Department of Botany and Plant Pathology

News and Events

Dr. Lynda M. Ciuffetti

has been appointed Head/Chair

of the

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology

as of July 1, 2008

James Carrington

has been elected to the

National Academy of Sciences

Daniel J. Arp

has been appointed

Dean of the University Honors College

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/honors/

Pat Muir

is featured

on an

OSU poster

displayed on campus

The OSU Insect ID Clinic

has a new website

please visit

Congratulations to our Spring 2008 Honor Roll Undergraduates

Malcolm Anderson

Morgan Curtis

Charity Deatherage

Thomas Holman

Zakariah Weinstein

Recent Honors and Awards

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Joyce Loper

Anita Summers Graduate Student Travel Award

Sierra Hartney

Ernest and Pauline Jaworski Fund for Summer Research for Underserved Undergraduates in Plant Science

Tammy Winfield
Thomas Holman

Sigma Xi Researcher of the Year

James Carrington

Leslie & Vera Gottlieb Research Fund in Plant Evolutionary Biology

Paul Severns

Society of Nematologists
Vice President

Russ Ingham

American Phytopathological Society
2007 Syngenta Award

Niklaus Grunwald

Editor-in-Chief Phytopathology News

Joyce Loper

Research News

A single plant gene can cause resistance to one disease at the same time it produces susceptibility to a different disease. This research by Jenny Lorang, Teresa Sweat and Tom Wolpert is published in

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:14861-14866

OSU media release