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The Steps to Medical School: An Application Workshop Series

Students planning to take the MCAT and apply this year are welcome to join The Steps to Medical School: An Application Workshop Series, which is scheduled to meet each Friday throughout February, from noon-1 p.m. Learn about everything involved in applying to medical school, from the MCAT to the Interview. […]

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January 28, 2016 at 4:11 pmAnnouncements

Five A&S Faculty Part of Innovation Grant to Monitor Fracking Impact

Five A&S Faculty Part of Innovation Grant to Monitor Fracking Impact

Five College of Arts & Sciences faculty are collaborators on a newly funded Ohio University Innovation Strategy project that will help monitor hydraulic fracturing and the water supply in Torch, OH. Called the “Partnership for Digitally Connected Environmental Monitoring,” this project unites environmental science with journalism and public outreach initiatives. The planning […]

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January 7, 2016 at 10:48 amNews

Day Authors ‘Neural Population Encoding and Decoding of Sound Source Location Across Sound Level in the Rabbit Inferior Colliculus’

Dr. Mitchell Day

Dr. Mitchell Day, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, co-authored an article on “Neural population encoding and decoding of sound source location across sound level in the rabbit inferior colliculus” in the Journal of Neurophysiology. (21 October 2015 Vol. no. , DOI: 10.1152/jn.00643.2015) His co-author was Bertrand Delgutte. Abstract: At lower […]

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January 5, 2016 at 1:31 pmResearch

Biology Undergrad Gets Kopchick Award for Obesity, Gene Expression in Mice

Caroline Wilson, Kimberly Kraus, and Emma Kessler pose for a photo with John Kopchick after recieving their John J. Kopchick Molecular and Cellular Biology Translational Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Student Support Fund awards in Nelson Commons, on Saturday, November 14, 2015. Photo by Kaitlin Owens.

Undergraduate student Jesse Kowalski ’16, majoring in Microbiology with a minor in Applied Nutrition, received one of the 2015 John J. Kopchick Awards for research at Ohio University. The John J. Kopchick Molecular and Cellular Biology/Translational Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Student Support Fund provides up to $1,500 for undergraduate students working with MCB/TBS […]

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November 24, 2015 at 11:25 amResearch

Biology Grad Student Gets Kopchick Fellowship Award

Debra Walter, Elizabeth Jensen, Alison Brittain, Ian Ackers, and Ashley Patton pose for a photo with Dr. John Kopchick after recieving their John J. Kopchick Molecular and Cellular Biology Translational Biomedical Sciences Research Fellowship Award. Photo by Kaitlin Owens.

Debra Walter, a Ph.D. student in Biological Sciences, received $15,000 as part of the 2015 John J. Kopchick fellowship awards for her work on :“Renal signatures of coxsackievirus infection and diabetes in non-obese diabetic mice.” Her faculty mentor is  Karen Coschigano Project Title: “Renal signatures of coxsackievirus infection and diabetes […]

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November 24, 2015 at 11:01 amResearch

Carroll Part of Kopchick Award for Microbiota Research

Dr. Ronan Carroll

Dr. Ronan Carroll, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, is part of a team awarded one of the 2015 John J. Kopchick Awards for research at Ohio University. The $10,000 award from the John J. Kopchick Molecular and Cellular Biology and Translational Biomedical Sciences Faculty Support Fund is for faculty for […]

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November 24, 2015 at 10:46 amResearch

Biology Alum Leads Copper Firm’s Health, Environment and Sustainable Development Program

Ohio University alum Carrie Claytor has been chosen to lead Copper Development Association’s Health, Environment and Sustainable Development program, reports roofingmagazine.com. The Copper Development Association Inc. is the market development, engineering and information services arm of the copper industry, chartered to enhance and expand markets for copper and its alloys in North America. […]

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November 17, 2015 at 11:18 amAlumni in the News In the News