Archive for October, 2016

By Heather Willard, PACE Writer Environmental and Plant Biology Dr. Allan Showalter, Professor Environmental & Plant Biology, traveled to Crete, Greece, this summer for the XIV Cell Wall Meeting to present his research on hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins, more specifically the enzymes associated with the sugars on those proteins. Showalter used two […]

By Heather Willard PACE Writer Environmental and Plant Biology Dr. Elizabeth Hermsen, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, braved freezing temperatures to go to two conferences last May—the Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium and the Paleontological Research Institution Summer Symposium. She studies fossil water clovers of the genus Marsileaceae, reassessing the […]

by Matt McCullough ‘17 The Sociology & Anthropology Colloquium met Sept. 30 for a talk by Dr. Elizabeth Lee about her recently published book, Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College. Published earlier this year by Cornell University Press, Lee’s book studies the inequality experienced […]

Between August 2015 and June 2016, Trey Klopfenstein participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates funded by the National Science Foundation. He was advised by Prof. Craig Grimes. This project involved field investigations in the Chemehuevi Mountains, Mohave Desert, SE California, as well as lab based studies (optical microscopy and […]

By Tetyana Dovbnya Ohio Program of Intensive English and A&S International Academic Advisor OPIE welcomes OHIO faculty, staff and students to join their events this week. Conversation Hour What? Engage in international dialogue, Facilitator: Andrea Johannes When and Where? Tuesday, October 11th from 6-7pm on the first floor of Baker Academic […]

Annalycia Liston-Beck at the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. By Casey Tisdale ’17 Annalycia Liston-Beck came to Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College as a Political Science major. Now a junior, she has added a Spanish minor, while picking up certificates in War and Peace and Law, Justice & […]

By Sara Berens Academic Advisor and Retention Specialist Next week marks the start of academic advising for the spring semester. And while you may mosey in to your advisor’s office expecting them to hand you the key to all of life’s answers, or at least life at OU, they can’t […]