Archive for December, 2018

Chen Receives NIH Grant to Enhance Optical Mapping

Dr. Jixin Chen is utilizing a novel technique to
visualize genome sequences more effectively.

By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003, but the challenge to fully understand our DNA, the helical duplex that contains our genetic information, is far from finished. Researchers are now applying modern techniques to better understand this fundamental component of life and nature. […]

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December 7, 2018 at 4:44 pmNews

Kaya Asks Electronics: How Small Can They Go?

Kaya Asks Electronics: How Small Can They Go?

  By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern In 1946, the world’s first functional digital computer filled an entire room and weighed nearly 30 metric tons. As technological advances have expanded over the decades, technological devices have undoubtedly shrunk. Yet Dr. Savas Kaya, an Ohio University professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer […]

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December 7, 2018 at 4:43 pmResearch

Message from the Chair | Building the Future of Chemistry

Construction on the new chemistry building is in full swing! The surface of the parking lot is being removed in November in preparation for building.

December 2017 By Stephen C. Bergmeier Professor and Chair of Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Greetings to all of our friends and alumni. These are exciting times in the department. Groundbreaking is done and construction for the new chemistry building is well under way, with the completion slated for August of […]

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December 7, 2018 at 8:39 amAlumni

Physicists Describe New Steps in Making Reversible Molecular Electronic Circuits

Diana Meneses-Gustin (Photo by Jean Andrews/Ohio University)

Physicists from Ohio University and the Federal University of Sao Carlos in Brazil have partnered to unravel the atomic mechanism that can be used to create nanometer scale and fully reversible electronic circuits on two-dimensional materials. This work was led by doctoral student Diana Meneses-Gustin and is part of an […]

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December 6, 2018 at 5:10 pmResearch

Alumni News | Efcavitch’s Company Named Among 10 Start-Ups to Watch

Dr. J. William Efcavitch (photo from Molecular Assemblies)

Ohio University alum Dr. J. William Efcavitch was featured in Chemical and Engineering News in a story headlined “C&EN’s 2018 10 Start-Ups to Watch: Discover new companies connecting groundbreaking chemistry to pressing problems.” Efcavitch earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the College of Arts & Sciences, where he studied with Dr. Thomas […]

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December 6, 2018 at 3:47 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Alumni News | Lam Tells Nature that Stigall Helped Her Grow as Scientist

Adriane Lam

Ohio University alum Adriane Lam (M.S. 2015) was profiled this week in Nature in a story headlined “Meet the supervisors who helped to shape four scientists’ careers.” Lam, who is now a Ph.D. candidate in geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, discussed the positive impact of the advising she […]

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December 6, 2018 at 2:24 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Alumni News | Ramakrishnan Authors ‘Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome’

Alumni News | Ramakrishnan Authors ‘Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome’

Ohio University alum and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan authored a new book titled Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome. Ramakrishnan earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. “Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born American and British structural biologist. […]

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