Research

First in a Series on Macro-Evolution Darwin and his successors wrote the first chapters on evolution by looking at small changes in species over relatively short periods of time, usually described as natural selection. Scientists developed the Modern Synthesis to describe gradual evolution following the discovery of the DNA molecule, […]

Ohio University graduate student Amrita Basu won second place in the poster presentation competition at the second annual Appalachian Regional Cell Conference (ARCC) in Charleston, WV, in October. Her poster, co-authored with Dr. John Kopchick, was on “Quantitative Analysis of Gene Expression in the Brain of Transgenic bGH and Wild […]

More than 35 Ohio University student scientists attended the second annual Appalachian Regional Cell Conference (ARCC) in Charleston, WV, in October. The event, co-organized by graduate student Maria Muccioli of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, drew several dozen additional participants from West Virginia University, Marshall University and the University […]

At Rochdale College in Toronto, the students were in charge. It survived for only seven years, but it ended as a controversial symbol of the flower-child Sixties. Rochdale: The Runaway College, a social history by David G. Sharpe, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, has been issued as an […]

Ohio University faculty made an impact with 23 presentations at the Geological Society of America’s 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition Oct. 27–30 in Denver. Joshua Richardson, Dr. Dina Lopez, Tim Letwich, Michael Ange, Mark Wolfe, and Frank Fugitt co-authored UNDERGROUND COAL MINES IN OHIO AS A POSSIBLE GEOTHERMAL ENERGY […]

Ohio University faculty made an impact with 23 presentations at the Geological Society of America’s 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition Oct. 27–30 in Denver. Erica Neace, Dr. R. Damian Nance, James Briad, Brendan Murphy, Nicolle Dupius, & Robin Shail presented on DOES THE MEGUMA TERRANE EXTEND INTO SOUTHERN BRITAIN?. […]

Ohio University faculty made an impact with 23 presentations at the Geological Society of America’s 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition Oct. 27–30 in Denver. Michael Fox & Dr. Keith Milam presented on AN ASSESSMENT OF SHOCK METAMORPHISM IN THE JEPTHA KNOB STRUCTURE:  A SUSPECTED COMPLEX CRATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL KENTUCKY. […]