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By Heather Willard, PACE Writer Jordan Francisco, a junior in Environmental & Plant Biology, did not spend his summer like most college students. He used a Provost Undergraduate Research Fund grant to design and conduct a study of peanut plants’ potential as a natural fertilizer. “Peanuts are legumes, which naturally […]

by Harlee Rozell ’17 Last summer Dr. Sabrina Curran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, traveled to Romania to continue her research involving the geographical movement of the Homo erectus species, an ancestor of modern humans, during the early Pleistocene. Her interest in this project began in 2008, when she first traveled to […]

  Babz Jewell, a Sociology master’s student in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, presented research at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in November. The paper, “Marked Men: A Photography Study of Veterans Court Participants” was part of a panel on “The Same […]

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 […]

Dr. Jieli Li, Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, was invited to deliver his research talk entitled “Environmental Justice and Green Development” at Dong Hu forum – an international symposium on Green Development and Global Governance held at Wuhan, China in Nov., 12-13, 2016. Environmental Justice and New Horizon of […]

Joseph Gingerich, Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University, was invited to present his paper, “Pleistocene Depositional Patterns and their link to Paleoindian Settlement Patterns in the Middle Atlantic Region,” at the 83rd Annual Eastern States Archaeological Federation Meeting in November 2016. The […]

Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer, Associate Professor of History, received two research grants this year: Humanities Research Fund and the Baker Award. Trauschweizer is spending the 2016-17 academic year on an Ohio University Faculty Fellowship Leave. He is currently conducting research for his current manuscript on Maxwell Taylor, civil-military relations, and U.S. Cold War […]