Research and Impact

OHIO alums use their research to create signs for OHIO’s Outdoor Museum

August 18, 2021 6 min

Three recent Ohio University alumni leveraged their graduate research to expand outdoor immersive learning at the OHIO Museum Complex (OMC) by helping to develop signage in the Outdoor Museum.

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Ohio University advances new research partnership to fuel U.S. manufacturing competitiveness

August 11, 2021 3 min

The APLU announced a $90,000 grant to OHIO to explore how public universities can develop and scale partnerships with Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers to increase success.

Sandal investigates Turkey's political ambitions, religious populism in new publications

August 9, 2021 4 min

Dr. Nukhet Sandal will bring some fresh-off-the-press perspective to a course she’s teaching on Middle Eastern politics this fall after being published twice this summer on Turkey’s politics.

Two undergraduate students look into a fish tank with lots of greenery and fish

Student Research

Students enjoy diving into freshwater fish biology research in the Morris Lab

August 4, 2021 7 min

A biology lab filled with thousands of freshwater fish from Mexico provides a hands-on setting for Ohio University students to examine how tiny, colorful swordtail fish are evolving and adapting.

Ohio University, partners will collaborate on virtual reality simulations to educate professionals on major health issues

July 29, 2021 6 min

OHIO will partner with CWRU School of Medicine, UToledo, MetroHealth, and Equitas Health to educate Ohio’s Medicaid providers and other healthcare professionals in the state of Ohio on health issues.

Ohio University announces transformative gift establishing the Ohio University BSN - Joyce N. Herrold, M.D. Nursing Program at Lancaster Campus

July 27, 2021 4 min

The Ohio University Foundation is announcing a transformational gift from Joyce N. Herrold, M.D., to extend the Ohio University Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program to the Lancaster Campus.

Brian Collins dives into ancient Sanskrit poem and comes up with - a modern plotline?

July 15, 2021 5 min

How does a non-traditional college student end up a preeminent scholar decoding an ancient Indian myth about a Hindu god with a resemblance to Oedipus?

School of Theater faculty member set to research theater and ethics in Germany thanks to the Humboldt Fellowship

July 7, 2021 3 min

Matthew Cornish received a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, an international, competitive fellowship that supports scholars by connecting them to institutions in Germany.

OHIO professor Snell receives NSF grant to transform the model for examining climate change and forests

July 7, 2021 3 min

Dr. Rebecca Snell will construct a new way to predict how forests might respond to climate change thanks to a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant designed for potentially transformative research.

OHIO physicists are getting even closer to the Big Bang, thanks to a new way to examine light from the past

July 1, 2021 6 min

Ohio University physicists are using data from 20 years of ground-based observations of the night sky from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to tackle a fundamental physics question.

OHIO Heritage College professor awarded NIH grant to research the motor neuron in relation to aging

June 30, 2021 5 min

Brian Clark, Ph.D., received a five-year, nearly $3 million National Institutes of Health grant to conduct a series of animal and human studies to better understand motor neuron excitability.

Sabrina Curran and Claire Terhune work on a lab table covered with fossils

Curran searches for clues to human dispersal into Europe along the Danube River

June 28, 2021 5 min

Early human ancestors 2 million years ago would have found a hospitable environment to enter Europe through southern Romania along the Danube River and its tributaries, says an OHIO anthropologist.

Sen. George Voinovich and Dean Mark Weinberg

New Voinovich School name to reflect leadership position and reputation for public service

June 28, 2021 5 min

Effective July 1, 2021, the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs will be renamed the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service.

Kettering Health main campus, tall buildings and trees

Ohio University, Kettering Health agreement expands collaborative medical and health research opportunities

June 23, 2021 2 min

Ohio University and Kettering Health have entered into a research collaboration agreement that will serve as a framework for future joint research projects.

Emma Rice poses for a picture in the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), with the number 13 out of 30 total circuitries needed to build GRETA (Gamma Ray Energy Tracking Array)

OHIO Goldwater Scholar studies nuclear physics in national California lab

June 16, 2021 5 min

Ohio University student Emma Rice, an upcoming senior and physics major in the Honors Tutorial College, was recently named a 2021 Goldwater Scholar for her physics research.

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