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Biological Sciences graduate student Vincent Farallo presented a paper on “Exploring Below the Undergrowth: The Role of Microhabitat in the  Evolutionary Ecology of Plethodontid Salamanders” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. His co-author was Dr. Donald Miles, Professor of Biological […]

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. […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented “Plant gravitropic signal transduction: A network analysis leads to gene discovery” on a panel on Metabolism Related to Gravitropism at the 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Moscow, Russia. She also chaired a panel on Weightlessness and Hypergravity. The Wyatt Lab […]

Behavioral and Organizational Approaches Lead the Way A careful review of talk therapies for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by Dr. Steve Evans, Dr. Julie Sarno Owens, and graduate student Nora Bunford from Ohio University’s Psychology Department concluded that, among talk therapies, behavioral approaches and organizational interventions have the strongest […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, published a study of “An Interstate Analysis of Right to Work Laws” along with co-author Jonathan Robe. Their article is part of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s The High Cost of Big Labor series, which analyzes and compares the economic impact of […]

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 […]

Two Ohio University physicists co-authored a July 6 article on Nature Materials on “Reconfigurable 3D plasmonic metamolecules.” Dr. Alexander Govorov, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, and Dr. Hui Zhang, a post-doctoral researcher, were co-authors along with four others: Anton Kurzk and Na Liu, of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems […]