Research

Shiyong Wu took one graduate student, three undergraduate students and an OHIO alumna to the American Society for Photobiology meeting this fall to showcase the types of research that Ohio University students are doing on ultraviolet exposure and basal cell skin cancer. Wu, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of […]

From Ohio University News Ohio University graduate student Cassandra Thompson’s research highlights the need to understand the tradeoffs of using pesticides on invasive species and the effects on vulnerable species such as amphibians. Her article on “Carryover effects of pesticide exposure and pond drying on performance, behavior, and sex ratios […]

  From Ohio University News Twenty-five years ago, a book by two geology professors described an amazing history of the world, a cycle of mountains rising and continents colliding. Now Damian Nance and Margaret Thompson bring together scientists from around the world in a new book—with new scientific insights that […]

From Ohio University News Physics doctoral student Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos received a prestigious Best Speaker Award at a large international conference in Spain for her talk describing hot-electron generation of nanoparticles. “I had presented a poster and given a virtual talk at other international conferences before. However, this was […]

From Ohio University News At conferences in Ireland and Italy this summer, Theresa Moran and David Bell presented two views of the 1930s British pastime of rambling about the countryside — one from the perspective of nostalgic and hungry day hikers, and the other from the entrepreneurial women who responded […]

From Ohio University News As Japan awaits a decision on whether its city of Sapporo will get to host the 2030 Winter Olympics, Yeong-Hyun Kim spent the summer in Japan researching both the lure and the urban impact of being an Olympic venue. “After the pandemic-marred Tokyo 2020, you would assume […]

From Ohio University News If today’s social issues are but a moment in time on the trajectory of human development, then literature is not just a window to the past, but also a way to discuss the present. Ohio University Professor Carey Snyder, Ph.D., teaches “modern” literature, mostly from the […]