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Dr. Brian McCarthy, Associate Dean of the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, was quoted in an Athens Messenger story on “‘The vine that ate the South’ also has a major presence in Southeast Ohio.” Kudzu is one of at least a […]

By McKenzie Powell From Compass Ohio University students and faculty spent a recent Saturday working with their counterparts from Hocking Technical College, Miami University, and volunteers from the community, U.S. Forest Service, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the National Wild Turkey Federation, and the American Chestnut Foundation on a […]

A Farm and Dairy article on “American chestnut on the comeback trail” quotes Dr. Brian McCarthy, Professor of Forest Ecology and Associate Dean for Faculty, Graduate Studies and Research in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Dr. Brian C. McCarthy, an environmental and plant biology professor at […]

The College of Arts & Sciences is offering a short 75-minute workshop for graduate students interested in submitting an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Wilson Hall 303. NSF provides Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIG) in various disciplines within the […]

Volunteers from the community are sought to help plant American chestnut trees in Wayne National Forest on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 10 a.m. till 3 p.m. Volunteers will plant up to 750 containerized seedlings from The American Chestnut Foundation seed orchards from Meadowview Nursery in Virginia. The seedlings are the […]

A College of Arts & Sciences Academic Leadership Group is being organized for the 2014-15 academic year, for faculty who are new or relatively new to academic leadership positions at the university or who are interested in academic leadership (e.g., as department chair, program director, graduate chair, or other academic […]

“The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was once a dominant canopy species in the Eastern Deciduous Forest. Unfortunately, the species was decimated by the chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) in the early 20th century,” say Dr. Brian McCarthy and Lauren Bizzari in the introduction to their poster on “An experimental assessment of […]