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The American Society of Plant Biologists Midwestern Section annual meeting in Columbus on March 22-23. Doctoral student Wen Dong and undergraduate student researchers Avery Tucker, Megan Moore, Sean Fenstemaker, and  Tayler DeBrosse won awards for their presentations. Avery E. Tucker, an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Wyatt Lab, won Best […]

The Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies announced four  graduate fellowships for 2014-15. Vincent Farallo was awarded an OCEES Graduate Fellowship for Spring 2015 for his work on “Exploring below the undergrowth: the role of microhabitat in the evolutionary ecology of Plethodontid salamanders” under his adviser, Dr. Donald Miles, […]

  From California State University San Marcos News Center Researchers at Ohio University in collaboration with European colleagues have named a new group of red algae Sheathia after CSUSM professor Dr. Bob Sheath, an aquatic biologist and one of the preeminent experts on North American freshwater algae. The newly identified […]

Martha Bishop, Lab Coordinator in Environmental and Plant Biology, has been been chosen to receive the University Outstanding Administrator Award. She will be honored at a ceremony on March 10. Read more about the ceremony in Compass. Only three outstanding administrators are honored each year across the Athens and Regional […]

Gravity. Actors Sandra Bullock and George Clooney provided a theatrical look at how humans might experience the lack of gravity in space. But what about plants? Humans have touched the moon and sequenced the human genome. But answers to how plants respond to gravity are just now being unlocked—by students […]

The Ohio University branch of AAUW has been awarded a grant to establish a Tech Savvy program for girls in sixth through ninth grades on May 17. “This is a great opportunity for the Athens AAUW to partner with Ohio University and offer an exciting science program for middle school […]

By Dr. Daniel Phillips College of Arts & Sciences faculty are tackling the challenges of the 21st century by building interdisciplinary and team-taught courses around a new set of curricular themes. The Knowing the Future theme seeks to acquaint students with different ways in which we think about the future. […]