{"id":61934,"date":"2012-03-19T18:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T18:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/community\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2012-03-19T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T18:11:48","slug":"starting-fresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/03\/19\/starting-fresh\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Fresh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel Hyman researches diabetic conditions.<\/p><\/div>\n

Roberta Pohlman still recounts Daniel Hyman\u2019s first visit in a surprised tone.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe walked into my office a year ago and said, \u2018I want to do research.\u2019 He was a freshman,\u201d said Pohlman, Ph.D., associate professor of biological
\nsciences in Wright State\u2019s College of
\nScience and Mathematics.<\/p>\n

Hyman, of Tucson, Ariz., wasn\u2019t even one of Pohlman\u2019s students. But the freshman honors student and biology major had learned that Pohlman directed the Exercise Biology Program in the Department of Biological Sciences and conducted research in the Boonshoft School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology.<\/p>\n

He developed a project with Pohlman and Mariana Morris, Ph.D., distinguished professor of research and chair, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Soon, an undergraduate freshman was doing real laboratory research that could lead to new ways to treat human patients.<\/p>\n

The project studied how mice that had been fed special diets to make them diabetic got better with regular exercise. Hyman\u2019s work showed that having mice swim as little as one hour per day, three days per week, improved their
\ndiabetic conditions.<\/p>\n

He presented a poster on his work in October 2011 at the Ohio Physiological Society\u2019s regional meeting at the University of Cincinnati, and he has submitted another abstract for a national research symposium in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Hyman is among the rapidly growing number of undergraduates at colleges and universities who are donning lab coats, according to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.<\/p>\n

Now a sophomore, Hyman has his sights set on an MD degree from Wright State\u2019s Boonshoft School of Medicine. He said he knew the stiff competition for medical school acceptance meant he would have to distinguish himself. Even being in the Honors Program, as he was, would not guarantee it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew if you\u2019re serious about medical school you\u2019re going to do biomedical research,\u201d he said. In the lab, Hyman found himself setting up experiments, making observations, writing reports, and even training other undergrads who followed him through Pohlman\u2019s door.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised at how fast I was incorporated into the research program,\u201d Hyman said. \u201cI thought I was going to be a helper. I didn\u2019t realize how much real research I was going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roberta Pohlman still recounts Daniel Hyman\u2019s first visit in a surprised tone. \u201cHe walked into my office a year ago and said, \u2018I want to do research.\u2019 He was a freshman,\u201d said Pohlman, Ph.D., associate professor of biological sciences in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":60162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4827,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61934","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}