Post Tagged with: "research"

Vander Ven, Alumni Present on Race, Rape and Crime Reporting

Dr. Thomas Vander Ven

Dr. Thomas Vander Ven, Professor of Sociology, chaired a panel on Media, Publicity, and Perceptions of Crime and presented “Race, Serial Rape, and Crime Reporting” with Ohio University alumni Lauren Wright ’10 &  ’14 and Clara Fesmire ’13 & ’15 at the Southern Criminal Justice Conference in September in Charleston, […]

Read more ›
October 28, 2015 at 1:17 pmAlumni Research

Chemistry Researchers Team with Merck, Observe Long-Sought Palladium Reaction Intermediates

Graphic Abstract of Capture of Reactive Monophosphine Ligated
Palladium(0) Intermediates by Mass Spectrometry

Ohio University researchers and co-authors from Merck Research Laboratories authored a just-released article on “Capture of Reactive Monophosphine Ligated Palladium(0) Intermediates by Mass Spectrometry” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. “This study for the first time presents the detection of the reactive monophosphine ligated Pd0L intermediate by MS, […]

Read more ›
October 27, 2015 at 12:19 pmResearch

From the Rain Forest to the Prairie: Student Tracks Conservation Efforts

Geography graduate student Steven Richardson. Photo credit: Jean Andrews/Ohio University.

By Jean Andrews From Ohio University Research Communications Working in the dense rain forest of the Congo one summer and the humid semi-arid North Dakota grasslands the next, Steven Richardson assisted national and international groups with their land conservation efforts. Analyzing Deforestation in the African Congo Richardson, an Ohio University […]

Read more ›
October 27, 2015 at 11:41 amResearch

Vancouver Hosts NSF-Sponsored Conference for Organizational Researchers

Dr. Coen (on right, second from the left) works with students on computer coding for agent-based model.

Experienced and novice computational modelers converged in Athens on Oct. 23-25 for a conference and workshop focused on computational modeling strategies for organizational science. Hosted by Dr. Jeffrey B. Vancouver, Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Ohio University, this three-day conference was supported by a National Science Foundation grant from the […]

Read more ›
October 26, 2015 at 6:00 pmNews Research

Richard Co-Authors Book on Latin American Political Culture

Richard Co-Authors Book on Latin American Political Culture

Dr. Patricia Richard, Professor Emerita of Political Science at Ohio University, co-authored a book on Latin American Political Culture: Public Opinion and Democracy with John A. Booth (2015 CQ Press, an imprint of Sage Publications). Abstract: Latin American Political Culture: Public Opinion and Democracy presents a genuinely pan-Latin American examination of […]

Read more ›
October 14, 2015 at 3:07 pmResearch

Anderson Hosts Awards Banquet, Presents at ASA and Rural Sociological Society

Dr. Cynthia Anderson

Dr. Cynthia Anderson, Associate Professor of Sociology, served as presider and discussant for the American Sociological Association conference session “Rural Contexts as Spaces of Inequality, Power & Identity” in August. The American Sociological Association annual meeting provides the opportunity for professionals involved in the scientific study of society to share […]

Read more ›
October 12, 2015 at 11:42 amResearch

Kessler at TECH Ed: Leverage Emerging Technologies for Meaningful Learning

Dr. Greg Kessler at Washington State University TECH Ed

Dr. Greg Kessler, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio University, spoke about leveraging emerging technologies for meaningful authentic learning experiences at the second TECH-Ed Conference hosted by Washington State University in early October. “We live in a world with varied emerging technologies and contexts in which we can practice communicating […]

Read more ›
October 6, 2015 at 10:52 amResearch