Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence in Research Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (05/18/2012)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University recognizes research excellence by graduate students with a set of awards designed to recognize the wide variety of approaches to the advancement of knowledge on the Binghamton campus and the important role played by graduate students in research at the University.

Naumih Noah of Binghamton, NY, who is pursuing studies in chemistry, has received a Graduate Student Excellence in Research award from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Noah was recognized for making substantial contributions in the areas of analytical and environmental chemistry. She has authored four peer-reviewed publications and co-authored another four, and she has made seven conference presentations. Her current research, based on the development of biosensors for monitoring pain and cancer biomarkers, is revealing new physical insights into the concepts of managing pain in the human body. Noah received a National Science Foundation award to travel to the University of Western Cape, South Africa for research. She is currently extending the application of her pain biosensors beyond detection to therapy and has discovered a better and faster method of synthesizing derivatives that has led to quantitative yields. The suite of biosensors she developed is being used by computer scientists and pain management clinicians as a template to create a 3D dynamic multimodal spontaneous emotion database for the research community.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.