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Five College of Arts & Sciences faculty are collaborators on a newly funded Ohio University Innovation Strategy project that will help monitor hydraulic fracturing and the water supply in Torch, OH. Called the “Partnership for Digitally Connected Environmental Monitoring,” this project unites environmental science with journalism and public outreach initiatives. The planning […]

By Sydney Dawes| Environmental and Plant Biology Images of orange water poured out of Emily Keil’s phone as she discussed her current research. The orange is from the unusual amounts of iron that have built up in many streams in the Athens area over the years. Keil, a graduate student […]

By Cameron Fortin ’16 On a brisk autumn morning, Ohio University students, staff, faculty, and supporters enthusiastically met at the research gardens on West State Street to harvest a plant viewed by most Ohioans as a weed. It fed Ohio Valley residents more than 3,000 years ago, and it has […]

By Sydney Dawes Dr. Zhihua Hua took his PBIO 2050 class outside for a hands-on DNA replication demonstration near Alumni Gateway, making some physical impressions of science on Ohio University’s College Green. “Biotech: Lab to Life,” new this semester, is an Environmental and Plant Biology course focusing on biotechnology, genetic […]

Dr. David M. Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, co-authored “Rapid purging of genetic load in a metapopulation and consequences for range expansion in an invasive plant” in Biological Invasions. Co-authors from Portland State University are Gina L. Marchini, Nena Cole Sherlock, Alisa P. Ramakrishnan, Mitchell B. Cruzan. […]

PBIO 2170 Women in Science is a new course that fills Tier II credit in Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Ohio University’s General Education requirements. It also  can fulfill one elective requirement for the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Certificate. It meets Tuesdays and Thursdays form 3:05-4:25 p.m. and is taught by […]

Dr. Allan Showalter, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, will give an invited talk during the Second International Conference on Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Arguments for Salt Tolerance at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Oct. 12-14 Showalter’s presentation on “Cellular Signaling of Root Growth in Response to Salt” includes research contributions […]