The 2011 PAMS Awards for Excellence reception was held on April 7, 2011. Chemistry nominees were Jackie Hughes (SPA) and Paul Boyle (EPA). Photos of the event. Posted April 22, 2011
BASF has selected Monica Enamorado and James Roberts as recipients of BASF fellowships. Posted April 22, 2011
Alex Deiters has won an NC State University Alumni Research Award for the 2009-2010 academic year. Posted April 5, 2011
The Women’s Chemist Committee of the American Chemical Society has awarded Cynthia Bunders a travel grant to the ACS 242nd National Meeting & and Expositon in Denver, CO. The award is sponsored by Eli Lily & Company. Posted April 4, 2011
NC State is pleased to participate in IYC 2011 with a week-long series of interesting, engaging activities in the Tech Sandbox in the West Wing of D. H. Hill Library. All events are free and open to the entire Wolfpack community. The week will culminate in the Scope Academy on Saturday, April 9th, with a keynote address by Barbara Imperiali, the Class of 1922 Professor of Chemistry and professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Posted April 4, 2011
Cynthia Bunders won the Outstanding Women’s Award in Academics given by the NC State Panhellenic Association and Women's Center, 2011. Posted March 25, 2011
The 12th Annual Chemistry Poster Session was held on March 18, 2010 at McKimmon Center. Posted March 24, 2011
Dr. Pierce received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently a postdoc at The Scripps Research Institute. He will join the department in January 2012 and focus on organic chemistry. Posted March 8, 2011
Dr. Wang received his PhD in 2004 from the University of Iowa and is currently a postdoc at Iowa State University. His research interests lie in Optical Imaging of Single Molecules/Nanoparticles with Super Microscopy. Posted March 2, 2011
Four of the five “Most Loved” faculty for 2011 at NC State, according to web site MyEdu.com, are chemistry professors. They are Bruce Novak, Lori Petrovich, Kay Sandberg, and former faculty member Dorian Canelas. MyEdu media coordinator, Kathryn Walker said “What we found in the reviews were teachers who inspired students. We saw some overlap with our off-the-record ‘tough love’ ratings.” Read more at TechnicianOnLine.com. Posted February 17, 2011.
Januka Budhathoki-Uprety was awarded POLY Travel Grant of 500.00 USD to present my research in the POLY division at ACS national meeting, Anaheim, CA this spring. This is a highly competitive award and two graduate students from US institutions were awarded. Posted February 16, 2011
Leyda Lugo-Morales, has been awarded a Graduate Student Travel Award from the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry. This grant is awarded to promising graduate students to offset the cost of travel to the Pittsburgh Conference to deliver an oral presentation in a Conference symposium in March. Leyda's presentation is entitled 'A Glucose Oxidase Voltammetric Microsensor for Real-time In Vivo Glucose Measurements.' Posted January 26, 2011
Professor Mike Whangbo has been named as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in recognition of his sustained record of high scholarship and international reputation. Mike has published over 500 scientific papers and has given over 230 invited lectures. His book with T. A. Albright and J. K. Burdett, Orbital Interactions in Chemistry, has become a reference book for research chemists as well as a classic textbook for graduate students all over the world. According to the ISI Web of Knowledge Citation Index, his studies have been cited over 15,619 times (as of January 7, 2011) and the Hirsh index of 58. Posted January 13, 2010
Alex Deiters has been awarded a four-year grant totalling $720K by the American Cancer Society. The research will be on regulating microRNA function with small organic molecules. Posted October 5, 2010
Laura Gardner with Alex Deiters' group has been selected for a GAANN Fellowship by the NC State GAANN Biotechnology Fellowship Committee for the 2010-2011 school year. This is a needs based fellowship and includes funds to cover tuition, fees, health insurance and a stipend for equipment, books, supplies and travel to professional meetings. Posted September 1, 2010
Justin Kennemur, current postdoc and former graduate student with Bruce Novak, is the 2010 winner of the AkzoNobel Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. One person is chosen out of six finalists. This is the first time an NCSU student has won this award. Justin will receive his award at the Spring 2011 ACS National Meeting. Posted August 30, 2010
Dan Comins has been elected to the 2010 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society. Posted July 28, 2010
Justin Kennemur, a graduate student with Bruce Novak, has won the Richard D. Gilbert Symposium Award given by the Polymer Discussion Group of the North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society. Posted May 28, 2010
