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Global Headlines Represent UC’s $378 Million in Research Funding

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   When it comes to research, the University of Cincinnati is consistently achieving ever-greater results.

UC and its affiliates recorded $378 million in research funding for fiscal year 2009 – marking another record high and moving total funding up $25 million over 2008.

And in just the past month alone, the results of UC’s rising research enterprise were carried by news media around the globe, including

• Associated Press
• BBC
• Boston Globe
• ChicagoNow
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Cleveland Plain Dealer
• CNBC
• Crain’s Cleveland Business
• Forbes
• Innovations Report
• Miller-McCune
• ModernMedicine
• Nanotechnology News
• Nanotechwire.com
• People’s Daily Online (China)
• R&D Magazine
• Reuters
• San Francisco Examiner
• Scientific American
• Scientific Computing
• United Press International
  

UC Pollsters Predict November Elections
The Associated Press, CNBC, Cleveland’s Plain Dealer, Crain’s Cleveland Business, the Dayton Daily News and many more news media throughout the nation are citing the Ohio poll conducted by the Institute for Policy Research at UC. Among the poll’s findings: Almost 60 percent of Ohioans support Issue 3, the statewide referendum on casino gambling.

Casinos’ Impact on Jobs Studied by UC
The Associated Press, Forbes, the San Francisco Examiner, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbus Business First and numerous other media outlets headlined a UC jobs study predicting that nearly 40,000 jobs and $4 billion in overall economic impact would result from four proposed casinos in the state. The study did not examine the social impact or costs of casinos.

Lard Lesson: Why Fat Lubricates Your Appetite
Scientific American headlined UC-led research in an article titled “Lard Lesson: Why Fat Lubricates Your Appetite” – also published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. This new research shows just how saturated fats (a common ingredient in beef and cheese) can – if eaten over a period of time – result in a resistance to certain hormones that help regulate appetite. So, a meal high in saturated fat can crank up our appetite well after dessert.


UC Researchers Develop an Artificial Pore
News media in China and the United States, including R&D Magazine, featured a UC breakthrough: the development of an RNA-powered nanomotor (a microscopic biological machine) that can transmit nanoscale material through a membrane. The achievement, also published in Nature Nanotechnology, could have applications in nano-sensing, gene delivery, drug loading and DNA sequencing.

UC Research: Therapy Helps Homeless Veterans
United Press International and other national media headlined UC research findings that group therapy has significant benefits for homeless veterans who have admitted to committing emotional or physical abuse against their partners.
 

Marvin Mouse vs. the Killer T Cell
Miller-McCune headlined UC research to battle multiple sclerosis in an article titled “Marvin Mouse vs. the Killer T Cell.” The piece explored UC research of a particular type of immune cell, the killer T cell, which has routinely been found near the areas of tissue damage affected by MS.

Overweight Patients More Challenging to Sedate
Patients with higher body-mass indexes are more challenging to sedate, according to new UC research that was featured by PhysOrg.com

UC Part of Team to Build Light-Based Crystal Simulator
UC researchers are part of a multi-university team of physicists who have won a multi-million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to build a simulator capable of tackling high-temperature superconductivity, one of the most vexing mysteries of modern physics. Superconductors are materials that convey electricity freely, without any resistance. Resistance is what causes wires to heat up as electricity moves through them, and resistance results in billions of dollars worth of losses annually in the U.S. power grid. Superconductivity typically happens only at extremely cold temperatures, but some crystalline materials become superconductors at relatively high temperatures. News of the grant was carried by PhysOrg.com, Nanotechwire.com, Nanowerk and others.

Partnership Between Police and UC Researchers Reduces Crime
ChicagoNow featured the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV). That effort partners UC researchers with law enforcement and political, medical and community leaders from across the area. It was a partnership that grew out of UC research showing that local at-risk groups, which make up just 0.3 percent of the population in the city, were involved in 73.5 percent of recent homicides (either as victims or perpetrators). Those research results enabled law enforcement personnel to focus their efforts with precision vs. a blanket approach. That, in turn, led to a decrease in Cincinnati homicides and the adoption of the CIRV method by other cities.

HELLP Syndrome in Pregnant Women May Mean Long-Term Risks
ModernMedicine featured UC research – also published in the October issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology – indicating that pregnant women who develop hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelets (HELLP) syndrome have  increased long-term risks for complication in subsequent pregnancies.

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