May 2006
Chemistry Addition No.1 and Laboratory/Classroom Renovation Project Begins
Follow the progress of the project(New Images 28-Mar-2007)
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During the week of December 18, we will be moving computers and having electrical work done in room 337. This involves most of the departmental servers, so most of our computer services will be down for some period of time. The affected services include:
- email, including both chemistry.msu.edu and cem.msu.edu
- Chemistry web server (www.chemistry.msu.edu)
- file and printer shares on poohbah
- VPN
- high performance computing (hbar, mcbisgi)
The high performance computers will be down for 2-3 days, but the other services should only be down for a couple of hours. Here is the
schedule:
Monday, December 18
- power down hbar and mcbisgi, and prepare them for moving
- move argus
Tuesday, December 19
Wednesday, December 20
- electrical work
- reassemble hbar and mcbisgi
Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning (as soon as electrical work is
complete)
- shut down Windows servers (email, web, file, print, VPN), move them,
and bring them back up as quickly as possible
- power up hbar and mcbisgi
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Check out the Michigan State University Department of Chemistry Undergraduate Student Award winners. More
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Jeffrey R. Gour, a graduate student in Professor Piotr Piecuch's group, received an Outstanding Student Poster Award from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. The award was presented to Jeff at the 235th National ACS Meeting in New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008.
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Professor John Frost and Dr. Karen Draths, who have taken a leave of absence from their jobs at Michigan State University in December 2006 to start Draths Corporation, have more recently developed a microbial process for making phloroglucinol, a chemical to replace formaldehyde, a carcinogen, in adhesive resins. more
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Catherine Nezich was selected as the University's 24th recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Kaveri Korgavkar received honorable mention from the Goldwater Foundation. More
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Dr. Thomas Hamann will be joining the department as an assistant professor this summer. Dr. Hamann's interests are in inorganic materials and electrochemistry related to energy conversion and storage. More
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The Department of Chemistry at Michigan State University is an organizer of the 13th International Workshop "Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics" (QSCP). Professor Piotr Piecuch chairs the workshop. For more information about the workshop, confirmed speakers, registration, abstract submission, room reservation, and the history of the QSCP series, please see the web site.
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John Hixson, a MSU Undergraduate Student, has been named a Ullyot Scholar and has won a 2007-08 Project SEED College Scholarship. John's receipt of this scholarship was based on his research as a project SEED student during the Summer of 2006, when he worked with Professor Mitch Smith and Dr. Edith Onyeozili. More
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Marcos Dantus has been awarded the 2008 Distinguished Faculty Award.
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Rob Maleczka and Mitch Smith have received a $100,000 grant from the Pharmaceutical Roundtable of the Green Chemistry Institute, a division of the American Chemical Society. The grant will be used to further their work that can be used to promote green engineering practices in the pharmaceutical industry. More
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Piotr Piecuch was named University Distinguished Professor at the June 15, Board of Trustee meeting. More
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A set of pages is now available that lists all of the chief administrative officers of the department from 1857 to the present. This facility is found via the Department History menu [www.chemistry.msu.edu | Other Information | History | Departmental Leadership] or with the following link.
Department Leadership
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Audrey Martin is featured in an article about new technologies for detecting biological, chemical, and explosive agents.
Audrey is a graduate student with Dan Jones and doing her research work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Scott Bankroff has been awarded the 2007 J. Allen Alexander Award by the American Scientific Glassblowers Society. More
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Gavin Reid has won an American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award. The award will be presented to Gavin at the annual ASMS conference to be held in Indianapolis in June.
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Max T. Rogers 2007 Lectureship
April 18, 19, 20 2007
Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas - The Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Christine Kalcic (Dantus Group) has received a 2007 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRF) Award under the Analytical Chemistry field of study.
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March 16, 2007: Professor Piotr Piecuch and co-collaborators, including Jeff Gour, Maricris Lodriguito, and Professor Marta Wloch from the Piecuch group, Professor Mihai Horoi from Central Michigan University, and Professor Alex Brown from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, have published a high profile paper in Physical Review Letters, where they show that coupled-cluster methods developed by the Piecuch group have a wide range of applicability that includes heavy nuclei, in addition to molecular systems. This is the fourth Physical Review Letters contribution from the Piecuch group since 2003, and the third one in nuclear structure theory. The relevant press releases associated with the article can be accessed at the following link:
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Rashad Simmons has been awarded the 2007 Tracy A Hammer Graduate Student Award for Professional Development by the College of Natural Science Alumni Association. More...
