Post Tagged with: "Faculty Research"

Lee Wins Award for Published Article on History of Science and Japan

Lee Wins Award for Published Article on History of Science and Japan

Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, was recently announced as a 2019 recipient of the Zhu Kezhen Junior Award for her published article, “Microbial Transformations: The Japanese Domestication of Penicillin Production, 1946-1951,” in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 48 (2018): 441-474. The International Society for the […]

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August 28, 2019 at 11:29 amAnnouncements News Research

Ingram Will Be Slater Fellow at Durham University in Spring 2020

Robert G. Ingram

Dr. Robert G. Ingram, Professor of History at Ohio University, has been awarded the Slater Fellowship by Durham University’s Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEM). He will spend Spring 2020 in residence at Durham, where he will be working on a new book project titled Hobbes’s Century: England, Ireland and […]

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August 26, 2019 at 10:31 amResearch

Mischkowski Study Shows Acetaminophen Reduces Positive Empathy

Dr. Dominik Mischkowski

Dr. Dominik Mischkowski co-authored a study on “A Social Analgesic? Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) Reduces Positive Empathy” in Frontiers in Psychology. Mischkowski is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio University. “Acetaminophen – a potent physical painkiller that also reduces empathy for other people’s suffering – blunts physical and social pain by reducing […]

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August 26, 2019 at 8:19 amResearch

Burgess Edits New NYU Book Series on LGBTQ Politics

During her lecture, Dr. Burgess spoke about how LGBT life has changed over the years at OHIO and in the United States.

Ohio University Distinguished Professor Dr. Susan Burgess of the Political Science Department and Professor Heath Fogg Davis of Temple University are editing a new book series on LGBTQ Politics at New York University Press. Twelve years ago, Burgess and Angelia Wilson of Manchester University organized the Sexuality and Politics Research […]

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August 25, 2019 at 6:03 pmNews Research

Sinha Gets Affiliate Faculty Status at USGS Research Center

Dr. Gaurav Sinha

Dr. Gaurav Sinha, Associate Professor of Geography, was recently assigned as an affiliate faculty researcher with the National Terrain Mapping research group at the USGS Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science. Earlier, Sinha was awarded a CEGIS grant to fund his sabbatical research in 2017-18. This funded projected resulted […]

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August 25, 2019 at 6:03 pmResearch

Whitson Gets Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award

Dr. Risa Whitson

Dr. Risa Whitson, Associate Professor of Geography, received the Center for International Studies Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award to fund her project titled “Embodied memories of displacement: Using participatory art and mapping for understanding and reconciliation in Colombia.” This project focuses on the migration experiences of internally displaced women […]

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August 25, 2019 at 5:57 pmResearch

Fogt Using NSF Grant to Explore Contemporary Variability in Antarctic sea ice

Dr. Ryan Fogt

Dr. Ryan Fogt, Associate Professor of Geography and Scalia Lab Director, was awarded his third National Science Foundation grant from the NSF Office of Polar Programs. His grant is titled Collaborative research: Understanding contemporary variability in Antarctic sea ice: Ensemble reconstruction of sea ice extent and concentration for the 20th […]

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August 25, 2019 at 5:45 pmResearch