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You smell like a stinkbug

While maybe not the best compliment I have ever received, other entomologists will sometimes tell me I smell like a stinkbug. They know what stinkbugs smell like, and they assume I smell the way I do…

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The new age of pre-print publishing

Peer-reviewed publication is a fundamental aspect of science and provides a means to referee research before it is disseminated to the greater public. And owing to their importance, publications are…

Presenters in the Three Minute Thesis challenge during Ohio State's 2019 Materials Week

TPS Fellow Parker Evans wins the Three Minute Thesis challenge

TPS Fellow Parker Evans competed in the Three Minute Thesis challenge as a part of the 2019 Ohio State Materials Week. Evans took first place in the competition with his presentation titled…

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Last Thoughts

The past few months have been a whirlwind of packing and writing- followed by lots and lots of editing, as I finished my dissertation and embarked on my next adventure as an OSU Agriculture and…

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TPS Fellow Parker Evans to compete in Three Minute Thesis competition

TPS Fellow Parker Evans made the finals for the Three Minute Thesis competition for Materials Week at The Ohio State University. See him present during the competition at 5:00 p.m. on May 7th in 140…

TPS Fellow Katie D'Amico stands next to her poster at the CFAES 2019 Research Conference

Katie D'Amico wins 2nd place in doctoral poster competition

Congratulations to TPS Fellow Katie D'Amico! Katie's poster, Profiling Genome-Wide DNA Methylation in Identical Twin Almonds to Explore Aging and Non-Infectious Bud-Failure, won 2nd place in the…

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Formatting Dissertations, Presentations, and Blogs with LATEX

TEX, LATEX, and LYX TEX is a typesetting language with macro capability. LATEX is a macro package built upon TEX. LYX is a visual document processor that uses LATEX to do its typesetting. This post…

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Let’s get nostalgic and talk about undergraduate research assistants.

Though it was many years ago, I was once an undergraduate. What’s more? I was an undergraduate research assistant. Yes, it is true. Back in 2010, old Bill was burning through the money from his…

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Moving Across Country

The last few months have been a transition, to say the least. For those moving for graduate school, there is another kind of rigor outside of grad school’s vocational challenge. As Bill mentioned a…