Research

Generations of geology students at Ohio University have studied the Ames Limestone, the most fossiliferous rock layer in the Athens area, for class field trips and projects. This unit preserves skeletal remains of marine animals—corals, snails, brachiopods, trilobites, sharks— that inhabited a shallow sea that covered Athens about 300 million […]

Snails may be physically rather slow, but the six new species identified by Ohio University researchers put on plenty of evolutionary speed when they had to. Ohio University paleontologists analyzing snail fossils from 24 to 26 million years ago have identified six new species—and published the first documentation of rapid […]

Dr. Daniel Hembree, Professor of Geological Sciences, and former graduate student Jennifer Carnes M.S. ’17 recently published “Response of soils and soil ecosystems to the Pennsylvanian–Permian climate transition in the upper fluvial plain of the Dunkard Basin, southeastern Ohio, USA” in the open access journal Geosciences. In this study, Hembree […]

Ohio University paleontologists Drs. Alycia Stigall and Daniel Hembree, both professors of Geological Sciences, presented at the 5th International Paleontological Congress in Paris (IPC5), France in July. The IPC5 is the largest gathering of professional paleontologists globally, and this meeting included more than 1,000 participants from around the world. All […]

Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak, Professor of English at Ohio University, is a guest editor of Aporias of Foreignness: Transnational Encounters in Cinema (Special Issue of Transnational Cinemas 9:1 2018). The other guest co-editor is Dr. Bruce Bennett of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Abstract: This introduction examines the meaning of foreignness, drawing […]

Dr. Martin Mohlenkamp, Associate Professor of Mathematics, is an associate editor for the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications contains research articles in matrix analysis and its applications and papers of interest to the numerical linear algebra community. Applications include such areas […]

Dr. Gary Edward Holcomb, Professor of African American Studies, authored a book being released on Sept. 11 titled Teaching Hemingway and Race. “Teaching Hemingway and Race provides a practicable means for teaching the subject of race in Hemingway’s writing and related texts—from how to approach ethnic, nonwhite international, and tribal characters […]