January 2025 Honors and Award - Impact Update
Our community of vibrant scholars received multiple honors and awards this past autumn. We usher in the new year with this impressive portfolio of recognitions.
Faculty deliver invited addresses at national conference
Mollie Blackburn and David Bloome, professor and professor emeritus, respectively, of Elementary and Secondary Teacher Education, were both invited speakers at the Literacy Research Association’s 74th Annual Conference in December.
Blackburn delivered the plenary address on Dec. 6 titled “Be(com)ing A/Part of/from a National Community in a High School LGBTQ+-themed Literature Course.”
Bloome delivered the Oscar S. Causey address on Dec. 5 titled “Outline of a Theory of Reading Comprehension as Intertextual Practice."
Council for Exceptional Children to honor Ford in March
Donna Y. Ford, EHE Distinguished Professor of Special Education, has been selected to receive the prestigious Special Education Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council for Exceptional Children. This recognition is a testament to the remarkable contributions and dedication Donna has shown in the field of special education.
Ford will be honored for her exceptional work and commitment, as well as the impact she has made in supporting the needs of children and youth with exceptionalities.
Hodge to be honored with American Educational Research Association award
Professor Samuel Hodge, Kinesiology, has been name as recipient of the 2025 Catherine D. Ennis Outstanding Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He will receive the prestigious honor at the AERA 2025 Annual Meeting in Denver in April.
Webinars, first report from new Big Ten Early Learning Alliance
Laura Justice, professor of Educational Psychology, and W. Steven Barnett, Board of Governors Professor of Education at Rutgers University, co-chair the newly launched Big Ten Early Learning Alliance. Last autumn, they shared the alliance’s first report, State of Early Childhood Education in Big Ten States.
The alliance mission is to strengthen early childhood policy and practice through science. Justice and Barnett organized two online discussions last autumn about critical topics in early childhood research and policy. They were “State of Early Childhood Education Data in Big Ten States” and “Reflecting on the Perry Preschool and Chicago Longitudinal Studies.” Both featured panel discussions with experts from participating Big Ten universities.
Each event had over 200 registrants from 31 states and seven countries, including the United States, Great Britain, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, South Africa and India.
The alliance website is hosted by Ohio State and the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy, of which Justice is executive director.
Kandampully co-chairs international service marketing seminar
Last October, Jay Kandampully, professor of Consumer Sciences and Hospitality Management, co-chaired an international seminar in partnership with the American Marketing Association SERVSIG, the European Marketing Association Service Marketing SIG and the International Research Symposium in Service Management.
The seminar, presented online, featured speaker Mike Brady, professor of marketing at Florida State University. His talk was about "The Next Generation of Organizational Frontlines Research."
Loibl leads homebuyer education program for statewide award
The Ohio State University Extension's housing counseling team, led by Cäzilia Loibl, professor of Consumer and Family Financial Services, has been named the number one housing counseling agency by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency. Loibl and the team provide homebuyer education counseling in all 88 Ohio counties. This year, they outpaced all other partner agencies.
Moore recognized by International Colloquium on Black Males in Education
James L. Moore III, EHE Distinguished Professor of Counselor Education, was presented with the Warrior Award from the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education, which is a project of the Organizational Disparities Laboratory at Michigan State University. As one of the co-founders of the colloquium, Moore was surprised to receive the esteemed honor at the autumn 2024 meeting of the colloquium.
The award recognizes Moore’s longstanding service, commitment and leadership focused on the most difficult challenges impacting Black males in education globally. Moore is currently on loan from Ohio State to serve as assistant director for STEM Education at the National Science Foundation. He continues to stay connected to the college’s Counselor Education program and to Ohio State.
Orchard recognized for oncology nutrition research
Tonya Orchard, associate professor of Human Nutrition, received the 2024 Excellence in Oncology Nutrition Research Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Oncology Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group. She accepted the award at the Academy’s Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo in Minneapolis in October.
Orchard is known for her research focus on how dietary supplements and modification interventions can reduce side effects of cancer treatment. She directs the college’s Didactic Program in Dietetics.
Pasque reappointed as editor of Review of Higher Education
Penny Pasque, professor of Higher Education Administration, has been reappointed as co-editor for The Review of Higher Education for a three-year term, extending from November 2024 to November 2027. The Review is considered one of the leading research journals in the field, It is the official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).
Pasque is one of the leading qualitative researchers with expertise in higher education in the United States. She uses qualitative methodologies and methods in her research designs and teaches scholars about qualitative approaches for research that works toward social justice and equity.
For her contributions to the field, the American College Personnel Association named Pasque a Senior Scholar Diplomate in 2024 and a Diamond Honoree in 2011.
Steinman honored for research on elder abuse
Kenneth J. Steinman, senior research scientist in Human Development and Family Science, received the Rosalie S. Wolf Memorial Award from the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA) at its 35th Annual Meeting in Albuquerque this past September. He was honored for innovative and significant contributions to research on elder abuse and Adult Protective Services practice.
Steinman serves on the Ohio Elder Abuse Commission and co-directs the Adult Protective Services Administrative Data Initiative (AADI) within NAPSA. The AADI is a national network of researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders interested in using administrative data to improve adult protective services programs. In this role, he led the submission of a white paper to the federal Administration for Community Living listing what data APS collects and how it can be used to improve best practices and outcomes.
Currently, he is helping design a quality assurance process for Ohio’s adult protective services system and regularly publishes peer-reviewed research that employs administrative data, for instance in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work.