News and Highlights

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Dr. Adrian Keatinge-Clay Joins the Department

Dr. Adrian Keatinge-Clay majored in Chemistry and Biology at Stanford University, graduating in 1999. He received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California at San Francisco in 2004. His doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Stroud focused on the early stages of antibiotic biosynthesis catalyzed by aromatic polyketide synthas...

Thursday, 15 May 2008

Green Chemistry Conference at UT Austin July 11 & 12

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Sigma-Aldrich will co-host a Green Chemistry Conference and USA-Japan Young Chemist Exchange on July 11 & 12 in the AVAYA Auditorium, ACES 2.302. Our own Professor Mike Krische will speak about his recent accomplishments in C-C Bond Formation. For more information, see the flier below or contac...

Tuesday, 06 May 2008

Dr. Bielawski - Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award Winner

Congratulations to Dr. Bielawski for winning the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/camille_dreyfus_teacher_award.shtml http://www.dreyfus.org/announcements/CURR-TC.pdf

Friday, 02 May 2008

2008 Staff Awards in Chemistry & Biochemistry

Congratulations to the following department staff members who received awards this year: Department Staff Excellence Award Charles Cartwright, Mass Spectrometry Peter Ghobrial, Information Technology Services Vincent Lynch, X-Ray Diffraction Department Exemplary Service Award Mike Ronalter, Glassblowing Shop University Staff Excellence Award...

Friday, 02 May 2008

Dr. Lauren Webb Joins the Department

Dr. Lauren Webb received her A.B in Chemistry (Music minor) from Bowdoin College in 2000. She entered graduate school at the California Institute of Technology as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2005. She did her graduate work in the laboratory of Prof. Nathan Lewis, where she studied chemical and electronic p...