Undergraduates:
Nomatter what department you are in and whether you are interested in research for Plant Bio requirements (PBIO4400) or just want to try out plant ecology research, we'd love to have you either helping out on an existing project or running one of your own!
Graduate students:
There are openings for 2022 or beyond for potential graduate students interested in a master’s or PhD in plant ecology, specifically in plant defense against herbivores, pollination ecology, or seed ecology (all with a healthy dose of natural history thrown in). Students could work on whatever questions are most interesting to them under those very broad umbrellas, whether in my established systems or developing their own systems. Oklahoma has a diversity of interesting field sites, from tallgrass prairie north of Stillwater, oak woodlands and riparian areas near campus, and interesting other plant communities (i.e. gypsum barrens, etc.) a little farther afield.
The plant bio program at OSU is a small, close-knit program within a large land grant school, with all the research amenities that offers. I encourage all interested students to reach out, nomatter your background, GPA in college, GRE scores, country of residence (we have many international graduate students), etc.
It goes without saying 2021 is (still) a strange year to apply and make grad school decisions; I do not know whether prospective students will be able to come to Stillwater in-person for a visit or what next year’s classes will look like. If you are not sure about whether to apply this year or later because of this uncertainty, let’s chat about science and grad school anyway, whether or not you end up applying.
Contact me if interested: eric.lopresti@okstate.edu
