Department News
Department News
Connie Lu promoted to professor
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Connie Lu has been promoted to full professor, effective fall 2020. She started with the Department of Chemistry in 2009 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2015.
Professor Siepmann named editor-in-chief of Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data
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The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has named J. Ilja Siepmann, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data.
University of Minnesota receives $18M grant for materials research
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The University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $18 million in renewed funding over the next six years for the University’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). The University of Minnesota MRSEC program is among only 11 centers nationwide receiving funding for successful collaborative research.
Outstanding Teaching Assistants, Students honored for 2019-20
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The Department of Chemistry honored its outstanding teaching assistants and those earning 4.0 GPAs for the 2019-20 school year.
Student Profiles: Kang Xiong-Hang, Ph.D.
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When Kang Xiong-Hang earned her doctorate in chemistry recently she became one of the first, if not the first, Hmong women in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia to earn this distinction.
Professor Truhlar named reviewer of the month
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Regents Professor Donald Truhlar has been named Reviewer of the Month for July 2020 by the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.
Nicholas Race receives MIRA grant
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Professor Nicholas Race has received a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) General Medicine that brings in $1.9 million for five years to fund projects involving the use of the phenonium ion as a control element in synthesis.
Victor Young Jr. elected Fellow of American Crystallographic Association
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Victor Young Jr., Ph.D., has been elected a 2021 Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association. Young has been director of the Department of Chemistry's X-ray Crystallographic Laboratory for 25 years.
Adeline Espinasse receives Baxter Young Investigator Award
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Adeline Espinasse, a 5th-year graduate student working with Professor Erin Carlson, has received a Baxter Young Investigator Award. She was selected as a First-Tier Awardee, of which there are only six in the nation.
Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran receives MIRA grant
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Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran has received a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) General Medicine that brings in $1.9 million for five years to fund her research on decoding and rewiring enzymatic redox signal transduction pathways.