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Faik, Held Get USDA Grant to Develop Cell Wall Analytical Tools

Dr. Michael Held

Dr. Ahmed Faik, Associate Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University, is the principal investigator on a one-year $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative exploratory research grant program for a project titled “Developing A High-Throughput Analytical Tool For Plant Cell Wall […]

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April 7, 2019 at 3:11 pmResearch

Post Quotes Trese on ‘Small Scale, Hand-Powered Produce Farm’

Dr. Art Trese

The Post quoted Dr. Art Trese, Associate Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, in a story headlined “Athens and Ohio University collaborate to make sustainable agriculture accessible for students.” “The Ohio University Student Farm is a diversified, small scale, hand-powered produce farm that spans 1.3 acres,” said Arthur Trese, an associate […]

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April 7, 2019 at 11:31 amFaculty in the News In the News

Meyers Named American Society of Plant Biologists Ambassador

Alexander Meyers at ASPB Midwest regional

Alexander Meyers, graduate student in Environmental & Plant Biology and the Molecular and Cellular Biology program, was selected to be an American Society of Plant Biologists Ambassador. “ASPB Ambassadors are early career scientists (students and postdocs) and industry employees enlisted to communicate the mission and vision of the society to […]

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April 6, 2019 at 3:52 pmNews

Heller Selected for Norman Cohn Summer Research Fellowship

Ava Heller and Dr. Sarah Wyatt work in the lab.

Undergraduate student Ava Heller was selected as the recipient of the 2019 Norman S. Cohn Research Fellowship in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology. The fellowship of $2,000 helps an undergraduate student to pursue research in plant cellular and molecular biology in a laboratory associated with the Environmental & Plant Biology […]

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April 6, 2019 at 3:43 pmResearch

WOUB Features Trese, Moran, OHIO Student Garden

Dr. Art Trese

WOUB Digital quoted Dr. Art Trese, Associate Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, and Dr. Theresa Moran, Assistant Professor & Food Studies Theme Director, in a story headlined “Getting Down and Dirty in Student Garden.” “It was a space where students could learn how to plant small gardens just to […]

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April 4, 2019 at 9:50 amFaculty in the News In the News

Plant Biology Students Win Multiple Awards at Regional Meeting

From left, award winners Anne Sternberger, Calvin Coffin, Abigail Moore, Alexander Bochenek

Graduate and undergraduate students from Environmental & Plant Biology and the Molecular & Cellular Biology interdisciplinary graduate program won three presentation and two poster awards at the ASPB Midwest regional meeting March 16-17 at West Virginia University. 2nd place graduate talk—Anne Sternberger (Wyatt lab) 3rd place graduate talk —Kelsey Bryant […]

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April 2, 2019 at 8:40 amResearch

Wyatt Gives Columbus Science Pub Talk on ‘Plants on Orbit’

Dr. Sarah Wyatt at Columbus Science Pub

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University, gave a Columbus Science Pub talk, “Plants in Orbit,” on March 7. The Columbus Science Pub is a free event that aims to present scientific issues in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.  Wyatt studies how plants grow by […]

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March 15, 2019 at 1:31 pmNews