Research

History’s Shadis Receives Fulbright for Research in Portugal

Dr. Miriam Shadis

Dr. Miriam Shadis, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, recently received a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research in Portugal. The Fulbright Scholars Program is administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Shadis plans to make use of the fellowship during her […]

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April 25, 2016 at 11:04 amResearch

Marciniak Edits Book on ‘Teaching Transnational Cinema’

Marciniak Edits Book on ‘Teaching Transnational Cinema’

Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak, Professor of English at Ohio University, co-edited a just-released book on “Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy.” The book, co-edited with Bruce Bennett of Lancaster University, UK, is published in the prestigious Routledge AFI Film Readers Series. Marciniak also wrote a chapter for the book on “The […]

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April 25, 2016 at 9:29 amResearch

Plant Biology Students Present Their Research at 2016 Expo

Graduate students, from left: Yuan (Susan) Zhang, Alex Meyers, Kathleen Gabler, Marion Holmes, Nick Tomeo, Anne Sternberger, Proma Basu

Fifteen graduate and 7 undergraduate students from Environmental & Plant Biology were among the 840 undergraduate, graduate and medical students who presented at Ohio University’s Student Research & Creative Activity Expo on April 14. Congratulations to this year’s PBIO winners! Graduate Student Awards Student: Anne Sternberger Title: “Using a De […]

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April 21, 2016 at 8:58 amNews Research

MCB Students Participate at 2016 EXPO, Basu receives People’s Choice Award

Molecular and Cellular Biology students at Expo, from left: Silvana Duran Ortiz, Debra Walter, Sarah Metro, Yuli Hu, Jason Zhang, Manindra Singh

Twelve interdisciplinary graduate students in Molecular and Cellular Biology were among 840 undergraduate, graduate and medical students who presented at Ohio University Student Research and Creative Activity Expo on April 14. The expo is an annual event hosted for OHIO students to exhibit their original work. Projects this year represented […]

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April 20, 2016 at 2:58 pmNews Research

Doctoral Student Receives DOE Science Award for Research at National Lab

Andrea Richard at the 2015 Student Research & Creative Activities Expo

Andrea Richard, a doctoral student in Physics & Astronomy, received a Science Graduate Student Research award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to conduct research this summer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. During her three-month stay in Berkeley, CA, Richard will conduct research on the beta decay […]

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April 18, 2016 at 11:12 amNews Research

Nature: Malinski Reports Novel Imaging Sensors used for Early Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease

Dr. Tadeusz Malinski

By Collin Arocho Almost 25 years ago, Dr. Tadeusz Malinski was the first in the world to publish in Nature (1992) a paper describing a nanosensor that could measure nitric oxide (NO) in a single endothelial cell. This measurements provided final proof that NO exists in biological cells and is a […]

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April 15, 2016 at 9:30 amResearch

Dantas Authors Chapter on ‘Slave Women and Urban Labor in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World’

Dantas Authors Chapter on ‘Slave Women and Urban Labor in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World’

Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, published two chapters and an article in 2015. She authored a chapter on “Slave Women and Urban Labor in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” in New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison, edited by Jeff Forret and Christine Sears (Louisiana University Press, 2015). […]

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April 15, 2016 at 9:24 amResearch