Research

Sheldon Co-Authors Book Chapter on ‘Religious Politics of Scientific Doubt’

Sheldon Co-Authors Book Chapter on ‘Religious Politics of Scientific Doubt’

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 […]

Read more ›
July 12, 2017 at 11:48 amResearch

Sheldon Authors Article on Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity in American Evangelicalism

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, […]

Read more ›
July 12, 2017 at 11:30 amResearch

Policy Center in Lebanon Interviews Abu-Rish for Historical Perspective on Sectarianism

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish

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. […]

Read more ›
July 12, 2017 at 6:44 amFaculty in the News In the News News Research

Neuroscience Faculty Article Featured by Journal of Neurophysiology

Terminal arbors of 4 afferents used in the simulations. Boutons are shown in red, the axon initial segment (AIS) in green, and myelin in blue. Clockwise from top left: lateral extrastriolar afferent (LES), afferent from the striola (zone 2), juxtastriolar afferent, and medial extrastriolar afferent (MES). The myelinated axons are truncated. As modeled, membrane area of the peripheral tree and average axon diameter are as follows: LES, 1,696 μm2 and 1.22 μm; striola, 1,786 μm2 and 1.85 μm; juxtastriolar, 1,157 μm2 and 1.7 μm; and MES, 502 μm2 and 1.23 μm. Scale bars, 10 μm. Arrows indicate location of the AIS (green) at the junction of the axon (black) and myelin (blue) segments.

The Journal of Neurophysiology gave a Facebook shout out to an article by Dr. William R. Holmes, Professor of Biological Sciences, and co-authors from the Biological Sciences neuroscience program. “Using models of utricular bouton afferents, Ohio University researchers examined the role of afferent-hair cell connectivity in determining spike train regularity,” […]

Read more ›
June 29, 2017 at 11:44 amResearch

Psychology Major Presents Research at Numerous National Conferences

Psychology Major Noah Lorincz-Comi

by Kristin Distel Psychology major Noah Lorincz-Comi has achieved a remarkable list of credentials during his undergraduate career at Ohio University. A rising star in the field, Lorincz-Comi credits OHIO’s psychology faculty with helping him to reach his goals and present his work on a national scale. His list of […]

Read more ›
June 27, 2017 at 12:23 pmResearch

MCB Graduate Students Present at International Growth Hormone Conference in Israel

Front Row: Alison Brittain, Dr. Reetobrata Basu, Silvana Duran-Ortiz, Dr. John Kopchick, Katie Troike, Mathew Buchman, and Jonathan Young. Back Row: Brooke Henry and Dr. Darlene Berryman.
Photo Courtesy of: Silvana Duran-Ortiz

By Dr. Reetobrata Basu ’16 “It is a great time to be in the field of growth hormone research,” aptly remarked Dr. Pinchas Cohen (President, GRS-IGF Society), as he opened the eighth International Congress of the Growth Hormone Research and IGF Society conference in the picturesque city of Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nov. 6-9, 2016. The conference featured […]

Read more ›
June 19, 2017 at 7:26 pmResearch

MCB D.O./Ph.D. Graduate Student Wins Poster Award at Endocrine Society’s Annual Meeting

Ashley Patton

From Heritage College of Medicine News Ashley Patton a Dual Degree Molecular and Cellular Biology, D.O./Ph.D. student at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine who last year won a coveted research fellowship from the Endocrine Society, received an award for her research poster presentation at the society’s 2017 […]

Read more ›
June 19, 2017 at 7:09 pmResearch