Research

Dr. Gary Holcomb, Professor of African American Literature, edited pedagogical collection on Teaching Hemingway and Race. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2018). Appearing in the Kent State University Press “Teaching Hemingway” series, the collection suggests ways for high school and college instructors to teach Hemingway’s writings apropos issues of racial, […]

  Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, received Baker Fund support of $11,115 for his research on “Social Conflict and Institution Building in the Making of Post-Colonial Lebanon, 1943-1955.” The John C. Baker Fund awarded a total of $43,022 to four faculty proposals for research, scholarship and creative work […]

Adelaide Kruse and Dr. Katherine Cimatu contributed to an article “Engineered silica nanoparticles interact differently with lipid monolayers compared to lipid bilayers” that appeared on the cover of Environmental Science: Nano. Kruse is a Chemistry undergraduate student in the Honors Tutorial College, and Cimatu is Assistant Professor of Chemistry and […]

The Ohio University Research Committee selected five faculty proposals, including three College of Arts & Sciences faculty, for funding during its fall 2017 cycle. In total, the committee awarded $38,852. The program, which is funded by the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity, provides seed money for new faculty […]

Dr. Jessica White, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, published several articles on her research in the photophysics and photochemistry of transition metal complexes with applications in photodynamic therapy and photochemotherapy. Both types of therapy provide less invasive and more localized treatment of diseases such as cancer and bacterial infections. […]

Dr. Jixin Chen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute member, published multiple journal articles in 2017. Chen has developed a statistical computer program to help researchers account for the blurring effect in single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) measurements. Single-molecule FRET is a classic microscopy […]

Dr. Peter de B. Harrington, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, delivered a keynote lecture titled “Applications of restricted Boltzmann machines to the authentication of botanical medicines” at the Advances in Pharmaceutical Analysis conference in Wuhan, China on Nov. 19. This lecture demonstrated that the combination of deep-learning algorithms with chemometrics […]