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Biochemist Awarded NIH Grant to Unravel Health Impacts of RNA Silencing
Biochemist Kotaro Nakanishi received a new, five-year, $981,250 NIH RO1 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) funding important research into gene-regulation in humans.
Location, Location, Location: NIH Grant Funds Study of tRNA “Real Estate Business”
Molecular Genetics Professor Anita Hopper’s four-year, $840,000 NIH grant supports work expected to shed light on fundamental cellular processes affecting human health, such as gene mutations in…
Statistics Professor Leads High-Impact Study of Adolescent Activity Patterns
Statistics Professor Kate Calder leads a team of Ohio State researchers conducting a five-year study of adolescent health in an urban environment. The study is funded by a $1,553,888 grant from NIH’s…
Astronomer Leads Team Discovery of Hottest Known Planet
Astronomer Scott Gaudi is co-leader of an international team that has discovered the hottest planet ever. The discovered planet, KELT-9b is “so hot it stretches the definition of the word ‘planet,’”…
Moving Toward a “Quantum Leap”
A new five-year, $477,294 NSF CAREER Award supports Physics Assistant Professor Yuan-Ming Lu’s educational outreach and important research on developing new ways to detect and design topological…
Graduate Student Studies Social Behavior of Zoo-Housed Gorillas
Ashley Edes, a graduate student in anthropology, is the first to conduct a study on how zoo-housed gorillas’ social relationships can affect and decrease their stress levels over their lifetime.
Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Researchers Shine at 2017 Denman Forum
Forty Arts and Sciences undergraduates took top awards in 20 categories at the 22nd annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, held March 29.
The Aging Scientific Workforce
Economics Professors David Blau and Bruce Weinberg are authors of a new study finding that the science and engineering workforce in the U.S. has aged rapidly in recent years and that current trends…
ASC Faculty Awarded Grants from Battelle to Study Relationship Between Science and Technology
Four Arts and Sciences faculty members have been awarded a Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) Endowment Grant for their projects analyzing the complex relationship between…