Archive for April, 2019

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Editor Margaret Thomas Evans is seeking news items for the RWSA Newsletter. So please send any news about recent publications, research, conferences, awards, etc., to margevan@iue.edu.

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April 18, 2019 at 1:55 pmUncategorized

Happy Beginnings | Koran Studies Swahili in Tanzania, Heads to Peace Corps in Rwanda

Alexandra Koran

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Ohio University alum Alexandra Koran ’19 won a U.S. Critical Language Scholarship, a highly prestigious and nationally competitive scholarship, to study Swahili for eight weeks in […]

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April 18, 2019 at 1:31 pmAlumni

Foster, Miller Awarded Excellence in Teaching Award

Stephanie Miller

The National Society of Leadership and Success Ohio Chapter awarded two Biological Sciences faculty—Stephanie Miller and Jodie Foster—with the Excellence in Teaching Award. The awards were presented at the annual induction ceremony held April 15 at Baker Center Theater at Ohio University. Miller has been teaching microbiology for non-majors since […]

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April 17, 2019 at 3:48 pmNews

Williams Honored as 2019 Outstanding Cutler Scholars Mentor

Dr. Kelly Williams

  Dr. Kelly Williams, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, was recently selected as one of 17 outstanding mentors by the Cutler Scholars in the graduating class of 2019. Williams is a graduate of Ohio University and teaches several upper-level courses that are required of several BIOS majors: BIOS 3030 (Comparative vertebrate […]

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April 17, 2019 at 2:45 pmAlumni News

Happy Beginnings | Cones Awarded NSF Fellowship, Plans for Ph.D.

Seth Cones

  Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Biological Sciences alum Seth Cones ’18 was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Cones earned a B.S.in Biological Sciences – Marine, Freshwater […]

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April 17, 2019 at 2:06 pmAlumni

Biological Sciences & MCB Graduate Students Contribute to Patent Development

Pratik Shriwas

Previous and current Biological Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate students contributed, as part of their Ph.D. dissertations, to supporting research for two patents received by Ohio University faculty. Ohio University honored faculty, staff and student inventors during an awards ceremony Feb. 21. The Inventors Dinner recognized individuals who […]

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April 17, 2019 at 12:10 pmAlumni Research

Johnson Awarded Funding from U.S. Army Military History Institute

Matt Johnson

Graduate student Matt Johnson, received a General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Military History Research Grant from the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Johnson, a Ph.D. candidate in History and a Contemporary History Institute student, will use the funds to conduct dissertation research at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education […]

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April 17, 2019 at 11:20 amResearch