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By MC Tilton, PACE Writer In search of preserved specimens of passionflowers, Harlan Svoboda traveled more than 15,000 miles last summer to herbaria in the United States and Mexico. Now he’s back in the lab at Ohio University using DNA to create the first phylogenetic tree of a complex group […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. By MC Tilton, PACE Writer Ohio University alum Nathan Jud’s passion for fieldwork and fossils has taken him on a pathway through the Smithsonian, the Panama […]

by Kristin Distel Five students, several Ohio University faculty and staff members, and representatives from Wayne National Forest came together on Aug. 1 to mark the successful completion of internships conducted by students in the departments of Anthropology, Environmental & Plant Biology, and Biological Sciences. The students shared photographs, major […]

The Provost’s Office recently announced the promotion and tenure decisions, including 21 College of Arts & Sciences promotions that will take effect in August 2017. “Each year, I have the pleasure of reading the promotion dossiers of the faculty,” says Dr. Robert A. Frank, Dean of the College of Arts […]

Springtime means wildflowers in the woods and lawns around campus. Violet expert Dr. Harvey Ballard, Associate Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, has some advice. “It’s that time of the year, when the purple-flowered violets are blooming, and we can make delicious jelly! The Common Blue Violet, Viola sororia, is […]

Eight College of Arts & Sciences graduate students received Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards in spring 2017. Three of them are from Environmental & Plant Biology. And Dr. Viorel Popescu‘s lab in Biological Sciences features two winners. History and Psychology also were represented. The Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards program […]

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 […]