Post Tagged with: "research"

Cassandra Thompson shows danger to frogs from pesticide, but points out a solution

A recently metamorphosed wood frog. Photo by Cassie Thompson.A recently metamorphosed wood frog. Photo by Cassie Thompson.

From Ohio University News Ohio University graduate student Cassandra Thompson’s research highlights the need to understand the tradeoffs of using pesticides on invasive species and the effects on vulnerable species such as amphibians. Her article on “Carryover effects of pesticide exposure and pond drying on performance, behavior, and sex ratios […]

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August 31, 2022 at 12:27 pmNews Research

Physics Ph.D. student wins Best Speaker Award at international conference in Spain

Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos

From Ohio University News Physics doctoral student Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos received a prestigious Best Speaker Award at a large international conference in Spain for her talk describing hot-electron generation of nanoparticles. “I had presented a poster and given a virtual talk at other international conferences before. However, this was […]

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August 5, 2022 at 9:14 amNews Research

Yeong Kim studies Japan’s bid to host the 2030 Olympics, spends summer at Chubu

Yeong Kim studies Japan’s bid to host the 2030 Olympics, spends summer at Chubu

From Ohio University News As Japan awaits a decision on whether its city of Sapporo will get to host the 2030 Winter Olympics, Yeong-Hyun Kim spent the summer in Japan researching both the lure and the urban impact of being an Olympic venue. “After the pandemic-marred Tokyo 2020, you would assume […]

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July 28, 2022 at 2:21 pmNews Research

Riley Rees receives Garden Club of America scholarship for summer research on carnation family

Riley Rees

From Ohio University News Riley Rees received a Garden Club of America scholarship for a summer research project in John Schenk’s lab studying the evolutionary history of carnations. Rees was awarded the 2022 Joan K. Hunt and Rachel M. Hunt Summer Scholarship in Field Botany for his project on Evolutionary […]

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April 8, 2022 at 3:20 pmNews Research

Students search for linguistic answers in Southern Ohio Language Project

Lynden Caldwell

From Ohio University News Getting Ready for Expo For Skyla Matteson, the big question is about “but.” For Will Mullen, “ing” is a variable worth studying. Noah Mcgeorge is on the hunt for intergenerational language variations. Lynden Caldwell is studying a vowel to see if people “sound” as Appalachian as they […]

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April 6, 2022 at 3:25 pmNews Research

What Emily Marino didn’t expect to find in the lab

Emily Marino

From Ohio University News Getting Ready for Expo From Emily Marino’s first day as a Bobcat, she knew she would be spending a lot of time in a lab, conducting experiments, and writing her Honors Tutorial College senior thesis. What she didn’t know was that it would be so much […]

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April 6, 2022 at 11:21 amNews

Riley Sombathy studies rings in dinosaur legs to see how they grew

Riley Sombathy in the lab with Allosaurus samples

From Ohio University News Getting Ready for Expo Riley Sombathy says nothing is more exciting than when he looks into the microscope and the rings appear on the slice of ancient Allosaurus bone. He’s using those rings—akin to tree rings—to learn more about how the dinosaurs that lived 150 million […]

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April 4, 2022 at 8:51 amNews Research