About the Department
Student Seminar schedule for Spring 2012
All seminars are held in the Cox Science Center room 318, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m
April 4
Subramani Swaminathan: “Introduction, Importance & Synthesis of C-F bond”
April 11
Nicholas Crawford: “Gel Electrophoresis: Structure Elucidation of Glycopeptides”
April 18
Ravi Patel: “Nanoemulsion as an alternative to drug delivery”
April 25
Alex Burum: “Optimization and Evaluation of Paramagnetic contrast agents”
May 2
Beijun Cheng: “Molecular Electronic Devices based on Carbon Nanotubes”
May 9
Christopher Lopez: “Hadamard NMR Spectroscopy and Applications for Fast Assignment of Amino Acids in Proteins”
Recent News
- Congratulations to Dr. N. Takenaka for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
- Congratulations to Dr. F. Raymo for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
- Congratulations to Dr. V. Ramamurthy for his selection to the 2011 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
- Congratulations to Dr. A. Kaifer for his appointment as one of the associate editors of the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry (JPOC).
- Congratulations to Dr. R. Leblanc for receiving one of the Cooper Fellowships awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Congratulations to our undergraduate chemistry student Chirag Gheewala for receiving a Fullbright Scholarship.
- Congratulations to Dr. V. Ramamurthy for receiving an University of Miami 2011 Provost’s Award for Scholarly Activity.
- Congratulations to Dr. Jamie Walls for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) - CAREER award.
- Congratulations to Dr. R. Prabhakar for receiving a Wiley-International Journal of Quantum Chemistry Young Investigator Award.
- Congratulations to Dr. V. Ramamurthy for receiving a medal from the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).
- A recent article of Drs. C. Hoff, B. Captain and R. Prabhakar (J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/ja1103348) was highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News (http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/ cen/89/i04/html/8904notw8.html).
- Congratulations to Dr. V. Ramamurthy for receiving a Distinguished Alumnus Award 2010 from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Madras, India.
- 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.
Upcoming Seminars
| MARCH | 25 | Dr. S. Deo, Uni. Miami, Dept. of Biochemistry |
| APRIL | 1 | Dr. J. Rivera, University of Puerto Rico (Dr. Kaifer) |
| APRIL | 8 | Dr. K. Grant, Georgia State University (Dr.Prabhakar) |
| APRIL | 15 | Dr. M. Chisholm, Ohio State University (Dr. Captain) |
| APRIL | 22 | Dr. U. Brinker, University of Vienna (Dr. Ramamurthy) |
| APRIL | 27 | Dr. T. V. RajanBabu, The Ohio State University (Dr. Takenaka) Asymmetric Catalysis of Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Nitrogen Bond-Forming Reactions |
| APRIL | 29 | Dr. D. Beratan, Duke University (Dr. Prabhakar) |
| MAY | 5 | Professor Karl Wieghardt, The Max Planck Institute |
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Congratulations Mr.Chirag Gheewala!
Mr. Gheewala was awarded a Fullbright
Scholarship in chemistry.
Welcome to all new incoming grad students!
