Post Tagged with: "National Science Foundation"

By Kaitlyn Lyons Dr. Donald Miles, Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University, received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Environmental Biology program Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis” (OPUS). This grant, in the amount of $209,451, is to provide support for synthesizing a body of prior […]

by Kristin Distel In Summer 2018, faculty from the Family Medicine and Social Medicine (HCOM) and the Department of Psychology welcomed nine undergraduates from colleges and universities across the country to OHIO’s campus, where the students worked on independent research projects under the faculty’s mentorship. The eight-week  program, which culminated […]

by Harlee Rozell ’17 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Joseph Gingerich, was recently awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to continue research on artifacts from the Shawnee-Minisink archaeological site, located in the Upper Delaware Valley in Pennsylvania. According to Gingerich’s project summary, “detailed excavations of the Clovis level, dated to […]

by Matt McCullough ’17 Interested in doing research as a graduate student? The National Science Foundation awards $138,000 to graduate students over three years to conduct STEM and STEM Education research through the Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Dr. Roxanne Malé-Brune, Director of Grant Development and Projects at Ohio University, has […]

By Kristin M. Distel Graduate student Amanda Biederman, undergraduate Elizabeth Evans ’16, and Dr. Lisa Crockett spent April through June 2015 at Antarctica’s Palmer Station, where they studied the dominant fishes of the area and physiological and biochemical processes that limit their capacity to tolerate a warming climate. Their journey […]

Eric Gorscak ’09, a doctoral student in Biological Sciences, is the lead author on the discovery of a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania. The study describes a rare find—a sauropod dinosaur skeleton from Africa. Ohio University paleontologists have identified the new species of titanosaurian, a member of the […]

Dr. Martin J. Mohlenkamp, Associate Professor and Graduate Chair of Mathematics, and Dr. Todd Young, Professor of Mathematics, received an NSF grant for computational mathematics work. The Curse of Dimensionality is that high-dimensional problems are much, much harder than low-dimensional problems. “Although in our everyday lives we perceive space as […]