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Microbiologist Leads Climate Change Study
Virginia Rich, assistant professor microbiology, with Scott Saleska of the University of Arizona, co-leads the quest of an international team of 13 researchers to understand how thawing permafrost…
From Field to Fuel to Flight: Making Aviation Fuel from a Common Weed
The dream of creating viable biofuels to alleviate the world’s energy crisis is not new, but it has been elusive. Enter an Ohio State dream team with funding from a unique grant to transform…
40th Annual Waller Lecture Series: Graduate Students Keeping Pioneer Plant Scientist’s Legacy Alive
Graduate students have organized and presented the Annual Adolph E. Waller Memorial Lectures since 1976. Established by Waller’s bequest, these students (first botany, now molecular genetics) take…
CAPS in BLOOME: New Grant Funds Educational Outreach
A grant from the American Society of Plant Biologists, funds the Center for Plant Sciences' Interactive Videoconferencing (IVC) program for students, grades 6-12. It includes hands-on investigations…
Graduate Realizes Dream of Presenting Cancer Research With Alumna’s Generosity
Andrea Holderbaum (BS, biology, 2016), fell in love with research while a student at Ohio State and fulfilled her dream of presenting her cancer research with the help of a travel award from an…
The Best of the Best: ASC’s 2016 Distinguished University Professors
At their June 3 meeting, university trustees granted Distinguished University Professorships to Peter Culicover, Humanities Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, and Tina Henkin, the Robert W. and…
The Haiku of Microbes: served up on petri dishes
Kathleen Sandman, microbiology assistant professor and program specialist, uses innovative approaches to teaching microbiology undergraduates that both help them master the material and encourage…
Eleven ASC Scholars and Teachers Receive 2016 Distinguished OAA Awards
Eleven Arts and Sciences scholars and teachers — covering the diverse range of disciplines in arts and humanities, natural and physical sciences and social and behavioral sciences — won top…
Evolutionary Biologist Teaches Graduate Students How to Tell a Visual Story
Evolutionary biologist Andi Wolfe, also an artist and photographer, uses photography to inform her research and increase scientific awareness through visual storytelling. Her recently created…