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Junior Loves Math, Theater and the Environment

Sarah Pinter loves math, theater and the environment.

  By Cecilia Ellis ’17 Junior Sarah Pinter is a Math Statistics major, with a minor in Plant Biology, and a certificate in Environmental Studies. A demanding workload has never slowed Pinter down, however. With dreams of graduate school in biometrics and working for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, […]

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August 22, 2015 at 3:37 pmIn Class

Plant Biology Graduate Students Take Outreach to Community

Plant Biology Graduate Students Take Outreach to Community

In its first year, the Plant Biology Graduate Student Association was busy helping with outreach events for schoolchildren, both on campus and in the community, with a special interest in getting young people interested in plant biology. The Plant Biology Graduate Student Association was formed to support graduate students in […]

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August 11, 2015 at 1:12 pmNews

Summer Internship: Counting Plants in the Wetland

By Michael Carson Environmental & Plant Biology internship at Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Reserve, Huron, OH Finally I have started what I came here to do initially, count plants in a wetland. That’s not to say that I haven’t been having a blast in the last 3 weeks, or that […]

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July 22, 2015 at 9:01 pmNews

McCarthy Quoted on Invasive Species Kudzu

Dr. Brian McCarthy

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 […]

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July 13, 2015 at 5:52 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Summer Internship Week 1 at Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Reserve

Summer Internship Week 1 at Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Reserve

By Michael Carson Environmental & Plant Biology internship at Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Reserve, Huron, OH I arrived at the Old Woman Creek National Estuary Research Reserve a week ago today. The first week was pretty slow since I had to read up on some papers concerning the surveying of […]

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June 29, 2015 at 3:32 pmIn Class

Girls Build Candy Bridges, Decode DNA at Tech Savvy

Abigail Tadlock explores her appearance with the effect of gravity on Mars.

By Cecilia Ellis ’17 Registration opens in Baker University Center at 8:30 am, and West 82 quickly fills with dozens of girls donning their new lime-green shirts declaring their status as “Tech Savvy Girls,” excitedly chatting in anticipation of the day ahead. It’s the second annual Tech Savvy event, Saturday […]

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June 17, 2015 at 10:49 amNews

MCB Students Take Top Prizes at 2015 EXPO

Ashley Patton and Debbie Walter at the expo.

Molecular and Cellular Biology students took several top science prizes at the 2015 Ohio University Student Research & Creative Activity EXPO, held at the Convocation Center on April 9. The expo featured more than 800 student participants. Ashley Patton, 1st place (Diabetes Institute 2), second place (Biological Sciences G1) for […]

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May 27, 2015 at 6:36 pmNews