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TPS Fellows Compete in the Horticulture and Crop Science Graduate Research Symposium
The Translational Plant Sciences Graduate Program is please to announce that TPS Fellows Katie D'Amico-Willman and Rachel Combs both placed in the annual Horticulture and Crop Science Graduate…
Feeding the Future
How do we produce enough food to satisfy the growing demands of our growing population? How can we achieve this while also ensuring the stability of our food system despite growing ecological…
Why Linux
It’s a subtle day in Portland suburbia – a hint of rain on the stormfront. I’m okay, working on Windows, my childhood operating system. Just then, thunder claps and the roar reverberates into my…
Run MATLAB Code on Any Operating System
1.1 Directory SeparatorsDirectory separators are the characters computers use to delimit path components. Most operating systems use “/” as the directory separator, but Windows operating systems…
Ohio's Tropical Fruit
When you think of tropical fruits, what first comes to mind? Likely you envision exotic treats like pineapples or mangoes from places like Central America; you probably don’t think of the forests…
Katie D'Amico-Willman Receives USDA-NIFA Predoctoral Fellowship
The Translational Plant Sciences Graduate Program is proud to announce that TPS Fellow Katie D'Amico-Willman was recently awarded a two year predoctoral fellowship from the USDA - National…
Mushrooming in the Midwest
According to the eccentric forums of the mushroom realm, I hail from the mecca of fungi. Every year in the Pacific Northwest,…
Customizing MATLAB Properties
Getting PropertiesA comprehensive list of user-manipulatable settings can be obtained by executing the following command at the MATLAB prompt: get(0,’Factory’) One of my least favorite…