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GRHD Faculty Members Aaron Severson and Girish Shukla Each Awarded NIH R15 Research Grants
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| Dr. Aaron Severson and Dr. Girish Shukla |
Dr. Aaron Severson, an associate professor in the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BGES) and Dr. Girish Shukla, a professor in BGES, have each been awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) R15 grants for their research. Both are also members of CSU’s Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease (GRHD).
Dr. Severson’s 3-year, $445,500 award is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and is titled, “Positive and negative regulation of REC-8 cohesin during meiosis.” His team’s research will focus on understanding the cellular machinery required to form normal sperm and eggs and reveal how defects in this machinery lead to infertility. Those defects are also present in many forms of cancer, making this research relevant outside of reproductive health.
Dr. Shukla will lead a 3-year, $412,416 project funded by the National Cancer Institute that targets better understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that promote the development of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). The project is titled, “Androgen signaling and sterol metabolism in metastatic prostate cancer: Functional and therapeutic implication.” Potentially, the research will identify new approaches to develop therapies for prostate cancer patients.
Congratulations Dr. Severson and Dr. Shukla!
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Meet CSU's Faculty
Hilary Plum, English
Hilary Plum joined CSU in 2017 as an assistant college lecturer in creative writing and became an assistant professor of fiction in 2021. She also serves as associate director of the CSU Poetry Center, which publishes two to five books a year of poetry, essays, and translation, and serves as a “teaching lab” where students and fellows train in the work of literary editing and publishing. She runs the Lighthouse Reading Series and Writers at Work Colloquium, which bring nationally acclaimed visiting writers to campus to present their work and engage with students. She enjoys teaching workshops and seminars in fiction, creative nonfiction, editing & publishing, and the literature of illness, both to undergraduates and to graduate students in the NEOMFA Program. She volunteers with the ID13 Prison Literacy Project.
Ms. Plum is the author of two novels and a work of nonfiction examining the “global war on terror,” its rhetoric and ongoing violence, and the relationship between literature, journalism, and activism: Strawberry Fields, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose (2018); Watchfires (2016), winner of the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award in Creative Nonfiction; and They Dragged Them Through the Streets (2013). A collection of poetry, Excisions, is forthcoming in 2023. Writing has recently appeared in Granta, College Literature, American Poetry Review, Fence,the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.
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Featured Research Event
Student Research Poster Session Returns September 23
The Office of Research invites students, faculty, and staff to attend the Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Session on Thursday, September 23 from 12 pm - 3 pm in the Student Center Atrium. This event is the culmination of the 2020 and 2021 Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) programs, and approximately 100 Cleveland State undergraduate students, including McNair scholars, will share their research and creative activity through print posters and discussions.
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Student Research Support
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Workshop
The Office of Research will sponsor a Workshop Series on the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) hosted by Dr. Shawn Ryan, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and a past NSF GRFP reviewer.
The workshops will be held August 31, September 7, and September 21 from 11:30-12:15pm in PH 103. This schedule will allow enough time for the development of applications and a round of internal review at CSU before submission. Two CSU students from a previous workshop received NSF fellowships, which include a $34,000 annual stipend for three years of graduate school.
If you know a graduate student who would benefit from the workshop, please forward this registration link.
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Inspired Creativity
Rachel Carnell's Backlash
Dr. Rachel Carnell, a professor in the Department of English, has published a new book titled Backlash about the reign of Queen Anne and the true story behind the fall of the Whig government. There are parallels to today, including bitter political division, populist mobs, and foreign political interference.
The backlash that Dr. Carnell details in her book began in 1709 when the Whigs arrested a popular female Tory political satirist and then impeached a provocative High Church clergyman for preaching a sermon repudiating the ideals of parliamentary monarchy and religious tolerance. The impeachment trial backfired, and subsequent unrest led Queen Anne to call for new parliamentary elections that brought about a Tory majority and reactionary legislation. Backlash offers an important historical perspective on the recent populist backlashes in the United States and United Kingdom.
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News from the Technology Transfer Office
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2021 CSU I-Corps@Ohio Team
This year’s I-Corps@Ohio program began May 7. One CSU team, ARC Technologies, was selected for the 2021 Cohort and completed the modified online program on July 16th.
The team is led by Dr. Antonie van den Bogert, a professor and the Parker-Hannifin Endowed Chair in Human Motion and Control in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Three recent CSU graduate students, Chris Schroeck, Tim Nagy, Justin Meinecke, and mentor Josh Staph, founder of Stack Media, round out the team. ARC Technologies is applying the customer discovery process to determine the commercial viability of a novel wearable sleeve that allows an accurate measurement of a user’s throwing mechanics to assist with throwing consistency and injury prevention. The team finished in the top five among teams for interviews completed with 67 and gained valuable market validation justification and feedback of immediate product need.
Contact Jack Kraszewski for assistance with a disclosure to begin the process of protecting your invention or intellectual property. |
Commercialization Support
The U.S. Department of Defense is reducing barriers and accelerating processes, seeding the future of the U.S. Air Force through innovation and forward-thinking technology. The Department of the Air Force (DAF) has changed the game in its small business-focused SBIR/STTR program, making it very venture capital-like, fast and applications-oriented. The program presents a significant early-stage funding opportunity for technology entrepreneurs with products and services that can solve problems for the Air Force. The DAF participates in Department of Defense solicitations three times per year. Proposals are due for the next solicitation on October 22.
Attend a 45-minute webinar on August 18 on the DAF SBIR/STTR program and its opportunities and expectations for technology entrepreneurs and researchers. More program and registration information can be found here.
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Research Resources
Raise Your Visibility – Update Your Faculty Profile!
The Office of Research launched the Innovation Portal to increase the public's access to Cleveland State’s knowledge base and to foster new research collaborations and partnerships. The Ohio Department of Higher Education has also launched (and is revamping) a statewide portal, the Ohio Innovation Exchange (OIEx), to improve research collaborations among Ohio’s universities and increase university/industry partnerships.
Accurate information is critical to both of these systems, and to making sure collaborators can find you.
To get the most out of these resources, update (or create) your faculty profile by following these easy steps:
- Create or update information in your faculty profile by following this link
- Add relevant terms to the “Research Keywords” section of your faculty profile to help partners and funders find you through the Innovation Portal
- Add your picture to your profile page (replacing the stock image) by sending a photo to facultyprofile@csuohio.edu
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Please share with us important news or updates on your research, scholarly, or creative activities. Updates may be related to a paper that has been accepted for publication in a high-impact journal, a book you've just published, your work that will be exhibited at a prominent institution, or other updates you wish to share with our office. Send details to j.yard@csuohio.edu and b.j.ward@csuohio.edu.
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