- Dr. Ruomei Gao has been awarded a $199,916 grant from the NSF-HSI: ELPSE program in December 2024. Her project, titled “Improving Organic Separation and Identification: Acquisition of Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry for Undergraduate Education,” supports the acquisition of a UPLC/MS instrument to enhance undergraduate education and research in chemical and biological sciences.
- Dr. Andrew O’Bannon has been awarded a Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2024 for his project, "Novel Holographic Approaches to the Non-perturbative Dynamics of Proton Spin".
- LEAP-UP: Drs. John Estes and Matthew Lippert won a grant (LEAP-UP) through the department of energy's RENEW program for $1.15 million ($1 million to SUNY OW) in March 2024. The LEAP-UP program supports physics students through two-year traineeships, including a ten-week summer research program at Brookhaven National Laboratory, involving ATLAS, DUNE, LuSEE Night, and other experiments.
- Dr. Bright Emenike presented his research on modeling hydrogen-bond solvation using molecular torsion balances at the Gordon Research Conference on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors on June 18-23, 2023. The manuscript from this work has been published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and featured on the issue’s back cover. This work was supported by the School of Arts & Sciences' travel fund and ACS-PRF grant.
- Dr. Youngjoo Kim received an undergraduate faculty travel award and presented her work, “Effect of JTT-551 inhibitor on the catalytic activity of wild type and mutant forms of PTP1B” at the DiscoverBMB annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Seattle on March 25-28, 2023.
- Dr. Michael Colaneri published his work in Proteins: Vitali J, Nix JC, Newman HE, Colaneri MJ. Crystal structure of Methanococcus jannaschii dihydroorotase. Proteins. 2023 Jan;91(1):91-98.
- Dr. Fernando Espinoza published his work in Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation: Fernando Espinoza and Brandon Wheeler, Handgrip as a measure of muscle strength and its physiological dependence on therapeutic variables: A randomized case. Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation, 2022, 41 (1): 31-36.
- Dr. Fernando Espinoza led the development of partnership between SUNY OW and American Museum of Natural History for online science course offerings. This partnership allows students enrolled in the College’s Master of Arts in Teaching programs to take Biology, Chemistry as well as other science courses at the Museum.
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