Post Tagged with: "Faculty Research"

Moore Talks about Science and Religion with D.C. Media

Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore, Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ohio University, was a featured speaker this past weekend at an event titled “Science & Religion—Exploring the Harmonies: A Media Perspective with Writers and Editors from The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard.”  The event, held at the headquarters of the […]

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October 17, 2017 at 7:25 amFaculty in the News In the News News

Astrophysicist Chornock Contributes to Discovery of Neutron Star Merger

The image sequence above shows infrared imaging from the FLAMINGOS-2 imager and spectrograph for a period of over two weeks. The top row features images in the h-band, a shorter (bluer) wavelength of infrared light. The bottom row focuses mostly on k-band images, which are longer (redder) wavelengths of light. This sequence reveals how the object became redder as it faded from view.
Credit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA/Edo Berger (Harvard), Peter Blanchard (Harvard), Ryan Chornock (Ohio University), Leo Singer (NASA), Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech), Ryan Lau (Caltech) and the GROWTH collaboration, Travis Rector (University of Alaska), Jennifer Miller (Gemini Observatory)

Ohio University astrophysicist Dr. Ryan Chornock is part of a large international team of scientists, called the Dark Energy Survey Team, that reported a major new discovery about the cosmos on Oct. 16. “This is the story of a gold rush in the sky,” said the New York Times news […]

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October 16, 2017 at 3:43 pmNews Research

Agensky Publishes Article on Religion, Politics, and ‘Long 19th Century’

Dr. Jonathan Agensky

Dr. Jonathan C. Agensky, Assistant Professor of Political Science, recently published an article titled “Recognizing Religion: Politics, History, and The ‘Long 19th Century” in the European Journal of International Relations. The article reflects on the treatment of religion within scholarly fields of international relations and political science. Responding to treatments […]

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October 16, 2017 at 8:54 amResearch

Study Provides First Evidence of Natural Selection on Thermal Preference, Climate Change

Study Provides First Evidence of Natural Selection on Thermal Preference, Climate Change

Biological Sciences graduate student Anthony L. Gilbert and Dr. Donald Miles published an article that provides a critical study for those interested in climate change and the effects of climate change on species and ecosystems across the globe. They authored “Natural selection on thermal preference, critical thermal maxima and locomotor […]

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October 16, 2017 at 8:52 amResearch

Castellano Presents on Risks for Released Prisoners at International Conference

Dr. Ursula Castellano

Dr. Ursula Castellano, Associate Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department, presented “The Micro-Politics of Mental Health Court Referrals” at the 35th International Congress on Law and Mental Health in Prague, Czech Republic, in July 2017. Castellano also co-organized (with Dr. Kathi Trawver of University Alaska-Anchorage) and presided over a […]

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October 12, 2017 at 3:40 pmResearch

Fogt: Extraordinary Antarctic Weather May Have Influenced Early 20th Century Race to South Pole

Dr. Ryan Fogt

From the American Geophysical Union WASHINGTON D.C. — New reconstructions of past atmospheric pressures over Antarctica show much of the continent experienced unusually high pressures during portions of the early and middle 20th century. Those high pressures were associated with warm weather that may have significantly impacted the race to […]

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October 11, 2017 at 4:14 pmResearch

Hembree Finds Key To Identifying Spider Burrows in Fossil Record

Dr. Daniel Hembree

Dr. Daniel Hembree, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, recently published “Neoichnology of tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae): criteria for recognizing spider burrows in the fossil record” in the open access journal Palaeontologia Electronica. For this study, Hembree used laboratory experiments with three types of living tarantulas to construct burrows that he then […]

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October 10, 2017 at 3:49 pmResearch