About the Department


Graduate Seminar Schedule- Fall 2009

All seminars will be held in the Cox Science Center room 318 at 4:30 p.m.

Sep 30  Stefania Impellizzeri

Oct  7  Johny Orbulescu

Oct 14  Revathy Kulasekharan

Oct 21  Mintu Porel

Oct 28  Shipra Gupta

Nov  4  Arghya Barman

Nov 11  Shampa Samanta

Recent News

  • Congratulations to Dr. Roger Leblanc for receiving a National Science Foundation- EAGER grant (NSF).
  • Congratulations to Dr. Angel Kaifer for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
  • Congratulations to Dr. V. Ramamurthy for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Francisco Raymo for his promotion as a full professor and receiving a Gabelli Fellowship.
  • Congratulations to Dr. V. Ramamurthy for receiving a Cooper Fellowship.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Roger Leblanc for receiving funds from the Department of Defense, Army Research Office, to purchase a Scanning Probe Microscopy Nano R2 System.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Doug Heller for his promotion as a senior lecturer.
  • Congratulations to Anand Parthasarathy and Wei Lei for receiving outstanding teaching awards.
  • Congratulations to Tyler Banaszak, George Fortman, Anand Parthasarathy, Shuvasree Ray, Dagmara Podkoscielny and Malik Keshwani for the successful Ph. D. dissertations.
  • Congratulations to Prof. V. Ramamurthy for his selection as the 2009 winner of the Inter-American Photochemical Society (I-APS) award in photochemistry.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Francisco Raymo for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Jamie Walls for receiving a new faculty award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.


Upcoming Seminars

            September 18               Malcolm Leissring (R. Prabhakar)
                                                        Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
                                                        Proteolytic degradation of the amyloid ß-protein:  the
                                                        forgotten side of Alzheimer's disease

            September 25               T. K. Harris (UM Chemistry, Biochemistry &                                                         Molecular Biology)
                                                         Mechanisms of Action and Regulation of the Oncogenic                                                         PDK1 and S6K1 Protein Kinases

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Welcome to all new incoming grad students!

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