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OHIO Researchers Manipulate Materials to Harness Novel Properties

Natalia Cortés [Photo by Jean Andrews/Ohio University]

By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern Many researchers are currently interested in creating composite materials that are composed of two-dimensional atomic monolayers. A team of Ohio University researchers and their collaborators recently generated a theoretical model of one such system, describing the interactions between two drastically different materials. They described […]

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February 25, 2019 at 10:14 pmResearch

Harrington Editorial Introduces Importance of AI, Intelligent Chemical Instruments

Dr. Peter de B. Harrington

Dr. Peter de B. Harrington, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, wrote an editorial for the special issue on New Frontiers in Chemometrics that he guest edited for the Journal of Analysis and Testing. His article “Chemometrics in the Age of Intelligent Chemical Instruments” notes that “we are presently living through […]

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February 25, 2019 at 9:36 amResearch

Wyatt: ‘Research Is Fun. We Do This Because We’re Curious.’

Dr. Sarah Wyatt

 Video by Ohio University Communications and Marketing How do plants grow in response to gravity—on Earth and in space? Dr. Sarah Wyatt is Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, director of the Molecular and Cellular Biology program, and a Presidential Research Scholar at Ohio University. In “Research Moment,” Wyatt […]

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February 25, 2019 at 8:03 amNews Research

White Gives Invited Talk at Inter-American Photochemical Society

Jessica White

Dr. Jessica White, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, gave an invited talk titled “Photoactivated Ru(II), Mn(I) Bimetallic Complexes for CO Release and Singlet Oxygen Production” at the 28th Inter-American Photochemical Society winter meeting Jan. 2-5 in Sarasota, Fla. “The IAPS has been established to promote and disseminate knowledge, and […]

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February 23, 2019 at 2:04 pmResearch

Vancouver Co-Authors Article on Equity Crowdfunding Decisions and Self-Efficacy

Dr. Jeffrey Vancouver

Dr. Jeffrey B. Vancouver co-authored “Out of control or right on the money? Funder self-efficacy and crowd bias in equity crowdfunding” in the Journal of Business Venturing. The work also was featured in Science Magazine in an article headlined “Believing in yourself can backfire when investing in equity crowdfunded ventures.” “In a […]

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February 21, 2019 at 4:20 pmFaculty in the News In the News Research

Sandal Authors ‘Politics of Regime Mainstreaming: Knowledge Production and the Institutionalization of Islamic Finance’

Dr. Nukhet Sandal. Photo by Ben Siegel

Dr. Nukhet Sandal, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Global Studies, authored an article on “The Politics of Regime Mainstreaming: Knowledge Production and the Institutionalization of Islamic Finance” in Politics and Religion, the official journal of the Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Abstract: […]

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February 19, 2019 at 8:16 amResearch

Alumni News | Gorscak Co-Authors Discovery of New Dinosaur with Heart-Shaped Tail

Dr. Pat O'Connor (left) and Dr. Eric Gorscak work in their lab at Ohio documenting fossil discoveries.

 Ohio University alumnus Dr. Eric Gorscak and Dr. Patrick O’Connor just published new exciting fossil discoveries from eastern Africa in PLOS ONE.  Gorscak is currently a research associate at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and new assistant professor at the Midwestern University in Downers Grove, just […]

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February 18, 2019 at 10:27 amAlumni Research