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Ohio University alum Fred Hill ’98 earned a biology degree, left grad school, joined a band, started his own furniture firm–and ended up on a reality TV show, reports the Akron Beacon Journal. Hill earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences Pre-Med from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio […]

Ohio University alum Joshua Cassidy ’01 is a Multimedia Producer for KQED Science and and the Lead Producer for the Deep Look series. His latest production, “The Fantastic Fur of Sea Otters,” shows why California sea otters frolicking in the chilly Pacific need the densest fur of any mammal on […]

From Compass Ten Ohio University students and one faculty member have received funding from three new research awards programs supported by a gift from John and Char Kopchick and contributions from five academic colleges and administrative units. The scientists received a total of more than $79,000 in grants and fellowships […]

By Angelita Faller Forty-nine million years ago, a freshwater bird known as Limnofregata azygosternon lived in the ancient lakes of what is now Wyoming. Leaving behind only a few skeletons, it is hard to imagine how this extinct bird once looked and lived. Thanks to the research of Ryan Felice, […]

Ohio University alum Charles Greenberg ’03 has been named the supervising pharmacist at a new store in Cheektowaga, NY, by Reliant Medical Equipment & Pharmacy, a division of the McGuire Group Pharmacy Corp., reports the Cheektowaga Bee. Greenberg earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the College of Arts & […]

“Armored dinosaurs breathed through ‘Krazy Straws,’” LiveScience reporter Stephanie Pappas writes about a presentation by Ohio University Biological Sciences doctoral student Jason Bourke. The dinosaurs lacked respiratory turbinates, structures in the nasal cavity that warm and humidify the air coming in, and had to find a new way to do […]

The fourth annual Ohio University/John Carrol University Herpetology Symposium took place Nov. 7-9. The symposium rotates between the two universities, and this year John Carrol University hosted it. “This has been a wonderful exchange between the universities, with nearly 50 participants,” says Dr. Shawn Kuchta, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. […]