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Melissa Parsons is the 2007 winner of the Naomi and Donald Hack Award. More...
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Pfizer 2007 Lectureship
March 22 and 23, 2007
Professor Eric N. Jacobsen - Harvard University
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Jaime Curtis (Weliky's group) was one of 6 graduate students receiving a 2007 University Excellence-in-Teaching Citation. More...
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Piotr Piecuch gave an endowed Professor S.R. Palit Memorial Lecture at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Kolkata, an institution where Raman discovered the celebrated effect that bears his name.
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Maricris Lodriguito will receive one of five 2007 ACS Chemical Computing Group (CCG)
Excellence Awards
at the 2007 ACS Meeting in Chicago. Maricris is a member of the Piecuch Research Group.
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Chemistry Day 2006 Images
Images from Chemistry Day at Impressions 5 Saturday October 28, 2006 can be seen by Department members at \\vapor\chemistrydayimages$.
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MSU Chemistry in the ACS Top 5
Our department joins UC San Diego, North Carolina, Illinois, and Michigan as the only schools in the top 25 of all three categories (BS/BA, MS, PhD) of chemistry degrees granted during 2004-2005. More
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Graduate Student Orientation (August 21-25)
The annual Department of Chemistry Orientation for the new class of graduate students will take place on the above dates. above. More
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Gavin Reid, Balasubramanian Ramanathan, and Siqi Xue received 2006 Sigma Xi awards. The Michigan State University Chapter of Sigma Xi, the honorary scientific society, is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Sigma Xi Awards:
Junior Meritorious Faculty Award ($1000) – Gavin Reid
Graduate Student Award ($200) – Balasubramanian Ramanathan and Siqi Xue
These awards will be presented at the annual Sigma Xi dinner at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006.
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Tom Pinnavaia received the 2006 IMMA Award for exceptional achievements in the field of mesostructured materials research. The award was presented by IMMA President Prof. Serge Kaliaguine at the 5th International Meeting of the International Mesostructured Materials Association Symposium in Shanghai, August 5 – 7, 2006.More
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Marcos Dantus with Co-PIs Gavin Reid and Dan Jones received $1.4M, one of the 61 awards from the State of Michigan 2006 21st Century Jobs Fund for development of commercial products from laser and mass spectroscopy technology. The title of their proposal was "Application of laser-based molecular scalpel technology for proteomic and metabolomic analysis." This technology analyzes for chemical compounds in biological samples. For more information read the September 6, 2006 Lansing State Journal article.
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Rob Maleczka and Mitch Smith received $1.38M, one of the 61 awards from the State of Michigan 2006 21st Century Jobs Fund. The title of their proposal was "Catalytic Boronate Ester Synthesis: Developing New Commercial Building Blocks for Drug Discovery."
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May 6, 2006
Robert H. Grubbs (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005)
delivered the Commencement Address for the College of Natural Science and Lyman Briggs on Saturday May 6, 2006 at the Breslin Center.
Transcript of Professor Grubb's Talk
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Robert and Helen Grubbs be in East Lansing area Friday and Saturday May 5 and 6, 2006. He will be in the department that Friday morning. He will deliver the Commencement Address for the College of Natural Science and Lyman Briggs at 12:30 PM Saturday May 6, 2006 at the Breslin Center. Contact Mike Karabatsos for further information.
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Karen Maki has received the The Naomi and Donald Hack Distinguished Staff Award in Chemistry for 2005-2006.
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At Monday's Spartan Academic Excellence Gala, chemistry major Rachel Turney was recognized as the top scholar-athlete for MSU's varsity softball team in 2006. This award goes to the student athlete with the highest GPA among the members of their team. Also that evening chemistry major Leia Langhoff was recognized for her academic accomplishments while a member of the gymnastics team.
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Max T Rogers Distinguished Lectureship
R. Graham Cooks, Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, will be the Distinguished Lecturer at the Eighteenth Max T. Rogers Distinguished Lectureship Series to be held April 18 and 19, 2006. More
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Pfizer Distinguished Lectureship
Samuel I. Stupp, Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Medicine, Northwestern University, will be the Distinguished Lecturer at the Twenty-fifth Pfizer Distinguished Lectureship Series to be held March 21 and 22, 2006. More
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Shavon Ford (Senior Chemistry Major and undergraduate member of the Maleczka Group) was one of only 23 students
from around the country to receive a
Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic.
