Research

A new study conducted by Dr. Tadeusz Malinski and Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students suggests that a little more sunlight might help restore damage to your cardiovascular system. Malinski’s study was featured in Forbes, Study examines Vitamin D3’s potential effects on blood vessels, and other media outlets. The study shows […]

English Language Improvement Program faculty contributed to The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, published by Wiley-Blackwell and edited by Dr. Greg Kessler in the Patton College of Education. The contributors include Dr. Dawn Bikowski, ELIP Director; Dr. Joseph Lee, Assistant Director of ELIP; Dr. Lara Wallace, and Dr. Edna Lima. In […]

Dr. Paula Miller, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presents with Dr. Bridget E. Weller, Associate Professor at Western Michigan University School of Social Work, on “Using Bourdieu ’s Theory of Capital to Develop Profiles of Class: An Application to Race and Depression” at the Eastern Sociological Society in February. The purpose […]

Dr. Nancy Tatarek, Associate Professor of Anthropology, presented a paper she co-authored with Ohio University alumni Alison Harper ’19, Abigail Guerra ’18 and Dorothy E. Dean titled “Understanding Historical Death Records: A Case Study from Ohio” at the November meeting of the Social Science History Association. She also served on […]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a focus of the discussion in Dr. Alyssa Bernstein’s forthcoming article, “Civil Disobedience: Towards a Kantian Conception.” The article’s publication in March 2018 will coincide with the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination on April 4th, 1968. Bernstein’s article will be published in an anthology about Kant’s […]

By Dawn Bikowski Director of the English Language Improvement Program Ohio University faculty traveled to Ecuador in December as part of a research and community capacity-building project involving local agro-biodiversity and food sovereignty in two regions—Southeastern Ohio and the Andes outside of Quito. The project, “Facilitating & Sharing International Community-Based […]

A new research article appearing in Materials Today includes a contribution from Dr. Anthony Stender titled “High stiffness polymer composite with tunable transparency.” The paper characterizes the properties of a composite polymer under changing temperature conditions, and the work was for a project led by Pulickel Ajayan and Chandra Sekhar […]