Lin He and Christian Melander have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure by the Board of Trustees. Posted April 26, 2010
Elon Ison will receive the prestigious NSF Career Award for his research on Green Catalysis for Chemical Oxidations. Posted April 15, 2010
The 11th Annual Chemistry Poster Session was held on March 27, 2010 at McKimmon Center. Posted April 13, 2010
Jessica Torres-Kolbus been selected to receive a 2010 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). Her selection was based on her outstanding abilities and accomplishments, as well as her potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise. Posted April 6, 2010
Elke Feese, under the direction of Dr. Reza Ghiladi, took 2nd place at the 5th Annual NC State Graduate Student Research Symposium held on March 10, 2010. Her poster was on “Synthesis of Water-Soluble Porphyrin-Peptide Conjugates.” The synthesis of porphyrin-peptide conjugates (PPCs) is of broad interest given the range of potential applications of such molecules. PPCs could be exploited as selective targeting agents for anti-cancer or anti-viral therapeutics. Furthermore, PPCs could serve as novel water-soluble biomimetic catalysts whose reactivity might shed insight into aspects of hemoprotein enzyme mechanisms. This study investigates two possible routes to the synthesis of water-soluble cationic PPCs. Posted March 30, 2010
Christian Melander has made the 2009 Chancellor's Report for his groundbreaking work with Dr. John Cavanagh in biochemistry on work to make drug resistant bacteria such as MRSA and MDRAB. Posted March 18, 2010
David Muddiman will be the Recipient of the 2010 Biemann Medal sponsored by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS). The award recognizes significant achievements in basic or applied mass spectrometry made by an individual early in his or her career. Nominees should be within 15 years of receipt of the Ph.D. at the time they are nominated. The award is presented in honor of Professor Klaus Biemann whose lasting legacy is the training of students and postdoctoral associates over a 40-year period at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Biemann Medal is endowed by contributions from students, postdoctoral associates and friends of Professor Biemann. Eligibility is not restricted to members of ASMS. The award is conferred at the ASMS Annual Conference with the presentation of the Biemann Medal and a cash award of $5,000. Posted February 18, 2010
Colleen Connolly has been awarded a NIH Molecular Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship. Posted January 14, 2010
The editorial boards of Synlett and Synthesis have chosen Alex Deiters as one of our “Journal Awardees” in 2010. Individuals in this category are loosely defined as promising young professors at the beginning of their career, and they receive free print and electronic subscriptions of both journals, as well as the new venture Synfacts-Highlights in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, as a gesture of encouragement. Posted December 3, 2009
The Research Triangle Park, NC chapter of the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals (AHMP-RTP) announces the selection of Mr. Thomas Chen as the recipient of the Chapter's 2009 Environmental Scholarship Award. Mr. Chen is a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at North Carolina State University. This annual $500 scholarship is awarded to a graduate or undergraduate student demonstrating outstanding academic merit and a strong interest in pursuing a career related to protecting the environment. The award was presented on August 12, 2009 at the August meeting of the ACHMM-RTP in Raleigh, NC. Posted September 16, 2009
The Center for Molecular Spintronics seeks to reveal the fundamental principles underlying the optimal use of organic molecules for spin transport and manipulation through new synthesis, advanced characterization, and state-of-the-art modeling. These principles will drive the development of a new generation of low cost, low power, high performance spin-dependent device applications. The center is committed to pursuing these developments in close concert with industrial partners, science educators, and the general public to ensure wide-reaching impacts. The eight principal investigators are Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli, Dan Dougherty, Jack Rowe (all from NCSU Physics), Gail Jones (NCSU Math, Science and Technology Education), David Shultz (PI, NCSU Chemistry), Joe Tracy (NCSU Materials Science and Engineering), Frank Tsui (UNC-CH Physics) and Wei You (UNC-CH Chemistry). The grant is for Phase I funding at $1.5 million over 3 years. Posted August 28, 2009
Dave Shultz' NSF grant for “Metal Complexes of Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Biradical Ligands: from Nanoscopic Electron Correlation to Inhibition of Back Electron Transfer” has been renewed for 3 years for $446,000. Posted August 29, 2009
