The city of Columbus has committed $20,000 to its Entrepreneurship Business Case Program, a joint partnership with Fisher College of Business’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at The Ohio State University. The program is designed to help small business owners, non-profit organizations and aspiring entrepreneurs create, capture and deliver value to their communities, according to [...]
A new pilot study of children with autism spectrum disorder showed improvement in social and communication skills through pairing the recitation of Shakespeare with physical gesture. One discerning attribute of children with ASD is having trouble understanding non-verbal behavior socially as well as struggling to communicate. Many with ASD avoid eye contact, making it difficult [...]
COLUMBUS — Ohio State basketball is looking for its lost respect. Preseason polls are peppered with Big Ten teams. But not the Buckeyes. Hardly anybody was talking about Thad Matta’s team at the Big Ten media day earlier this month. Attendance at Value City Arena is sliding. Three seasons removed from winning the 2013 Big [...]
The Ohio Economic Development Association last week announced creation of the Ohio Economic Development Institute to meet the specific needs of development professionals throughout the Buckeye State. The association has partnered with Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs to develop the curriculum and courses, which are financially supported by JobsOhio. The institute [...]
COLUMBUS — Indiana’s upset of Michigan State in overtime Saturday raised some eyebrows among college football pundits around the country, but it wasn’t a huge stunner for Ohio State players who know the Hoosiers as a tough out the past few years. Indiana (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten) overcame a 14-point Spartans lead in the final [...]
An Ohio State University study published in the journal, Nature, reveals the more than 15,000 genetically distinct viruses in the open waters of the earth and their role in nature. The number — triple the amount of previously known viruses — offers a more complete picture of what is happening at a viral level in [...]
The Big Ten heavyweights spent the first three weeks of the season beating up on lesser opponents while climbing the rankings. With five teams in the top 15 of The Associated Press Top 25 , more than any other conference, it’s time for the Big Ten to get to work. The schedule on Saturday is [...]
COLUMBUS — Contrary to human nature, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer is doing his best to find the bad in what seemed to be a pretty good situation. Despite the No. 6 Buckeyes breaking school records for offense in Saturday’s 77-10 rout of Bowling Green, Meyer isn’t dealing in hyperbole. He knows Tulsa, visiting Saturday, [...]
Research compiled by an Ohio State University optometry professor found that tall people are better equipped than their shorter counterparts to correctly identify the location of targets in their middle-distance vision — between three and 22 yards away. Published last week in the journal Science Advances, the research supports the idea that with height comes [...]
Voters who seek the status quo in a presidential race tend to favor candidates who speak in a restrained fashion, while those who want a candidate to upend the current state of affairs seek a firebrand, a new study confirms. The results of the experimental study may help explain the appeal of each party’s nominee [...]