Research

Biology graduate student Alayna Tokash presented a poster on diamondback terrapin reproduction at the annual Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in San Francisco in January. Her poster was titled “Within and among year variation in reproductive output from two populations of the diamond-backed terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin.” Tokash is a […]

From Research Communications Ohio University graduate students will test how well they can describe their research or creative work to the general public during the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. Seven College of Arts & Sciences students are participating in the semi-finals: Semi-final round – Tuesday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m. […]

Biological Sciences graduate student James Nassif is presenting preliminary data regarding the morphology and physiology of the middle-ear conduction apparatus in both extinct and extant reptiles at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology’s Midwinter Meeting in San Diego from Feb. 9-14. The ARO meeting features cutting-edge basic and clinical research […]

By Kelli Baxstrom ’19 Geological Sciences M.S. Candidate Every few weekends, Geological Sciences Chair Dr. Greg Springer and I travel to the West Virginia Association for Cave Studies near Lewisburg, WV, to go caving. Although spending the weekend underground can be both fun and adventurous, our main objective is to […]

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate student Marcel Weigand’s research shows positive news for Eastern box turtles whose habitat was bisected by construction of the U.S. 33 bypass through the Wayne National Forest. “In 2013, the Wayne National Forest in southeastern Ohio was bisected by a high-traffic, high-speed highway, affecting a road-naïve […]

Dr. Brett Peters was the lead author on a study of “Partners’ attachment insecurity predicts greater physiological threat in anticipation of attachment-relevant interactions” published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Peters is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio University. Abstract: This study examined whether anticipating interacting with a […]

Micah McCrary, a doctoral candidate in creative writing, has recently published an essay in The Rumpus, an online journal that features original poetry, essays, reviews, comics, and interviews. McCrary’s essay, “Becoming Bodies,” chronicles the writer’s long romance with a woman he met in high school. Together, they explore the challenges […]