Research

 

We have outstanding faculty at the Southern campus. You will find our faculty to be engaged in their academic areas. They are instructors, researchers and authors who publish and present nationally and internationally. They engage students and give them opportunities to present their work at the national level. Our faculty enrich the lives of students in the way they teach and leave impressions that last a lifetime. They are accomplished professionals in their fields who bring valuable experience to the classroom.
 

Dr. Orianna Carter is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches freshman biology majors and health care professionals, in course topics ranging from ecology, microbiology, biochemistry and human biology.  Her ecology textbook was written to address current issues facing global ecosystems in the 21st century in a flexible format that is a cost-effective alternative for students.  Dr. Carter enjoys teaching about sustainability human health, and has published on aquatic hypoxia for the National Center for Case Study Teaching and applications with a negative ionizer to measure student brainwave activity in the teaching laboratory, published in HumanPsychophysiology, FocusOnFaculty.

 

Dr. Suzanne Cromlish is an Assistant Professor of Instruction, Health Services Administration at Ohio University, serving the Lancaster, Chillicothe, and Southern Campuses. She has a Ph.D. in Management, Designing Sustainable Systems, from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and an MBA and MHA (Masters in Health care Administration) from Pfeiffer University in Charlotte. Dr. Cromlish has over 25 years of experience within the corporate health care arena by being the CEO/Administrator of a Skilled Nursing Facility and of an Assisted Living Facility Campus, which included an Independent Senior Living Apt. Complex and a community center.  Biannually, she fulfills continuing education units required to maintain both above CEO/Administrator Licenses. She and her husband also owned their own nationwide entrepreneurial small business as they developed and taught Train the Trainer Courses for Law Enforcement Academies. Her research interests include positively impacting Employee Owned organizations and empowering the 99%.  Her dissertation research, producing dramatic findings, has been presented at numerous international, national, and regional conferences. As a volunteer Sign Language Interpreter, she has interpreted for U.S. Presidents and First Ladies: Ronald Reagan, the late Elder and George W. Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, and many Governors, Senators, and celebrities. She is a member of The National Center for Employee Ownership, The ESOP Association, The Private Directors Association, and is an Advisory Board Member for the Ohio Employee Ownership Center.     

 

Dr. Hayley Mitchell Haugen is a Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches composition, American literature, and creative writing. Her poetry chapbook What the Grimm Girl Looks Forward To appears from Finishing Line Press (2016), and her full-length poetry collection Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light is from Main Street Rag (2018). Her critical work on illness and disability has appeared in the anthologies The Body in Medical Culture; On the Literary Non-fiction of Nancy Mairs; Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror; The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror, and elsewhere. She edits Sheila-Na-Gig online: https://sheilanagigblog.com/ and Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. 

 

Deborah Marinski, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, authored a book examining the life and presidency of William McKinley, as well as his role as the first modern President. Deborah recently presented at the National Phi Alpha Theta Biennial History Conference and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference.

 

Nicole Pennington, D.N.P., Executive Dean for Regional Higher Education & Lifelong Learning, Dean of Campus & Community Relations, Southern Campus and an Associate Professor of Nursing, focuses her scholarly endeavors in the area of improving adolescent health outcomes. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and she has presented at multiple national nursing conferences. Dr. Pennington was recently named Regional Outstanding Faculty Member by her Ohio University peers.

 

Yehong Shao-Lucas, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics, is conducting research in the use of SmartPens, Graph Theory, Matroids and Combinatorics. Her research has been published in Discrete Applied Mathematics, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B, and the European Journal of Combinatorics.