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA has announced that Alex Deiters was among the three selected as the first recipients of Teva USA Scholars grants in the amount of $300,000 in support of his proposed research. Posted August 11, 2009
Gavin Williams has joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor. Gavin's research is in Bio-Organic chemistry. He received his doctorate at the University of Leeds, UK in 2005 and did a postdoc with Jon Thorson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Posted August 4, 2009
Alex Deiters has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and Alex Smirnov has been promoted to Professor. Congratulations to both of them. Posted August 4, 2009
Alex Nevzorov has received a four year, $776k NSF grant on “High-Resolution Structures and Ligand-Induced Conformational Changes of Membrane Proteins by Solid-State NMR.” Last year, he received an interdisciplinary research grant from NC-Biotechnology Center “High-Resolution Structures of Membrane Proteins by NMR with Frontiers in Virology and Nanotechnology.” The research in Dr. Nevzorov’s lab involves applications of solid-state NMR of macroscopically aligned systems to the structural studies of membrane proteins in their native lipid environment and development of structure-based drug design methods for these important pharmaceutical targets. Posted July 8, 2009
Professor David C. Muddiman was the first Howard James Keynote Lecturer, in memory of the late “Howie” James, who was a dedicated scientific salesperson, husband and father. Howie James was one of the major influences in moving the Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group forward and also served as President. He is survived by his wife, Carol James, daughter, Jenny James, and son, Todd James. This Keynote Lecture Series is sponsored by the Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group. Posted May 26, 2009
Molly Brannock, a graduate student in Professor Gorman's group, has received a travel grant from Eli Lilly and the American Chemical Society. She will be able to attend scientific meetings between July 1 and December 21, 2009 with these funds. Only ten grants were awarded in the United States. Posted April 23, 2009
Professor David Muddiman has won an NCSU Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award in recognition of his outstanding research program. Posted April 7, 2009
Professors Tatyana Smirnova and Alex Smirnov have been awarded a combined $1.45M for EPR equipment and experiments. Read more about the EPR Funding Posted March 26, 2009
Marcie Belisle, laboratory supervisor with the General Chemistry program in Fox Teaching Labs, won the Annual Distinguished Performance Awards in the EPA category for the college of Physical and Mathematical Sciences that was held on March 25, 2009. Marcie will go on to compete at the university level with the winners from the other colleges and units on campus later this year. Also nominated from the department was Sabapathy Sankar, a laboratory supervisor in the NMR facility. Posted March 26, 2009
Justin Kennemur, a graduate student in the Novak group, took second place in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences division of the Fourth Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium that was held March 18, 2009. There were 159 poster presentations, representing 60 graduate programs and all colleges. Poster presentations were divided into seven broad academic categories, and faculty judges selected a first and second place winner in each category. Justin’s research is on helical macromolecular machines capable of polarizing light selectively and reversibly. Posted March 24, 2009
The 10th Annual Chemistry Poster Session was held on Saturday, March 14th. Read more about the Poster Session Posted March 16, 2009
The Melander group research on bacterial biofilms and methods to suppress antibiotic resistance has recently been highlighted in Science Magazine, Reuters, and the Washington Post. Posted March 16, 2009
Dr. Maria Oliver-Hoyo has been named an Outstanding Teacher at NC State for 2008-2009 and has been elected to the Academy of Outstanding Teachers. Posted March 10, 2009
Dr. Gavin Williams will join the department this fall as a new faculty member in the area of bio-organic chemistry. Read more about Gavin. Posted February 5, 2009
Genna Andrews, graduate student working under Professor David Muddiman, has been awarded an NIH/NCSU Molecular Biotechnology Training Program (MBTP) Traineeship. Read more about Genna Andrews Posted February 5, 2009
David Muddiman has been elected to a 3-year term (2009-2012) on the Board of Directors of the US Human Proteome Organization. The USHUPO "defines policy, education, and scientific use of proteomic technologies related to the study of humans and model organisms." It is closely tied with the International Human Proteome Organization. Posted February 4, 2009