Exchange
Buffering against peer rejection through collaborative social reasoning: A study with early adolescents in Taiwan
This study aims to reduce peer rejection among early adolescents in Taiwan through a small-group intervention featuring dialogic inquiry. Students who are rejected by their peers are at risk for academic failure, school maladjustment, and mental health issues. Rejection is often due to inability to evaluate and reason about social interactions, and the lack of social competence to establish positive interactions with peers. Peer rejection is particularly detrimental to early adolescents transitioning from primary to middle school, because of their increasing need for relatedness and the dramatic change in their social networks.
Helen Malone
Principal Investigator: Helen Malone, Department of Educational Studies
Project Dates: 8/01/2015 – 7/31/2016
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $80,218
Project Sponsor: Franklin County Board Of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities
OSU & FCBDD: Buckeye behavior analysis services
This project represents a partnership between OSU and FCBDD that capitalizes on current resources and targets vocational and community skills training for students and adults served by the Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities. Three GA positions will focus on exploring different practices and preparing subsequent staff trainings that will highlight how to implement practices that are effective in leading to vocational and community skill acquisition, generalization, and maintenance. Two GAs will be assigned to West Central School, which will house all students from Northeast and West Central for the first time in the 2015–2016 school year, and will work directly with the students. A third GA will be assigned to one of the four Living Skills Centers. Projects will be developed that will examine how to most appropriately provide evidence-based practices related specifically to vocational and community skills to the students and adults. Once the data support the use of a particular procedure, we will develop brief training modules to share with the vocational staff and transition teachers so that they can maintain and appropriately fade out the interventions.
Natasha Slesnick
Principal Investigator: NATASHA SLESNICK, Department of Human Sciences
Project Dates: 10/01/2014 – 09/30/2015
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $225
Project Sponsor: Ohio Office of Attorney General; US Department of Justice
Two days in May
Covered parking and registration for the Two Days in May Conference. The 24th annual Two Days in May Conference on Victim Assistance was held on May 4-5, 2015 and offered many opportunities for the continued professional development of those who assist crime victims.
- Natasha Slesnick
Principal Investigator: NATASHA SLESNICK, Department of Human Sciences
Project Dates: 10/01/2014 – 09/30/2015
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $22,880
Project Sponsor: Ohio Office of Attorney General; US Department of Justice
OSU STAR House: Security system
These funds are to support the purchase of security system for the OSU STAR House, a drop-in center for homeless youth.
Jeff Volek
Principal Investigator: Jeff Volek, Department of Human Sciences
Co-Investigators: Richard Bruno, Department of Human Sciences; Orlando Simonetti, College of Medicine
Project Dates: 06/01/2015 – 03/31/2018
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $735,000
Project Sponsor: Dairy Management Inc.
Controlled clinical study to determine novel health benefits of cheese consumption
This project will involve four controlled 4 wk feeding periods in individuals at higher risk for CVD who have metabolic syndrome (currently 1/3 of US adults have this condition). After a 2 wk run-in period, subjects will be fed a traditional diet high (6 oz/day) or low (0 oz/day) in cheese. The order will balanced with a 2 wk washout period in between diets. Subjects will then repeat this procedure for two additional feeding phases (low- and high-cheese) with a background diet low in carbohydrate. Specific menus will be designed for each feeding phase and all food prepared and provided to subjects. Testing will occur at baseline and after each feeding period. Detailed measures of cholesterol beyond standard LDL and HDL cholesterol will be done by examining particle size, apolipoproteins, and accumulation of saturated fatty acids in blood and tissues. Changes in whole body and regional fat, including measures of visceral fat and liver fat, will be examined non-invasively by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Vascular function will be determined noninvasively by measuring dilation of the major blood vessel in the arm using ultrasound, and by measuring stiffness of the aorta (the major blood vessel that pumps blood from the heart) using MRI. We have assembled a collaborative research team with expertise to carry out the feeding intervention and manage the sophisticated tests designed to examine novel effects of cheese consumption on cardiovascular risk.