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Biology graduate student Alayna Tokash presented a poster on diamondback terrapin reproduction at the annual Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in San Francisco in January. Her poster was titled “Within and among year variation in reproductive output from two populations of the diamond-backed terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin.” Tokash is a […]

From Research Communications Ohio University graduate students will test how well they can describe their research or creative work to the general public during the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. Seven College of Arts & Sciences students are participating in the semi-finals: Semi-final round – Tuesday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m. […]

Biological Sciences graduate student James Nassif is presenting preliminary data regarding the morphology and physiology of the middle-ear conduction apparatus in both extinct and extant reptiles at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology’s Midwinter Meeting in San Diego from Feb. 9-14. The ARO meeting features cutting-edge basic and clinical research […]

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate student Marcel Weigand’s research shows positive news for Eastern box turtles whose habitat was bisected by construction of the U.S. 33 bypass through the Wayne National Forest. “In 2013, the Wayne National Forest in southeastern Ohio was bisected by a high-traffic, high-speed highway, affecting a road-naïve […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Ohio University alum Eric Gorscak ’09, ’17Ph.D., who is now a post-doc research scientist at the Field Museum in Chicago, helped in the discovery of a […]

The BIOS Advising and Resource Room (or the BARR) exists to help science students thrive. It was created to assist students in introductory biology and to help first-year students adjust to and learn about Ohio University. It’s been expanded to help students of all years and all science-related majors. The […]

The Dr. Sig Maier Undergraduate Research Fund has been established by a gift from the estate of Dr. Sigfried Maier, a highly respected past member of the Biological Sciences faculty. The fund provides support for Biological Sciences undergraduate majors to conduct all types of research. Dr. Maier was a professor […]