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As freshmen head to Bobcat Student Orientation, they also can start thinking about how to be successful in the sciences through STEMstart, a weeklong quick-start experience designed to help freshmen transition from high school to college-level biology, chemistry, and math courses. STEMstart will help new biology and chemistry students get […]

  Note: This course has been canceled. Ohio University is offering a brewing short course July 13-18, 2017, which coincides with the start of Ohio Brew Week. This non-credit course provides amateur beer enthusiasts with a working knowledge of the brewing process and brewing science fundamentals. The course includes morning […]

By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern Douglas Goetz, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology Faculty and Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute member, and Ohio University colleagues were recently awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to characterize an inhibitor of glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3), […]

Dr. Robert Colvin and graduate student Cheng Qian attended Experimental Biology 2017, held April 22-26 in Chicago, and presented a poster on “Microtubule Affinity Regulating Kinase-2 inhibition: Synthetic Peptide Mimetics of Human Tau Repeat Domains Reduce Tau Phosphorylation in Rat Primary Neurons.” Colvin is Professor of Biological Sciences and Director […]

By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern Ohio University NQPI member Dr. Katherine Cimatu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, recently published a series of papers in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C describing the roles of various functional groups in the molecular conformation of monomers and polymers at different interfaces. […]

  Just a few hours from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway—and deep in NASCAR country—one of the world’s tiniest, fastest racetracks was in Athens, Ohio, at the end of April. The Track: Wasn’t that race in France? Yep. The world watched (live on YouTube) the control room in Toulouse—with the Ohio University […]

By Hannah Britton From Compass Kim Dominguez, a third-year student at Ohio University studying Forensic Chemistry, Biological Sciences and Spanish, is anything but an ordinary college student. Dominguez, an Accessibility Liaison from Elgin, Ill., seeks to make the Ohio University and Athens communities a better place through involvement in and […]