Chemistry News

Ohio Northern University will dedicate its new medicinal herb path, a shade garden featuring 17 medicinal plants, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 12:30 p.m.

Ohio Northern University will hold a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony for the new Mathile Center for the Natural Sciences at 4 p.m., on Friday, Oct. 16.

The student-centered academic research and learning facility blends hands-on teaching excellence with advanced technology in a functional modern environment.

Dr. Paul T. Anastas will be the featured guest speaker during the 2009 Keiser Distinguished Lectureship in Life Sciences in Ohio Northern University's Freed Center for the Performing Arts at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5.

Anastas' topic will be "Green Chemistry, From Here to Sustainability."

Dr. Susan Bates, associate professor of chemistry, didn't plan to become a teacher when she first began studying chemistry, but now she is a dedicated teacher, determined to give her students the research opportunities that she didn't have as an undergraduate.

Senior chemistry majors Joshua Judkins of Selma, NC, Sonya Adas of Waterville, OH, Jeff Wilson of Carnegie, PA, Lisa Meyers of Leipsic, OH and Sam Manzer of Ada, OH recently traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Conference.

Donald J. Abraham, Ph. D., will deliver the Ohio Northern University's 2009 Kritzler Lecture, titled "How to Win a Nobel Prize," in Meyer 107 on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m.

Dr. Jake Zimmerman, assistant professor of chemistry at Ohio Northern University, has received a $50,000 grant from the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) through the Undergraduate New Investigators Program.

This funding will support a laboratory research program at ONU over the next two years. The grant money will fund summer research stipends, supplies and equipment. Zimmerman and his research team will pursue groundbreaking research that could lead to applications in the industrial world.

A potential new drug for the treatment of breast cancer was revealed in a seminar by Dr. Tara Rheault at Ohio Northern University on Dec. 3. Rheault, an oncology medical chemistry researcher with GlaxoSmithKline at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, gave a presentation titled “Potent and Selective Inhibitors of Polo-Like Kinase (PLK1): Novel Anti-mitotic Agents for the Treatment of Cancer” to the ONU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Ohio Northern University will host a medicinal chemistry seminar Dec. 3 at 6 p.m. in the Meyer Hall of Science's annex room 105.

Tara Rheault, Ph.D., an oncology medical chemistry researcher with GlaxoSmithKline at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, will be the speaker. Her topic is "Potent and Selective Inhibitors of Polo-Like Kinase (PLK1): Novel Anti-mitotic Agents for the Treatment of Cancer."