Research

Dr. Ahmed Faik, Associate Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University, is the principal investigator on a one-year $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative exploratory research grant program for a project titled “Developing A High-Throughput Analytical Tool For Plant Cell Wall […]

Undergraduate student Ava Heller was selected as the recipient of the 2019 Norman S. Cohn Research Fellowship in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology. The fellowship of $2,000 helps an undergraduate student to pursue research in plant cellular and molecular biology in a laboratory associated with the Environmental & Plant Biology […]

Dr. Muriel Gallego, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics-Spanish in Modern Languages, participated in the 2019 opening meeting of the inter-institutional, international Faculty Learning Community/Comunidad de Aprendizaje Docente. This FLC was created in 2017 thanks to the efforts of Gallego and Dr. Paola Piacenza (Instituto Superior San Bartolomé, Universidad Nacional de […]

Dr. Eric Masson, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio University, and Dr. Adam Urbach, Professor of Chemistry at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, are hosting the 6th International Conference on Cucurbiturils on the Ohio University campus this summer. Cucurbiturils are macrocyclic molecules that resemble hollow pumpkins; they […]

Psychology graduate student Andrew Manigault has received a $2,000 Graduate Student Research Award from the Society for Health Psychology, Division 38 of the American Psychological Association. Manigault’s adviser is Dr. Peggy Zoccola, Associate Professor of Psychology at Ohio University. He current research explores the effect mindfulness and and stress on […]

Graduate and undergraduate students from Environmental & Plant Biology and the Molecular & Cellular Biology interdisciplinary graduate program won three presentation and two poster awards at the ASPB Midwest regional meeting March 16-17 at West Virginia University. 2nd place graduate talk—Anne Sternberger (Wyatt lab) 3rd place graduate talk —Kelsey Bryant […]

The Biological Sciences Department announces a series of thesis presentations by Honors Tutorial College and biology students in April 2019. Anika Friedman (HTC Neuroscience) presents “A Computational Model of Neurofilament Kinetics Relating to Axonal Caliber Growth and the Neurofilament Slowing Phenomenon” on Thursday, April 11, from 5 to 6 p.m. […]