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Associate Teaching Professor, Sarah Pistolesi is being recognized by the Provost for all the work she did and led making introductory laboratory courses viable when we went online. Making the best of 2020 took many hands at the university from last March and still does to this day.
Our condolences to the family of Dr. Patricia (Pat) Thiel, who passed away this last Monday, September 7. She was beloved by many and will be sorely missed.
The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) has released&
Two of the department's faculty, and their research, are featured in the current issue of Iowa State's alumni magazine, VISIONS. You can find stoies on Dr. Young-Jin Lee, with Dr. Paige Hinners, as well as Dr. Pat Thiel.
Dr. Robbyn Anand, was named winner of the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award for a researcher who has made a significant impact in analytical chemistry within the first 10 years after their doctorate degree. Congratulations!
The Windus and Gordon Groups hosted a virtual MU3C conference from Iowa State last week.
Theresa Windus, Distinguished Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, professor of chemistry and Ames Laboratory associate, has been elected as a 2020 American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow.
Julia Zaikina who is one of ten faculty at Iowa State to receive the NSF Career Award. Congratulations to Zaikina and all ISU faculty on this achievement.
Ames Laboratory was chosen to lead a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) and they have named our own Aaron Sadow as center director.
Wenyu Huang was named recipient of this year’s Trapp Innovation award from the LAS college, which will provide him with some funding to pursue a new or unusual initiative.
In addition to having the title of University Professor, Javier Vela will serve as the next John Corbett Professor of Chemistry. He succeeds Kirill Kovnir as of July 1, 2020 and will be a very worthy holder of the title.
The research is further discussed in the paper, "Unprecedented generation of 3-D-heterostructures by mechanochemical disassembly and re-ordering of incommensurate metal chalcogenides," authored by Oleksandr Dolotko, Ihor Z. Hlova, Arjun K. Pathak, Yaroslav Mudryk, Vitalij K.
Davit Potoyan is working with a collaborator at University of Buffalo to use protein and RNA, scientists have created hollow, spherical sacks known as vesicles.
Deyny Mendivelso-Pérez, a recent PhD graduate, and Emily Smith were part of an interdepartmental team of researchers working on histamine sensors for food safety monitoring.
Javier Vela-Becerra was named University Professor. The title of University Professor is awarded to a faculty member who has acted as a change agent by having made significant contributions to improve the university, and who has demonstrated outstanding performance in a
Members of the Anand Group are developing a paper-strip urine test to detect infection by the coronav
Congratulations to Julia Zaikina, who has been named the American Crystallographic Association’s Etter Early Career Award winner for 2021!
https://www.amercrystalassn.org/awards
Great work!
Miranda Emaus’s manuscript on allelic discrimination of circulating tumor DNA using multiplex qPCR makes the cover of August 8 issue of Analytica Chimica Acta.
The most recent ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry's cover features an article on Novel Computer Architectures and Quantum Chemistry from the Gordon Group.
The ISU Department of Chemistry, with the support of its Diversity and Inclusion Committee, condemns the opinion paper by Tomáš Hudlický that was recently accepted, posted online, and - only after a major public outcry - retracted by the eminent chemistry journal, Angewandte Chemie
Our deepest sympathy goes to the family of Kathryn “Kitty” Hach-Darrow, who passed away this past week, a few months shy of her 98th birthday. Kitty was a pioneering woman in business, a pilot, a mother, a wife and a great benefactor to Iowa State University and the field of chemistry.
Congratulations to Robbyn Anand for receiving the ACS Analytical Division Satinder Ahuja Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science. This is a national award from ACS recognizing her leadership in teaching and research as a separations scientist.
Congratulations to the following Chemistry faculty, and to all faculty in LAS, who were awarded promotions recently!
K.A. Burke
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of Chemistry
Congratuations to Bryce Westheimer, Gordon group, who has been awarded an NSF-funded fellowship by the Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI).
Congratulations to Vologymyr Gvozdetskyi, a postdoctoral research scholar in the Zaikina Group, on receiving the 2020 Postdoctoral Research Excellence Award.
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