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Callie Oldfield Presents at ASB conference

Callie Oldfield represented the University of the South at the Association of Southeastern Biologists conference April 2016. She traveled...

Faculty Research Grant Received for Cane Genetics Project

Dr. Jonathan Evans received a faculty research grant for his proposal to study hillcane population genetics. Hillcane (Arundinaria...

The Vascular Flora of the University of the South Submitted!

After many years of plant surveys and database management, the Flora of the Sewanee Domain was finally submitted for consideration for...

Hillcane Culm Dynamics Field Season Complete

Hillcane (Arundinaria appalachiana), a newly split species of cane, exists in watersheds around Sewanee. Thomas Walters (C'15) set up a...

Botanizing for the Land Trust for Tennessee

Jonathan Evans, Callie Oldfield, and Mary Priestley (Sewanee Herbarium) were invited by the Land Trust for Tennessee to explore a...

Jon Evans receives blended learning grant from the ACS

The ACS Blended Learning Program has funded five proposals, each for $10,000, that were submitted from collaborating ACS institutions to...

Callie Oldfield Receives Yeatman Award

The 2014-2015 Harry C. Yeatman Award in Biology was awarded to Biology majors Callie Oldfield and Angelica De Freitas at the annual...

Meg Armistead Receives Yeatman Award

The 2013 Harry C. Yeatman Award in Biology was awarded to Biology major April Shi and Ecology & Biodiversity majors Meg Armistead and...

Evans and Keen Publish St. Catherine's Island Hickory Research

Eric Keen '08 and Biology Professor Jon Evans recently published the results from an 11 year study of pignut hickory regeneration...

Evans, Scheffers, and Hess Publish Study on the Demise of Redbay on St. Catherine's Island

Redbay (Persea borbonia) joins the ranks of chestnut, hemlock, and American elm as a tree whose populations have been decimated by the...

Meg Armistead Presents Deer Research at Meeting

Meg Armistead, C'14 (Ecology and Biodiversity major), presented a talk Feb. 26 to the 36th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Deer Study...

Plant Ecology & Conservation Lab