{"id":57537,"date":"2017-09-12T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/09\/12\/early-career-achievement-13\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:48:13","slug":"early-career-achievement-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/09\/12\/early-career-achievement-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Career Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Labib Rouhana<\/p><\/div>\n

Labib Rouhana\u2019s work in his externally funded Rouhana Lab has earned him the Early Career Achievement Award. He works with undergraduate students, graduate students and even a postdoctoral fellow.<\/p>\n

Rouhana\u2019s lab works primarily with the planarian flatworm \u2014 an organism that has remarkable powers of regeneration. For example, a tail can grow a new head, and a head can grow a new tail. Since the organisms live in freshwater, Rouhana\u2019s findings can be useful to those studying freshwater ecology, as well as organismal evolution.<\/p>\n

Rouhana, an assistant professor of biological sciences, is preparing a manuscript, \u201cGirardia dorotocephala transcriptome sequence, assembly and validation through characterization of PIWI homologs,\u201d with a student as the first author. In fact, several of his published works feature students as authors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would not normally expect a pre-tenure researcher to invest in this kind of energy into undergraduate researchers,\u201d said Douglas Leaman, dean of the College of Science and Mathematics<\/a>. \u201cThe fact that he is doing joyfully and successfully is great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within a year of Rouhana\u2019s arrival at Wright State in 2013, he secured more than $400,000 in funding from the National Institutes of Health. David Goldstein, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences<\/a>, said that while Rouhana was applying for funding, the market was extremely competitive, yet he received funding.<\/p>\n

Rouhana\u2019s work earned him an invitation to speak at the National Academy of Science Kavli Research Symposium, a small group of researchers in different fields. He then served on the organizing committee for the 2015 Indo-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In one of Rouhana\u2019s classes, Current Literature in Regeneration Biology, students read current research in the field and critique the methods and findings in the papers. Rouhana encourages students to engage with the material and each other. Students love this class \u2014 saying it is \u201cunlike any other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wright State became an independent institution in 1967 and spent the next 50 years growing into an innovative leader in affordable and accessible education. In 2017, it celebrates its 50th anniversary<\/a> and sets the course for the next half century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students particularly love Labib Rouhana\u2019s class Current Literature in Regeneration Biology, saying it is \u201cunlike any other.\u201d Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":57549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[715,2402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-presidents-awards-for-excellence","series-faculty-awards-for-excellence-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57545,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57537\/revisions\/57545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}