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  Patton Bog, as it is known locally, is a small natural wetland in Athens County. Today it is surrounded by dense forest in a relatively unpopulated area, but it hasn’t always been so. It was once home to villages of Native Americans who used its clay to make their […]

By Natalia Radic From Perspectives Hiking through the trails of Appalachia, Biological Sciences doctoral student Vincent Farallo focuses his attention on the ground, under the leaf litter, in search of small, colorful lungless salamanders. These amphibians live in “microhabitats” of only 1-10 meters squared. Because they breathe through their skin, […]

  Audrey A. Blakeman, a Geological Sciences graduate student at the Ohio University, presented a poster May 2014 at the Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Her poster, co-authored by her adviser, Dr. Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch, Professor of Geological Sciences, was on “Carbonate Lake Deposits in the […]

  Ohio University Geological Sciences researchers presented May 2014 at the Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America. They are part of an international team working in the Chemehuevi Mountains in Southeast California. See their work on Tumblr. Oxygen Isotope Constraints on the Early Slip History of […]

Dr. Rahi Abouk, Assistant Professor of Economics at Ohio University, published an article on “Texting Bans and Fatal Accidents on Roadways: Do They Work? Or Do Drivers Just React to Announcements of Bans?” in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: Vol. 5 No. 2 (April 2013). “Since 2007, many states […]

Proxies, puppets, pawns. From the “Great Game” of British imperialism in the 19th century through the Cold War in the 20th century—conflict in Central Asia could still be looked at today as a continuation of hundreds of years of “proxy warfare” between the world’s great powers. Dr. John Brobst, Associate […]

Among the 31 space biology research proposals NASA announced on May 29 for immediate implementation is an experiment with Arabidopsis seedlings by Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University NASA will fund the “Research Opportunities in Space Biology” proposals to help investigate questions about how […]