Research

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented “Plant gravitropic signal transduction: A network analysis leads to gene discovery” on a panel on Metabolism Related to Gravitropism at the 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Moscow, Russia. She also chaired a panel on Weightlessness and Hypergravity. The Wyatt Lab […]

Behavioral and Organizational Approaches Lead the Way A careful review of talk therapies for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by Dr. Steve Evans, Dr. Julie Sarno Owens, and graduate student Nora Bunford from Ohio University’s Psychology Department concluded that, among talk therapies, behavioral approaches and organizational interventions have the strongest […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, published a study of “An Interstate Analysis of Right to Work Laws” along with co-author Jonathan Robe. Their article is part of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s The High Cost of Big Labor series, which analyzes and compares the economic impact of […]

Two Ohio University physicists co-authored a July 6 article on Nature Materials on “Reconfigurable 3D plasmonic metamolecules.” Dr. Alexander Govorov, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, and Dr. Hui Zhang, a post-doctoral researcher, were co-authors along with four others: Anton Kurzk and Na Liu, of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy From observing ozone phenomena to building micro-scale devices, senior Helen Cothrel ’15 HTC Physics, explores her environment to the extreme. This summer she is working at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO, to study the Earth’s ozone layer. She received funding through […]

Dr. Martin Mohlenkamp, Associate Professor of Mathematics, presented “Dynamical Systems Analysis of Swamps in ALS” at a mini-symposium at the 2014 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics annual meeting on July 7. The symposium was on Tensor Analysis, Computation and Application. Abstract: The Alternating Least Squares (ALS) algorithm for approximating […]

“Recently, an extraordinary effort has been directed toward group II–VI semiconductors such as zinc oxide (ZnO) material … because of its potential applications in the fields of electronic and optoelectronics,” including solar cells and renewable energy storage, write an Ohio University alum and Physics & Astronomy professor who co-authored an […]