Department head Dr. Loren Smith and assistant professor Dr. Alex Ophir were featured in the recent issue of the Arts & Sciences magazine (click here for a PDF of the full issue). Dr. Smith was appointed as a Regents Professer at OSU, and the A&S article discusses his approach to studying ecosystems. Dr. Ophir was awarded a grant by the Army Research Office. Read abut his research on bomb-sniffing rats in Africa.