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From the Chemistry Department

Livia Eberlin Receives Grant from CPRIT

  Assistant Professor Livia Eberlin is a recipient of a $200,000 grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). This new grant will support Dr. Eberlin's laboratory effort in developing advanced mass spectrometry technologies for preoperative molecular diagnosis of cancer. This particular project is b...
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Roberts Research Published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

A new article from the Roberts group has just appeared in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. In their paper, members of the Roberts lab describe a new spectrometer that they have developed for measuring spectra produced by electronic sum frequency generation (ESFG). ESFG is a nonlinear process that preferentially occurs at surfaces and int...
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Que Research Published in JACS

Emily Que's research group recently published a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.  "Exploiting Copper Redox for 19F Magnetic Resonance-Based Detection of Cellular Hypoxia" This paper describes a new MRI contrast agent platform that utilizes a Cu(II)/Cu(I) redox switch to selectively detect hypoxic environments in cel...
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David Vanden Bout Receives President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award

Congratulations to Professor David Vanden Bout on receiving the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award. In addition to being a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, Dr. Vanden Bout is the CNS Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education.     The President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award award was established in t...

Crooks and Martin Receive Funding from Dell Medical School

Source   Professors Richard Crooks and Stephen Martin have received funding from the Dell Medical School, as part of the inaugural class in the Texas Health Catalyst program. The Texas Health Catalyst connects academic researchers with industry professionals so products can be refined early in the development process. &n...