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Grants Available to Support Outreach and Engagement Work

Requests for proposals (RFPs) are now available for grants to support outreach and engagement partnership. The 2012 Engagement Impact Grants (up to $75,000 over a two-year period) aim to establish and/or expand innovative, creative, scholarly outreach and engagement initiatives that can have a substantial impact within the university and community. The submission deadline is March 9. Visit go.osu.edu/oeimpact to access the RFP and more information.


Living the Schweitzer Legacy

Michelle Caster walked into the room full of Somali immigrants that first time without knowing exactly how much they needed what she was bringing them.

ÒWhen I first moved to Columbus, I didnÕt realize how big the Somali refugee population here is,Ó said Caster, a medical student in Ohio StateÕs College of Medicine. ÒIÕm passionate about global health, and I was intrigued by the thought of this population here and figured there must be some barriers they faced when it came to medical care and to life in general.Ó

When she was collecting advice from OSU faculty and trying to get her project off the ground, she heard about the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship program, a 2011 Engagement Impact Grant recipient.

Read more about Michelle and the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship program in onCampus.


Faith Mission Outreach Eye Clinic

An optometry student works with a patient.Life can be scary when you canÕt get the help you need because of your past. The pain of needing to explain yourself over and over again to different people is often worse than receiving a difficult diagnosis.

Until she came to the Faith Mission Outreach Eye Clinic, that was exactly the case for a recent patient. She came to the clinic, which is run by Ohio StateÕs College of Optometry, with complaints of severe headaches as well as a recent weight gain and a ÒwhooshingÓ sound in her ears. But because the patient was a past drug addict, the three emergency rooms she had visited all thought she was just seeking drugs for her habit.

ÒWe were able to dilate her eyes and see papilledema - a sign of increased intracranial pressure - that was to blame and sent her for treatment,Ó said Dr. Joan Nerderman, the clinicÕs director. ÒWe were concerned that she may be afraid of the diagnosis that it could be a brain tumor or pseudo tumor (acts like a tumor but is not) but instead she was relieved that someone believed her and had a diagnosis where she could get treatment.Ó

Read more.


Supporting a 21st Century Engaged University

At Ohio State, outreach and engagement is defined as—

meaningful and mutually beneficial collaborations with partners outside the academic community. This may include partners such as those in education, business, and public and social service. Outreach and engagement is—

  • That aspect of teaching that enables learning beyond the campus walls
  • That aspect of research that makes what we discover useful beyond the academic community
  • That aspect of service that directly benefits the public

Embedding outreach and engagement into University units is the primary focus of the Office of Outreach and Engagement. Integrating this work into the teaching, research, and service of academic and support units has made it a part of Ohio State’s culture. When we implement community partnerships and embed them into units, we enrich both our campus and the communities we serve.

Ohio State is a “community-engaged” university designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Read more >


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