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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

Polygala smallii: Rescuing a Federally Endangered Species

Polygala smallii:  Rescuing a Federally Endangered Species

By Evan Apt ’15Summer intern at Fairchild Botanic Gardeninstagram.com/theysayimapt Hello again. For the past two weeks I have been working with the conservation staff at Fairchild Tropical Garden working to rescue endangered plants from an area that is about to cleared for development. I am happy to announce that after three […]

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July 8, 2014 at 10:23 pmNews

Welcome to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Welcome to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

By Evan Apt ’15 Summer intern at Fairchild Botanic Garden instagram.com/theysayimapt Hello, my name is Evan Apt and I am currently a 4th year student at Ohio University.  This summer I decided it was time to get out and explore some of the possibilities for future employment.  Ive always been fascinated by tropical […]

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July 4, 2014 at 1:00 pmNews

The First Couple Days: Horticulture Intern at Bernheim

The First Couple Days: Horticulture Intern at Bernheim

I’m Sean Demme and I am currently a Horticulture Intern at the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont, KY. My first couple days here were wildly exciting as this is my very first internship. The first order of business was meeting the people and moving into my new desk: The […]

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June 26, 2014 at 3:32 pmNews

He Fell in Love with the Wolves

He Fell in Love with the Wolves

High in the Rocky Mountains, John Buffington ’15 fell in love with the wolves. Now the Wildlife and Conservation Biology major is sharing his passion through a comic book that he wrote and illustrated called Keyni—The First Walk. “So back in July, while I was interning at the Colorado Wolf […]

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April 22, 2014 at 11:52 amIn the News Students in the News

New Summer Externships on Post-Genocide Justice in Cambodia

New Summer Externships on Post-Genocide Justice in Cambodia

Nearly four decades after the Khmer Rouge genocide, two Ohio University faculty and six undergraduate students are headed to Cambodia this summer to study how the society remembers and reconciles its history with its present. “In the late 1970s, Cambodian society was wracked by the rule of the Khmer Rouge […]

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March 10, 2014 at 6:04 pmNews

Senior Austin Way Wins Top Honors at Physics Undergrad Research Conference

Senior Austin Way Wins Top Honors at Physics Undergrad Research Conference

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Austin Way ’14, HTC Engineering Physics, received top honors at the recent 6th Annual Society of Physics Student Research Conference at Ohio University. His talk, “Fabrication of Photovoltaics,” was voted Best Presentation by a panel of faculty judges from the Department of Physics & […]

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March 1, 2014 at 5:00 pmResearch