News

In a cover article published by C&E News discussing how it is important for undergraduate educators to make chemistry tie in with the world around us, our own Dr. Thomas Holme is quoted multiple times.

New catalysis paper on hydroboration using a new grafted organolanthanum species from collaborative work with Sadow Group and Ames Laboratory appearing in JACS: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b11606.

Kovnir group published a study showing that the normally nonporous materials can be prepared as inherently tunable clathrates—crystals with cage-like cavities that trap molecules or ions

Paige Hinners, Madison Thomas and Young-Jin Lee recently published Determining Fingerprint Age with Mass Spectrometry Imaging via Ozonolysis of Triacylglycerols
Analytical Chemistry

Congratulations to Julia Zaikina who will be receiving an NSF CAREER award for her proposal on intermetallic synthesis by theory and in-situ studies.

Thank you to the 3MT participants for representing the department at this year's competition. Congratulations to Alexander Volkov and Jiwoo An who were amongst the finalists and runners-up for 2019.

Sue-Lein Wang, a distinguished chair professor and researcher in the department of chemistry at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, has received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Chemistry.

Congratulations to Professor Jared Anderson, who has today officially been named the inaugural Alice Hudson Professor of Chemistry!

The Zaikina group and a diverse team of collaborators, from 4 continents, recently published a paper in the high-impact journal Angewandte Chemie.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201907499

Jared Anderson was named by "Analytical Scientist," a leading magazine from the United Kingdom known to all analytical chemists, as a top 100 analytical scientist worldwide. Congratulations to Anderson on this prestigious acknowledgement!

Better learning through chemistry

For Brett VanVeller, the most important learning happens inside the dynamic VanVeller Lab where the art and science of photochemistry comes to life.

Rossini was named winner of the 2019 Caldarelli Prize in Magnetic Resonance for Young Investigators, given at the Alpine Conference on Magnetic Resonance. 

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) celebrated exemplary faculty and staff during LAS Convocation: September 9, 2019 at the ISU Memorial Union.

The Kovnir Group is excited to announce that Dr. Georgiy Akopov has been selected as Ames Laboratory’s 2019 Spedding Fellow. The prestigious Spedding Fellowship honors Ames Laboratory’s first director, Dr.

Dr. Bryan Owens-Baird's experience at Oak Ridge National Laboratory regarding his metal flux studies at SNS was recently featured by ORNL.

To celebrate and promote innovative research, Baxter sponsors an annual award program open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This year Beatrise Berzina was named a first tier winner of the Baxter Young Investigator award.

Fourteen students participated in the pitch competition on Aug. 10, designated "LAS Day" within the Iowa State University exhibit at the Iowa State Fair.

Robbyn Anand will recieve an NIH NIBIB Trailblazer Award. Information about the award can be found at https://www.nibib.nih.gov/research-funding/trailblazer-r21-awards.

Congratulations to Anand on this well deserved award.

Nano @ IAState is a single day meeting to bring together ISU, Ames Lab and industrial scientists and researchers working on the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials and applications of nanoscience.