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Carroll Part of Kopchick Award for Microbiota Research

Dr. Ronan Carroll

Dr. Ronan Carroll, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, is part of a team awarded one of the 2015 John J. Kopchick Awards for research at Ohio University. The $10,000 award from the John J. Kopchick Molecular and Cellular Biology and Translational Biomedical Sciences Faculty Support Fund is for faculty for […]

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November 24, 2015 at 10:46 amResearch

Tanda Looks at Protein’s Role in Human Health

Tanda Looks at Protein’s Role in Human Health

By Andrea Gibson and Philip Barnes Hearing loss. Birth defects. Cancer. What do these medical problems have in common? Two Ohio University biology researchers think that one tiny protein in the body may play a key role in regulating these issues. Dr. Mark Berryman, Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, and […]

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May 26, 2015 at 3:30 pmResearch

Running: Why Are Men Faster than Women?

Running: Why Are Men Faster than Women?

When it comes to running, there’s a gender gap between men and women that even elite training doesn’t erase. “Why are most women, on average, slower than men?” asks Runner’s World in the April 2015 edition. “At every distance up to the marathon, the gap between men’s and women’s world […]

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March 10, 2015 at 10:51 amNews Research

‘Toads Prefer to Bound, Not Hop’

‘Toads Prefer to Bound, Not Hop’

“Toads prefer to bound, not hop,” says Science News Wild Things writer Sarah Zielinski about research by Dr. Stephen Reilly, Professor of Biological Science at Ohio University. If I were to write a children’s book, it might start like this: Hop, hop, hop, went the frog. Bound, bound, bound, goes […]

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February 8, 2015 at 6:37 pmFaculty in the News In the News Research

Bourke Presentation: Armored Dinosaurs Breathed through ‘Krazy Straws’

“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 […]

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November 10, 2014 at 6:01 pmIn the News Research Students in the News

Four Students, Two Faculty Present at Herpetology Symposium

Anthony Gilbert at the Herpetology Symposium

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. […]

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November 10, 2014 at 5:26 pmResearch

A Dinosaur Needed to Cool Its Brain?

A Dinosaur Needed to Cool Its Brain?

It’s been millions of years since T. rex took its last breath, but a Biological Sciences grad student is part of a team breathing life back into dinosaurs using high-powered computer simulations to model airflow through dinosaur snouts. The research has important implications for how dinosaurs used their noses not […]

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October 15, 2014 at 11:28 amResearch