Archive for March, 2014

Gondwana. Rodinia. Nuna. Kenorland. Vaalbara. They sound like other worlds. They likely represent the past of this world. The introduction of plate tectonics 45 years ago was one of the scientific revelations of the 20th century. German meteorologist Alfred Wegener is given credit for hypothesizing in 1912 that today’s continents […]

The Earth’s climate has gone from Greenhouse to Hothouse more than dozen times this eon. Each time, researchers say, magma brought the heat. Dr. David L. Kidder is helping to characterize the Hothouse planetary state by studying times when the Earth’s deep-level plumbing system sent large volumes of magma to […]

The Herbert L. Baer Prize, designed to recognize excellence and achievement in multi- or cross-disciplinary thinking, is open to all Ohio University undergraduate students. The $1,000 prize is awarded yearly to one Ohio University undergraduate student, based on an essay submitted to the Honors Tutorial College. Essay guidelines and instructions […]

Above the soil, trees and crops are dining on carbon dioxide—even grabbing more than scientists originally expected from the atmosphere. They might suck some of that carbon into their roots, or lay it down upon the soil as they wither with winter. While one Ohio University researcher is studying how […]

“We’re trying to figure out who killed the broccoli” is Dr. Carolee Bull’s usual, tongue-in-cheek response to what her team is involved in, writes The Californian reporter Robert Walch. In other words, this is a “CSI” lab for the vegetable world. But although the work done here is important and […]

The American Society of Plant Biologists Midwestern Section annual meeting in Columbus on March 22-23. Doctoral student Wen Dong and undergraduate student researchers Avery Tucker, Megan Moore, Sean Fenstemaker, and  Tayler DeBrosse won awards for their presentations. Avery E. Tucker, an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Wyatt Lab, won Best […]

By Dr. Saw Wai Hla, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University Viewpoint Published in Physics Guitar strings, pendulums in clocks, and quartz crystals in watches are all examples of resonators. As their name suggests, resonators oscillate most strongly at specific frequencies (resonant frequencies), which depend on properties such as […]