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When it comes to running, there’s a gender gap between men and women that even elite training doesn’t erase. “Why are most women, on average, slower than men?” asks Runner’s World in the April 2015 edition. “At every distance up to the marathon, the gap between men’s and women’s world […]

National Geographic quotes Ohio University’s Ashley Morhardt, a doctoral student in Biological Sciences, in a story on “How Did Long-Necked Dinosaurs Drink Without Getting Dizzy?” Morhardt has been studying Dr. Larry Witmer’s anatomy lab for five years and will be graduating this summer. Many of us have gotten dizzy when […]

Ellie Koewler ’15 Dr. Ronan Carroll, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, talked Feb. 4 to Anthropology students about his research in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA. When Dr. Sabrina Curran learned about his research, she realized that it had direct application for her Biological Anthropology course (ANTH2010) […]

Northern Nevada Business Weekly reports that Ohio University biology alum Kristin Astrom ’00, ’11DO “has joined Saint Mary’s Medical Group’s Ion Drive office in Spanish Springs as a family medicine physician.” Dr. Astrom served as a genetic counselor at Saint Mary’s Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine for five years and […]

“Toads prefer to bound, not hop,” says Science News Wild Things writer Sarah Zielinski about research by Dr. Stephen Reilly, Professor of Biological Science at Ohio University. If I were to write a children’s book, it might start like this: Hop, hop, hop, went the frog. Bound, bound, bound, goes […]

Dr. Willem Roosenburg, Professor of Biological Sciences, is part of an Ohio University team awarded a three-year, $600,000 federally funded research contract form the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) to monitor traffic safety and the effectiveness of wildlife preservation efforts along the new U.S. Route 33 Nelsonville Bypass. The 8.5-mile, […]

The John C. Baker Fund and the Ohio University Research Committee awarded $95,175 total to 10 faculty proposals for research, scholarship and creative work during fall semester. Three College of Arts & Sciences faculty are among the recipients. Both internal awards programs now are accepting proposals for the spring cycle […]