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By Zulfa Rizqiya From Compass Sometimes in college, you meet a professor who ignites a passion within you, changing your life forever. For Ohio University alumni Ralph Quatrano, Bob Goldberg and Dean DellaPenna Jr., that professor was undoubtedly Norman “Norm” S. Cohn. When they discovered the news of Cohn’s passing […]

By Heather Willard, PACE Writer The forest pest Emerald ash borer, which kills Ash trees, has been an issue in the United States since it was first detected in 2002, but Jeremy Held thinks there may be hope for the endemic trees. He received a Provost Undergraduate Research Fund award […]

By Heather Willard ’17 Courtney Denning ’10 graduated from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University with bachelor degrees in Applied Ecology and Women’s and Gender Studies. Now, seven years later, Denning is a successful professional with a career that takes advantage of some tasty tropical plants. Connect […]

Proposals now accepted for spring awards cycle. The deadline is Thursday, Feb. 9, at 4 p.m. The John C. Baker Fund awarded $53,704 total to five faculty proposals for research, scholarship and creative work during fall semester 2016. Endowed in 1961 by a gift of more than $612,000 from 1926 […]

From Research staff reports Nov. 29, 2016 Seven undergraduate students, three graduate students and one Ohio University faculty member received funding for their health and medical research from the 2016 John J. Kopchick Awards. The program provided a total of $54,863 in grants and fellowships to advance research on topics […]

The Office of Sustainability hosted a gathering of students and faculty on Nov. 1 for a sustainable Thanksgiving dinner. The event gathered people from across colleges to learn about more sustainable holiday possibilities, as well as to commune over the bounty of the university community’s own resources. Annie Laurie Cadmus, […]

Produce from the Plant Biology Learning Gardens has found its way into yet another local business. Becky Clark, owner of Pork and Pickles commissioned the Food Matters club and Food Studies theme interns to grow upward of 150 pounds of fresh fennel bulbs that were destined to be pickled. “Pork & […]