Research

Dr. Philip Cantino, Professor Emeritus of Environmental & Plant Biology, co-authored an article on “A large-scale chloroplast phylogeny of the Lamiaceae sheds new light on its subfamilial classification” in Scientific Reports on Oct. 17. His co-authors are Bo Li of Jiangxi Agricultural University; Richard G. Olmstead of the University of […]

Dr. Linda J. Rice, Professor of English and Director of the Master of Arts in English Online for High School Teachers, presented at the Lilly National Conference in Traverse City, MI, in October. The conference covers areas such as: community is cornerstone to improved student learning; participants are life-long learners; […]

By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern When a panorama camera is used to capture a landscape, the object must remain perfectly still. If the object moves during recording, a blurred, distorted image will result. This phenomenon, known as the “blurring effect,” can have a similar, problematic impact in advanced molecular […]

By Heather Willard PACE Writer Environmental and Plant Biology Dr. Morgan Vis, Professor and Chair of Environmental & Plant Biology, and two of her graduate students, Emily Keil and Joshua Evans, traveled to John Carroll University in Cleveland for the 70th annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America this […]

Kelly Sundberg, a doctoral student in the Creative Writing program at Ohio University, worked on an upcoming memoir on her trip to Belgium, where she participated in an artist’s residency. She was awarded a competitive scholarship from Ohio University’s English Department, one of eight to students who are conducting research for their respective dissertations […]

By Heather Willard, PACE Writer Environmental and Plant Biology Dr. Allan Showalter, Professor Environmental & Plant Biology, traveled to Crete, Greece, this summer for the XIV Cell Wall Meeting to present his research on hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins, more specifically the enzymes associated with the sugars on those proteins. Showalter used two […]

By Heather Willard PACE Writer Environmental and Plant Biology Dr. Elizabeth Hermsen, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, braved freezing temperatures to go to two conferences last May—the Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium and the Paleontological Research Institution Summer Symposium. She studies fossil water clovers of the genus Marsileaceae, reassessing the […]