Post Tagged with: "Faculty Research"

Chemistry graduate students Susil Baral and Ali Rafiei Miandashti co-authored an article in the journal Nanoscale with their adviser, Dr. Hugh Richardson, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University. The article, “Near-field thermal imaging of optically excited gold nanostructures: scaling principles for collective heating with heat dissipation into the […]

Dr. Thomas Vander Ven presented a paper on “Making a Scene: Sociological Observations on the use of Dramaturgical Strategies to Reduce Sexual Victimization Risk on Campus” at the Southern Criminal Justice Association conference in New Orleans this fall. Vander Ven is Professor of Sociology at Ohio University. The Southern Criminal […]

Dr. Gary Holcomb, Professor of African American Literature, edited pedagogical collection on Teaching Hemingway and Race. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2018). Appearing in the Kent State University Press “Teaching Hemingway” series, the collection suggests ways for high school and college instructors to teach Hemingway’s writings apropos issues of racial, […]

  Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, received Baker Fund support of $11,115 for his research on “Social Conflict and Institution Building in the Making of Post-Colonial Lebanon, 1943-1955.” The John C. Baker Fund awarded a total of $43,022 to four faculty proposals for research, scholarship and creative work […]

Adelaide Kruse and Dr. Katherine Cimatu contributed to an article “Engineered silica nanoparticles interact differently with lipid monolayers compared to lipid bilayers” that appeared on the cover of Environmental Science: Nano. Kruse is a Chemistry undergraduate student in the Honors Tutorial College, and Cimatu is Assistant Professor of Chemistry and […]

The Ohio University Research Committee selected five faculty proposals, including three College of Arts & Sciences faculty, for funding during its fall 2017 cycle. In total, the committee awarded $38,852. The program, which is funded by the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity, provides seed money for new faculty […]

Dr. Jessica White, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, published several articles on her research in the photophysics and photochemistry of transition metal complexes with applications in photodynamic therapy and photochemotherapy. Both types of therapy provide less invasive and more localized treatment of diseases such as cancer and bacterial infections. […]