Chemistry Graduate Student Wins Prestigious AAAS Award A graduate student in the department of Chemistry, Ms. Cynthia Tope, has been selected to receive the 2020 Helen F. Holt Scholarship for Early Career Women in Science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The award, to a single recipient, recognizes an outstanding graduate student who will be making a research presentation at the annual national AAAS meeting. The award includes funds to offset the cost of travel to the conference, held this year is Seattle, WA, conference registration, and AAAS membership. Ms. Read more about Chemistry Graduate Student Wins Prestigious AAAS Award
Graduate Student Awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship Alanna Koritzke, a graduate student in the lab of Prof. Brandon Rotavera, has been awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship for 2020. The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States. It supports outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who wish to conduct research in France for a period ranging from 4 to 9 months. Read more about Graduate Student Awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship
Tetrasilicates with Cr(II), Fe(II) and Other Divalent Transition Metals in Square-Planar Coordination Square-planar coordination is an ideal structure for tetracoordinate complexes in transition metal chemistry. Type of Event: Inorganic Seminar Read more about Tetrasilicates with Cr(II), Fe(II) and Other Divalent Transition Metals in Square-Planar Coordination
Overcoming Fundamental Challenges in Organic Chemistry Through Methods Development Across Length Scales Read more about Overcoming Fundamental Challenges in Organic Chemistry Through Methods Development Across Length Scales
Proteomimetic Foldamers for Biomolecular Recognition Type of Event: Organic Seminar Special Seminar Read more about Proteomimetic Foldamers for Biomolecular Recognition
(Towards) The Rapid Generation of Structural Complexity Type of Event: Organic Seminar Read more about (Towards) The Rapid Generation of Structural Complexity
Controlling Chemical Reactivity: From Small Molecules to Polymers Type of Event: Organic Seminar Read more about Controlling Chemical Reactivity: From Small Molecules to Polymers
Mechanistic Insights Facilitate the Development of Transition Metal Catalyzed Processes Type of Event: Organic Seminar Special Seminar Read more about Mechanistic Insights Facilitate the Development of Transition Metal Catalyzed Processes
How Metal Ions in the Brain Tip the Toxic Balance of the Killer Prion Protein A prion is a misfolded form of the cellular prion protein, PrPC. Although the role of PrP in neurodegeneration was established over 30 years ago, there is little understanding of the protein’s normal function, and how misfolding leads to profound disease. Recent work shows that PrPC coordinates the cofactors Cu2+ and Zn2+, and regulates the distribution of these essential metal ions in the brain. Moreover, these metals stabilize a previously unseen fold in PrPC, the observation of which provides new insight into the mechanism of prion disease. Type of Event: Inorganic Seminar CMS Seminar Read more about How Metal Ions in the Brain Tip the Toxic Balance of the Killer Prion Protein
Destroying Toxic Amyloid-beta Aggregation with Photoactive Transition Metal Complexes Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, characterized by memory loss, motor skill loss, and eventually death that currently affects at least 5.8 million Americans.1 This number is projected to more than double in the next 30 years.1 Much effort has gone into determining the exact cause of onset of AD as well as developing strategies to mitigate its symptoms, however, there are currently are no substantial methods of prevention, slowing, or cure.1 For nearly 30 years, the prevailing hypothesis for AD c Type of Event: Inorganic Seminar Read more about Destroying Toxic Amyloid-beta Aggregation with Photoactive Transition Metal Complexes
