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ABRC combating plant blindness, educating on climate change


One of the greenhouses managed by Ohio State's Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center

An often-overlooked plant with a hard-to-pronounce…

Associate Professor Julie Field in Fiji

Archaeology and the beyond in tropical paradise


To Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology Julie Field, the Pacific islands are more than just places for luxurious, tropical…

A Myotis bat, one of thousands bat specimens at the Museum of Biological Diversity at Ohio State.

It's a scary time for bats

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While a spooky symbol of Halloween, bats around the world are facing threats of extinction. Bryan Carstens, a professor in the Department of Evolution,…

Ohio State students learn about saplings they are about to plant during a field school in southern Louisiana. Photo credit: Mary Thomas

Climate change, humanities converge in Louisiana field school

As Thomas Davis and his students gazed across the murky swamps of southern Louisiana, the striking connection between the region’s environmental injustices and their causes became tragically…

First Person: Portrait of a young naturalist

Breanne LeJeune, program coordinator, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, shares a day of adventure and discovery with their nephew at the Museum of Biological Diversity in this…

Dee Boersma, image courtesy Center for Ecosystem Sentinels

Zoology alumna has spent career saving penguins

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Dee Boersma has been called the Jane Goodall of penguins.

An adorably curious, roughly 2-foot-tall Magellanic penguin she’s named Turbo greets…

Forrest Schoessow, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, at Great Basin National Park in Nevada.

Geography PhD candidate travels the world to know the world

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Forrest Schoessow, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, stands on a glacier…

Spencer Gilmore, a fourth-year economics student in Rick Livingston's American Food Cultures class, presents a poster of his to Peter Chan's Visual Design Communications class.

Teaching collaboration merges food sustainability, visual design

By 2025, Ohio State plans to source 40 percent of on-campus food locally and sustainably.

This ambitious commitment to future sustainability serves as the backdrop for the Food Futures:…

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Machine learning helps predict endangered plant species

There are many organizations monitoring endangered species such as elephants and tigers, but what about the millions of other species on the planet — ones that most people have never heard of or…