Department News
Department News
Professor Jessica Lamb receives Leadership Development Award
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The American Chemical Society and its Division of Professional Relations (PROF) has selected Professor Jessica Lamb for the inaugural PROF Leadership Development Award.
Gift from PPG supports Chemistry students and groups
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PPG, a Fortune 500 company, has continued its support of graduate students in the Department of Chemistry.
Multi-institutional team to develop novel drugs that could revolutionize treatment of alcoholic hepatitis
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The Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics has awarded a nearly $1 million grant to a multi-institutional team of scientists from the Department of Chemistry and Mayo Clinic to develop a therapeutic solution to address the challenge posed by alcoholic hepatitis. The project will be led by Merck Professor of Chemistry William Pomerantz and Dr. Vijay Shah, professor of medicine and physiology at the Mayo Clinic.
Professor Theresa Reineke receives the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
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Professor Theresa Reineke was named a 2022 Arthur C. Cope Scholar. She will accept her award and deliver an address at the American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago on Aug. 23, 2022
Chemistry Faculty Search 2021
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The Department of Chemistry seeks to fill one tenure-track or tenured faculty position beginning July 1, 2022 or later.
The Hoye group discloses “Radial hexadehydro-Diels-Alder reactions”
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Dan Lee, a 5th year graduate student in Professor Thomas Hoye’s research group, discloses a new synthetic strategy enabled by the hexadehydro-Diels-Alder (HDDA) reaction.
2021 Brasted Award for Excellence in College Teaching awarded to Professor Jane Wissinger
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The Brasted award is given to an individual who excels in instruction, supervising, innovative course work and exceptional teaching at the college level chemistry courses and laboratory instructions. This year's award goes to Dr. Jane Wissinger of University of Minnesota
Professor Sapna Sarupria joins new NSF funded research team to reduce reliance on vaccine cold chain
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A multi-institutional team of scientists which includes professor Sapna Sarupria of the Department of Chemistry has been awarded the NSF’s DMREF (Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future) award.
Students honored for Third-Year Talks at 20th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium
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Eight graduate students in their third years were selected as winners of the department’s 20th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, sponsored by PPG. The winning speakers were selected by the guest and faculty judges.
Regents Professor Tim Lodge named as inaugural Prager Chair in Macromolecular Science in Chemistry
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University of Minnesota Regents Professor Timothy Lodge has been named the inaugural Prager Chair in Macromolecular Science in Chemistry. The chair is the first of two established by the late College of Science and Engineering Professor Emeritus Stephen Prager and the late Dr. Julie Prager.