Archive for December, 2019

An example of excellence in community outreach and plant and fungi education, Martha Bishop goes above and beyond as lab coordinator for the Environmental & Plant Biology Department. In addition to coordinating the teaching labs, Bishop teaches two courses, Medicinal Plants of Ohio and Biology of Fungi, at Ohio University. […]

Athens County has prairie plants? Strouds Run State Park is home to three small prairie-like openings that host grassland species. Persistence of this unusual community may be threatened by encroachment of trees and shrubs that can shade out herbaceous plants. That’s why members of the Plant Biology Graduate Student Association […]

Dr. Nancy Sandler was one of the few international invited speakers at the recent Brazilian Workshop for Semiconductor Physics 19, held at the Federal University of Ceará, in Fortaleza, Brazil. Sandler is Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University. The biennial workshop, held since 1983, began as the premier […]

By Regina Yoong Ohio University alumna April Fuller recently co-authored a post with Laurel Bassett on “Got Gout? Eighteenth-Century Global “Remedies” in Mary Kettilby’s Receipt Book” for The Folger Shakespeare Library. “The post came out of a brief collaborative paper that a classmate and I wrote in a seminar class. […]

From Ohio University News Ohio University microbiologist Dr. Ronan Carroll was awarded a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health this fall to study how scientists can combat a common bacterial infection that is becoming resistant to antibiotics. The funding builds on the discovery by Carroll and a […]

 Dr. Steve Evans, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, served as the 2019 Ohio University Fall Commencement speaker on Dec. 14. In the video above, Evans previews his Commencement speech and invites everyone to come out this weekend to celebrate the more than 900 fall graduates who earned associate, bachelor’s, master’s […]

Ohio University graduate student Ryan Wolbert received the Farvolden Award at the National Groundwater Association’s annual Groundwater Summit in Las Vegas in December. The Farvolden Award is given to the most outstanding student posters on a scored, judged presentation. Wolbert, who is pursuing an M.S. in Geological Sciences at OHIO, […]