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Dr. Norman Cohn, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental & Plant Biology, age 86, died on June 29, 2016, at his home in Pittsburgh, PA, where he lived with his wife of 60 years, Margaret “Peggy” Cohn. He had joined the Ohio University faculty in 1959 after having earned his B.S. […]

More than 90 girls and 45 parents attended the third annual Tech Savvy event May 14 at Ohio University. Tech Savvy is designed to help girls in grades six through nine become interested in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Attendees came from both public schools and homeschools […]

Graduate student Nicholas Tomeo and Dr. David Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University, are co-authors on Fast-growing Acer rubrum differs from slow-growing Quercus alba in leaf, xylem and hydraulic trait coordination responses to simulated acid rain in Tree physiology. Their co-authors are Juliana S. Medeiros […]

Ohio University alum R. Dale Morton ’81 receives the 2016 Grocery Manufacturers Association Food Safety Award at the International Association for Food Protection’s Annual Meeting in August. Previously Senior Director of Global Food Safety for PepsiCo Inc., Morton is now president of Morton Food Safety Associates LLC, providing expertise in […]

Harold Blazier, Greenhouse Manager in Environmental & Plant Biology, was selected for the College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Staff Award for 2015-16. Blazier was nominated by Dr. Morgan Vis, Professor and department chair, and others from the department and beyond for his outstanding work as the greenhouse manager. The […]

By Sydney Dawes PACE Writer Environmental & Plant Biology Dr. Morgan Vis, Professor and Chair of Environmental & Plant Biology, received the College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award for 2015-16. The award is given to a faculty member in the College of Arts & Sciences […]

By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern Ohio University Environmental & Plant Biology professor and Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute member Allan Showalter is investigating the interplay between five plant genes in Arabidopsis thaliana that may contribute to saline tolerance. The genes GALT2, GALT5, SOS5, FEI1 and FEI2 encode proteins that […]