Stories tagged with: graduate student research

Skyler Houser with a burrow cast.

Skyler Houser studies burrowing scorpions to learn more about the fossil record

Geological Sciences graduate student Skyler Houser spent this summer in a lab studying how scorpions make burrows so that he could compare the modern-day arthropods with their fossilized relatives.

The 2019 IEW Photo Contest Second Place Winning Image

Student registration now open for International Education Week activities

Ohio University celebrates International Education Week each year in November to champion the university’s excellence in global education through research, teaching and experiential learning.

Low Altitude Weather Network Launch

OHIO team soft launches first sensor in low altitude weather network

Assistant professor Chad Mourning was awarded one of Ohio Federal Research Network’s awards for a low altitude weather network, and has completed the soft launch of the first unit in the network.

Graduate student Abriana Gresham gets senior psychology major Nash Randall ready to demonstrate how data like heart rate is collected during their experiments.

Brett Peters and Peggy Zoccola to look at how friends influence social anxiety

Psychologists are taking a basic science approach to examine how one-on-one interpersonal interactions among friends may be directing impacting social anxiety.

A recently metamorphosed wood frog. Photo by Cassie Thompson.A recently metamorphosed wood frog. Photo by Cassie Thompson.

Cassandra Thompson shows danger to frogs from pesticide; points to a solution

Cassandra Thompson's research highlights the need to understand the tradeoffs of using pesticides on invasive species and the effects on vulnerable species such as amphibians.

Bernardo Santos and Maria Serenario

Brazilian students exchange culture and corrosion research

For Ph.D. students Bernardo Santos and Maria Serenario, studying corrosion at Ohio University’s Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology (ICMT) was a top priority.

Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos, portrait

Physics Ph.D. student wins Best Speaker Award at international conference in Spain

Physics doctoral student Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos received a prestigious Best Speaker Award at a large international conference in Spain.

Dr. David Koonce

David Koonce named interim vice president for research and creative activity and interim dean of the Graduate College

Dr. David Koonce has been named as the interim vice president for research and creative activity and interim dean of the Graduate College.

Samba Bah

Bah awarded ASMEA research grant

Gladys W. & David H. Patton College of Education doctoral student Samba Bah was recently awarded a $2,500 grant in support of his research.

Chiderah Jessica Chukwuka

Chukwuka explores how coal can strengthen polymers

Chiderah Jessica Chukwuka, found her niche researching the effects of coal as a filler to enhance the properties of phenolic resins. She will present her research at the Student Expo on April 7, 2022.

Emily Marino

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.

Kelly Love

Neither wind nor ice could stop Kelly Love's fieldwork

Kelly Love, a graduate student in the M.S. in Environmental Studies program, is looking at different methods to determine the health of an ecosystem.

Lynden Caldwell

Students search for linguistic answers in Southern Ohio Language Project

All five linguistics students have dug their roots into the Southern Ohio Language Project as a way to gather information and study how area residents use language.

Vanessa Obenewaa Antwi Doe

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.

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.

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