Research

Yale News covers the debate about the existence of supercontinent Pannotia, posited by R. Damian Nance, in an article headlined Pannotia: A supercontinent on trial. Nance, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geology at Ohio University, is now a visiting fellow at Yale. In separate articles published recently by The Geological Society […]

Alumni, Colleagues Celebrate Rothwell’s Discoveries about Plant Evolution Distinguished Professor Emeritus Gar Rothwell just keeps discovering new things. That’s because he keeps looking. Rothwell may have “retired” from Ohio University in 2010, but he has continued his work, contributing an additional 62 scientific studies since that time, including 11 journal articles […]

Dr. Peter Harrington and graduate student Zewei Chen published a paper on “Self-Optimizing Support Vector Elastic Net” in Analytical Chemistry. “This algorithm allows one to build classification and calibration models automatically while simultaneously avoiding overfitting and using a minimum number of variables to yield the best predictive results,” says Harrington. […]

By Tanya Tytko ’20MA Linguistics  Spring 2020 semester was supposed to be the highlight of my master’s program. I was planning to present several research projects on which I was collaboratively working in the Linguistics Department at Ohio University and my individual research. In late February, when we all started […]

by Hannah Cordes Dr. Tomo Sugiyama, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, recently received grant support from the National Institutes of Health (R15 grant, $453,000 for three years) to continue his research on the molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. His study will lead to a better understanding of the biochemical mechanisms that […]

The Ohio University NQPI Virtual Nanoforum presents Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos discussing “Optical and Photothermal Properties of Plasmonic Nanomaterials” on Thursday, Nov 19, at 4:10 p.m. via Microsoft Teams. Santos is a graduate student in Physics & Astronomy and the Nanoscale Quantum Phenomena Institute (NQPI). Abstract: The study of the optical […]

The Geological Society of America annual meeting is one of the largest scientific gatherings of geologists each year, and the Ohio University Geological Sciences Department historically sends a large contingent of students and faculty to showcase their research. This year the GSA meeting is online from Oct. 26-30, but departmental […]