Research

 Geography Professor Emeritus Ted Bernard has a novel coming out this spring—a story set in a fictitious college town in southern Ohio not unlike Athens. Student protests and their enmeshment in university, statewide, and international energy politics head toward calamity during a precarious stage of planetary history known as […]

Dr. Eric Masson and his research group recently showed that Cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]), a molecule that resembles a hollow pumpkin, can be used to connect building blocks to one another in a well-defined sequence. Masson, the Roenigk Chair and Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, took inspiration from […]

The groups of Dr. Eric Masson and Dr. Oren Scherman, a collaborator from the University of Cambridge, UK, recently showed that Cucurbiturils, a family of molecules that have the shape of a hollow pumpkin, could be used as catalysts for a well-known reaction in organic chemistry. By encapsulating reagents, Cucurbiturils force the reacting partners […]

Dr. Nukhet Sandal, Associate Professor of Political Science, gives a talk on “Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: Northern Ireland and Beyond” on March 20 at University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Abstract: Religious dimension of contemporary conflicts and the rise of faith-based movements worldwide require policymakers […]

Dr. Anthony Stender, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, is a co-author with scientists at Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on the discovery of a method to make atomically flat gallium that shows promise for nanoscale electronics. “The Rice lab of materials scientist […]

By MC Tilton, PACE Writer In search of preserved specimens of passionflowers, Harlan Svoboda traveled more than 15,000 miles last summer to herbaria in the United States and Mexico. Now he’s back in the lab at Ohio University using DNA to create the first phylogenetic tree of a complex group […]

Dr. Peter de B. Harrington, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, was quoted in an Analytical Cannabis article headlined “Chemotyping: Classifying cannabis strains by chemical composition.” An approach to optimizing the chemotyping of cannabis strains has been outlined by researchers at Ohio University and Chemistry Mapping Inc. Specifically, they evaluated the […]