Research at Ohio State

Abedon, S. T. , Katsaounis, T. I. (2019—book chapter; published online). Detection of Bacteriophages: Phage Enumeration via Plaque Counts. In: Bacteriophages: Biology, Technology, Therapy. Harper, D., Abedon, S. T., Burrows, B.H., McConville, M. (eds), Springer. The DOI of the book is https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41986-2 

Abedon, S. T. , Katsaounis, T. I. (2018). Basic Phage Mathematics. Methods in Molecular Biology 1681:3-30. 

Callahan, Cynthia. “Adoption, Abortion, and Ambivalence: Processing the Dobbs Decision.” Adoption & Culture, vol. 10, no. 2, 2022, 237-44, Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/ado.2022.0023. 

Callahan, Cynthia. “Nice White Lady: Whiteness and Domestic Transracial Adoption in Helen Doss’s The Family Nobody Wanted.” Adoption & Culture, vol. 10, no. 1, 2022, pp. 43-63. 

Callahan, Cynthia. “’Bad Seeds’ and Wayward Boys in Postwar Adoption Fiction.” Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 67, no. 1, 2021, pp.75-99.

GUO, J., COSTA, O.S. Jr., YAN, X., WU, M., QIU, H., LI, W., XU, G., WANG, Y. (in review). Nutrient budgets in the coastal regions of northern Beibu Gulf, South China Sea. Preprint available at https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4286620 

CHEN, Z., COSTA, O.S. Jr. (2023). Nutrient Sequestration by Two Aquatic Macrophytes on Artificial Floating Islands in a Constructed Wetland. Sustainability, Volume 15(8): 6553. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15086553. 

PONTES, S.F., SILVA, Y.J.A.B., MARTINS, V., BOECHAT, C.L., ARAUJO, A.S.F., DANTAS, J.S., COSTA, O.S. Jr., BARBOSA, R.S. (2022). Prediction of Soil Erodibility by Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy in a Neotropical Dry Forest Biome. Land, Volume 11: 2188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land11122188 

SILVA-JUNIOR, C.H.L., BUNA, A.T.M., BEZERRA, D.S., COSTA, O.S. Jr., SANTOS, A.L., BASSON, L.O.D., SANTOS, A.L.S., ALVARADO, S.T., ALMEIDA, C.T., FREIRE, A.T.G., ROUSSEAU, G.X., CELENTANO, D., SILVA, F.B., PINHEIRO, M.S.S., AMARAL, S., KAMPEL, M., VEDOVATO, L.B., ANDERSON, L.O., ARAGAO, L.E.O.C. (2022). Forest fragmentation and fires in the eastern Brazilian Amazon – Maranhão state, Brazil. Fire, Volume 5(3): 77. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5030077 

MARTINS, V., BARBOSA, R.S., COSTA, O.S. Jr., SILVA, Y.J.A.B, SILVA, Y.J.A.B, SOUSA, S., VASCONCELOS, V., NARDOTO, G. (2021). Potentially toxic elements and rare earth elements in sandy soils from the Brazilian Cerrado. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Volume 193: 780. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-09583-0 

GUO, J., COSTA, O.S. Jr., WANG, Y., LIN, W., WANG, S., ZHANG, B., CUI, Y., FU, H., ZHANG, L. (2020). Accumulation rates and chronologies from depth profiles of 210Pbex and 137Cs in sediments of northern Beibu Gulf, South China Sea. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Volume 213: 106136. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2019.106136 

MARAFON, G., BARBOSA, R.S., LACERDA, J.J.J., MARTINS, V., SILVA, J.D.F., COSTA, O.S. Jr. (2020). C and P pool restoration by a no-tillage system on Brazilian Cerrado Oxisol in Piauí State. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Volume 192: 254. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-8221-6

T. Gregory & M. I. Kuznetsov. (2019). On graded Lie algebras of characteristic three with classical reductive null component. Journal of Algebra, vol. 538 (2019), pp. 35-80.

Slagle, K., M. Stranger, G. Karns, and J. Bruskotter. 2020. Characterizing potential for recreational access and habitat conservation within Ohio’s private landscape: Scioto watershed. The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, OH, USA.

Stranger, M., K. Slagle, G. Karns, and J. Bruskotter. 2020. Connecting hunters and landowners: A 2018 program evaluation of Ohio’s Cooperative Hunting, Trapping, and Fishing Program. The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, OH, USA.

Slagle, K., G. Karns, and J. Bruskotter. 2020. “Deer in Ohio: Results from the 2019 survey of hunters and landowners.” The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, OH, USA.

Metcalf, J., G. Karns, M. Gade, P. Gould, and J. Bruskotter. In press. Wildlife agency mission statements provide insight into the purpose and practice of conservation. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. Read more

Katsaounis, T. I. (2022). On multistage experiments with restrictions in the randomization of treatments. Statistical Papers, Springer: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00362-021-01254-z 

Katsaounis, T. I. , 2018.On Isometric Error-correcting codes over finite fields of prime order, Journal of Informatics and Mathematical Sciences, 10, 1, 1-11 (accepted : Nov 2017). https://www.rgnpublications.com/journals/index.php/jims/article/view/677 

Katsaounis, T. I., Manohar L. A., 2016. Two-level screening designs derived from binary nonlinear codes, Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, 45, 210-220 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1016/j.jkss.2015.10.001

D. Slack (2020). “A Beautiful Haven”, GreenPrints, A literary magazine. Autumn 2020, Issue 123.

Shayne B. Piasta, Jessica A.R. Logan, Kristin S. Farley, Tara M. Strang, and Laura M. Justice. In press. “Profiles and Predictors of Children’s Growth in Alphabet Knowledge”, Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk.

