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First Global Scholars Research Presentations

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…

Progress on our new glasshouse facility!

The new Stafford Greenhouse is under construction, with completion scheduled for November.

Sweet sensations – trees move sugars but not nitrogen resources to wound sites

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…

Improved facilities and our NSF-sponsored Chemical Ecology course

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…

Studying Ocean Acidification in Australia

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…

Busy Spring at Dickinson

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 paper on sugar transport and plant defense

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…

What’s on our minds: carbon transport in plants

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….

Lionfish pizza? Student researcher tracks venomous invasive species.

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/

New student research course in Australia

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…

Study of ocean acidification highlights impacts on macroalgae and fish

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…

New NSF-TUES program course in Chemical Ecology

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…