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March 29, 2018 at 2:37 pm

Two Plant Biology Students Get Enhancement Awards

From Office of Research News

Two Environmental & Plant Biology graduate student received Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards for their original research, scholarship and creative work this spring.

A total of 27 students received $131,187 in funding. The Student Enhancement Awards are funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and administered by the Council for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, which is appointed by Faculty Senate.

The program received 89 proposals with a total funding request of $481,543. Students may request up to $6,000 per proposal.

Sarah Smith (graduate student, Environmental and Plant Biology; mentor: Rebecca Snell) received $4,007 for Causes of Individual Variation in Reproductive Effort in Two Species of Oak.

Anne Sternberger, portrait

Anne Sternberger

Anne Sternberger (graduate student, Environmental and Plant Biology; mentors: Harvey Ballard and Sarah Wyatt) received $5,695 for The Role of MicroRNAs in Chasmogamous and Cleistogamus Flowering of Viola pubescens.

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