Research and Impact

29 students receive Provost Undergraduate Research Fund awards

The Ohio University Provost Undergraduate Research Fund (PURF) award program provided 29 students with a total of $40,446 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work this fall.

Ph.D. student Huiru Wang successfully defends dissertation

Huiru Wang, a Ph.D. student in the Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology (ICMT), successfully defended her dissertation.

Covers of Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9 and The Complete Works of Claudian: Translated with an Introduction and Note

Neil Bernstein brings modern access to 2,000-year-old classic Latin poetry

Classicist Neil Bernstein brings modern access to 2,000-year-old classic Latin poetry through his English translation and commentary in two new books.

Sarah Wyatt, Ph.D., professor of environmental and plant biology and director of the molecular and cellular biology graduate program at Ohio University

Sarah Wyatt's next experiment on the International Space Station will probe plant telomeres

Sarah Wyatt is teaming up with colleagues from Texas A&M and Colorado State to research the effect of space radiation on plant telomeres -- an International Space Station experiment.

Dr. Joseph Gingerich (center) and undergraduate students from this year’s dig.

Anthropology students conduct mid-semester archaeology fieldwork in Virginia

Joseph Gingerich led Ohio University students back to Virginia in November, continuing his research to document eroding archaeological sites along the Roanoke River.

Fall Grad Spotlight: Sydney Walters graduates with a list of things to remember forever

As senior Sydney Walters looks ahead to life after Ohio University, she has some big plans as she waits to hear on her graduate school applications.

EBI postdoctoral fellow awarded fellowship in aging research

Ohio University’s Edison Biotechnology Institute (EBI) postdoctoral researcher Silvana Duran-Ortiz was awarded the 2022 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in Aging Research.

OHIO faculty honored for continuing to share expertise and research through their work with media

In the calendar year 2021, 221 faculty members from every college and regional campus were featured in 2,300 media reports from all over the world.

OHIO researcher receives more than $1 million in funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Berkeley Franz, Ph.D., was awarded over $1 million by the National Institute on Drug Abuse for two separate studies that are aimed at helping provide resources to combat the opioid epidemic.

From left, Yuxi Zhou, Hailey Payne, Tina Athans, Evelyn Potter, Veronica Bahamondes, Dr. Shiyong Wu

Shiyong Wu lab showcases student, alumna researchers at American Society for Photobiology meeting

Shiyong Wu took students to the American Society for Photobiology meeting this fall to showcase their research on ultraviolet exposure and basal cell skin cancer.

Institute for International Journalism to use grant to boost local media in South Africa

OHIO’s Institute for International Journalism is partnering with the Association of Independent Publishers in South Africa on a one-year effort to develop strategies for sustainable local news media.

Dr. Tommie Radd Professorship officially launches

Ohio University’s Gladys W. And David H. Patton College of Education has officially launched the Dr. Tommie Radd Professorship in School Counselor Education for the Department of Counseling and Higher Education.

Skyler Houser studies burrowing scorpions to learn more about the fossil record

Geological Sciences graduate student Skyler Houser spent this summer in a lab studying how scorpions make burrows so that he could compare the modern-day arthropods with their fossilized relatives.

Erin Mangan installs artworks in a gallery

Art history senior interns as gallery assistant at the Chautauqua Institute

Lessons learned at the intersection of art and business by fourth-year student interning at the Chautauqua Institution.

Study published in Endocrinology by Heritage College researchers finds disruption of the growth hormone receptor gene in adipose tissue results in increased lifespan in mice

A study of mice led by the Heritage College and Edison Biotechnology Institute researchers has shown that stopping the activity of growth hormone in fat cells can improve health and increase lifespan.

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