Stories tagged with: Department of Biological Sciences

Dr. Eric Gorscak is still an explorer, shown here in the field.

Alumnus Eric Gorscak's 'inner kid' loves his career discovering deep-time dinosaurs and ecosystems

January 9, 2023 6 min

Professor Nancy Stevens substitute teaching in Eric Gorscak's undergraduate paleontology class might have been serendipity, but Gorscak didn't leave anything to chance.

Marissa Dyck demonstrates a necropsy on a bobcat that was killed on a road for Ohio University undergraduates who conducted necropsies in 2019 and 2020 on roadkill animals for the lab's research.

Marissa Dyck awarded American Society of Mammologists' highest award for a graduate student

January 6, 2023 7 min

Marissa Dyck was awarded the 2022 American Society of Mammologists Fellowship. Mammals — specifically carnivores such as lynx, wolves, bobcats, and coyotes — are the focus of Dyck's research.

Ohio University professors (left to right) Douglas Goetz, Stephen Bergmeier and Kelly McCall, who discovered a compound that can possibly help protect against a plethora of physiological and pathophysiological diseases.

Alumna Kelly McCall veered into a research career fighting autoimmune and inflammatory diseases

December 21, 2022 4 min

Kelly McCall thought she was headed to dentistry school. But as graduation loomed, she changed her major to biological sciences and found herself on a very different health-care related path.

2022-23 Presidential Research Scholars are explorers of human history and scientific discovery

December 13, 2022 8 min

Ohio University has named four professors as its 2022-23 Presidential Research Scholars: Neil Bernstein, Ronan Carroll, Katherine Jellison, and Patrick O’Connor.

29 students receive Provost Undergraduate Research Fund awards

December 7, 2022 3 min

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.

Andrew Owusu, Osahon Ogbebor, and Adam Ward are shown in the podcast studio

With help from the Pod, four friends made the most of daily debates over sports

December 6, 2022 4 min

Shortly after they met their freshman year, Andrew Owusu, Osahon Ogbebor, Adam Ward and Gavin Broome found themselves arguing daily as they ate lunch at Nelson Dining Hall.

EBI postdoctoral fellow awarded fellowship in aging research

November 23, 2022 5 min

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.

A group of Ambassadors facilitating a clothing swap in Jefferson Hall in 2021 during their annual outreach day.

Sustainability Day on Nov. 14 aims to spur local action with a global impact

November 9, 2022 7 min

The Climate and Sustainability Ambassadors and the Ohio University Office of Sustainability are hosting Sustainability Day on Monday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Baker University Center

OHIO senior earns Air Force Health Professions Scholarship

November 4, 2022 2 min

Deborah Swegan, an Air Force ROTC cadet and senior at Ohio University, was recently awarded a competitive scholarship to pay for medical school.

Science Café features Lynn Harter exploring 'The Poetics and Politics of Storytelling' on Nov. 2

October 17, 2022 2 min

Ohio University's Science Café presents Lynn Harter exploring "The Poetics and Politics of Storytelling" on Wednesday, Nov. 2.

TriBeta invites students to explore opportunities to work with faculty at research fair on Oct. 11

October 5, 2022 4 min

Biological Sciences seniors say working in faculty labs results in exciting research, lasting friendships, and critical experience for future careers.

Riley Zielinski at the Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Riley Zielinski finally nails it in the lab, then tops her success with Germany internship

October 4, 2022 7 min

Riley Zielinski was in the biology lab late at night, running her experiment—again. "I had no faith it would work," she said.

Viorel Popescu to discuss future for Ohio bobcats at Oct. 5 Science Café

September 29, 2022 2 min

Science Café features Viorel Popescu discussing "The Secret Lives of the #RealBobcatsofOhio" at 5 p.m. on Oct. 5 at the Baker Center Theater and via YouTube.

An intrigued Eastern Gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) examining the camera. | Photo by alumnus Kyle Brooks

Biology alumnus inspires OHIO Wildlife and Nature Photography Scholarship competition

September 12, 2022 6 min

Ohio University students are invited to submit their best Athens County nature pics to the OHIO Wildlife and Nature Photography Scholarship Competition.

Alumni News | Ryan Wagner turns his grad school, camera focus on mudpuppy salamanders

September 10, 2022 4 min

Ryan Wagner has left a lot of footprints across the state of Ohio—most of them muddy ones.

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