Research and Impact

Students with the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service test water quality in southeast Ohio.
OHIO Online

Risk management for a changing world: How organizations plan for disruption and recovery

July 16, 2026 4 min

OHIO’s Master of Sustainability, Security, and Resilience (MSSR) opens doors to a wide array of career opportunities across various industries. Graduates find themselves equipped to make a significant impact in government and policy leadership, disaster response and management, sustainable design and architecture and educational leadership and curriculum development.
OHIO Professor Nancy Sandler with collaborators
Faculty

Nancy Sandler advances condensed matter physics through research, leadership, and global collaboration

July 15, 2026 3 min

Nancy Sandler is a theoretical condensed matter physicist whose research at the Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute provides student mentoring, and scientific leadership.
An up-close image of someone scrolling on a social media platform.
Faculty Experts

How AI slop impacts our media landscape: OHIO AI faculty experts explain

July 9, 2026 10 min

If you’ve been on social media or the internet in the past year, you’ve likely encountered “AI slop.” Three AI-focused OHIO faculty experts explain the phenomenon and its impact on our media landscape.

Data and law enforcement represented by digital files and a gavel.
OHIO Research

Using data to fight human trafficking: OHIO researchers help state agency disrupt exploitation

June 26, 2026 7 min

OHIO Associate Professor Felipe Aros-Vera successfully used data, decision sciences and engineering to support the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking cases in Ohio, and the results have the potential to have a global impact.

600 Spectrometer
Spectrometer Unveiling

Ohio University unveils powerful new 600 MHz NMR spectrometer, expanding research opportunities for faculty and students

June 24, 2026 6 min

A new high-tech spectrometer is helping Ohio University researchers see the unseen. By revealing molecular structures with extraordinary precision, the instrument is poised to accelerate discoveries in fields ranging from medicine and drug development to advanced materials and chemical research.
Berkeley Franz HCOM
Research

Ohio University researchers expand opioid use disorder treatment with nearly $4 million NIH grant to improve rural primary care access

June 10, 2026 6 min

Berkeley Franz and her team have been awarded a major new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expand their work improving access to opioid use disorder treatment in primary care settings.
Aiden Payne
Research

Researcher Aiden Payne helps create new tool for understanding balance decline

June 9, 2026 6 min

New research by Aiden Payne sheds light on why balance becomes more difficult with age and Parkinson’s disease, offering insights that could lead to treatments that restore automatic balance control.
A doctor holds a tablet using artificial intelligence.
Research

Transparency is vital for AI usage in health care, patient-provider relationship, OHIO researchers find

June 8, 2026 8 min

Ohio University Professors Gaurav Bansal and Vic Matta have found that addressing transparency concerns is the most critical way to foster trust in primary care providers and improve patient outcomes.
Posed portrait of Shaohua Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor of medical microbiology at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Research

Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine researcher sees promise in diabetes medication to fight C. diff infections

June 2, 2026 3 min

A Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine researcher is investigating a promising new strategy for preventing dangerous and recurrent infections caused by C. diff in patients with heart failure.
Craig Nunemaker, PhD, works in his lab
Diabetes Research

Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine researchers uncover new details in type 2 diabetes development

June 2, 2026 3 min

Researchers at Ohio University have discovered new information about how type 2 diabetes develops and how future treatments may help protect insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
Cory W. Baumann, Ph.D.
OHIO Research

Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine researcher receives $2.8 M to investigate proteins affecting muscle resilience

May 28, 2026 3 min

The Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine has received a $2.8 million award from the NIH to investigate how skeletal muscle adapts to exercise and why those adaptations decline with age.

A hand pointing too a laptop that has the word "slop" oozing out of it.
Faculty Experts

What is ‘AI slop’: OHIO AI faculty experts explain

May 20, 2026 10 min

If you’ve been on social media or the internet in the past year, you’ve likely encountered “AI slop.” Three AI-focused OHIO faculty experts define and explain the phenomenon across their different disciplines.
Ian Klein works with students
OHIO faculty

Meet OHIO’s Educational Influencer

May 12, 2026 2 min

In the increasingly crowded space of online influencers, you might not expect to find an enthusiastic teacher of anatomy, physiology and health education. But for one Ohio University professor, creating content is a natural extension of the classroom.
Recent Ohio University alumnae Cat Gavin, left, and Lara Fogwell, right, design their experiment in a laboratory setting.
Student Success

Recent OHIO grads conduct foundational space farming research with experiment bound for ISS

May 7, 2026 7 min

Three recent Ohio University graduates designed an experiment that will be launched into space and sent to the International Space Station as soon as mid-May. Lara Fogwell and Cat Gavin, along with collaborator Jake Magula, are studying the effects of microgravity on plants, research that may also prove extremely valuable for the future of space farming.
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Community Impact

OHIO Online student promotes environmental stewardship through story

May 7, 2026 3 min

Through OHIO Online and collaboration with the Voinovich School, Artie Knapp is applying his coursework to expand sustainability education for young learners.
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