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A newborn’s first stool can signal the child may struggle with persistent cognitive problems, according to ���ϳԹ��� Project Newborn researchers. In particular, high levels of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEE) found in the meconium (a newborn’s first stool) from a mother’s alcoho...

Since 1994, researchers at ���ϳԹ��� have studied mothers—some who used cocaine while pregnant and others who did not—to understand how the drug affected their children’s cognitive and social development. Their latest findings suggest a link between prenatal cocaine exposure a...

Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at ���ϳԹ���, recently solved not one, but two mysteries in the arts world. First, he figured out a puzzle about Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labour's Lost. Weeks later, he discovered what appears to be a depiction of Leonar...

Megan Holmes As part of a larger initiative to promote active learning at ���ϳԹ���, researchers from the social work school participated in a yearlong project to integrate active instruction and academic technologies into their courses. The use of interactive technology and ...

Megan Holmes Researchers at ���ϳԹ��� have begun studying 1,700 children from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) database to understand how mothers and siblings can protect abused children who have witnessed family violence. “I want to focus on the...

Gillian Marshall Can neighborhood factors influence whether older residents have access to cancer screening information and testing? Gillian Marshall, assistant professor of social work at ���ϳԹ���’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, plans to ...

���ϳԹ��� researchers have tracked their development since birth Since 1994, researchers at ���ϳԹ���’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences have studied children prenatally exposed to cocaine and their mothers to track their de...

Getting It Right: Realigning Juvenile Corrections in Ohio to Reinvest in What Works, a new publication by the Schubert Center for Child Studies at ���ϳԹ���, takes an extensive look at how Ohio has engaged in a fundamental shift in the way the state addresses the needs of youth...

An evaluation by social work researchers at ���ϳԹ��� of Ohio’s Behavioral Health/Juvenile Justice (BHJJ) initiative in 11 counties found the program benefits most young offenders diverted from detention centers to community-based agencies to treat mental health issues, drug pr...

Witnessing violence by parents or a parent’s intimate partner can trigger for some children a chain of negative behaviors that follows them from preschool to kindergarten and beyond, according to researchers at ���ϳԹ���. Megan Holmes But girls and boys can be affected diffe...