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Research by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Gar Rothwell and two Ohio University alumni was featured on the cover of the April 2017 edition of American Journal of Botany. Their article—“Extending the fossil record of Polytrichaceae: Early Cretaceous Meantoinea alophosioides gen. et sp. nov., permineralized gametophytes with gemma cups from Vancouver Island”—discusses […]

College of Arts & Sciences faculty received seven out of 10 Ohio University Research Committee faculty awards for funding during its spring 2017 cycle. In total, the Ohio University Research Committee awarded $74,524. The program, which is funded by the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity, provides seed money […]

Eight College of Arts & Sciences graduate students received Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards in spring 2017. Three of them are from Environmental & Plant Biology. And Dr. Viorel Popescu‘s lab in Biological Sciences features two winners. History and Psychology also were represented. The Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards program […]

Dr. Allan Showalter, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, received a Baker Fund award of $12,000 for his research on “Glucuronosyltransferase Genes Involved in the Biosynthesis and Function of Arabinogalactan-Proteins in Arabidopsis: A Genetic Mutant Analysis.” The John C. Baker Fund awarded $67,163 total to six faculty proposals for research, […]

By Heather Willard, PACE Writer Jordan Francisco, a junior in Environmental & Plant Biology, did not spend his summer like most college students. He used a Provost Undergraduate Research Fund grant to design and conduct a study of peanut plants’ potential as a natural fertilizer. “Peanuts are legumes, which naturally […]

By Heather Willard, PACE Writer The forest pest Emerald ash borer, which kills Ash trees, has been an issue in the United States since it was first detected in 2002, but Jeremy Held thinks there may be hope for the endemic trees. He received a Provost Undergraduate Research Fund award […]

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 […]