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Li Speaks at an International Symposium on Green Development and Global Governance

Li Speaks at an International Symposium on Green Development and Global Governance

Dr. Jieli Li, Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, was invited to deliver his research talk entitled “Environmental Justice and Green Development” at Dong Hu forum – an international symposium on Green Development and Global Governance held at Wuhan, China in Nov., 12-13, 2016. Environmental Justice and New Horizon of […]

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February 9, 2017 at 11:39 amResearch

Gingerich Presents on Paleoindian Settlement Patterns at Annual Meeting

Dr. Joseph Gingerich

Joseph Gingerich, Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University, was invited to present his paper, “Pleistocene Depositional Patterns and their link to Paleoindian Settlement Patterns in the Middle Atlantic Region,” at the 83rd Annual Eastern States Archaeological Federation Meeting in November 2016. The […]

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February 7, 2017 at 2:06 pmResearch

Undergraduate Searches for Key to Emerald Ash Borer Resistance

Jeremy Held with Emerald Ash

By Heather Willard, PACE Writer The forest pest Emerald ash borer, which kills Ash trees, has been an issue in the United States since it was first detected in 2002, but Jeremy Held thinks there may be hope for the endemic trees. He received a Provost Undergraduate Research Fund award […]

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February 2, 2017 at 2:24 pmResearch

Musaraj Presents on Corruption, Hidden Cameras and Satire at Symposium in Portugal

Dr. Smoki Musaraj presenting at the 2016 Wenner-Gren Foundation Symposium in Sintra, Portugal. Courtesy of the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, presented a paper at the Wenner-Gren Foundation Symposium in September 2016 at Tivoli Palacio de Seteais in Sintra, Portugal. Musaraj presented the paper “Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Cynical Satire, and Banal Intimacies of Anti-corruption.” The paper examines the rising […]

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February 2, 2017 at 1:36 pmResearch

Physicists Demonstrate New Characteristics of Carbon

Dr. David Drabold and Physics Doctoral Student Bishal Bhattarai

Dr. David Drabold, Ohio University Distinguished Professor of Physics, and Bishal Bhattarai, a doctoral student in Physics & Astronomy, have published a seminal paper predicting the structure of amorphous “glassy” carbon at very low densities. Their paper provides the cornerstone of theoretical understanding of this form of matter, and is […]

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February 2, 2017 at 11:30 amResearch

Student Interns at Poplar Island, Gets Up-close with Diamondback Terrapins

Student Interns at Poplar Island, Gets Up-close with Diamondback Terrapins

by Kristin M. Distel “I can apply these skills to other areas in my field, whether I go on to earn a Ph.D. or to work in other research positions,” says Alayna Tokash, now a master’s student in ecology and evolutionary biology. Tokash, also an Ohio University undergraduate alumna of […]

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February 1, 2017 at 12:11 pmIn Class Research

Biology Grad Student Authors Article on Shigella dysenteriae Pathogenesis

Megan Fris

Megan E. Fris, a Ph.D. student in Biological Sciences at Ohio University, is the lead author on “Sibling sRNA RyfA1 Influences Shigella dysenteriae Pathogenesis” in the journal Genes. The co-authors are William H. Broach, Director of the Ohio University Genomics Facility and an alum who earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in 2014 from the […]

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January 27, 2017 at 4:48 pmResearch