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On Monday, September 24 the Global Scholars Australia group will give their first research presentation during the Center for Global Study and Engagement’s annual study aborad research symposium. Come learn…
The new Stafford Greenhouse is under construction, with completion scheduled for November.
Our new manuscript, “Is polyphenol induction simply a result of altered carbon and nitrogen accumulation?,” has been accepted for publication in Plant Signaling & Behavior. This paper describes experiments…
New greenhouse, lab, and office facilities on the way…… Dickinson College has received a $1 million gift from alumni John ’59 and Inge Paul Stafford ’58 to fund…
For our continuing study of seagrass responses to high CO2 / low pH conditions we conducted fieldwork in Australia in 2012. Thanks to Dickinson College, NASA, and the…
It’s been a busy spring! First, while I was finishing up the Global Scholars Program in Australia one of our own was awarded departmental honors for her thesis…
New article published in New Phytologist. JA responses reconfigure the long-distance transport of carbon but not nitrogen in poplar. Heidi Appel, Tom Arnold, and Jack Schultz Phenolic substances…
Carbon transport in plants is on our minds lately: Schultz JC, HM Appel, Ferrieri A, Arnold TM (2013) Flexible resource allocation during plant defense response. Invited review. Front….
Lab member Chris Mealey won the School for Field Studies’ Distinguished Research Award. Congrats Chris! Ask him for his pizza recipe. Or see: http://www.dickinson.edu/news-and-events/news/2011-12/Tracking-a-Predator/
The new Dickinson Global Scholars program kicked off with our class, which studied climate change and the potential impacts of ocean acidification on Moreton Bay, Australia. Eighteen students conducted…
Viv Johnson and colleagues recently published their paper, Temperate and tropical brown macroalgae thrive, despite decalcification, along natural CO2 gradients, in Global Change Biology 2012 18(9). Their work…
We’ve recently completed our second year of an experimental problem-based learning course in Chemical Ecology with a class of 24 upper-level chemistry and biology students at Dickinson. The…