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By Amanda Biederman When facing complex problems, it’s often best to consider simplified perspectives. In the labs of Biological Sciences professors Dr. Daewoo Lee and Dr. Robert Colvin, student researchers are studying the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease using a comparatively simple animal model: the fruit fly. Sazan Ismael, a doctoral […]

By Amanda Biederman Rare diseases are often understudied, but Honors Tutorial College Neuroscience student Samantha Selhorst is working to characterize the pathology of arteriovenous malformation (AVM) under the direction of Biological Sciences professor Dr. Corinne Nielsen. Selhorst was recently awarded first prize for her thesis work in the undergraduate competition […]

by Kristin Distel More than 40 alumni and guest speakers brought high school students in the Summer Law & Trial Institute face-to-face with legal issues from today’s headlines—and even a mock trial. Twenty high school students from Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia were selected from among a pool of almost […]

Babz Jewell ’14, who is finishing her M.A. in Sociology this summer, recently started as a user experience researcher, content strategist, and tech writer for Rewired UX, a user experience design studio in Atlanta. Rewired’s founder, Sophia V. Prater, developed her own methodology for designing User Experiences. In her role, […]

Adelaide “Addy” Kruse ’19, an Honors Tutorial College undergraduate student, and Dr. Katherine Cimatu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, presented at the 92nd ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symposium at Penn State University in June. Kruse gave a very impressive talk on her recent work about […]

The Ohio University Honors Tutorial College recently selected Dr. Kevin Uhalde, Associate Professor of History, as one of the recipients of the 2017-18 Distinguished Mentor Award. This honor recognizes “faculty tutors whose work as thesis directors not only produces outstanding HTC thesis projects but also creates exceptional mentoring relationships.” During the 2017-18 […]

Ryan Yavorsky presented research on tau protein and its role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease at the Ohio Osteopathic Symposium held April 27 in Columbus. Yavorsky is a second-year medical student in Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and has worked in the lab of Dr. Robert Colvin, […]