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Poohbah will be Unavailable
starting at 1:00AM Tuesday January 3, 2006 while poohbah is moved to a new platform.
Printers being served by Poohbah will become available mid-morning.
Shares including personal shares (Z-Drive Shares) will become avalable later in the day as the migration process is completed.
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Kathy Severin has received the Distinguished Academic Staff Award for 2005-2006. The award will be presented to Kathy at the University Awards Convocation on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006 in the Pasant Theatre, Wharton Center.
Award
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Johanna Dela Cruz received a Pacifichem Student Poster Competition (Analytical Chemistry area) Award for her poster "Isomer Idenitification with Shaped Laser Pulses." She received the award on December 18, 2005 at the Pacifichem 2005 meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The conference is sponsored jointly by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC), the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (NZIC), the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), and the Korean Chemical Society (KCS).
The Chemical Society of Japan is the host society for the 2005 Congress. In addition to the six sponsoring chemical societies, eleven chemical societies headquartered in pacific basin countries are Official Participating Societies.
The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies has been established to disseminate recent research results in the chemical sciences among chemists of the Pacific Rim countries, thereby fostering industrial development, improving local and global environments and the material well-being of their peoples.
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October 5, 2005
Robert H. Grubbs receives 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Robert Grubbs was a member of our department from 1969 to 1978 when he moved to Caltech.
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Warren Beck, Marcos Dantus, Michael Feig, John Frost, Jim Geiger, Ned Jackson, Ned Jackson, Rob Maleczka, Jim McCusker, Aaron Odom, Piotr Piecuch, Tom Pinnavaia, Greg Swain, and Bill Wulff received new grants during Fall 2005.
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Pfizer 2005 Lectureship
November 16-18, 2005
David E Cane -
Brown University
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November 14, 2005
John Frost has developed technology that can be used to produce shikimic acid, the starting material for Tamiflu(oseltamivir) a drug that will be important in combating avian flu if such a pandemic develops. Previously skimic acid was extracted from a Chinese spice, star anise. For more information see the 13-Nov-2005 New York Times article on issues impacting the production of Tamiflu.
New York Times Article
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November 7, 2005
Jeff Gour has received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a CNS Recruiting Fellowship.
Calvin Grant has received a MSU University Enrichment Fellowship.
Jill Pinter has received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a MSU University Distinguished Fellowship.
Calvin, Jeff, and Jill joined our graduate program in 2005. Jeff is working with Piotr Piecuch, Jill is working with Paul Mantica, and Calvin will be working in organic chemistry.
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Piecuch Group News : (Posted - November 11, 2005)
Dr. Armagan Kinal received one of the three competitive IBM-Lowdin Fellowships for Postdoctoral Associates to attend the 45th Sanibel Symposium, an international symposium in quantum molecular sciences.
Ms. Maricris Lodriguito received one of the three competitive IBM-Zerner Fellowships for Graduate Students to attend the 45th Sanibel Symposium.
Piotr Piecuch was awarded the Invitation Fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science which he used to visit the Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry at Kyoto University.
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MAX T. ROGERS LECTURESHIP
"Colloidal Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Properties, Applications"
A. Paul Alivisatos, Berkeley
Chemistry Room 138 Monday, April 11, 2005more
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March 4, 2005 - Jetze Tepe received the 2005 CNS Faculty Advisory Council Teacher-Scholar Award.
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March 4, 2005 - Katherine Shelly received the 2005 CNS Faculty Advisory Council Excellence-In-Teaching Award.
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March 4, 2005
Melissa Meaney received the 2005 CNS Alumni Association Tracy A. Hammer Graduate Student Award.
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March 4, 2005
Mike Karabatsos received the 2005 CNS Alumni Association Meritorious Faculty Award.
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March 4, 2005
Wakeshi Benson (Chemistry '96) received the 2005 CNS Alumni Association Recent Alumni Award.
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HOMELAND SECURITY SCHOLARS AND FELLOWS
Three students were named U.S. Department of Homeland Security scholars and fellows in November 2004: Katie C. Imhof, a microbiology junior from Burton, Ohio, and graduate students Audrey Martin of St. Louis, Mo., and Jennifer Froelich of Macomb, Michigan who are both pursuing dual degrees in the forensic chemistry program and a doctoral program in chemistry.
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Judy Matthews is now head of the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Library.
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Congratulations to Tom Geissinger for his 30 years of service with the University!
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