Andrews University Office of Research and Creative Scholarship

10/16/2023

09/20/2023

The faculty, students and staff of Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry are pleased to invite all to view West Virginia University Cancer Researcher Professor Ivan Martinez's Zoom lecture on Thursday, September 21, 2023, at 4:30pm EST about the Science and Ethics of HeLa Cells.

You can read a recent article written by Prof. Martinez here: https://theconversation.com/what-are-hela-cells-a-cancer-biologist-explains-169913.

This is the second installment of the Dwain L Ford Lecture Series in the Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry 2023 Fall seminar program.

Everyone is invited to view the Zoom-based lecture at: https://andrews.zoom.us/j/97814492131 with meeting ID: 978 1449 2131. The lecture will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube.

Our co-host for this lecture is Mr. Johann Roque, Graduate Student, Synthetic Chemical Biology, Professor Brittany Morgan's lab, at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana.

This lecture is free and open to all: students, high school through college, and everyone in our community and the public, in-person or online.

Guest Speaker Bio:
Dr. Ivan Martinez is an Associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology at West Virginia University (WVU) as well as the WVU Cancer Institute. Originally from Mexico City, he finished his undergraduate education with honors from The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh in Dr. Saleem Khan’s Lab studying the interactions between Human Papillomavirus infections and microRNAs. Dr. Martinez continued his training as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics at Yale University School of Medicine in Dr. Daniel DiMaio’s Lab in collaboration with Dr. Joan Steitz’s Lab studying the importance of microRNAs in cellular growth arrest. After his training, he was recruited at WVU in 2013. The goal of Dr. Martinez research is to understand the importance of different types of non-coding RNAs in human cancers as well as viral infections.

Dr. Martinez has been invited to present his research at prestigious institutions such as Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), at Gottingen University-Max Planck Institutes in Germany, and the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Instituto Nacional de Medicine Genomics) in Mexico. He is also involved in the organization of International Meetings such as the Workshop on Long Non-coding RNAs and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine for the last 4 years as well as the 2022 Keystone Symposia “Small Regulatory RNAs: From Bench to Bedside” in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Finally, Dr. Martinez is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 Animal Model Group since 2021.

09/18/2023

The Northern Indiana Pastel Society member exhibit, "Pastel Kaleidoscope" opens at the Roti Roti Art Center, 117 W. Front Street in Buchanan, Michigan on September 19.

31 pastels created in a variety of styles by 22 regional artists are featured in the show, which runs through October 28. Hours at the gallery are Noon–6pm, Wednesday – Friday; Noon–4pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Join us for an award reception on Sunday, October 15, 2–4pm.

08/21/2023

08/21/2023

Saulo Cantanhêde, adjunct professor in our department as well as a seminary student, won the first place award for best student poster at the American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting, held at the University of Toronto, Mississauga on July 28-31, 2023.

04/21/2023

03/22/2023

The ARC application deadline has been extended to April 17, 2023.

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship at Andrews University invites graduate students, post-docs, and early career faculty, as well as advanced undergraduate students in Arts and Humanities (inclusive of Theology) to submit an abstract for the 9th annual Andrews Research Conference. The theme for 2023 is Early Career Researchers and Creative Scholars in the Arts & Humanities.

They will accept research in the fields of dramatic and performance arts, as well as communications, graphic design, English & other languages, global studies, history, political science, theology, and related disciplines. The conference will be held in-person on the campus of Andrews University from May 10-12, 2023. Each presenter will be allotted 20-minutes for their oral presentation. The conference is free for all presenters. Meals and double occupancy lodging for three nights is provided for presenters during the conference. Participants will need to secure their own transportation to and from the conference. Provision may be made for virtual presentations.

Abstracts (300 words) and additional materials should be submitted to the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship at Andrews University on or before March 31, 2023. Submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee with notification of acceptance given by April 15, 2023.

More information, including on how to submit, is available through http://bit.ly/40tAtSF Andrews University Office of Research and Creative Scholarship Andrews University

09/26/2022

God is good!

