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The Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards program announced that 22 students received awards totaling of $124,423 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work this spring. The Student Enhancement Awards are funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and administered by the […]

From Compass Two College of Arts & Sciences students were among the four recipients of Ohio University’s Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award on April 23. Biological Sciences graduate student Rebecca A. Keogh and Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate student Cody N. Alderman both received awards. Alderman is teaching Chemistry 3080 and […]

By Kelly Shockley ’19 In her past few years at Ohio University, Biological Sciences graduate student Rebecca Keogh has been a part of a lab that studies bacterial pathogenesis, with a specialization in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). As one of the leading hospital acquired infections that are becoming increasingly […]

Biological Sciences graduate student Rebecca Keogh was recently named the 2019-20 recipient of the Donald Clippinger Graduate Fellowship awarded by the Graduate College at Ohio University. Keogh is a microbiology graduate student in Biological Sciences working under the mentorship of Dr. Ronan Carroll, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio […]

College of Arts & Sciences students took some of the top honors at the 2019 Ohio University Three Minute Thesis (3MT) on Feb. 19. Anne Sternberger took second place for her presentation on “Figuring out flowers: Insight into the mixed breeding system of violets.” She is a graduate student in […]

Rebecca Keogh, a graduate student in Biological Sciences, was the lead author on a paper in the journal Infection and Immunity. The paper describes an intracellular protein in Staphylococcus aureus that is required for the bacteria to cause disease. Keogh showed that while the protein (called PpiB) is necessary to […]

Dr. Ronan Carroll, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University, and seven students attended the Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology in Estes Park, CO, June 13-17. Five of the students presented posters outlining their research while two—Rachel Zapf and Caleb Burke—gave oral presentations. Graduate students on the trip were […]