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Vanessa Obenewaa Antwi Doe studies effect of second-hand clothing market on Ghanaian seamstresses

Vanessa Obenewaa Antwi Doe will talk about her research, "Implications of fast fashion’s second-hand clothing market on seamstresses in the Ghanaian Textile Industry," at the Student Expo on April 7.

What Emily Marino didn't expect to find in the lab

From Emily Marino's first day as a Bobcat, she knew she would be spending a lot of time in a lab, conducting experiments, and writing her Honors Tutorial College senior thesis.

OHIO students Meghan Harris, Danielle Klein, and Maddie McNamara

Three students are re-engineering how to get Cedar Point ready for summer fun

Industrial and systems engineering students Danielle Klein, Maddie McNamara and Meghan Harris are hard at work on the Cedar Point project.

Alexis Karolin at the Mahn Center in Alden Library

Alexis Karolin is documenting Asian American and Pacific Islanders’ history as it happens

Alexis Karolin is carving out a portion of her Honors Tutorial College senior thesis into a project that she'll present at the Student Expo on April 7.

Riley Sombathy is shown looking into a microscope

Riley Sombathy studies rings in dinosaur legs to see how they grew

Riley Sombathy says nothing is more exciting than when he looks into the microscope and the rings appear on the slice of ancient Allosaurus bone.

Graduate student’s project on sanitation, wastewater treatment to help low-income communities

Low-income households soon will have increased access to sanitation solutions thanks to a wastewater research project being completed by Nichole Mazzone, a graduate student in the Voinovich School.

Steven Evans reflects on career and colleagues in Distinguished Professor Lecture

Ohio University celebrated the work of Distinguished Professor Steven Evans on Wednesday, March 16.

New OHIO study finds link between racial/ethnic disparities and COVID-19 deaths

OHIO researcher Berkeley Franz has published a new study examining the relationship between systemic racism, residential segregation and racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.

A man leaving through a doorway flanked by signs about vaccination

New OHIO research finds reasons for vaccine hesitancy among Ohioans

Distrust in government and institutions is a key indicator of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy according to a recently published study by a team of Ohio University researchers.

Virtual Academy connects Appalachian students to STEM activities hosted by Voinovich School

The region’s K-12 students now have access to a variety of online STEM educational activities thanks to the Voinovich School, which recently launched the Appalachian STEM Enrichment Academy.

OHIO professor and alumna team up to study fringe religious groups and 'cult films'

An Ohio University alumna filmmaker and a religious studies professor teamed up to edit a special journal issue on "cult films," as told through interviews with scholars and filmmakers.

Ohio University collaborates to provide front-line health care workers with virtual reality simulation to help reduce stress

Researchers from OHIO's GRID Lab and the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine have collaborated with OhioHealth to offer front-line health care workers tranquil virtual reality simulations.

A photo of a mural on the Ciencias Sociales campus

Loren Lybarger and colleagues examine how remembering Argentina state terror drives demands for justice today

A new book by Loren Lybarger and two colleagues examines how remembering this tragic past can help people mobilize for justice in the present.

Dr. Zach Meisel gives a time-of-flight tunnel tour at the Edwards Accelerator Lab

Ohio University achieves prestigious Carnegie R1 Classification, joins highest level of research institutions in the nation

OHIO has joined the highest level of research institutions in the country by earning the R1 Classification in the latest Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

1. Graduate student Emily Fairchild, along with her advisor, Dr. Jennifer Hines, professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, and six other students recently published the first structural biology analysis of a section of the COVID-19 viral RNA called the stem-loop II motif.

Ohio University joins highest level of research institutions in the nation

Ohio University has joined the highest level of research institutions in the country by earning the R1 Classification in the latest Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

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