Research

Dr. Patrick Barr-Melej, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, authored his second book, Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship. The publication date, through the University of North Carolina Press, is May 15, 2017. Barr-Melej’s book illuminates modern Chilean history with an unprecedented […]

Dr. Nicole Kaufman, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, co-authored an article on “Beyond Punishment: The Penal State’s Interventionist, Covert, and Negligent Modalities of Control” in Law & Social Inquiry, the journal of the American Bar Foundation. Her co-authors are Joshua Kaiser, a Law and Social Science Fellow at […]

On Monday, Nov. 21, a panel discussion on India’s Partition took place to mark the publication of Professor Amritjit Singh’s co-edited volume, India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics (Lexington Books). Panelists included Singh, Professor Ghirmai Negash, and Professor Brian Collins. Singh is the Langston Hughes Professor of […]

By Heather Willard PACE Writer Environmental & Plant Biology The Ecological Society of America is the largest organization of professional ecologists in the nation, and when they gathered this summer in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, three Ohio University scientists joined them: Dr. David Rosenthal, Dr. Glenn Matlack, and Ph.D. candidate Marion […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented a talk on “Arabidopsis proteomic responses to microgravity” as part of the GeneLab symposium at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research. Wyatt is recognized as an expert in gravitational and space biology. Using […]

Physics & Astronomy alum Cody Parker spent five days recently conducting experiments at Ohio University’s Edwards Accelerator Lab. Parker is a post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge. Parker graduated in 2016 with a Ph.D. in Physics from the College of […]

  Priyadarshini Gupta‘s doctoral work on literary representations of Islam in the post-9/11 world took her to the New York Public Library this summer. A doctoral student of English, Gupta was awarded a competitive scholarship from Ohio University’s English Department, one of eight to students who are conducting research for their respective dissertations […]