Research

Dr. Stephen J. Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, presents “What Kind of Scarcity and for Whom? Justice, Sustainability and the Global Dynamics of Food Insecurity” in November. Scanlan is presenting at the conference “Coping with Scarcity: Energy Shortages, Food Crises, Drought and Critical Materials in the Modern World (c. 1800 […]

“Armored dinosaurs breathed through ‘Krazy Straws,’” LiveScience reporter Stephanie Pappas writes about a presentation by Ohio University Biological Sciences doctoral student Jason Bourke. The dinosaurs lacked respiratory turbinates, structures in the nasal cavity that warm and humidify the air coming in, and had to find a new way to do […]

The fourth annual Ohio University/John Carrol University Herpetology Symposium took place Nov. 7-9. The symposium rotates between the two universities, and this year John Carrol University hosted it. “This has been a wonderful exchange between the universities, with nearly 50 participants,” says Dr. Shawn Kuchta, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. […]

By Lori Bauer “I didn’t have to go into the military to get shot at,” says Chris Derr, a veteran telling his story to help other veterans. Derr took a photograph of the empty lot where his childhood home used to sit in the Youngstown area with a disposable camera […]

Dr. Ronaldo Vigo’s new book Mathematical Principles of Human Conceptual Behavior: The Structural Nature of Conceptual Representation and Processing was just released as part of the Scientific Psychology Series by Psychology Press. Vigo is Associate Professor of Mathematical and Computational Cognitive Science in the Psychology Department at Ohio University. he […]

Faculty, alumni, graduate students, and undergraduate students from Geological Sciences made a splash in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America’s annual conference in October. Looking for the Shock that Changed the Rock: Work for a 1960s Apollo mission may help geologists find evidence […]

Dr. Keith Milam presented “An Assessment of Shock Metamorphism in Breccias from the Howell Structure, Lincoln County, Tennessee, USA” in October at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Vancouver, British Columbia. Milam is Associate Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University. His co-authors were Tim Henderson […]