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College of Arts & Sciences faculty received four of the six proposals funded by the Ohio University Research Committee during its spring 2015 cycle. In total, the committee awarded $47,380. The program, which is funded by the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity, provides seed money for new faculty […]

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. […]

Biological Sciences alum Matthew Lattanzio ’14Ph.D.  presented two papers at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. Lattanzio earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University in 2014. From Disturbance to Fitness: Selective Consequences […]

  Biological Sciences graduate student Anthony L. Gilbert presented a paper on “Relating Thermal Performance to Variation in Resource Use: Implications for  Lizards in a Warming World” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. His co-author was Dr. Donald B. Miles, […]

Biological Sciences graduate student Vincent Farallo presented a paper on “Exploring Below the Undergrowth: The Role of Microhabitat in the  Evolutionary Ecology of Plethodontid Salamanders” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. His co-author was Dr. Donald Miles, Professor of Biological […]

By Gretchen Gregory From Compass Situated on the southern side of the Ohio University campus is one of Athens hidden gems, a place where students can experience research about nature through a mix of wildlife, sweeping prairie grasslands, rolling hills, forested land, valleys and ravines. Of the 740 acres that […]

By Natalia Radic From Perspectives Hiking through the trails of Appalachia, Biological Sciences doctoral student Vincent Farallo focuses his attention on the ground, under the leaf litter, in search of small, colorful lungless salamanders. These amphibians live in “microhabitats” of only 1-10 meters squared. Because they breathe through their skin, […]