Research

Dr. Alycia Stigall, Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, presents a talk on “Applying Bayesian and Maximum-Likelihood Methods to Century-Old Hypotheses: The Late Ordovician Richmondian Invasion” at the Geological Society of America annual meeting Nov. 1-4 in Baltimore. Her co-presented is alum Adriane Lam, who earned an M.S. in Geological Sciences from […]

Dr. Damian Nance, Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, presents at talk on “Interpretation of Ophiolite Complexes: A Tweeter in Woofer’s Clothing?” at the Geological Society of America annual meeting Nov. 1-4 in Baltimore. His co-presenters are Brendan Murphy, John Waldron. Abstract: Typically, the oldest crystallization age obtained from supra-subduction zone […]

More than a dozen Ohio University geology students helped develop a new app that helps people identify fossils. The a free iOS app—for both iPad and iPhone—is called the “Digital Atlas of Ancient Life.” Check out the app or find it in the Apple app store. “This exciting new digital […]

By Jean Andrews From Ohio University Research Communications Could a solution to harness renewable energy ultimately rest with gooey seaweed? One Ohio University student spent a research internship at a national laboratory last year helping to find the answer. Micro algae are small, single cell organisms that grow quickly and […]

Dr. Thomas Vander Ven, Professor of Sociology, chaired a panel on Media, Publicity, and Perceptions of Crime and presented “Race, Serial Rape, and Crime Reporting” with Ohio University alumni Lauren Wright ’10 &  ’14 and Clara Fesmire ’13 & ’15 at the Southern Criminal Justice Conference in September in Charleston, […]

By Juliana Scheiderer ’16 Thirty to fifty percent of schoolteachers leave the profession within their first five years—many citing difficulty managing classroom behavior. Alex Holdaway, sixth-year Psychology doctoral student, and his team at the Center for Intervention Research in Schools are working to provide education majors with the skills they need to […]

Ohio University researchers and co-authors from Merck Research Laboratories authored a just-released article on “Capture of Reactive Monophosphine Ligated Palladium(0) Intermediates by Mass Spectrometry” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. “This study for the first time presents the detection of the reactive monophosphine ligated Pd0L intermediate by MS, […]