Graduating Senior, Yuxuan Wang, won the $20,000 grand prize Mitchell Award last night at the Four Seasons Hotel. Wang is a Biochemistry (Honors) and Plan II major. She won the award for her undergraduate research project with Professor Andy Ellington titled, “Aptamer Antagonists of Myelin Promote Axon Growth.”
The George H. Mitchell Awards for Aca...
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Professor and Department Chairman Richard Crooks is the 2010 recipient of the Charles N. Reilley Award in Electroanalytical Chemistry. The C. N. Reilley Award is given in memory of one of the most distigushed analytical chemists of the 20th century. Reilley's interests were bo...
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Professor Lauren Webb is being honored with a College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. Natural Sciences Dean Mary Ann Rankin established this award to increase recognition of the College's many exceptional faculty who are committed to teaching at either the under...
Professor Eric Anslyn has developed a new technique for rapidly identifying and optimizing chiral catalysts, like those used in pharmaceuticals and pesticides.
Professor Anslyn's technique will allow for rapid identification of catalysts to carry out syntheses of chemicals of a certain enantiometric form, or "handedness". While the synthesis of th...
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Professor Allen Bard has received the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Distinguished Scientist Award. These awards are presented to individuals who have worked to support the SURA mission "to foster excellence in scientific research, to strengthen the scie...