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By Heather Willard PACE Writer Environmental & Plant Biology The Ecological Society of America is the largest organization of professional ecologists in the nation, and when they gathered this summer in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, three Ohio University scientists joined them: Dr. David Rosenthal, Dr. Glenn Matlack, and Ph.D. candidate Marion […]

By Heather Willard PACE Writer Environmental & Plant Biology The Plant Biology Graduate Student Association participated in family science night at the Coolville Elementary School, teaching students about basic biology concepts, including DNA extraction and how the Venus Flytrap “eats.” Joshua Evans, graduate student and member of the Plant Biology […]

Dr. Rebecca Snell recently joined the faculty of the Environmental & Plant Biology Department at Ohio University. Snell has traveled and studied globally, including Calgary, Canada, and Zurich, Switzerland. She researches the way plants and plant communities respond to climate change, looking at changes in vegetation dynamics, succession, biodiversity and […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented a talk on “Arabidopsis proteomic responses to microgravity” as part of the GeneLab symposium at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research. Wyatt is recognized as an expert in gravitational and space biology. Using […]

Dr. Juliana De Paula Souza of Federal University of São João del-Rei in Brazil has named a new species of Latin American violet—Anchietea ballardii—after Dr. Harvey Ballard, Associate Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University. “Juliana first visited my lab, for two months in spring and summer 2008 […]

  CAS 2100x Mapping the Future is a new College of Arts & Sciences interdisciplinary course with five modules on profound issues facing contemporary society. Each module in the Spring 2017 course features a community event with speakers debating the core principles of an issue and students critically evaluating and […]

Dr. Philip Cantino, Professor Emeritus of Environmental & Plant Biology, co-authored an article on “A large-scale chloroplast phylogeny of the Lamiaceae sheds new light on its subfamilial classification” in Scientific Reports on Oct. 17. His co-authors are Bo Li of Jiangxi Agricultural University; Richard G. Olmstead of the University of […]