Post Tagged with: "undergraduate research"

Biology Undergrad Gets Kopchick Award for Obesity, Gene Expression in Mice

Caroline Wilson, Kimberly Kraus, and Emma Kessler pose for a photo with John Kopchick after recieving their John J. Kopchick Molecular and Cellular Biology Translational Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Student Support Fund awards in Nelson Commons, on Saturday, November 14, 2015. Photo by Kaitlin Owens.

Undergraduate student Jesse Kowalski ’16, majoring in Microbiology with a minor in Applied Nutrition, received one of the 2015 John J. Kopchick Awards for research at Ohio University. The John J. Kopchick Molecular and Cellular Biology/Translational Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Student Support Fund provides up to $1,500 for undergraduate students working with MCB/TBS […]

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November 24, 2015 at 11:25 amResearch

Psychology Undergrad Gets Kopchick Award to Study Neurodegenerative Diseases

Caroline Wilson, Kimberly Kraus, and Emma Kessler pose for a photo with John Kopchick after recieving their John J. Kopchick Molecular and Cellular Biology Translational Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Student Support Fund awards in Nelson Commons, on Saturday, November 14, 2015. Photo by Kaitlin Owens.

Undergraduate student Kimberly Kraus ’16, a Psychology major, received one of the 2015 John J. Kopchick Awards for research at Ohio University. The John J. Kopchick Molecular and Cellular Biology/Translational Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Student Support Fund provides up to $1,500 for undergraduate students working with MCB/TBS faculty and conducting translational […]

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November 24, 2015 at 11:20 amResearch

Morales Sparks Psychology Club, Wants Others to Experience Undergrad Research

Nicole Morales

By Juliana Scheiderer ’16 The first meeting of OHIO’s Psi Chi/Psychology Club of the 2015-16 school year was a resounding success. With more than 100 students in attendance that evening, faculty think they may have a set a new membership record. Part of the group’s enthusiasm may have stemmed from the […]

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October 6, 2015 at 4:08 pmNews

Three Undergrads Travel to Japan to Help Study Immigration

Three Undergrads Travel to Japan to Help Study Immigration

By Nicole Rodriguez In 1998, Dr. Charlie Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, made his first sojourn to Joetsu Niigata, Japan, to study and interview international couples. This summer, three Ohio University undergrads went along—in part to help interview the couple’s teenage children. In addition to getting undergraduate research and field […]

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September 24, 2015 at 11:50 amIn Class Research

Foster Care Student: ‘Felt I Could Make a Home Here’

Michael Outrich goes to Washington to help foster care students.

By Cecilia Ellis ’17 There were no parents carrying Michael Outrich’s bags to his freshman dorm. He came to Ohio University alone, emancipated from the foster care system. He says he chose Ohio University because of the welcoming atmosphere. “I felt I could make a home here.” Now the senior Geography major […]

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August 22, 2015 at 1:39 pmNews

Undergrad Tracks Rebuilding after Joplin Tornado

Ashley Maupin. Photo by Andrea Gibson/Ohio University.

By Jacob Zuckerman On Sunday, May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado touched down in Joplin, MS. Fueled by the wrath of winds in excess of 200 mph and spanning ¾ of a mile wide, the tornado blew across a 6-mile trajectory before dissipating, rendering it one of the deadliest and […]

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April 27, 2015 at 7:49 pmResearch

Cothrel Studies Ozone on Two-Year NOAA Scholarship

Senior HTC Physics major Helen Cothrel conducting research  in Boulder, Colorado

Last summer, Helen Cothrel ’15HTC Physics worked at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO, to study the Earth’s ozone layer. She received funding through an Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship, a two-year appointment with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Education. The title of her NOAA project […]

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April 25, 2015 at 9:24 amResearch