Post Tagged with: "research"

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented a talk on “Arabidopsis proteomic responses to microgravity” as part of the GeneLab symposium at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research. Wyatt is recognized as an expert in gravitational and space biology. Using […]

by Kristin M. Distel Dr. Jana Houser, Assistant Professor of Geography, led a group of students on a rare and exciting adventure in May. She and her team of students spent a week in the Central Plains, where they chased supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes. The team saw tornadoes on their […]

Between August 2015 and June 2016, Trey Klopfenstein participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates funded by the National Science Foundation. He was advised by Prof. Craig Grimes. This project involved field investigations in the Chemehuevi Mountains, Mohave Desert, SE California, as well as lab based studies (optical microscopy and […]

Renee Benham, a doctoral candidate in English, traveled to London to research nursing in 19th-century literature. She was awarded a competitive scholarship from Ohio University’s English Department, one of eight to students who are conducting research for their respective dissertations and projects. ABSTRACT: “Beyond Nightingale: The Transformation of Nursing in Nineteenth-Century Literature” Nursing programs […]

Over three years, Dr. Anna Rachel Terman was engaged in field research in West Virginia. Now in her second year at Ohio University, Terman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has completed her research and presented a portion of her findings Aug. 9 at the Rural Sociological Society Conference in Toronto. In […]

  By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern Ohio University Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute member Saw-Wai Hla recently demonstrated simultaneous operation of hundreds of synchronized molecular rotors that, through dipole interactions based on carefully tailored positive and negative forces at different points within the […]

Dr. David Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, co-authored an article on “Intensifying drought eliminates the expected benefits of elevated carbon dioxide for soybean.” The article appeared Sept. 5 in Nature Plants. Abstract: Stimulation of C3 crop yield by rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide ([CO2]) is widely […]