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The National Institute of Health’s National Center for Research Resources has awarded the U of D a five-year, $10.5M grant for a multidisciplinary research program on molecular design of advanced biomaterials. The grant is part of NIH’s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Program, which funds projects to strengthen the research infrastructure and further the research careers of young science and engineering faculty in this area. Directed by Prof. Thomas Beebe, the research team includes Profs. Joseph Fox, Sandeep Patel, Tatyana Polenova, Joel Schneider, Zhihao Zhuang, and Neal Zondlo, from CHEM/BIOC, plus two BISC faculty members and five faculty in the College of Engineering, including Prof. Kristi Kiick (BS89).
The accolades continue to build for the research achievements of Prof. Svilen Bobev. Fast on the heels of his NSF CAREER Award, Svilen was named the winner of the 2009 ExxonMobil Solid-State Chemistry Faculty Fellowship. The Fellowship was presented to him during the 8/09 ACS National Meeting, in Washington,D.C. He was also selected to receive the 2009 Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award from the American Crystallographic Association. The Award was established by the ACA in 2002 in memory of Dr. Etter (1943-1992), a UD alumna (MS71) who was a major contributor to the field of organic solid-state chemistry. The Award, presented to Svilen at the ACA’s annual meeting in Toronto in 7/09, recognizes outstanding achievement and exceptional potential in crystallographic research.
Peggy, a UPenn graduate, wrote her M.S. thesis on “Kinetic Isotope Effects in Cyclic Pyrolytic Elimination Reactions” under the mentorship of (the late) Prof. Harold Kwart. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in 1975. After teaching chemistry at Augsburg College in Minneapolis for one year, she joined the 3M Company’s Central Research Department in St. Paul. She returned to the University of Minnesota in 1983, and was promoted to full professor in 1990. She became a world-renowned expert on organic solid state chemistry, and was one of the coordinating editors of MOLECULAR ENGINEERING. Her brief, but spectacular, academic career ended prematurely on June 10, 1992, when she died of kidney cancer.
Dana Chatellier (MA83) (EDUCATION SPECIALIST) has been named to the Board of Advisors for the 2nd edition of Chemistry, by Julia Burdge. Dana was also cited by the University’s Office of Judicial Affairs for his extensive service as an Advisor for that office. danac@udel.edu .
Prof. Cecil Dybowski was named a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy at the annual meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies in Reno, NV on 10/2/08.
The work of Prof. Joseph Fox, graduate student Melissa Blackman, and post-doctoral associate Maksim Royzen on the use of cycloaddition in the rapid tagging of biomolecules was spotlighted in the 10/6/2008 edition of C&E News (p.8).
Prof. Murray Johnston has been selected to be the co-recipient of the Benjamin Y.H. Liu Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research. The Award recognizes outstanding contributions to aerosol instrumentation and experimental techniques that have significantly advanced the science and technology of aerosols.
Among Prof. Burnaby Munson’s many awards, this one has to be the most unusual. He was named the 2008 Outstanding Older Worker for Delaware by the Experience Works Prime Time Awards Program, a national, yearlong effort to salute older workers.
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Prof. Sharon Neal’s review of The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure – Without Losing your Soul, by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy, appeared in the 2/23/09 issue of C&E News (pp.60-62).
An article describing the 15 years of support to under-represented science majors at the U of D by our Howard Hughes Medical Institute-funded NUCLEUS program, written by the current NUCLEUS Coordinator, Jacqueline Aldridge, and the current HHMI Grant Directors, Profs. Harold White and David Usher (BISC), appeared in the 12/08 issue of ASBMB Today (p26). The NUCLEUS program was conceived in 1993 by Prof. Phillip Gottlieb (FAC 88-95), has been supported by four major HHMI grants, and has been nurtured by four exceptionally capable coordinators (Victoria Orner, 1993-1998; Dr. Cherie Dotson, 1998-2005; Dr. Zakiya Wilson, 2005-2006; and Jacqueline Aldridge, 2006-present). Victoria is now the Associate Director of Admissions at St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT. jorner@smcvt.edu . Cherie is now the Program Manager for Graduate Student Recruitment and Outreach in the University of Michigan’s College of Pharmacy crdotson@umich.edu . Zakiya is now the Graduate Coordinator for Louisiana State University’s Department of Chemistry zwilson@lsu.edu . Jacki has just received a 2009 City of Newark Community Service Award jaldridg@udel.edu .
The artwork image from the article “23Na TQF NMR Imaging for the Study of Spinal Disc Tissue,” by Prof. Tatyana Polenova and co-workers graced the cover of the 11/08 issue of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance.
What goes around, comes around! Dr. George Reilly (FAC 97-00, and PT FAC for ca. three decades before that) continues to teach general chemistry at the West Campus of Arizona State University during his “retirement.” One of his CHM116 laboratory instructors is non other than Dr. Peter Sparks, our Department’s first Assistant to the Chair (69-74). George’s wife, Dee, who served as a PT laboratory instructor in our Department for many years, is an instructor at the local Sylvan Learning Center
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Prof. Charlie Riordan is serving as Chair of the NIH study section on Macromolecular Structure and Function-A, the reviewing body that evaluates proposals pertaining to the roles of metal ions in biology. He also served as the guest editor of a special issue of Dalton Transactions (2009, #22) devoted to bioorganometallic chemistry.
Prof. Kate Scantlebury received a $1.4M grant from the U.S. Department of Education for Project SMART (Science and Mathematics Academy for Recruiting Teachers) to increase the number of science and mathematics teachers graduating from the university. She is a Co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation ADVANCE-PAID, focused on improving the recruitment and retention of women faculty in science, mathematics and engineering at the University of Delaware.
Prof. Douglas Taber was an invited speaker at the 2nd Pennsylvania Organic Chemistry Curriculum Development Conference, held at Immaculata (PA) University, 5/27/09.
The work of Prof. Andrew Teplyakov and his graduate students Timothy Leftwich and Mark Madachik on functionalizing silicon was highlighted in the 11/24/08 issue of C&E News.
Prof. Harold White’s article describing the U of D’s Undergraduate Summer Research Program was published in the 11/08 issue of ASBMB Today (p.14).
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