OU Ecologist’s NSF Grant Supports Research into Deadly Amphibian Disease Dr. Thomas Raffel, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Oakland University (OU), has been awarded a five-year grant totaling nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research on the effects of temperature variation on chytridiomycosis, an infectious disease that has been linked to mass amphibian die-offs and extinctions throughout the world. “There has been a major decline in … [Read more...]