Success Stories Archive
This page contains past featured stories about effective outreach and engagement partnerships in Ohio State’s colleges and departments. For more, visit the outreach pages of these units.
Dental HOME Rolls on
The College of Dentistry's Health Outreach Mobile Experience (HOME) Coach received a $450,000 grant from the Delta Dental Foundation to continue providing free dental care to children. The coach, a 40-ft. trailer staffed by dentists, dental residents and dental students, travels to Columbus City Schools to provide cleanings, fillings, and other care to children whose families cannot afford to go to a dentist. Since 2005, more than 5,400 children have been served. The coach is part of the OHIO Project. Read more -->
The Art of Surviving Cancer
The Columbus Dispatch featured the Theatre Department’s InterACT program, which helped cancer survivors express their experiences through interactive theatre. InterACT was one of the 2008 nominees for the Outreach Scholarship W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award. Read more --> Pat Schmitt of the James Cancer Center, who was instrumental in this project, received the Staff Award for Excellence in Community Service Engagement.
Gulf Coast Rebuilding Follow-up
The efforts of the School of Architecture’s Rebuilding Mississippi project were continued at the time of the 2008 National Championship game. Read more about this and other Ohio State outreach efforts in the Gulf Coast: http://www.osu.edu/features/2008/nola/. The Harrison County (Mississippi) supervisors recently adopted the master plan developed by Ohio State City & Regional Planning students: http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?s=8672756
Preserving Community History
A story in OnCampus, the faculty/staff newspaper, tells how Ohio State students are helping to document the history of our neighbors in the University District. Read more -->
Endeavor Center Wins National Award
The Ohio State University Endeavor Center received the 2007 Excellence in Economic Development Award for rural economic development from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The award recognizes the Endeavor Center’s commitment to sound, research-based, market-driven economic development. Read more ->
Honda/Ohio Partnership Recognized
Business Facilities Magazine, a leading publication for corporate executives, has ranked the Honda/Ohio State Partnership among the top five industry-university partnerships in the U.S., along with Stanford, MIT, the University of California system, and Penn State. The Honda Partnership Program is a collaboration between Ohio State and Honda of America Manufacturing that supports initiatives in education, research, and public service for diverse global audiences of students, faculty, public, and private sector practitioners, and the transportation industry. Read more ->
The Small Town and Rural (STAR) Division of the American Planning Association presented the Jim Segedy Award for Outstanding Student Project to the Pineville (MS) Community Plan developed by Ohio State University City and Regional Planning students. This plan continued the efforts of Rebuilding Mississippi, a project led by Assistant Professor Jennifer Evans-Cowley in which students are assisting Gulf Coast residents rebuilding after the 2005 hurricanes. The project received funding from a special University Outreach and Engagement/Service-Learning Initiative Grant as well as $266,741 through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Universities Rebuilding America Partnership initiative. In 2006, students on the project team received the Excellence in Economic Development Planning Award from the Economic Development Division of the American Planning Association. Read more on the 2009 awards page and at the School of Architecture website.
Kudos for the V.I.T.A. Project
Student assisting V.I.T.A. client
A 2006 OSU CARES/OSU Extension Seed Grant supported a partnership of OSU Extension, Fisher College of Business, and Moritz College of Law that provided free tax preparation services to low-moderate income working individuals at Godman Guild and African-American/African Studies Extension Center (AAASEC). ReVITAlizing Neighborhoods through V.I.T.A.: Volunteer Income Tax Assistance has served approximately 300 individuals, yielding $600,000 in tax returns. The project is serving as a model for other sites and is being replicated throughout Franklin County and Ohio. The City of Columbus held a reception and awards ceremony honoring V.I.T.A. volunteers, sponsors, and supporters during the City Council meeting on April 2, 2007. Stephan Sparks, Moritz College of Law student who coordinated the VITA site at AAASEC, was nominated by City Council for and awarded a President’s Volunteer Service Award from the President’s Council of Service and Civic Participation. Read more in our 2007 impact report (PDF) and at the OSU CARES website.
Women in Engineering Recognized for Outreach
Participants in Women in Engineering’s Engineers in Motion program. Photo courtesy of WIE.
Ohio State’s Women in Engineering Program received the 2006 Women in Engineering Initiative Award from The Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network. Directed by Glenda La Rue, Ohio State’s WIE Program presents such programs as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, Camp Engineer, and the Young Women's Summer Institute. The national award is presented to advocacy programs that serve as a model for WIE programming for formal precollege or retention activities/projects; demonstrate improvements in the educational environment for women in engineering; and provide programming that offers professional guidance to students and/or faculty who seek engineering and science as a career or profession. https://wie.osu.edu/content/wie-k-12-outreach-events
Dentistry Outreach Program Wins Award
Dr. Abdel R. Mohammad
The College of Dentistry’s Geriatric Dentistry Program-Appalachia Geriatric Dentistry Program received the 2006 Geriatric Oral Health Care Award presented by the American Dental Association’s Council on Access, Prevention, and Interprofessional Relations, the Pfizer Consumer Healthcare Group and the ADA Foundation. The award honors innovative community outreach activities that have improved the oral health care of older adults. Elements of the program include comprehensive nursing home dental care, a geriatric dental clinic in the college, the Appalachia Program for rural elderly residents, and a state-of-the-art clinic in a south Columbus neighborhood. Dr. Abdel R. Mohammad, Professor and Director of Geriatric Dentistry and Community Outreach Programs, reports that this is the third award for Ohio State’s geriatric dentistry program, the largest collegiate program in the country. http://dent.osu.edu/outreach/geriatric_dental_program.php
Bradshaw Receives Service Award
Eva Bradshaw, formerly director of Technology and Enhanced Learning in the College of Education and Human Ecology, received the President’s Volunteer Service Award from President Bush for her outreach work with TECH CORPS Ohio. Eva has volunteered nearly 600 hours of service with TECH CORPS Ohio and helped develop Girl TECH CORPS, an after-school technology club intended to help 4th- and 5th-grade girls learn computer skills and explore technology.
