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Aug 23, 2012

Want to study abroad next spring? Check out this deal: Fly into Cusco, Peru, high in the Andes Mountains and take a van down the cloud-shrouded eastern slope...

Aug 6, 2012

A high school dropout, Theresa Fennell today is a Wright State University junior in the honors biology program...

Aug 1, 2012

First year Ph.D. student, Katlin Bowman, who is advised by Chad Hammerschmidt in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, won the outstanding student presentation award at the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her presentation, entitled “Distribution of mercury across a major ocean basin: Results from the U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Zonal section” was coauthored with Dr. Hammerschmidt and Carl Lamborg of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. An abstract is...

Aug 1, 2012

Ph.D. student Deah Lieurance, advised by Don Cipollini in the Department of Biological Sciences, was awarded a travel grant by Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP). SERDP is the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) environmental science and technology program, executed in partnership with DOE and EPA. Deah used the award to present her research at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in Portland.

Congratulations to Deah!

Jul 3, 2012

Growing up on an Ohio farm, Shawn Heflick was bitten by snake fever at the age of 7 when he saw his first Garter snake.

Jun 9, 2012

Madhu Mahankali (Dr. Cambronero's lab) was awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship for two years to pursue research on the connection between phospholipase D, reactive oxygen species and the basis for arterial damage.

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Jun 9, 2012

Khadijeh Alnajjar (Dr. Prochaska's lab) was selected to receive an ASBMB Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellow Travel award to attend the symposium on Mitochondria: Energy, Signals and Homeostasis, held June 27-29, at Michigan State University.

Jun 9, 2012

Richard Agans and Vijay Shankar (BMS Ph.D. students in Dr. Paliy's group), have both received Original Work Grants from the Wright State University Graduate Student Assembly for the 2012 year to carry out research on human-associated microbial communities. Congratulations!

Jun 9, 2012

BMS Ph.D. student Madhu Mahankali (Dr. Gomez-Cambronero's lab) published a paper as first author in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, “Identification of the Catalytic Site of Phospholipase D2 (PLD2) Newly Described GEF Activity.” She also received a Travel Award from the American Society for Cell Biology to attend the ASCB meeting in San Francisco. Ramya Ganesan, an M.S. student in the same lab, has...

Jun 5, 2012

Julian Gomez-Cambronero, Ph.D., was awarded the title of "Honorary Professor" at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, on April 10, 2012, for his international standing as a leader in cell signaling. He was nominated by Dr. Hong-Juan Peng, a visiting professor in Dr. Cambronero's lab two years ago and with whom he has established scientific collaborations in the field of Rho-GTPases and cell migration. The ceremony was officiated by the dean of Southern Medical University (Dr. Zou...

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