Archive for July, 2017

By Raymond Humienny NQPI editorial intern Biological Sciences Ph.D. student and the Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute’s editorial intern Amanda Biederman has spent the past three months at Palmer Station, Antarctica, studying fish and their warming climate – though this is not her first time. “Since this is my second […]

Dr. Rosemary Rossiter recently was named Professor Emerita of Economics by the Ohio University Board of Trustees. Rossiter has been a member of the Economics Department at Ohio University for 34 years. “She has distinguished herself as a teacher, mentor, and researcher. She has also made major contributions to the […]

  By Elahu Gosney Sustarsic ’03 B.S. in Chemistry—Biochemistry and ’13 Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology—Biological Sciences My time at Ohio University with the Molecular and Cellular Biology program prepared me well for my current research. Specifically, the mentorship of John Kopchick, Darlene Berryman and Ed List taught me […]

By Daniel Kington From the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs Two Ohio University research teams were selected for the third I-Corps@Ohio cohort and are currently in the midst of the seven-week program as they work to validate the market potential of their proposed technologies and learn about launching startup companies. […]

Dr. Myrna Perez Sheldon co-authored a chapter in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology, edited by John Hart. (John Wiley & Sons, 2017). She and co-author Naomi Oreskes wrote a chapter titled “The Religious Politics of Scientific Doubt: Evangelical Christians and Environmentalism in the United States.” Sheldon is […]

Dr. Myrna Perez Sheldon authored an article on “Wild at Heart: How Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology Helped Influence the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity in American Evangelicalism” in the Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Sheldon is Assistant Professor of Gender and American Religion, jointly appointed in two departments, […]

The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) interviewed Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, about “Sectarianism in Lebanon.” Drawing on his current book project on Lebanon during the 1940s and ’50s, Abu-Rish outlines a complex picture of the emergence and transformation of sectarianism in Lebanon across the modern era. […]