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Research Stories

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2007 IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHER QUALITY GRANT WINNERS

06-29 Across the Curriculum Environmental Science to Attain Ohio Elementary School Academic Content Standards and Achievement Test Outcomes $219,841.00 Dr. Richard E. Lee Dr. Robert G. McWilliams Departments of Zoology and Geology

06-28 iDiscovery: Sustaining Professional Development Through Web-Based Learning Communities $294,637.00 Dr. Terry McCollum Dr. Chris Myers Dr. R. Hayes Cummins The Discovery Center Miami University

06-25 Advancing Ohio's Physical Science Proficiency V $299,970.00 Prof. Arlyne M. Sarquis Ms. Lynn Hogue Center for Chemistry Education Miami University - Middletown

Michael Brudzinski, Miami University assistant professor of geology, is a co-author of a research article in Science magazine on the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, that makes use of first-time available seismic data. The article is part of a special section on the quake in the May 20 issue. Read more...

A novel of conjugate of carbohydrates and protein -- known as a "glycodendriprotein" -- may provide a new route to antibiotics.

Chemist Benjamin G. Davis of the University of Oxford, in England; microbiologist Marjorie M. (Kelly) Cowan of Miami University of Ohio, Oxford; and coworkers have shown that by linking branched carbohydrate-tipped structures known as glycodendrimers to a protein-degrading enzyme, they can inhibit the infectivity of the bacterium Actinomyces naeslundii {J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 4750 (2004)}. Read more...

Dr. David Francko, Botany

Author of the book, Palms Won't Grow here and Other Myths
Successfully plants palm trees on Miami's campus
Prepares graduate students to become botanists

Dr. William Hart, Geology

Part of the team that identified remains of the first Homo sapiens
Examines the evolution of geological formations
Leads graduate students in field studies in the western U.S. and abroad

Michael Kennedy's new Eminent Scholar Laboratory will also serve as an integral component of the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium, led by Dr. Gaetano Montelione of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, which has a goal of high-throughput protein structure and function characterization. A grant of $391,235 from NIH has been received for FY 07 activities in Kennedy's lab.

Kiss' project is one of only two experiments launched on the shuttle Discovery that will actually be performed on the International Space Station (ISS) at this time, Kiss professor of botany, has been awarded more than $1 million by NASA over the past six years for "Tropi, Analysis of a Novel Sensory Mechanism in Root Phototropism," an experiment to study how plant roots respond to varying levels of both light and gravity.

John Z. Kiss and Mike Eodice of NASA in front of the actual flight model of the EMCS, which is to be launched in mid-2005 on the space shuttle for integration into the ISS. Read more...

Oxford, Ohio, October 11, 2006 - Bruker BioSpin Corp. and Miami University announce that the first Avance™ II 850 US2 NMR system in North America has been ordered from Bruker BioSpin for delivery in 2007. Read more...

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