Post Tagged with: "Jennifer Hines"

Collaborative Research Receives NIH Grant, Strives to Prevent Disease

Dr. Jennifer Hines

By Megan Reed A chemical engineering professor in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology has received a nearly $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund research that could potentially help mitigate serious diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Dr. Douglas Goetz will […]

Read more ›
February 15, 2017 at 8:34 amNews

Discovery Museum Gets Grant for Student-Led STEAM Projects

Ohio Museum of Discovery board members with notice of their grant from the State Farm Youth Advisory Board.

The Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery has been awarded $51,809 from theState Farm Youth Advisory Board for a project on Service Learning With STEAM Technologies in Rural Communities. The new project will encourage high school and college students to develop a variety of service-learning projects with themes in science, technology, engineering, […]

Read more ›
November 1, 2016 at 1:39 pmNews

Chemistry Grad Develops New Assay in Search for Future Antibiotics

Chemistry Grad Develops New Assay in Search for Future Antibiotics

By Kristin M. Distel Dr. Chunxi Zeng, just awarded a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Ohio University, published an article on “Factors that Influence T box Riboswitch Efficacy and tRNA Affinity” in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. In the face of increasingly resistant bacterial strains, Zeng’s work with the T box riboswitch […]

Read more ›
July 8, 2016 at 12:26 pmAlumni Research

A&S Faculty Part of Innovation Funds for Adaptable Flexible Technologies for Mobile and Wearable Electronics

Ohio University’s Innovation Strategy program has provided $50,000 in a seed grant to help a team of Ohio University faculty on a project named Adaptable Flexible Technologies for Mobile and Wearable Electronics. This project aims to develop and design flexible electronic systems that can sense, digitize, communicate and analyze physiological […]

Read more ›
June 7, 2016 at 6:05 pmResearch

Chemistry, Biology Faculty Get Innovation Funding for Ohio Drug Discovery Collaborative

Ohio University’s Innovation Strategy program has provided $50,000 in a seed grant to help a team of Ohio University faculty on a project named Ohio Drug Discovery Collaborative: Identification and Development of Novel Molecular Therapies for Human Disease. This project will build a centralized, interdisciplinary initiative focused on drug discovery […]

Read more ›
June 7, 2016 at 5:47 pmResearch

Science Café | Molecules, Museum, Action, Nov. 18

Dr. Jennifer Hines

Science Café presents Dr. Jennifer Hines on “Molecules, Museum, Action,” on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. At the Science Café, Hines collaborates with dancers acting as human-sized molecules on the stage to describe scientific concepts of her research and properties related to the basic […]

Read more ›
November 1, 2015 at 7:45 pmEvents

Student Uses Internship to Study Algae as Renewable Energy

Jacob Sieg’s research with Professor Jennifer Hines includes optimizing a fluorescence assay for identifying potential antibiotics. Photo credit: Jean Andrews/Ohio University.

By Jean Andrews From Ohio University Research Communications Could a solution to harness renewable energy ultimately rest with gooey seaweed? One Ohio University student spent a research internship at a national laboratory last year helping to find the answer. Micro algae are small, single cell organisms that grow quickly and […]

Read more ›
October 28, 2015 at 2:51 pmResearch