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Seven Biology Students Receive Student Enhancement Awards

Brian Waldron

From Research Communications Seven Biological Sciences students are among the 2020 recipients of the Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards program, which provided 21 students with a total of $121,948 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work this spring. The Student Enhancement Awards are funded by the Office […]

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March 29, 2020 at 9:44 amResearch

Biologists Report 6% of Bobcat Population Killed Annually on Ohio Roads

A bobcat is spotted by one of the researchers’ camera traps.

From Ohio University News Up to 6 percent of Ohio’s bobcat population may be killed on roadways each year, say Ohio University researchers in a new study. And getting the felines not to cross busy roads is not an easy mitigation. Dr. Viorel Popescu and graduate and undergraduate researchers in […]

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March 4, 2020 at 3:00 pmResearch

CANCELED | Ecolunch | Is There Really a Prince Underneath that Frog? April 22

Cassandra Thompson

Note: This event has been canceled. Ecolunch presents Cassandra Thompson discussing “Is there really a prince underneath that frog?” on April 22 from 11:50 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Irvine 159. Thompson is a graduate student in Biological Sciences “broadly interested in amphibian responses to climate change. Her current research […]

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March 2, 2020 at 11:00 amEvents

Ecolunch | Den Masters, Deployment, Declining Populations: Evaluating the Recovery and Persistence of Eastern Hellbender, Feb. 26

Three students hip-deep in the search for hellbenders. From left, Christine Hanson, Matt Kaunert, and a high school student from Penta Career Center.

Ecolunch presents Matthew Kaunert discussing “Den Masters, Deployment, and Declining Populations: Evaluating the Recovery and Persistence of the Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus a. alleganiensis) in Ohio and Pennsylvania” on Feb. 26 from 11:50 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Irvine 159. Kaunert is a graduate student in Biological Sciences. His adviser is […]

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February 1, 2020 at 5:45 pmEvents

Marissa Dyck Works to Preserve Bobcat Roadkill Specimens

Marissa Dyck Works to Preserve Bobcat Roadkill Specimens

By Kaitlyn Lyons Bobcats have been locally extinct for about 100 years due to over-harvesting and loss of habitat, but they have recently started to recover throughout the state of Ohio. More and more people have started seeing them in their backyards or killed on roadways. Ohio University graduate student […]

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January 7, 2020 at 4:21 pmResearch

Popescu Says Romania Doesn’t Know Actual Bear Population

Dr. Viorel Popescu

The Phnom Penh Post quotes Dr. Viorel Popescu in an AFP wire story headlined “In bear country Romania, cohabitation grows strenuous.” Popescu is Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. Romania is thought to have more than 6,000 brown bears spread across about 30 per cent of the country […]

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January 2, 2020 at 8:04 amFaculty in the News In the News

AFP Quotes Popescu about Bear Population in Romania

Dr. Viorel Popescu

Agence France-Presse quotes Dr. Viorel Popescu in a story published by Yahoo News headlined “In bear country Romania, cohabitation grows strenuous.” Popescu is Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. But environmentalists say the government doesn’t even come close to knowing the actual number. “The methodology used by the […]

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November 7, 2019 at 4:19 pmFaculty in the News In the News