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Dr. Theresa Moran was awarded the 2019 Faculty Sustainability Award on April 18 by the Ohio University Office of Sustainability. Moran is Food Studies theme director and the Sustainable Living Hub Coordinator. Two days prior to receiving the Faculty Sustainability Award, Moran spoke at Front Room and discussed her sustainability […]

Geological Sciences students presented six posters at Ohio University’s annual Student Research and Creative Activity Expo. Both graduate and undergraduate students presented research on diverse topics including fossil identification, geochemistry of harmful algal blooms, reconstructing Pleistocene and Pennsylvanian paleoclimates, and methods for detecting ancient asteroid impacts. Junior Geological Sciences major […]

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 […]

  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 […]

Dr. Kim Thompson, Environmental & Plant Biology Lecturer, received a $10,000 Zero Impact Fund award from PepsiCo for her proposed project, Advancing Sustainability at Ohio University with a Green Roof. Thompson also reports that her Green Roof Project budget of $235,000 for the second phase of this project was approved […]

Dr. Gregory Nadon, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, was awarded the AAPG Eastern Section 2018 Outstanding Educator Award “in grateful recognition of excellence in teaching and mentoring in the classroom, lab, office, and field, helping students become the best they can be.” The award […]

Margaret Gatonye, an African Studies master’s student from Kenya, has been working this semester as a Food Studies theme graduate intern with with Rural Action, a non-profit organization that aims at working together with local communities to revitalize Appalachian Ohio. With Dr. Theresa Moran, Food Studies Director, Gatonye is working […]