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Department News
Deborah Rodriguez receives SHPE Twin Cities 2020 scholarship
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Deborah Jisselle Rodriguez, a double major in chemistry and mathematics, has received a 2020 scholarship from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Twin Cities Professional Chapter. Deborah is an undergraduate researcher for Professor Daniel Harki's lab in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry
NSF awards $20M to NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology
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University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers announced that they are part of a team of researchers from the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology (CSN) who have received a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry to continue their research on evaluating the molecular-level impact of nanotechnology on the environment and living things.
New mass spectrometer to replace aging equipment
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A new state-of-the art mass spectrometer will soon replace an old and failing piece of equipment in the Department of Chemistry's Mass Spectometry Laboratory (MSL)
Professor Buhlmann steps down as director of Graduate Studies
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Professor Philippe Buhlmann stepped down as the director of Graduate Studies in Chemistry, July 1, 2020, a position he held since 2012.
Yinan Shu receives Young Investigator Award
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Yinan Shu, Ph.D., a post-doctoral associate working with Regents Professor Donald Truhlar, has received the American Chemical Society Division of Physical Chemistry's 2020 Young Investigator Award.
Eight graduate students receive competitive dissertation fellowships
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Eight Department of Chemistry graduate students have been award highly competitive Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for the 2020-21 academic year, including Derek Batiste, Angela Carlson, Ryan Daley, Julia Early, Sheng-Yin "Dima" Huang, Siu Yi Kwang, En-Chih Liu, and Rebeca Rodriguez.
Undergraduate celebration honors graduates, award recipients
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When Covid-19 forced the cancellation of the Department of Chemistry's annual celebration of 2019-20 graduates and scholarship/award winners, Professor Lee Penn and Stephanie Stathopoulos prepared a virtual celebration.
Research on revM11 functional featured in virtual issue
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A paper, “Revised M11 Exchange-Correlation Functional for Electronic Excitation Energies and Ground-State Properties,” has been selected for a Journal of Physical Chemistry (JPC) Virtual Issue on New Tools and Methods in Physical Chemistry Research.
Commitment to students makes online labs possible
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With only two days to prepare, the Department of Chemistry moved its general chemistry and organic chemistry undergraduate courses online, including their laboratory components.
Listening Space brings department together to talk about race
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The Department of Chemistry facilitated a Listening Space for everyone in the department to come together as a community to support its people of color, and to listen to each other's feelings and thoughts about the murder of George Floyd.