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Gupta Receives Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award

Dr. Arunava Gupta, Distinguished Research Professor Chemistry and Chemical & Biological Engineering, will receive the Burnum Distinguished Faculty award on April 20th.  The Burnum award recognizes outstanding UA faculty who have excelled in research and teaching at the Capstone. Dr. Gupta is a world leading research in nanomaterials with applications in information data storage and energy storage. Dr. Gupta will present the award lecture on April 20th at 4:30 PM at the Childhood Development Center. UA News story

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2016 Arduengo Lecture: Douglas Stephan

Lectures FLP Chemistry: New Avenues in Synthesis and Catalysis 12:45 PM, Thursday, April 14, 2016 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Lecture) Catalysis: Chemistry Changing Your Life and Mine! 3:30 PM, Friday, April 15, 2016 1093 Shelby Hall (General Interest Lecture) Reception to follow in the Shelby Rotunda Biography Douglas W. Stephan is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Doug was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1953, and he obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry from McMaster University in 1976. Later that […]

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Congratulations December 2015 Graduates

The Department congratulates the students who received degrees in the December graduation ceremony. BS Degree Casey Dalton Logan Ford ACS-Certified Degree Sarah Baudendistel Jacob Owens MS Degree Savannah Reach Preshus Robertson PhD Degree Kimberly Anderson, “The Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Chalcogenide-PEDOT: PSS PolymerComposites for Thermal Energy Conversion.” Advisor: Prof. Greg Szulczewski Steven Kelley, “Isolation of Soft Donor Complexes of D- and F- Block Metals Using Ionic Liquids.” Advisor: Prof. Robin Rogers Garima Kumar, “Investigation of Regulatory and Functional Diversity […]

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Frantom Selected for SEC Faculty Travel Program

Prof. Patrick Frantom has been selected as one of the participants in the SEC Faculty Travel Program for the 2015-2016 academic year.  Prof. Frantom will travel to the University of South Carolina to present a seminar on his research.  He will also lead a symposium on hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) mass spectrometry for the faculty and students in the USC Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

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Prof. Arduengo Reports Synthesis of Complex Compounds from Wood-Based Materials

Collaborative research from Prof. Anthony Arduengo and Prof. Til Opatz (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) on the synthesis of complex organic products in which all of the product carbons are derived from wood-based materials (xylochemicals).  The synthesis of ilicifoline was reported in Angewandte Chemie and was highlighted with the cover art work. The work has recently been highlighted by phys.org and Azocleantech.  Prof. Arduengo and Prof. Opatz’s research seeks to use renewable chemicals derived from wood products in place of chemicals derived from petroleum products. “Wood, a […]

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Congratulations Graduates

The Department congratulates chemistry students who received degrees at the August Commencement ceremony. BS Christopher Hile Eric Hines Cierra Johnson Catherine King Dana Stehr MS Rachel Albury PhD Alex Cruce, “Drug Binding Characterization of CYPs Utilizing CW and Pulsed EPR” Advisor: Prof. Michael Bowman Ashley Jolly, “Probing the Binding Properties of Polyelectrolytes as Supramolecular Hosts” Advisor: Prof. Marco Bonizzoni Zhexi “Jesse” Li, “Preparation and Novel Applications of Trihalomethyl Carbinols” Advisor: Prof. Timothy Snowden Michele Stover, “Computational Studies of the Fundamental Thermodynamic […]

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