Post Tagged with: "Faculty Research"

Physicists Propose New Model to Study Pairing Properties of Nuclei

(L to R) Dr. Madappa Prakash, Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, and Dr. Constantinos Constantinou

A team of Ohio University nuclear physicists has proposed a new theoretical model for calculating pairing properties of atomic nuclei including those found in extreme astrophysical environments. As in some solids in which two interacting electrons pair up to act as one object that leads to superconductivity, interacting neutrons (or […]

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August 8, 2018 at 4:39 pmResearch

Johnson, Aguilar Study Vampire Bat Adaptation in Ecuador

Johnson, Aguilar Study Vampire Bat Adaptation in Ecuador

Dr. Joseph Johnson, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University, and Juan Pablo Aguilar Cabezas, student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology doctoral program, are looking forward to embarking in a new fascinating research project: Understanding the population ecology of the vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, in Ecuador. Yes: vampire […]

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August 8, 2018 at 10:17 amResearch

Wyatt Lab Presents at ASPB Plant Biology Conference in Montreal

Dr. Sarah Wyatt and graduate student Al Meyers lead a round table discussion on Plant Space Biology.

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology and Director of Molecular and Cellular Biology, along with graduate students Anne Sternberger and Alexander Meyers, traveled to Montreal, Canada, for the joint meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists, Canadian Society of Plant Biologists/Societe Canadienne de Biologie Vegetale, and […]

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August 3, 2018 at 2:19 pmResearch

Plant Cell Wall Faculty, Graduate Students Present at ASPB Meeting in Montreal

The Plant Wall Group enjoying a night out at the ASPB meeting in Montreal.  From Left: Matrika Bhattarai, Oyeyemi Ajayi, John Elmore, Yuan Zhang, Tasleem Javaid, Dasmeet Kaur, Ahmed Faik (with Star), and Allan Showalter.

Dr. Ahmed Faik and Dr. Allan Showalter with graduate students from the Plant Wall Research Group presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists July 14-18 in Montreal, Canada. Showalter is Professor and Chair of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University. Faik is Associate Professor […]

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August 3, 2018 at 12:23 pmResearch

Scanlan Authors Chapter on ‘Hunger and Food Insecurity’

Dr. Stephen Scanlan

Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, authored a chapter on “Hunger and Food Insecurity” in The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems edited by A. Javier Treviňo. New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract: In this chapter I examine hunger and food insecurity as social problems. I focus […]

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August 3, 2018 at 9:41 amResearch

Chemistry, Engineering Students and Faculty Publish on Solvent Isotopic Effects

Ohio University chemistry and engineering faculty and graduate students authored an article on Solvent Isotopic Effects on a Surfactant Headgroup at the Air–Liquid Interface” in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. The authors are: Uvinduni I. Premadasa, a chemistry graduate student; Negar Moradighadi, an engineering graduate student; Kondalarao Kotturi, a […]

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August 3, 2018 at 9:32 amResearch

Ingram Authors Book on Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England

Dr. Robert G. Ingram

Dr. Robert Ingram’s latest book publication is Reformation without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England (Manchester University Press, 2018). Ingram, Professor of History, is also director of the George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics and History. In Reformation without End, Ingram offers a radical reinterpretation of the […]

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July 30, 2018 at 5:13 pmResearch