Research

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Geological Sciences Department Publications: 2013-14 Conference Abstracts Astray, G., Iglesias-Otero, M.A., Araujo, P., López, D.L., Mejuto, J.C., and Soto, B., 2013. Predicting the discharge of the Lor River in the northwest Iberian Peninsula using neural networks. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. […]

By Angelita Faller At 200 times stronger than steel and only one atom thick, graphene is both the hardest existing substance and the thinnest material ever obtained. Graphene is light, bendable, transparent, and extremely conductive. “Graphene has excellent properties. The market applications are enormous,” said Gerardine Botte, the Russ Professor […]

Vasily Eremenko is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy‘s Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics. He works with Professor Charlotte Elster. In honor of National Postdoc Appreciation Week Sept. 15-19, the Office of Research Communications is spotlighting Ohio University postdoctoral fellows across campus. Eremenko recently participated […]

By Lori Bauer In his new book In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments, Dr. Eric LeMay gives readers an opportunity to shoot some asteroids while joining him in a contemplation of Copernicus and our fascination—sometimes addiction—with ourselves. Play along with LeMay at On Cosmology. The game is modeled […]

Chemistry doctoral student Mengliang Zhang received the 2014 Thomas Hirschfeld Award. These awards recognize the most outstanding papers submitted to the SCIX (Great Scientific Exchange) 2014 conference by a graduate student. Recipients, who must be a graduate student at the time of application, will receive economy travel to the meeting, […]

Eric Gorscak ’09, a doctoral student in Biological Sciences, is the lead author on the discovery of a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania. The study describes a rare find—a sauropod dinosaur skeleton from Africa. Ohio University paleontologists have identified the new species of titanosaurian, a member of the […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Nikolay Kornilov, a visiting scholar in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has written a monograph, ‘Fission Neutrons: Experiments, Evaluation, Modeling and Open Problems,’ recently published by Springer Publishing. ‘Fission Neutrons’ provides methods for precise measurement of neutron spectra, methods of data evaluation and […]