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Chemistry and Biochemistry

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News      

December 22, 2023: Congratulations to Joseph Serrano, who successfully completed and defended his Master's thesis this semester!  Joseph was a member of the Garrett lab, and additionally performed some of his research at Caltech to earn his MS Chemistry degree. Best of luck, Joseph, in your career!

December 18, 2023: Dr Eller has been awarded a NSF-CAREER grant for his project titled "CAREER: Evaluating Molecular Homogeneity in Three Nanometric Dimensions Using Nano-Projectile Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry". The grant begins in June 2024 and is worth almost $600,000 over 5 years.  This marks the third faculty member to be awarded the prestigious NSF-CAREER award in recent years. A big congratulations to Dr. Eller and his research students, who will also benefit from this award!

November 30, 2023: Today Dr Melikyan was invited to give a seminar to faculty and students in the Department of Chemistry at UC Irvine.  His talk was titled "Radical and Ionic Reactions of Cobalt-Alkyne Complexes: Overcoming Longstanding Challenges".

November 10-12, 2023: Congratulations to undergraduate Hovnan Simonyan (Teprovich lab) who won first place for his poster "High-Temperature Stability of Halogenated Closo-Borate Electrolyte Salts and Potential Use in Implantable Batteries" in the Chemistry Division at the Second Annual International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE) sponsored by Sigma Xi in Long Beach, California.  The research presented is funded by the NSF LEAPS-MPS program (Award # 2137973). 

November 10, 2023: Erika Shirvanian, an undergraduate research student in the Melikyan laboratory, gave an oral presentation, titled "Metal-complexed tricationic diacetylenic polyethers: Challenges of transitioning from tetrad to heptad molecular scaffolds" at the 2023 International Forum on Research Excellence (IFORE) Sigma Xi Conference (Long Beach, CA).  Of the 150 abstracts submitted, only 30 were chosen to present, so it was quite an honor.  Congratulations, Erika!

November 6, 2023: The Teprovich Lab has published their latest article, titled “Synthesis and Characterization of Amorphous Lawsone Polymer Dots for Fluorescent Applications” in the journal ACS Applied Nano Materials.  The research was led by former graduate student Jesus Hernandez, with valuable contributions from former undergraduate students Savannah Servera and Nanor Bedrosian as well as former graduate student Osma Gomez. Drs. Fischhaber, Tamae, and Garrett along with researchers from Savannah River National Laboratory also collaborated and contributed to this article. 

 

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