Post Tagged with: "Biological Sciences research"

Saving the World, One Turtle at a Time

Terrapin photo by Willem Roosenburg in Maryland

Roosenburg Co-Edits ‘Ecology and Conservation of the Diamond-Backed Terrapin’ By Kelly Shockley ’19 Dr. Willem Roosenburg, Professor of Biological Sciences co-edited and co-authored several chapters in a recently published book titled Ecology and Conservation of the Diamond-Backed Terrapin (Johns Hopkins University Press). His co-editor was Victor S. Kennedy. In 19 […]

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April 23, 2019 at 6:28 pmNews Research

Keogh Chooses Ph.D. Program for Research Opportunities, Faculty Mentoring

Keogh Chooses Ph.D. Program for Research Opportunities, Faculty Mentoring

By Kelly Shockley ’19 In her past few years at Ohio University, Biological Sciences graduate student Rebecca Keogh has been a part of a lab that studies bacterial pathogenesis, with a specialization in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). As one of the leading hospital acquired infections that are becoming increasingly […]

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April 23, 2019 at 6:13 pmResearch

Keogh Receives 2019-20 Donald Clippinger Graduate Fellowship

Rebecca Keogh works in the lab.

Biological Sciences graduate student Rebecca Keogh was recently named the 2019-20 recipient of the Donald Clippinger Graduate Fellowship awarded by the Graduate College at Ohio University. Keogh is a microbiology graduate student in Biological Sciences working under the mentorship of Dr. Ronan Carroll, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio […]

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April 18, 2019 at 4:32 pmResearch

Williams Honored as 2019 Outstanding Cutler Scholars Mentor

Dr. Kelly Williams

  Dr. Kelly Williams, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, was recently selected as one of 17 outstanding mentors by the Cutler Scholars in the graduating class of 2019. Williams is a graduate of Ohio University and teaches several upper-level courses that are required of several BIOS majors: BIOS 3030 (Comparative vertebrate […]

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April 17, 2019 at 2:45 pmAlumni News

Happy Beginnings | Cones Awarded NSF Fellowship, Plans for Ph.D.

Seth Cones

  Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Biological Sciences alum Seth Cones ’18 was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Cones earned a B.S.in Biological Sciences – Marine, Freshwater […]

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April 17, 2019 at 2:06 pmAlumni

Biological Sciences & MCB Graduate Students Contribute to Patent Development

Pratik Shriwas

Previous and current Biological Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate students contributed, as part of their Ph.D. dissertations, to supporting research for two patents received by Ohio University faculty. Ohio University honored faculty, staff and student inventors during an awards ceremony Feb. 21. The Inventors Dinner recognized individuals who […]

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April 17, 2019 at 12:10 pmAlumni Research

HTC and Biological Sciences Thesis Presentations, April 2019

The Biological Sciences Department announces a series of thesis presentations by Honors Tutorial College and biology students in April 2019. Anika Friedman (HTC Neuroscience) presents “A Computational Model of Neurofilament Kinetics Relating to Axonal Caliber Growth and the Neurofilament Slowing Phenomenon” on Thursday, April 11, from 5 to 6 p.m. […]

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April 1, 2019 at 9:30 pmEvents In Class Research