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Undergraduate Searches for Key to Emerald Ash Borer Resistance

Jeremy Held with Emerald Ash

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 […]

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February 2, 2017 at 2:24 pmResearch

Plant Biology Students Present Their Research at 2016 Expo

Graduate students, from left: Yuan (Susan) Zhang, Alex Meyers, Kathleen Gabler, Marion Holmes, Nick Tomeo, Anne Sternberger, Proma Basu

Fifteen graduate and 7 undergraduate students from Environmental & Plant Biology were among the 840 undergraduate, graduate and medical students who presented at Ohio University’s Student Research & Creative Activity Expo on April 14. Congratulations to this year’s PBIO winners! Graduate Student Awards Student: Anne Sternberger Title: “Using a De […]

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April 21, 2016 at 8:58 amNews Research

Peanuts, Mutants, Violets and Pests | Undergrad Researchers Get Funding

Chase Hudak '17 pipets DNA extracted from Arabidopsis plants.

By Sydney Dawes Environmental & Plant Biology Four students studying biology and plant biology received Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund awards this fall. The competitive awards, first offered in 2001, support students working with a faculty member on an independent project. Students can receive up to $1,500 and are required to […]

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January 11, 2016 at 2:54 pmNews Research

Fighting Invasive Plants at Edge of Appalachia Preserve

Fighting Invasive Plants at Edge of Appalachia Preserve

By Jeremy Held ’17 HTC Plant Biology Major Summer internship, Edge of Appalachia Preserve in Adams County, OH One of the biggest challenges at Edge of Appalachia, and any preserve for that matter, is invasive plants. For a large preserve like EOA, the most effective way to treat these invasive […]

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July 22, 2014 at 5:38 pmNews

Paxistima canbyi: Ohio’s Rarest Plant?

Paxistima canbyi: Ohio’s Rarest Plant?

By Jeremy Held ’17 HTC Plant Biology Major Hello all! My name is Jeremy Held and I will be a Sophomore this upcoming semester. For my summer internship, I chose the Edge of Appalachia Preserve in Adams County, Ohio. Perhaps the most exciting and vigorous thing I’ve done so far […]

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July 14, 2014 at 3:00 pmNews