Assistant professor of biology Cara Constance and four students attended the third annual mGluRs conference (Midwest/ Great Lakes Undergraduate Research Symposium in Neuroscience) at the College of Wooster on Oct. 22, 2011...
Nine computer science students spent their Spring 3-Week developing computer games in a course new to Hiram. Please click here to see the Fox 8 news clip...
On Saturday, February 19, 2011, two Hiram College computer science students were recognized for their research this weekend at the Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing, held at the Mohican Resort and Conference Center in southern Ashland County...
On Thursday, December 9, 2010, the physics, chemistry, and biology departments invite you to learn more about the science behind the Nobel Prize in their respective fields. Presentations will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Gerstacker 123. Talks will be about 15-20 minutes long and will be aimed at a broad audience. The following topics will be discussed:
The Martin Award is given each year to faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to Hiram College’s academic programs by introducing diversity in educational life and faculty teaching models. This annual award is made possible by an endowment gift established by Paul Martin in 1990. Prior winners of the Martin Award are not eligible.
Hamilton and Constance Present Research at Neuroscience 2010
Mary Catherine Hamilton, ‘11, and Cara Constance, assistant professor of biology, recently attended the Society for Neuroscience’s 40th annual meeting, Neuroscience 2010 with 31,975 total attendees...
The Hiram College Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages will be presenting a lecture series throughout November...
Professor Carol Shreiner was recently published in Chemical Reviews, a publication of the American Chemical Society...
Jody Modarelli recently received a $399,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program. The money will be used to fund the purchase of a Liquid Chromatography Electrospray Ionization mass Spectrometer (LC-ESI MS) system. This program is highly competitive; only about 20% of applicants receive funding...
Dr. Tom Koehnle, assistant professor of biology, will present a Library Forum on Wednesday, October 13 at 4:15 p.m. in the Pritchard Room of the Library. Please join us as he speaks on “Do the Black Squirrels of Hiram Really Have Secret Ninja Superpowers?” ...
Professor of Computer Science Ellen Walker, Shanti Bramhacharya ’11 and Elizabeth Ellis ’11 attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (GHC) in Atlanta. Founded in 1994, GHC is the largest technical conference for women in computing. The 2010 conference was the tenth and largest, attracting 2147 attendees from 29 countries, including 940 students. “Nearly all of the attendees were women, making the conference quite different from a typical computer science technical conference,” Walker says...
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has selected Hiram’s student chapter to receive a Commendable Award for the 2009-2010 academic year...
Ellen Walker, professor of computer science, will co-chair the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, to be held March 9-12, 2011, in Dallas...
Hiram College’s Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages presents the Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium. Come on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, from 12 – 1:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Formal Lounge to listen to these presentations...
Cara Constance, assistant professor of biology, was recently invited by the Sleep Research Society to present a scientific workshop at the 2010 Trainee Symposia Series. On Saturday, June 5, 2010 she presented a workshop entitled “Introduction to Clock Genes: conserved and divergent characteristics of the molecular clock mechanism through evolutionary time” at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas...
For the past five summers, high school students have been side by side generating bacterial mutants, figuring out how the mutants were different from each other, cloning out the mutations, and learning how to interpret DNA sequence information, all for the sake of advancing scientific knowledge and having fun...
Associate Professor of Biology Brad Goodner delivers one of the keynote addresses, “The Good of the Many: Genomics & Undergraduate Education as a Mutually Beneficial Collaboration” on Saturday, November 7, at the American Society for Microbiology Southeastern Branch Conference in Savannah, Ga...
For the past four summers, high school students have been side by side generating bacterial mutants, figuring out how the mutants were different from each other, cloning out the mutations, and learning how to interpret DNA sequence information, all for the sake of advancing scientific knowledge and having fun...
Over 100 members of Hiram’s community have recently had their work published in print form in the American Society for Microbiology’s “Journal Of Bacteriology” April 2009 issue....
Hiram’s Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages has teamed up with the Center for the Study of Nature and Society to present a symposium around the campus theme of “sustainability” on Thursday, April 2 and Friday, April 3, 2009...
Understanding what a DNA sequence can tell you is not only crucial to modern medicine, but also to efforts in basic science, agriculture, bioenergy, and industrial biotechnology. Providing students with the theoretical background is a first step, but nothing beats the opportunity to do it for real. Cheryl Kerfeld, Head of the Education Program for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI), and her colleague, Hiram professor Brad Goodner had the opportunity to pass on the best practices developed over the past several years at Hiram College. Goodner was invited to help lead a workshop held at JGI headquarters in Walnut Creek, California, on January 22-23, 33 faculty from 18 community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and research universities received training in how to involve undergraduates...
For the past three summers, high school students have been elbow to elbow generating bacterial mutants, figuring out how the mutants were different from each other, cloning out the mutations, and learning how to interpret DNA sequence information, all for the sake of advancing scientific knowledge and having fun. Hiram College has hosted 2-3 sessions of the Hiram Genomics Academy each summer, allowing a total of 129 high school students from high schools all over Ohio, as well as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, and Virginia, the opportunity to work with Hiram College faculty and undergraduates on a bacterial genome project....
What jobs are available for a young person who understands how genes work and who has lab skills in molecular biology, microbiology, and genomics? That was one of the questions that 104 students at Rootstown High School in northeast Ohio had to think about during the 2007-2008 academic year. Working with their biology teacher Stephanie Lammlein and faculty at Hiram College, the students participated in the third iteration of a long-term functional genomics project and made some real scientific contributions. Along the way, they learned a lot about basic molecular biology, how to apply it to a real-world problem such as agricultural production, and hopefully expanded their thinking as to possible future careers....
Big business is investing in its future – by facilitating the education of its future employees.
Real research – conducted by all Hiram undergraduate science students.
Tomorrow’s big-world scientists, learning by doing, starting in their first year at Hiram – and even before – through the high school outreach program.
Hiram College Center for Deciphering Life’s Languages Inaugural Symposium
April 4, 2008
