Stories tagged with: Research

Ryan Wagner with a mudpuppy salamander.

Alumni News | Ryan Wagner turns his grad school, camera focus on mudpuppy salamanders

Ryan Wagner has left a lot of footprints across the state of Ohio—most of them muddy ones.

Graduate student Abriana Gresham gets senior psychology major Nash Randall ready to demonstrate how data like heart rate is collected during their experiments.

Brett Peters and Peggy Zoccola to look at how friends influence social anxiety

Psychologists are taking a basic science approach to examine how one-on-one interpersonal interactions among friends may be directing impacting social anxiety.

A recently metamorphosed wood frog. Photo by Cassie Thompson.A recently metamorphosed wood frog. Photo by Cassie Thompson.

Cassandra Thompson shows danger to frogs from pesticide; points to a solution

Cassandra Thompson's research highlights the need to understand the tradeoffs of using pesticides on invasive species and the effects on vulnerable species such as amphibians.

Nathaniel Szewczyk, portrait

Science Café kicks off with 'Worms in Space: Improving Astronaut Muscle Health' on Sept. 7

The fall 2022 Science Café lineup kicks off with Nathaniel Szewczyk discussing "Worms in Space: Improving Astronaut Muscle Health" at 5 p.m. on Sept. 7.

Bernardo Santos and Maria Serenario

Brazilian students exchange culture and corrosion research

For Ph.D. students Bernardo Santos and Maria Serenario, studying corrosion at Ohio University’s Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology (ICMT) was a top priority.

Damilola Daramola

Daramola wins ORAU's Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

Damilola Daramola was awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award recognizing his work to extract rare earth elements (REE) from coal mining waste. 

Damian Nance (right) with colleagues (left to right) Brendan Murphy (Canada), Rob Strachan (U.K.) and Cecilio Quesada (Spain) in 2005 examining an outcrop in the Ural Mountains of Russia that shows almost identical relationships to those in the northern Appalachians, the U.K., and western Europe.

Damian Nance book provides new chapters on history of Earth

Damian Nance's book revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Appalachian Mountains and mountain ranges of the same age in Europe and northwest Africa.

In this graph, students in the spring kinetics lab predicted daily cases in the state of Ohio through fall 2022.

Chemistry lab students predict spread of COVID-19 with kinetics models

Students in the spring kinetics lab predicted daily COVID-19 cases in the state of Ohio through fall 2022.

Gordy Hall at twilight

Linguistics Colloquium Series fall 2022 schedule includes alumni speakers

Linguistics Colloquium Series fall 2022 schedule includes several recent alumni of the M.A. in Applied Linguistics program as well as professional development mentoring for current students.

Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos, portrait

Physics Ph.D. student wins Best Speaker Award at international conference in Spain

Physics doctoral student Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos received a prestigious Best Speaker Award at a large international conference in Spain.

Christine Blay

Rising sophomore secures one of two spots in Dr. Harold Thompson Racial Health Equity Fellowship

After moving to the United States from Ghana at age 12, Christine Blay hopes to use her own experiences to improve her knowledge on minority healthcare, specifically in rural areas like Appalachia.

Wilson Hall

Faculty invited to apply for humanities grants to support internships, research and travel

Ohio University humanities faculty are encouraged to apply by Sept. 15 for grants from the Central Region Humanities Center.

Yuanjie Mao

JAMA study, led by Heritage College faculty, finds association between high insulin dosage and cancer

Dr. Yuanjie Mao has led a study looking at the correlation between daily insulin dose and cancer incidence among patients with type 1 diabetes.

Szewczyk research

OMNI scientist Szewczyk collaborates on proposal that could revolutionize space medicine, improve astronaut health

Nate Szewczyk and several other researchers from around the world have published a paper that proposes a program for the European Space Agency that could potentially revolutionize space medicine.

Dr. Carey Snyder, portrait

Carey Snyder's take on 'Ann Veronica' by H.G. Wells provides window to discuss women's lives today

If today's social issues are but a moment in time on the trajectory of human development, then literature is not just a window to the past, but also a way to discuss the present.

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