Seminar Series
Seminars take place at noon on Wednesdays in 101 Rooke Chemistry Bldg., unless otherwise noted. All are welcome to attend. Pizza and drinks served.
April 25, Student Presentations

Seminars take place at noon on Wednesdays in 101 Rooke Chemistry Bldg., unless otherwise noted. All are welcome to attend. Pizza and drinks served.
April 25, Student Presentations
Professors David Rovnyak, Charles Clapp, Marie Pizzorno (biology), Thomas Selby, and Timothy Strein explore molecular interactions and share a Major Research Instrumentation award from NSF (learn more)
Project Title: MRI: Acquisition of Isothermal Titration Calorimeter to Characterize Molecular Interactions
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Award Amount: $91,012
Award Period: 2013-2016
Professor Robert Stockland is funded by NSF to develop a new method to synthesize functionalized nucleosides, molecules with potential applications in medicine (learn more)
Project Title: RUI: Synthesis of New P-Metallated Nucleosides
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Award Amount: $163,534
Award Period: 2013-2016
NASA supports Associate Professor Karen Castle's study of the Martian atmosphere (learn more)
Project Title: Reducing Uncertainty in Martian Upper Atmospheric Non-LTE Models: Laboratory Measurement of Carbon Dioxide Vibrational Relaxation
Funding Agency: NASA
Award Amount: $178,854
Award Period: 2013-2016
Tim Strein and David Rovnyak, NSF-RUI "RUI: Molecular Characterization of Aggregation and Guest-Host Solvation by Bile Acids" $159,185, 2012-2015 (learn more)
Strein and Rovnyak received an award to investigate the precise functionality of bile micelles - electrically charged aggregates of naturally occurring molecules. "For 50 years, scientists have struggled to understand this important class of micelles," says Rovnyak. "We think we have begun to unravel the debate." The team hopes its findings might lead to improved applications such as chemical separations and drug delivery, and improve the understanding of bile in physiology.
Charlie Clapp, NSF-RUI "RUI: Substrate Binding and Regiochemical Control by Soybean Lipoxygenase-1" $50,000, 2012-2015. (more)
Clapp and a group of undergraduate researchers are trying to determine how enzymes work so well at catalyzing reactions. The team is "tinkering with" a particular class of enzymes called lipoxygenases, which are found in soybeans. The researchers are altering the enzymes' DNA and changing the substrate - the molecule on which the enzyme acts - to identify the exact position on the molecule where the catalytic reaction takes place. "Catalysis is one of the most important technologies of the 21st century," Clapp says. "It can help us develop chemical products more efficiently and with fewer by-products."
Rob Stockland, ACS-Petroleum Research Fund "P-H Activation Using Alkynylmetal Complexes: New Methodology for the Preparation of Metallopolymers" $65,000, 2012-2015.
Notable awards, achievements and media highlights featuring chemistry alumni, faculty and students.
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