Archive for October, 2015

By Jean Andrews From Ohio University Research Communications Could a solution to harness renewable energy ultimately rest with gooey seaweed? One Ohio University student spent a research internship at a national laboratory last year helping to find the answer. Micro algae are small, single cell organisms that grow quickly and […]

A Bio Bonanza is headed to local libraries in November with interactive stations for schoolchildren featuring biodiversity from Ohio and beyond. Biological Sciences graduate students are reaching out to the local schoolchildren to talk about what they’re studying. Graduate student Charlene Hopkins is coordinating the events. Event Locations Nelsonville Public […]

Dr. Thomas Vander Ven, Professor of Sociology, chaired a panel on Media, Publicity, and Perceptions of Crime and presented “Race, Serial Rape, and Crime Reporting” with Ohio University alumni Lauren Wright ’10 &  ’14 and Clara Fesmire ’13 & ’15 at the Southern Criminal Justice Conference in September in Charleston, […]

By Juliana Scheiderer ’16 Thirty to fifty percent of schoolteachers leave the profession within their first five years—many citing difficulty managing classroom behavior. Alex Holdaway, sixth-year Psychology doctoral student, and his team at the Center for Intervention Research in Schools are working to provide education majors with the skills they need to […]

“Imagine shoveling soil to create a backyard garden plot and unearthing a rock embossed with the fossil remnant of a creature you’ve never seen before. It looks like something out of the ocean, but you live in the Midwest. Is it a rare fossil from hundreds of millions of years ago or […]

Ohio University researchers and co-authors from Merck Research Laboratories authored a just-released article on “Capture of Reactive Monophosphine Ligated Palladium(0) Intermediates by Mass Spectrometry” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. “This study for the first time presents the detection of the reactive monophosphine ligated Pd0L intermediate by MS, […]

By Jean Andrews From Ohio University Research Communications Working in the dense rain forest of the Congo one summer and the humid semi-arid North Dakota grasslands the next, Steven Richardson assisted national and international groups with their land conservation efforts. Analyzing Deforestation in the African Congo Richardson, an Ohio University […]