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From the Chemistry Department
Dr. Christopher Bielawski selected for Defense Science Study Group
Professor Christopher Bielawski was selected to participate in the 2012-2013 Defense Science Study Group (DSSG), which introduces outstanding scientists and engineers to the challenges facing national security and provides them with opportunities to focus on defense policy, related research and development, and the systems, missions, and operations...Dr. Dmitrii Makarov receives 2011-12 Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Award
Dmitrii Makarov, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, received a 2011-12 Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Award to pursue his project on the design of molecular-level biosensors. He was among seven University of Texas at Austin researchers selected for the award who are confronting what the scientific community...Dr. Jim Brown 1930 - 2011
James Robert Brown was born in Port Angeles, Washington on August 17, 1930 and died in Austin on May 7, 2011 at the age of 80. He entered the University of Washington in 1949 but his studies were interrupted by his service in the US Army during the Korean War. He completed his BS in Chemistry in 1956 and obtained a PhD in Biochemistry from the Univ...Dr. Guangbin Dong joins the Department
Dr. Guangbin Dong has joined the Department as an Assistant Professor. He plans to establish an innovative synthetic organic research program which will seek to address several challenges in the field, such as activation of inert C-H bonds distal to existing function groups, enhancement of the efficiency in natural product synthesis, and construct...
