Archive for June, 2014

By Natalia Radic From Perspectives Hiking through the trails of Appalachia, Biological Sciences doctoral student Vincent Farallo focuses his attention on the ground, under the leaf litter, in search of small, colorful lungless salamanders. These amphibians live in “microhabitats” of only 1-10 meters squared. Because they breathe through their skin, […]

Three History Department faculty members received College of Arts & Sciences awards for 2013-14. Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, won the Dean’s Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Advising Award. Dr. Kevin Mattson, Professor of History, won the Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship in the Social Sciences Award. Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor […]

  Audrey A. Blakeman, a Geological Sciences graduate student at the Ohio University, presented a poster May 2014 at the Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Her poster, co-authored by her adviser, Dr. Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch, Professor of Geological Sciences, was on “Carbonate Lake Deposits in the […]

  Ohio University Geological Sciences researchers presented May 2014 at the Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America. They are part of an international team working in the Chemehuevi Mountains in Southeast California. See their work on Tumblr. Oxygen Isotope Constraints on the Early Slip History of […]

Dr. Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Professor and Director of Environmental Studies at the Ohio University George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, talks with the  Wilson Center about a new report from military leaders about the instability brought about by climate change. Military leaders should be very concerned about […]

A young researcher who worked on software development and data analysis for a major physics experiment conducted at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has received an award for the thesis he wrote about his efforts. Ohio University alum Rakitha Beminiwattha ’13PhD was awarded the 2014 Jefferson Science Associates Thesis […]

Dr. Robert Klein, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Ohio University, leads a summer workshop at the University of Tulsa. A local chapter of the Math Teachers’ Circle (MTC), a national network sponsored by the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), has been launched in Tulsa, OK. This organization is dedicated to […]