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Nov 15, 2023
Chee Gang Ngui defended his Masters Thesis on November 14th, 2023. His thesis focused on using rhizoboxes to phenotype chile pepper root systems under water deficit conditions. Chee will be continuing with his education and embarking on a doctoral degree with Leah McHale's lab. Congratulations Chee!
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Nov 15, 2023
Katie Fulcher successfully defended her undergraduate honors thesis and presented her work at the 2023 Autumn Undergraduate Research Festival. Congratulations Katie! She will be graduating in December 2023 with Honors Research Distinction. Katie's hard work has contributed greatly to our knowledge of chile seed and seedling characteristics across domestication a gradient.
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Jul 11, 2023
Graduate student Jack McCoy passed his Ph.D. defense last week. Congratulations, Dr. McCoy!
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Mar 21, 2023
Hannah was recently awarded funding from the CFAES Internal Grants Program (IGP). This funding will help further Hannah's PhD work on her project, Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) landrace diversity in resistance to Phytophthora capsici root rot.
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Aug 31, 2022
Keyvan is joining our lab as a doctoral student working on the USDA-funded Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, "Nitrogen fixation in Zea through domestication, spread, and improvement in the
Americas." He joins us from the University of Tehran, where he got his M.S. in Agronomy and Plant Ecology. Welcome Keyvan!
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Jun 24, 2022
Congratulations to Hannah Scheppler for passing her doctoral candidacy exams in June, 2022! Well done, Hannah!
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Apr 12, 2022
Anna Baltisberger, an undergraduate majoring in Sustainable Plant Systems with a specialization in Agroecology, successfully defended her Honors Thesis. Anna will be graduating with research distinction in May 2022 and focused her thesis on studying the ability of Mexican landraces to produce aerial roots that host nitrogen fixing bacteria in a greenhouse controlled environment. She was a recipient of the Will C. Hauk Memorial Scholarship Fund, which supported her research. Congratulations Anna!
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Mar 9, 2022
Congratulations to Jack McCoy for placing 3rd in the CFAES category of OSU’s Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum!
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Jun 14, 2021
Hannah is joining our lab as a doctoral student on the chile pepper project, specifically studying the concept of utilizing niche theory to help discover beneficial genes from crop wild relatives. She joins us from Miami University where she obtained her B.S. and M.S. in Biology. Welcome Hannah!
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Feb 11, 2021
Chee comes to us from Iowa State University where he received his B.S. in Horticulture Science and Seed Science. While working towards a Masters degree, he will focus on QTL analysis for chilli pepper. Welcome, Chee!
