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UC students design custom satellites

September 10, 2020

Engineering students at the University of Cincinnati are building tiny custom satellites to help scientists study some of the Earth’s most pressing environmental problems from space.

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UC researcher examines genetic role in addiction

October 12, 2020

In one of the first studies of its kind, a University of Cincinnati researcher is using a grant from the Ohio attorney general’s office to research the pharmacogenomics of opioid addiction. The grant was awarded to Caroline Freiermuth, MD, associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the UC College of Medicine, the principal investigator for the study. The initial year will be supported with $1.63 million from the attorney general’s office, secured through money collected from pharmaceutical companies involved in opioid lawsuits. Pharmacogenomics, a relatively new field, is the study of how genes affect a person's response to drugs.

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UC Answers: How is UC using design to address COVID-19?

September 1, 2020

Claudia Rebola is an assistant professor and the associate dean for research at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Arts, and Planning. She is part of a UC team using innovation and design expertise to respond to COVID-19.

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UC Answers: How are UC labs fighting COVID-19?

August 28, 2020

Kristin Weghorn, a lab supervisor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine describes the various research projects being conducted at UC around COVID-19.

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Secret weapon to stop invasive species: satellites

August 31, 2020

The University of Cincinnati found that satellite imagery can identify nonnative and invasive Amur honeysuckle, an ornamental shrub introduced from Asia that has spread in forests across much of the United States.

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Fish oil without the fishy smell or taste

September 15, 2020

UC faculty researcher Harshita Kumari describes the development of a refining process that scientists deem a superior method to produce better dietary omega-3 health and dietary supplements containing fish oil.

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Trout don’t follow the weather forecast

September 11, 2020

University of Cincinnati visiting assistant professor of biology Michael Booth studied the migration patterns of steelhead, a subpopulation of rainbow trout that migrates to the Pacific Ocean, where the growing fish hunt and feed until they return to their natal freshwater streams to spawn.