Associate Professor Jeffrey Bielicki and colleagues published “Evaluating Credibility, Legitimacy and Salience in a Participatory Modeling Project in the Food, Energy, Water Nexus” in Environmental Science & Policy, evaluating factors that should be considered in the assessment of participatory modeling projects.
In recent research, Dean Trevor Brown, recently named Ohio State interim executive vice president and provost, and colleagues analyze curricula in higher education public procurement and contract management programs across nine countries and three continents. Their findings, published in the International Journal of Commerce and Contracting, suggest more balanced emphasis on technical, interpersonal and strategic competencies can enhance public sector competencies along the spectrum of formal and relational contracting. In addition, Brown and colleagues published “Managing Public Sector Contracts” in the Cambridge University Press Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration series. The book presents a framework for analyzing the complexities of contracting, how these vary across circumstances, the ways government contract managers can address challenges and the skills of contract managers.
Research by Professor Jill Clark and colleagues finds that in general, a household’s increased probability of exposure to differential treatment is negatively associated with the nutritional quality of food acquisitions for Black and Hispanic households, and it potentially contributes to disparities in health outcomes. The results, published in the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, suggest that considering the social environment where a store is located may increase the effectiveness of healthy food access programs.
In research published in Energy Economics, Associate Professor Noah Dormady explains how energy generation pricing competition influences costs for consumers. And in the International Journal of Production Economics, Dormady and doctoral candidate Yiseon Choi find that the personal credit scores of top-level corporate executives can help explain their decision-making in the corporate environment, at least when it involves evaluating risk.
Assistant Professor Esra Gules-Guctas received a 2025-26 Catalyst Grant from the Translational Data Analytics Institute for her project, “Artificial Intelligence for the Public Good: Advancing AI Governance and Public Service Implementation.” The work will engage Ohio State researchers with the public and nonprofit representatives over the next year to build the foundation of knowledge and relationships necessary to establish a long-term strategic collaboration through the creation of a working group tentatively called: Ohio AI for the Public Good. In addition, she recently published “How Do Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems Used in Public Benefits Determinations Fail? Insights From Legal Challenges” in Public Administration Review.
Recent research by Courtesy Associate Professor Shoshanah Inwood, environment and natural resources, includes “Finding Our Way Through the Fog: Embedding Social Infrastructure in Food System Resilience,” published in Agriculture and Human Values with Professor Jill Clark, and “Impacts of Extreme Weather on Farmer Mental Health” in Rural Sociology.
Courtesy Professor Vladimir Kogan, political science, wrote a new book, “No Adult Left Behind: How Politics Hijacks Education Policy and Hurts Kids.” He argues that one reason why so many schools in the United States struggle to provide a high-quality education is that their core constituents — students and parents — have the least say in how they’re run. Kogan and Professor Stéphane Lavertu published “High Turnover with Low Accountability: Local School Board Elections in 16 States” in EdWorkingPapers.
Courtesy Professor Caezilia Loibl, human sciences, published “Fear of Missing out, Social Media Influencers, and the Social, Psychological and Financial Wellbeing of Young Consumers” in PLOS One. With Professor Stephanie Moulton, she published “Type 2 Diabetes and Financial Outcomes” in JAMA Network Open.
Courtesy Professor Brian Mittendorf, the H.P. Wolfe Chair in Accounting, published “Are Donor-Advised Funds Facilitating Opaque Giving to Politically Engaged Charities?” in Nonprofit Policy Forum.
Professor Stephanie Moulton, incoming acting dean, was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration as a member of its 2025 Class of Academy Fellows. In addition, she and a team of housing policy experts draw from recent research to propose changes to the housing finance system that would improve access to mortgages while enabling homeownership stability for low-wealth households in the U.S. in research published in Housing Policy Debate. Other recent research, published in the Journal of Housing Economics, tests the extent to which temporary mortgage payment relief improves long-term labor outcomes for unemployed homeowners.
Assistant Professor Tasha Perdue and Professor Russell Hassan, the Ambassador Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Chair in Public and International Affairs, published “Categorizing Stigma as a Barrier to Support Following Nonfatal Overdose: A Qualitative Study” in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
In the journal Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Professor Jos Raadschelders and colleagues explore the dimensions of the public as a central idea in the contemporary field of public management and governance.
Assistant Professor Victor St. John, with Perdue, published “U.S. Jails and Fatal Drug Overdoses: Patterns, Predictors and the Role of Rehabilitative Contexts” in Health & Justice. In addition, St. John, Assistant Professor Gregory Wilson and Assistant Professor Long Tran published “Administrative Burden in Higher Education: Race, Criminal Records, and Street-Level Bureaucrats in College Admissions” in Public Administration Review.
John Glenn College of Public Affairs doctoral candidate Maham Ali and Assistant Professor Long Tran received the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action’s 2025 Felice Davidson Perlmutter Award for their research “Community Foundations’ Racialized Framing and Donor Solicitation: Theory and Experimental Evidence.” Tran also won the 2025 ARNOVA Governance Paper Award for his paper, “International NGO Centralization and Leader-Perceived Effectiveness,” which offers substantive theoretical and practical implications for international NGO governance reform.
Faculty Emeritus Caroline Wagner joined a prestigious group of more than 250 Academy Professors at Ohio State. The Emeritus Academy, a growing and vibrant community of scholars, represents only 8% of the total number of the university’s emeritus professors. Members are chosen based on ongoing engagement in both scholarly and creative activities that enhance the reputation of the university and benefit society at large.
Courtesy Professor Bruce Weinberg, the Eric Byron Fix-Monda Endowed Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, and colleagues found that Nobel laureates who moved more frequently began their prize-winning work up to two years earlier than did laureates who never moved. The research, published in International Economic Review, showed that top scientists who change their locations or split their time between locations boost their career by meeting other researchers with new and different ideas that they can combine with their own. In addition, Weinberg published “Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas” in the Journal of Labor Economics.
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