Improving Retention and Graduation of Female Engineering and Polytechnic Students With First-Year Interventions

Journal Article | May 2023

Prior research in student retention emphasizes that building students’ connections with the institution and their peers is key. Students from underrepresented populations often lack these connections, making them more…

Open Innovation Challenge to Mitigate Global Warming

Journal Article | September 2023

Introducing Engineering as an Altruistic STEM Career

Journal Article | February 2021

Some Like It Hot

Journal Article | February 2021

STEM Bridge Program

Journal Article | June 2021

We explored underrepresented minority (URM) students’ perceptions of the merit and worth of a summer STEM bridge program. The Ohio State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program facilitated a three-week…

Collaboration Crushes Competition!

Journal Article | June 2021

Facilitating Conceptual Change by Engaging Students’ Preconceptions During College Science Classroom Instruction

Journal Article | January 2021

Whether to engage student preconceptions to facilitate conceptual change is an area of debate among conceptual change theorists. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of a preconceptions-based instructional sequence about…

Pandemic-Inspired Insights

Journal Article | August 2021

College instructors faced a rapid transition to remote instruction in spring 2020, and with it a host of new teaching challenges. This qualitative study investigates what 26 college biology instructors learned about…

Developing and Using Computer Models to Understand Epidemics

Journal Article | January 2022

Teaching About How Scientists Work—With a Focus on Claims-Evidence-Reasoning

Blog Post | June 2021

School Instructional Space Silica Exposure: Safety Hazards/Risks

Blog Post | June 2024

A Killer Lake

Case Study | June 2005

Eyes Without a Face

Case Study | March 2003

Where Do 'New' Diseases Come From?

Lesson Plan | April 2020