NIH Initiates Pilot Grant Program for Innovative Neurological Research

Pilot award strategy designed to enhance funding stability to researchers.

The first 30 recipients of the new R35 Research Program Award (RPA), a pilot program designed to encourage creative research by enhancing funding stability, have been announced by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health.… Read full story

Knox Substance Abuse Action Team 2nd Annual Knox Addiction & Recovery Conference

 

The Knox Substance Abuse Action Team (KSAAT) is beginning development of the 2nd annual Knox Addiction and Recovery Conference to be held June 28th and 29th, 2017 at Kenyon College. We would like to hear from Knox Community organizations, schools, businesses and residents as to information that you would find useful and important concerning addiction and recovery.… Read full story

Scattered Rain and Snow Showers

 

If you’re just stepping out the door this morning, you will notice that the 50s and 60s from yesterday are gone. Along with the colder air filtering into the region, snow showers (with a mix with rain possible south) will develop and move into the area this morning through the afternoon.… Read full story

2016 Space Station Research Highlights

Here’s a look back at some of the science highlights that are helping us continue our journey further into space and benefiting us back on Earth.

HOUSTON, TX, January 26, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — Research aboard your orbiting laboratory began the year with fire and flowers, followed by the return of the Year in Space crew, the installation of the first expandable habitat aboard the International Space Station, the first sequencing of DNA in space, and included an array of milestones and investigations across many science disciplines.
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Attorney General and Greene County Sheriff Announce Arrests of Ohio Brothers in Double Homicide Near Yellow Springs

(XENIA, Ohio)—Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine joined Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer today to announce the arrests of two Ohio brothers in connection with a recent double homicide in Miami Township (Greene County) near Yellow Springs.  Dustin Merrick, 25, of Xenia, has been charged with two counts of aggravated murder.  Read full story