Archive for February, 2018

The BIOS Advising and Resource Room (or the BARR) exists to help science students thrive. It was created to assist students in introductory biology and to help first-year students adjust to and learn about Ohio University. It’s been expanded to help students of all years and all science-related majors. The […]

The Dr. Sig Maier Undergraduate Research Fund has been established by a gift from the estate of Dr. Sigfried Maier, a highly respected past member of the Biological Sciences faculty. The fund provides support for Biological Sciences undergraduate majors to conduct all types of research. Dr. Maier was a professor […]

Dr. Viorel Popescu and graduate student Heidi Bencin presented a poster on “Predictors of road mortality for the recovering Ohio bobcat (Lynx Rufus)” at the Ohio Fish and Wildlife Management 2018 conference, held Jan. 26 in Columbus. They reported that bobcats were 50 times more likely to be killed on […]

By M. Vandeman Linguistics Department Dr. Dawn Bikowski spent two weeks in Vietnam training 25 business, science, and technology faculty in how to teach their courses in English, instead of in Vietnamese. Known as English as the Medium of Instruction, this trend is increasing across many regions, such as Asia […]

The members of the Central Ohio Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) are proud to provide the Phil and Suzanne Renaud/Central Ohio Scholarship funds for the next generation of risk practitioners. Scholarship Amount:  $5,000 Academic Year: 2018-19 Ohio University alum Eric W. Spalsbury ’83, Director of Risk Management for Stanley […]

From Office of Research Communications Rob Painter ’93 is one of two alumni awarded the 2017 Konneker Medal for Commercialization and Entrepreneurship for their innovations in technology development and successes in entrepreneurship. Painter, who earned a bachelor’s degree in Geography and computer science, and David Pidwell, an alumnus of the […]

By Daniel Kington From Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs is offering Undergraduate Research Scholar funded positions for the­ 2018-19 academic year. ­ Highly motivated students from any school or department are encouraged to apply for these competitive positions. To be […]