Yongmin Sun:
Associate Professor, Sociology

BAD NEWS FOR HISPANIC TEENS: PARENTS' MARITAL DISRUPTION HURTS THEM LEAST

     Compared to teens from other racial and ethnic groups, Hispanic adolescents don't experience nearly the level of problems during the process of their parents' divorce or separation. But that's not something to be glad about. New research suggests that Hispanic teens aren't as affected by their parents' marital disruption - including divorce and separation - only because they already face a host of difficulties and disadvantages before the breakup. "For many Hispanic adolescents, their life situation is already poor before their family dissolves - there may not be much further for them to drop," said Yongmin Sun, co-author of the study and associate professor of sociology at Ohio State's Mansfield campus.

Dr. Dawn Kitchen, assistant professor of anthropology, had the article "Factors affecting individual participation in group-level aggression in non-human primates" printed in the publication Behavior.
In recent years she has been involved in field experience with Chacma baboons in Botswana and has performed surveys of primates in South Africa and Zanzibar.

Kitchen came to the Mansfield campus in 2004. She has a doctorate degree in ecology, evolution and behavior from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Terri Fisher, associate professor of psychology, was co-chairwoman of the 50th anniversary meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in Indianapolis.

Fisher came to OSU-M 1981. In 1989, she won the Mansfield campus Award for Excellence in Scholarship. She has a doctorate in psychology from the University of Georgia.

Whites Underestmate The Costs Of Being Black, Study Finds

Women's Sexual Behaviors May Be Closer To Men's Than Previously Thought

Abedon, Stephen
Dr. Abedon's current research investigates bacteriophage (viruses of bacteria) and phage ecology and phage evolutionary ecology.

Costa, Ozeas
1) Nutrient biocomplexity in the Ohio River watershed: this project will investigate the relationship between hydrology and nutrient dynamics in the Ohio River watershed. This watershed covers a drainage area of over 200,000 square miles and includes parts of 11 states, affecting over 25 million people.

2) Using GIS to improve the geography literacy of high-school students: this project will develop and apply an instructional module that uses GIS technology for teaching geography to high school students (grades 9 to 12). We want to evaluate whether GIS can be used to enhance the students’ geographic knowledge and map skills.

Delagrange, Susan
Dr. Delagrange's current research and teaching interests include Digital Media and Visual Rhetoric, Writing Technologies, Feminist Rhetoric, Composition Studies, Teaching with Technology, and Business and Professional Communication.

Fisher, Terri
Dr. Fisher's research focuses on various aspects of sexual behavior and gender issues. Her current research investigates gender and personality differences in various aspects of sexual behavior.

Mazzocco, Phil
Dr. Mazzocco's research focuses on the factors that underlie racial attitudes, and especially racial policy attitudes. He is also interested in the conditions under which fairness motives will overwhelm self-interest motives, and vice versa.

Shaffer, Dennis
Dr. Shaffer's current research is in visual space and motion perception. His research investigates human pursuit of objects in several domains, the intuitive or naive beliefs people hold of the perceptual trajectories of objects moving relative to them and describing the animal pursuit of objects, mates and prey in three-dimensional space.

Undergraduate Research  

Research Assistant:

Faculty at The Ohio State University at Mansfield are highly involved with research, scholarship, and the creation of new knowledge. You can play an important role in this research by providing assistance to faculty members in a variety of fields. Sometimes independent study (693) or research (699) course credits can be given, depending on the nature of the assistance. Sometimes students are paid in exchange for their help on a research project. Occasionally students volunteer for this activity simply for the experience.

Senior Honor's Thesis:

One of the most challenging and fulfilling aspects of your college education could be completing an honors thesis. This is an opportunity for students who have at least a 3.3 GPA on 90 graded Ohio State hours. The student must enroll in 8 and 15 hours of independent research and/or course work applicable to the project. Departments in the College of Arts and Sciences offer an H783 course option for this purpose and the College of Education offers H599. The student must complete a research project, submit it in written form and undergo a minimum one-hour oral examination by a three-person faculty committee. Fulfilling these requirements will enable the student to graduate "with Distinction" in their major.
  The important first step is to think about what topic you might be interested in researching and approaching a professor in your major to asking if he/she would be willing to advise you. This should be done before the end of your junior year. The necessary forms and other advice may be obtained from Dr. Mark Ellis, Director of the OSU-Mansfield Honors Program in Riedl Hall, Room 226.

Student Research Projects:

Students who do not wish to or cannot undertake an honors thesis project can still pursue research areas that interest them. The student must find a professor willing to provide guidance and advice. Research, especially research involving human subjects, must go through an approval process before you can implement it. It is possible to get course credit for undertaking your own research project.