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Shiyong Wu lab showcases student, alumna researchers at American Society for Photobiology meeting

Shiyong Wu lab showcases student, alumna researchers at American Society for Photobiology meeting

Shiyong Wu took one graduate student, three undergraduate students and an OHIO alumna to the American Society for Photobiology meeting this fall to showcase the types of research that Ohio University students are doing on ultraviolet exposure and basal cell skin cancer. Wu, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of […]

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November 16, 2022 at 9:25 amResearch

Cassandra Thompson shows danger to frogs from pesticide, but points out a solution

A recently metamorphosed wood frog. Photo by Cassie Thompson.A recently metamorphosed wood frog. Photo by Cassie Thompson.

From Ohio University News Ohio University graduate student Cassandra Thompson’s research highlights the need to understand the tradeoffs of using pesticides on invasive species and the effects on vulnerable species such as amphibians. Her article on “Carryover effects of pesticide exposure and pond drying on performance, behavior, and sex ratios […]

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August 31, 2022 at 12:27 pmNews Research

Damian Nance book provides new chapters on history of Earth

Damian Nance (right) with colleagues (left to right) Brendan Murphy (Canada), Rob Strachan (U.K.) and Cecilio Quesada (Spain) in 2005 examining an outcrop in the Ural Mountains of Russia that shows almost identical relationships to those in the northern Appalachians, the U.K., and western Europe.

  From Ohio University News Twenty-five years ago, a book by two geology professors described an amazing history of the world, a cycle of mountains rising and continents colliding. Now Damian Nance and Margaret Thompson bring together scientists from around the world in a new book—with new scientific insights that […]

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August 12, 2022 at 12:44 pmNews Research

Physics Ph.D. student wins Best Speaker Award at international conference in Spain

Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos

From Ohio University News Physics doctoral student Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos received a prestigious Best Speaker Award at a large international conference in Spain for her talk describing hot-electron generation of nanoparticles. “I had presented a poster and given a virtual talk at other international conferences before. However, this was […]

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August 5, 2022 at 9:14 amNews Research

Moran and Bell research British tearooms, where a hunger for rural past meant opportunities for women

David Bell and Theresa Moran at conference

From Ohio University News At conferences in Ireland and Italy this summer, Theresa Moran and David Bell presented two views of the 1930s British pastime of rambling about the countryside — one from the perspective of nostalgic and hungry day hikers, and the other from the entrepreneurial women who responded […]

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August 1, 2022 at 11:14 amNews Research

Yeong Kim studies Japan’s bid to host the 2030 Olympics, spends summer at Chubu

Yeong Kim studies Japan’s bid to host the 2030 Olympics, spends summer at Chubu

From Ohio University News As Japan awaits a decision on whether its city of Sapporo will get to host the 2030 Winter Olympics, Yeong-Hyun Kim spent the summer in Japan researching both the lure and the urban impact of being an Olympic venue. “After the pandemic-marred Tokyo 2020, you would assume […]

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July 28, 2022 at 2:21 pmNews Research

Carey Snyder’s take on ‘Ann Veronica’ by H.G. Wells provides window to discuss women’s lives today

Dr. Carey Snyder

From Ohio University News If today’s social issues are but a moment in time on the trajectory of human development, then literature is not just a window to the past, but also a way to discuss the present. Ohio University Professor Carey Snyder, Ph.D., teaches “modern” literature, mostly from the […]

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July 28, 2022 at 12:45 pmResearch