Stories tagged with: Department of Biological Sciences

Jess Mitchell holding a dog in front of a sign that says

Purr-fect internship: OHIO pre-vet junior spends summer at animal clinic

August 24, 2023 5 min

Ohio University junior Jess Mitchell spent 12 weeks this summer working and living on-site at Animal Care Sanctuary, one of the biggest and oldest no-kill shelters in the United States.

Group shot of students at 2022 STEMstart community science day

Families, schoolteachers and students invited to Science in the Community at the Ridges on Aug. 22

August 10, 2023 2 min

Community members, families and teachers are invited to join in science activities and explore STEM resources with first-year students at Science in the Community on Aug. 22 at the Ridges.

OHIO alumna uses classroom knowledge to further zebrafish research

August 4, 2023 5 min

When Erin Binne took an Animal Behavior class taught by Professor Molly Morris, she had no idea some of the lessons she learned would eventually help her keep an entire colony of zebrafish alive.

Student Enhancement Awards provide $110,116 in funding to 20 students

July 19, 2023 3 min

The Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards program provided 20 students with a total of $110,116 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work this spring.

Making time to learn leads to solid foundation in sciences

July 12, 2023 2 min

A love of biology and teaching has led to Orianna Carter’s over 25-year career in education.

Ronan Carroll: Taking the fight against a dangerous microbe to its RNA

May 3, 2023 4 min

Ronan Carroll's team is looking for ways to stop a potent killer, one that is getting adept at resisting antibiotics: Staphylococcus aureus.

Commencement Spotlight: Hayden Higginbotham

May 3, 2023 4 min

Hayden Higginbotham originally chose OHIO for the affordable cost, but soon came to realize that he made the right decision because of the people he would meet at Ohio University.

Commencement Spotlight: Alicia Weadock

April 26, 2023 3 min

After graduation, Alicia Weadock will be attending OHIO’s Heritage College of Medicine for medical school with the hopes of becoming a family medicine physician and practicing in a rural area.

From left, Graduate (G) and undergraduate students (UG) in Lee lab: Reaz Uddin (G), Gabriel Morgan (UG), Olivia Ferrell (UG), Bryn Cancilla (G), Zoe Utsinger (UG), Spencer Schell (Lab Tech), and Dr. Daewoo Lee.

Professor Daewoo Lee awarded NIH grant to study how pathogenic protein spreads in Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia

April 24, 2023 2 min

Daewoo Lee will probe how a pathogenic protein is able to spread in the brain, leading to progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.

Khairul Alam was a 2022 patent recipient.

OHIO recognizes faculty, student and alumni inventors, including 11 patent recipients

April 20, 2023 5 min

Ohio University recognized dozens of faculty, student, staff and alumni researchers who submitted intellectual property disclosures and 11 projects that received patents in 2022.

Research & Impact

The efforts behind a greener Ohio University

April 17, 2023 7 min

Every day, students, faculty and staff work to make Ohio University a more climate-friendly place to live and learn.

Ryan Steere from the College of Arts & Sciences won first place and the People’s Choice master's award.

Eight graduate students win cash awards in Three Minute Thesis competition

March 14, 2023 4 min

Eight graduate students won cash awards at the Ohio University Three Minute Thesis Competition finals hosted by the Graduate College on Feb. 23.

Ohio University researchers Patrick O’Connor and Riley Sombathy co-author paper published in Science on body size evolution in dinosaurs

February 23, 2023 4 min

Researchers including OHIO professor Patrick O’Connor and Ph.D. student Riley Sombathy discovered through examining the bones of dinosaurs there was no relationship between growth rate and body size.

OHIO researcher investigates first assessment of livestock predation risk from brown bears in Romania

February 8, 2023 5 min

Researchers from the University of Bucharest, Ohio University, and several management agencies and environmental NGOs has assessed livestock predation across a number of factors.

Scott Moody with a Sandhill Crane in 2017.

University community mourns Biology Professor Emeritus Scott Moody

January 19, 2023 8 min

The Ohio University community mourns the passing of Associate Professor Emeritus Scott Moody, whose research and teaching affected students for more than four decades.

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