Archive for May, 2018

From Research News Dr. Viorel Popescu, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences in Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, will be the featured guest on the Party Line talk show with Dave Palmer on WATH radio from 9 to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 23. Listeners can tune in to […]

  Welcome to Week 2 of the summer 2018  OPIE Zone Newsletter. International Conversation Hour Dates: June 5, 12 and 19 at Jefferson 160 from 6-7 p.m. This is an opportunity for OPIE students to meet with other people from Ohio University and practice their English skills in an informal […]

Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, co-edited the volume, Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design, which explores changes in the uses and meanings of money in various sites across the Global South. The book, published by Berghahn Books, is part of The Human […]

by Kristin Distel Ten Ohio University students are spending their summer gaining invaluable hands-on experience as they intern at Wayne National Forest. The majority of the interns’ time will be spent assisting with two major Wayne National Forest initiatives—the Bailey’s Mountain Bike Project, where student interns are “integral” to the […]

The Ohio Wildlife Council indefinitely tabled a proposal to allow bobcat trapping in Ohio, citing a four-year Ohio University study just under way on the state’s the bobcat population. As reported in the Columbus Dispatch Friday morning, the chair of the advisory council, Dr. Paul Mechling II explained at the meeting why the panel […]

  Dr. Mitchell Day, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, received an Ohio University Research Award for experiments that will be the first physiological study of how sensorineural hearing loss affects brain processing of sound source location. “Our hope is that knowledge of how this type of hearing loss changes the […]

Dr. Ronan Carroll, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University, attended the 5th Meeting on Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and Archaea in Seville Spain from March 19th to 22. The meeting focused on the mechanisms through which bacteria and archaea regulate cellular processes using RNA molecules. “At the meeting […]