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"Learning chemistry...by doing chemistry"
All fifteen faculty have active research programs involving undergraduate and masters students. About 25 undergraduates per semester enroll in research for credit, and 25-35 students participate in our summer research programs. We invite you to explore our site and contact any faculty member whose research you find interesting or the department chair with questions about our programs.
April 11, 2012 (Wed, Rooke 116-12:00pm) Ken Olive, (BU '98), Columbia University Medical Center "Facilitating Drug Delivery in Pancreatic Cancer" Cell Biology/Biochemistry Seminar Series
April 10, 2012 (Mon, Rooke 102-12:00pm) Michael Cecchini, M.S. Candidate "Vibrational Relaxation of 13CO2 (v2) by Atomic Oxygen" ACS Student Lecture Series
April 9, 2012 (Mon, Rooke 116-12:00pm) Andy Voter, Honors Thesis Defense "The Synthesis of Macrocyclic Polystyrene by Sequential Atom Transfer Radical Reactions"
Chemistry Department reports online! We are pleased to present the 2008-2010 reports as a downloadable pdf. Catch up on all the people, news and developments and remember to send us your news and announcements also.
Congrats! A recent article from Professor Stockland and his undergraduate research team has been flagged in Dalton Transactions as a HOT Article for its broad importance in inorganic chemistry and catalysis.
Recent News:
New publication: H.K. Lenker*, M.E. Richard*, K.P. Reese*, A.P. Carter*, J.D. Zawisky*, E.F. Winter*, T.W. Bergeron, K.S. Guydon*, R.A. Stockland Jr.,"Phospha-Michael Additions to Activated Internal Alkenes: Steric and Electronic Effects", J. Org. Chem. (in press, DOI:10.1021/jo202183u).
Three papers hot off the presses from the Strein lab: (1) Faraji, A.H.; Cui, J.J.; Guy, Y.; Li, L.; *Gavigan, C.A. Strein, T.G. and Weber,S.G. "Synthesis and Characterization of a Hydrogel with Controllable Electroosmosis: A Potential Brain Tissue Surrogate for Electrokinetic Transport" Langmuir, 2011, 27 (22), pp 13635-13642. (2) Alcala, M.A.; Shade, C.M; Uh, H.; Kwan, S.Y.; Bischof, M.; Thompson, Z.P.; Gogick, K.A.; *Meier, A.R.; Strein, T.G.; Bartlett, D.L.; Modzelewski, R.R.; Lee, Y.J.; Petoud, S.; Brown, C.K. "Preferential accumulation within tumors and in vivo imaging by functionalized luminescent dendrimer lanthanide complexes" Biomaterials, 32, 2011, 9343-9352 (3) Stahl, J. W.; *Catherman, A.D.; Ranasinghe S.K.; Seniveratne, C.A.; Strein, T.G. "Investigating the Effects of Conductivity of Zone Overlap with EMMA: Computer Simulation and Experiment" Electrophoresis 32, 2011, 1492-1499.
The Department of Chemistry regrets to share news of the passing of Professor Emeritus Meldrum B. Winstead. Prof. Winstead served from 1952 to 1991. Read more.
Congratulations to Prof. Will Kerber who has received an Undergraduate New Investigator award from the Petroleum Research Fund to advance his work,"Iron(III) Oxidation of Carboxylic Acids and Phenols as Models for the Abiotic Transformation of Natural Organic Matter".