Andrews University has received a $5,000,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary establish the Andrews Center for Community Change.

09/19/2022

The faculty, students and staff of Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry are pleased to invite all to view Professor Emeritus Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann's Zoom lecture on Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 4:30 pm EST on Chemistry's Essential Tensions: Three Views of a Science in Culture. See the attached poster and coverage by the Benton Spirit Community Newspaper.

This is the second installment of the Dwain L Ford Lecture Series in the Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry 2022 Fall seminar program. Everyone is invited to view the Zoom-based lecture at: https://andrews.zoom.us/j/97579395521

Teachers are encouraged to announce this week's lecture in their classes and/or forward this email to their classes. Please share and encourage your colleagues, friends, and others, to tune in online. This lecture is free and open to all: students, high school through college, and everyone in our community and public. For Andrews University students, co-curricular credit can be obtained for full attendance at this seminar.

The Dwain L Ford Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Chemistry Honors Society, Andrews University Office of Research & Creative Scholarship, and Andrews University Community Engagement Council.

Seminar Zoom Protocol:
• Mute your sound.
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• Turn on your camera.
• Everyone can ask/write a question in the chat.

Speaker’s Short Bio:
Roald Hoffmann the 1981 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry was born in 1937 in Złoczów, then Poland. He came to the US in 1949, and has long been at Cornell, active as a theoretical chemist. In chemistry he has taught his colleagues how to think about electrons influencing structure and reactivity and won most of the honors of his profession. Hoffmann is also a writer, carving out his own land between poetry, philosophy, and science. He has published six books of non-fiction, three plays, and seven volumes of poetry, including two book length selections of his poems in Spanish and Russian translations.

For more on Professor Roald Hoffmann view: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1981/hoffmann/lecture/; and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjHk6-OltB8

An interview with Prof. Roald Hoffmann | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1981|
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Roald Hoffmann – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981 was awarded jointly to Kenichi Fukui and Roald Hoffmann "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
www.nobelprize.org

Abstract:
In this generously illustrated lecture several views of chemistry will be presented, highlighting its psychological dimension and its tie to the arts: First of all, chemistry is, as it has always been, the art, craft, business of substances you can handle and their transformations. It is now also the science of microscopic molecules, both simple and complex. And then there are people’s perceptions of chemistry - alternating between seeing the healing and the hurting aspects of this truly anthropic science. The underlying psychological tensions will be explored, as will the strong element of creation or synthesis in chemistry, which brings chemistry close to the arts.
Co-Host:

Alannah Tjhatra was raised in Whitby, Ontario. She attended high school at Kingsway College, Canada and arrived at Andrews University in 2019, where she has been studying biochemistry for the past four years. She enjoys skateboarding, reading, and playing the piano and cello. Alannah has a passion for creative writing: editor of (and writer for) her high school’s newspaper for two years, she now serves as editor-in-chief of the Student Movement, the university newspaper. She founded the Scriptorium (AU’s creative writing club) in 2020, and she currently writes a monthly column in The Canadian Adventist Messenger. Alannah was very grateful to have her first short story published in The Roadrunner Review during the summer of 2022. She hopes to continue learning all she can in the field of science, medicine, and creative writing.

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09/08/2022

The faculty, students and staff of Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry are pleased to invite all to view Professor Jerelle A. Joseph's Zoom lecture on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at 4:30 pm EST on Understanding Bimolecular Condensates of Cells. See the attached poster.

This is the first installment of the Dwain L Ford Lecture Series in the Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry 2022 Fall seminar program. Everyone is invited to view the Zoom-based lecture at: https://andrews.zoom.us/j/97579395521

Teachers are encouraged to announce this week's lecture in their classes and/or forward this email to their classes. Please share and encourage your colleagues, friends, and others, to tune in online. This lecture is free and open to all: students, high school through college, and everyone in our community and public. For Andrews University students, co-curricular credit can be obtained for full attendance at this seminar.

The Dwain L Ford Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Chemistry Honors Society, Andrews University Office of Research & Creative Scholarship, and Andrews University Community Engagement Council.