Archive for August, 2017

By Morgan L. Vis Professor & Chair of Environmental & Plant Biology Greetings PBIO alumni and friends, It has been a busy year. In this newsletter you will find a few highlights from the past year. Before I note those, please see the first news item about our upcoming event in […]

Two Ohio University pre-law students served as mentors to the 18 high school students attending the Summer Law & Trial Institute, an immersive residential experience—including a mock trial—that directly addresses the complex legal challenges associated with social and economic inequality in Appalachian Ohio. Casey Tisdale and Gabrielle Tharp served as […]

Damilola Eyitayo, a graduate student in Environmental & Plant Biology, co-authored an article on “Can powerline clearings be managed to promote insect-pollinated plants and species associated with semi-natural grasslands?” in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning. Co-authors are Katrine Eldegard, Marit Helene Lie, and Stein R. Moe of Norwegian University of […]

By Kyle Brooks ’17 Wildlife and Conservation Biology major   I want to talk about snakes. As one of the two wildlife interns for Wayne National Forest, I’ve seen many a scaly serpent this summer. And I love it. I’m a huge fan of snakes, and I regularly go out […]

Working on the Wayne this summer has been an experience that is hard to put into words. The first thing that comes to mind to try and describe this experience is AMAZING! With all of my experiences within academia and the research I had the pleasure of being apart of, there […]

Ohio University physics doctoral student Andrea Richard published an article about understanding the structure of neutron-rich magnesium isotopes in the American Physical Society’s Physical Review C, a peer-reviewed journal covering leading research in nuclear physics. Her paper, “Strongly coupled rotational band in 33Mg,” describes her research on the ground-state rotational band […]

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 […]