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By Evan Apt ’15 Summer intern at Fairchild Botanic Garden This past weekend, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden hosted the 22nd annual International Mango Festival in Miami, Florida. Over 8,000 guests attended this years festival, which featured the mangos of Columbia. “Over the two days of the festivities we will celebrate the […]

By Jeremy Held ’17 HTC Plant Biology Major Hello all! My name is Jeremy Held and I will be a Sophomore this upcoming semester. For my summer internship, I chose the Edge of Appalachia Preserve in Adams County, Ohio. Perhaps the most exciting and vigorous thing I’ve done so far […]

By Evan Apt ’15Summer intern at Fairchild Botanic Gardeninstagram.com/theysayimapt Hello again. For the past two weeks I have been working with the conservation staff at Fairchild Tropical Garden working to rescue endangered plants from an area that is about to cleared for development. I am happy to announce that after three […]

By Evan Apt ’15 Summer intern at Fairchild Botanic Garden instagram.com/theysayimapt Hello, my name is Evan Apt and I am currently a 4th year student at Ohio University.  This summer I decided it was time to get out and explore some of the possibilities for future employment.  Ive always been fascinated by tropical […]

I’m Sean Demme and I am currently a Horticulture Intern at the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont, KY. My first couple days here were wildly exciting as this is my very first internship. The first order of business was meeting the people and moving into my new desk: The […]

“A plant biology graduate student at Ohio University is using spent grains from the Jackie O’s brewing process to grow plants as a part of his final research project,” reports the June 18 Athens News. If grad student Josh Crosier’s current hunch about the spent grains is correct, the research […]

By Erica Molfetto From Compass The Baker University Center was buzzing with excitement on Saturday, May 17, for Ohio University’s first-ever Tech Savvy conference. Fifty four middle-school girls from 13 counties in Ohio and West Virginia gathered on campus to learn more about the rewarding careers that math, science and […]