Research

Undergraduate Researches Inclusivity and Stereotyping for Campus LGB+ Students

Undergraduate Researches Inclusivity and Stereotyping for Campus LGB+ Students

by Matt McCullough ‘17 I presented a research project I conducted, titled “Inclusivity and the Influence of Stereotyping on Campus for LGB+ Student Life,” at the Student Research and Creative Activity Expo. Getting Involved in Research I am a senior studying sociology with a professional goal of doing research. This […]

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April 26, 2017 at 7:53 amResearch

Lee Presents Paper at Princeton Workshop on ‘Food, Health, and Environmental Exposures’

Dr. Victoria Lee

Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History, presented a paper titled “Wild Toxicity, Cultivated Safety: Aflatoxin and Kōji Classification” as part of a Princeton University invitation-only workshop in March. Organized under the rubric of “Risk on the Table: Food, Health, and Environmental Exposures,” the workshop examined the confluence of hazards and concerns that characterize […]

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April 20, 2017 at 11:01 amResearch

LeMay Publishes Innovative Collection of Digital Essays

Dr. Eric LeMay

by Kristin M. Distel “Eric LeMay is the future of the essay, but fortunately he’s here now,” says author Ned Stuckey-French in advanced praise of LeMay’s newly published collection, Essays on the Essay and Other Essays. LeMay is Associate Professor of creative writing in OHIO’s English Department. He’s also an Ohio […]

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April 20, 2017 at 10:42 amResearch

Wisland Publishes Essay on AIDS Crisis, Father’s Life

Wisland Publishes Essay on AIDS Crisis, Father’s Life

by Kristin M. Distel “This is the story of one of the longest-surviving HIV-positive men in the United States, a story irrevocably intertwined with my own,” says Kirk Wisland, doctoral candidate in creative writing. Wisland has published an essay in the latest issue of Proximity Magazine. The essay, “Inheritance,” chronicles […]

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April 18, 2017 at 3:36 pmResearch

History Grad Student Presents Paper at Conference on Britain and the World

Robert Venosa

Robert Venosa, a Ph.D. student in the History Department, presented a paper at the Britain and the World Conference on April 6-8, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Venosa’s paper is titled “The Meaning of Manchuria: The Chatham House Assessment of Collective Security in the Wake of the Manchurian Crisis.” He argues that, despite a […]

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April 17, 2017 at 4:27 pmResearch

Eight A&S Students Get OHIO Student Enhancement Awards

Amanda Biederman

Eight College of Arts & Sciences graduate students received Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards in spring 2017. Three of them are from Environmental & Plant Biology. And Dr. Viorel Popescu‘s lab in Biological Sciences features two winners. History and Psychology also were represented. The Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards program […]

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April 17, 2017 at 4:19 pmResearch

Hines Receives Baker Fund Award for ‘Biogenic Amine Modulation of Regulatory RNA Function’

Dr. Jennifer Hines

Dr. Jennifer Hines, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, received a Baker Fund Award of $12,000 for research on “Biogenic Amine Modulation of Regulatory RNA Function.” The John C. Baker Fund awarded $67,163 total to six faculty proposals for research, scholarship and creative work during spring semester 2017. Endowed in 1961 […]

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April 17, 2017 at 3:59 pmResearch