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Dr. Sarah Wyatt waited for it—the simple phrase that would signal one small step for Arabidopsis, one big step for mankind’s knowledge of how plants respond to gravity. “Ready for the science,” said the Kennedy Space Center engineer on July 9. Dr. Darren Luesse handed the engineer a small petri dish […]

Biological Sciences graduate student Danny D’Amore presented “Maternal Environment Influences Development of Behavioral Syndrome in Swordtail Fish, Xiphophorus multilineatus” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. His co-authors were Oscar Rios-Cardenas of the Instituto de Ecología in Mexico and Dr. […]

Two Ohio University master’s students and an undergraduate student in Geological Sciences were recognized as having received Geological Society of America research grants. Michael Blair and James Brown , both graduate students, were named in the July 2014 issue of GSA Today. Blair joined Dr. Daniel Hembree’s Ichnology Research Lab […]

Dr. R. Damian Nance, Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, has been named a Geological Society of America Fellow. Society Fellowship is an honor bestowed on the best of the profession by election at the spring GSA Council meeting. GSA members are nominated by existing GSA Fellows in […]

By Gretchen Gregory From Compass Situated on the southern side of the Ohio University campus is one of Athens hidden gems, a place where students can experience research about nature through a mix of wildlife, sweeping prairie grasslands, rolling hills, forested land, valleys and ravines. Of the 740 acres that […]

The African Studies Department welcomes Dr. Bayyinah Jeffries as the newest faculty team member. Jeffries earned a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Her research focuses on African American social movements, women’s history, as well as Black Nationalism and expressions of identity. She will be teaching AAS 3450 The Black Woman […]

From the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and re-printed in R&D magazine Using two thin, tiny gold nanorods 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, researchers have succeeded in creating an adjustable filter for so-called circularly polarized light. The crucial factor for how the system absorbs light is the […]