Heather J. Tanner, Lordship and Governance by the Countesses of Boulogne, 1160-1260 (ARC Humanities Press, June 2023)

Heather J. Tanner, editor, Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100-1400: Moving Beyond the Exceptionalist Debate (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)

Heather J. Tanner, “Matilda of Boulogne: The Indispensable Partner.” In Norman to Early Plantagenet Consorts, edited by Aidan Norrie, Carolyn Harris, J. L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre, 99–118. New York: Palgrave, 2023.

Heather J. Tanner, “The Twelfth-Century Norman and Angevin Duke-Kings of England and the Northern French Nobility,” Anglo-Norman Studies 45 (2022): 153-168.

Heather J. Tanner, “Women’s Legal Capacity – Was the thirteenth-century a turning point?” in Paradigm Shifts During the Global Middle Ages and Early Modern Age, ed. Albrecht Classen, ASMAR (Turhout: Brepols, 2019), 81-96.

Heather J. Tanner, Lois L. Huneycutt and Laura L. Gathagan, “Introduction” in Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100-1400: Moving Beyond the Exceptionalist Debate, ed. Heather J. Tanner (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), 1-18.

Heather Tanner, College of Arts and Sciences Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award, April 2023

Heather Tanner, associate professor of history, was recently honored with The Susan Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award. This prestigious award is given annually to a faculty member, staff member or student within The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences who has demonstrated outstanding mentoring and leadership on behalf of women, or other historically underrepresented groups at the university. Read more

Under the advisement of Ozeas S. Costa, Jr., associate professor of earth sciences, graduate student Zhaozhe Chen is conducting the key research he needs as he works to add a master’s degree in earth science to his master’s in biochemistry.  Read more

Karns, G. Wildlife on the Edge: Managing for the Good Effects and Mitigating the Bad. Woodland, Water, and Wildlife Conference, Mansfield, Ohio.

M. Stranger, J. Bruskotter, G. Karns, K. Slagle, A. Dietch. Connecting hunters and landowners: evaluation of Ohio’s cooperative program, Pathways: Human Dimensions of Wildlife Conference, Kenya.

K. Slagle, J. Bruskotter, M. Stranger, G. Karns. Applying the SEEDS Framework: A case study of white-tailed deer in Ohio. Conference for the Society of Conservation Biology, Denver, Colorado.

Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, “Gender and Masquing in Henry VIII,” Shakespeare Association of America, Minneapolis, March 2023

Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, roundtable speaker, “What’s Good Now? The Pulter Project, the Oxford Greville, and 21st-Century Canon Formation,” Renaissance Society of America, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2023

“The importance of pollinations ecology in the maintenance of coastal biodiversity in The Bahamas: Why the details matter.” Food for the Future: Bahamian Invertebrates, Bahamas Natural History Webinar Series. Carol Landry, PhD, associate professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology. Watch

Heather Tanner. “The Origins and Evolution of the Honour, 11th to early 13th century” annual meeting of the International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2023. 

Heather Tanner. “The Early Angevin Kings and the Northern French Nobles,” annual meeting of the Battle Conference in Anglo-Norman Studies, July 2021. 

Heather Tanner. “Anger, Violence, and the Exercise of Power in High Medieval French Chronicles – Was there a double standard for noble men and women?” Gender, Memory and Documentary Culture, 900-1200, conference co-sponsored by the John Rylands Research Institute and the Haskins Society, June 2019. 

Heather Tanner. “Charters – the formulaic elements as a window into northern French nobles’ legal mentalité” annual meeting of the International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2019.

Elizabeth Kolkovich, Folger Shakespeare Library fellowship for “Remaking Shakespeare’s Masques.” It is a non-residential fellowship, called a “scholarly virtual fellowship.”

Stavros Constantinou, PhD, professor of geography was one of only two university-wide faculty to be awarded a Sustainability Institute grant for his education abroad course called “Geography of the European Union” and was recently featured recently in the Office of International Affairs newsletter. Learn more

Karns, G., L. Ober, K. Smith, S. Matthews. 2020. Freeman’s maple (red x silver) potential for syrup production and resilience in Ohio’s forests. United States Department of Agriculture ACER Grant program. $217,148.13.

Kip Curtis, associate professor of environmental history at Ohio State Mansfield and faculty fellow in the Office of Outreach and Engagement, has been selected to receive a $89,976 grant from the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NCR-SARE) for the project, "Growing the Growers: Leadership Training and the Development of Key Personnel for Engaged Production in the Mansfield Microfarm Project." Read more

John Thrasher, Art--Mechanics Bank Award for Excellence, The 78th Annual May Show, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio. May 4-June 18

Kate Shannon, associate professor of art, currently has two shows going on in different parts of the country. She is featured in a show that opened in October in Lyon College's Kresge Gallery in Arkansas entitled, “Lie, Cheat, Steal: Contemporary Art and Ethics.” The curator says that the show, “seeks to frame issues of honesty and integrity in ways that may be serious, humorous or even provocative”.

Also, until mid-December, Shannon’s solo exhibition “Lifted and Leaden” will be featured in the Sheetz Gallery at Penn State Altoona.

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J. Thrasher. Political Discord, national juried exhibition, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA. Online exhibition ran October-November 2020.

Ohio State Mansfield Theatre fall 2020 season offered snippets of Louis Bromfield, “Bromfield is an under-appreciated genius, and we are excited to bring samples of one of his lesser-known works to local audiences,” said Joseph Fahey, associate professor of theatre. Additionally, the theatre program distilled the world-famous classic Oedipus down to a vital, dynamic story. “Our hope is to make it available to schools as a free resource for studying and performing Greek tragedies.”

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The artwork of John Thrasher, associate professor of art, has recently been accepted for the November 2020 national juried exhibition “Panic” at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA.