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5 A&S Faculty Among 7 Named Presidential Research Scholars

Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak

From OHIO Research News Five Arts & Sciences faculty are among the seven named 2019 Ohio University Presidential Research Scholars for excellence in arts and humanities, social and behavioral sciences, and physical sciences and engineering research. The awards program recognizes mid-career faculty members who have garnered national and international prominence […]

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October 8, 2019 at 10:39 amNews Research

Stigall Presents Prestigious Wilson Lecture in Norway

Dr. Stigall with ordovician rocks, containing brachiopods, at the Oslo Fjord, Norway

Dr. Alycia Stigall, Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, presented the 2019 Wilson Lecture at the Centre for Earth and Evolution Dynamics at the University of Oslo, Norway in September. The center is one of the premier research institutes globally for research about the earth’s interior and reconstructing former […]

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October 7, 2019 at 2:26 pmResearch

Gradin, Alumni Edit Book on ‘Storytelling in Queer Appalachia’

Gradin, Alumni Edit Book on ‘Storytelling in Queer Appalachia’

Ohio University alumni and faculty Dr. Hillery Glasby, Dr. Sherrie Gradin and Dr. Rachael Ryerson edited the book Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other, published by the West Virginia University Press. Listen to Gradin and Ryerson in a podcast with Athens High School students. Gradin is […]

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October 4, 2019 at 2:00 pmResearch

Day Funded by NIH to Study Neural Coding of Spatial Hearing

Hariprakash Haragopal works in the lab.

Dr. Mitchell Day, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University, is the principal investigator on a new study funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Day is joined by two co-investigators, Dr. Soichi Tanda, Associate Professor of Biological […]

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October 3, 2019 at 6:36 pmAnnouncements

Why Did the Turtles Cross the Road? Or Did They?

Why Did the Turtles Cross the Road? Or Did They?

Ohio University researchers set out to determine the impact of the Route 33 bypass through Wayne National Forest on the local box turtle population. The answers were not exactly what they expected. Roads are everywhere! Roads define the very fabric of our civilization, and very few places in North America […]

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October 1, 2019 at 10:29 amResearch

Miller Presents on Depression Across Racial Groups at American Sociological Association

Dr. Paula Miller

Dr. Paula Miller, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, presented “Uncovering Profiles of Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital to Explore Depression Across Racial Groups” at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August in New York. The meeting was a […]

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October 1, 2019 at 10:26 amResearch

Chang Publishes Essay on ‘Drawing the Oankali: Imagining Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Butler’s Dawn’

Dr. Edmond Y. Chang

Dr. Edmond Chang’s essay “Drawing the Oankali: Imagining Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Butler’s Dawn” was published in the edited collection Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler from The Modern Language Association. Chang is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University. According to Chang, “Octavia Butler’s […]

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September 30, 2019 at 4:12 pmResearch