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Environmental & Plant Biology graduate student Debarati Basu was one of five Ohio University graduate students who received Named Fellowships for the 2014-15 school year to pursue research and creative projects. Each of the five was awarded a fellowship of $15,000, plus a full tuition scholarship for fall and spring […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt waited for it—the simple phrase that would signal one small step for Arabidopsis, one big step for mankind’s knowledge of how plants respond to gravity. “Ready for the science,” said the Kennedy Space Center engineer on July 9. Dr. Darren Luesse handed the engineer a small petri dish […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented “Plant gravitropic signal transduction: A network analysis leads to gene discovery” on a panel on Metabolism Related to Gravitropism at the 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Moscow, Russia. She also chaired a panel on Weightlessness and Hypergravity. The Wyatt Lab […]

By Gretchen Gregory From Compass Situated on the southern side of the Ohio University campus is one of Athens hidden gems, a place where students can experience research about nature through a mix of wildlife, sweeping prairie grasslands, rolling hills, forested land, valleys and ravines. Of the 740 acres that […]

By Sean Demme Environmental & Plant Biology Major As we move away from our atrocious waste management habits of the industrial age, the obvious rise in recycling efforts has taken place. Before the time of mass production, recycling was a more common practice as it was much cheaper to reuse […]

By Jeremy Held ’17 HTC Plant Biology Major Summer internship, Edge of Appalachia Preserve in Adams County, OH One of the biggest challenges at Edge of Appalachia, and any preserve for that matter, is invasive plants. For a large preserve like EOA, the most effective way to treat these invasive […]

Ben Chamberlain Internship at Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest Maintaining the Holly Collection is an integral part of the arboretum.  The Holly collection contains over 160 different  cultivars of American hollies. In order to keep the hollies in pristine conditions the staff and interns weed and prune the hollies.