Research

Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, will be giving an invited plenary talk at the international conference known as Hadron 2013 in November in Nara, Japan. His talk will be on recent results relevant to particle physics from the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) Collaboration, from data taken […]

  Things often get ugly in the comments that follow political news, but research based on reader comments in Utah suggests that anti-immigrant sentiment is on the decline, says a Brigham Young University news release. Dr. Charlie V. Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, was a co-author on a […]

“The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was once a dominant canopy species in the Eastern Deciduous Forest. Unfortunately, the species was decimated by the chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) in the early 20th century,” say Dr. Brian McCarthy and Lauren Bizzari in the introduction to their poster on “An experimental assessment of […]

By Kathryn McFadden A new piece of research equipment at Ohio University will help scientists study aging, cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes and metabolic disorders—including researchers in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program in the College of Arts & Sciences. The Seahorse XF Analyzer measures cellular metabolism by monitoring oxygen consumption rate […]

Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Shloka Chandavar and Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, along with Dennis Weygand from the Jefferson Lab, present “Photoproduction of scalar mesons at CLAS” at the fall meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society on Oct. 25. Graduate […]

Ohio University faculty will make an impact with 23 presentations at the Geological Society of America’s 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition Oct. 27–30 in Denver. Dr. David Kidder, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, and retired faculty member Dr. Tom Worsley present on EARLY TRIASSIC HYPERTROPICAL CLIMATE:  LATITUDE, ELEVATION, AND […]

Ohio University faculty will make an impact with 23 presentations at the Geological Society of America’s 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition Oct. 27–30 in Denver. Pat O’Connor, Nancy Stevens, Eric Roberts, Joe Sertich, Eric Gorscak of the Department of Biomedical Sciences, present on UNCOVERING THE CRETACEOUS TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE RECORD […]