Post Tagged with: "environmental and plant biology alumni"

PBIO Colloquium | Alum on ‘Embryology in Cardiopteris,’ Feb. 12

Dr. Melanie Schori

The Environmental & Plant Biology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Melanie Schori on “Embryology in Cardiopteris” on Friday, Feb. 12, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 104. Schori is a Visiting Scholar in the Environmental & Plant Biology Department and an Ohio University alumnus, earning a Ph.D. in 2010. Abstract: Embryology, which focuses […]

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February 1, 2016 at 9:15 pmAlumni Events

Jimmy Tong: Four Decades of WISE Guidance

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry James Tong. Photo by Jean Andrews/Ohio University.

Forty years ago there were very few women students or women faculty members in science and engineering fields at public universities—anywhere. Dr. James Tong, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, decided it was time to correct this stark imbalance. In an era when most young women were not […]

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June 24, 2015 at 1:14 pmNews

Youngstown Names Herbarium after Plant Biology Alum

Youngstown State University has named its herbarium in memory of Ohio University alum Carl F. Chuey ’69M.S., “a Youngstown State University biology professor who grew the university’s herbarium from about 200 plant specimens in 1967 to about 115,000,” reports the Vindicator. YSU dedicated the herbarium on May 8. He earned […]

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May 12, 2015 at 10:51 amAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Park Named for Plant Biology Alum Being Relocated

George Carper

A small park on the Athens Campus that was created as a tribute an Ohio University alum responsible for many landscaping efforts at the University over a more than 30-year period is being relocated. The late George Carper ’48 earned a B.S. in agriculture from the College of Arts & […]

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January 30, 2015 at 3:19 pmAlumni

Plant Biology Alum Brings Beauty to Food Desert in Columbus

Plant Biology Alum Brings Beauty to Food Desert in Columbus

Ohio University alum Nick Stanich ’08 is helping one of the oldest neighborhoods in Columbus to grow food, create beauty, and build community. Stanich is the director of Franklinton Gardens, a non-profit urban farm dedicated to growing and sharing healthy food, creating beauty, and building community with our neighbors. Many […]

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January 7, 2015 at 3:58 pmAlumni News

Alum on ‘Conservation of Edaphic Floras in a Human Modified Landscape,’ Sept. 12

Dr. Matthew Albrecht

The Environmental & Plant Biology Colloquium presents Dr. Matthew Albrecht ’06PhD—an Ohio University alum—on “Matrix matters: Conservation of Edaphic Floras in a Human Modified Landscape” on Friday, Sept. 12, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 104. Albrecht is Assistant Curator of Conservation Biology in the Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development […]

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September 12, 2014 at 8:15 pmEvents

Environmental Biology Alum To Talk about Organic Composting

Ohio University alum Tim Pritchard ’10 will be a featured presenter at the May 4 Herb Faire, hosted by the Herb Society of the Preble County (OH) Historical Society. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Biology from the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology in the College of Arts & […]

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April 10, 2014 at 4:24 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News