UM Chemistry/News Archive

• Graduate Student Kennedy awarded PMP Fellowship
• Parrill receives ARRA NIH supplements
• Emmert receives ARRA funds from President Raines
• Emmert receives funding from Buckman Laboratories
• Thank you Buckeye for equipment gifts
• Fall 2009 Seminars

• Chemistry REU Scholars Symposium
• REU and Project SEED picnic at Shelby Farms on Saturday, June 20 at 10:30 AM
• NSF Grant: Burkey and Webster Groups awarded grant for design and synthesis of photochromic materials
• Summer Project SEED students selected!
• NSF REU students selected!
• Ciba Foundation donates $250,000 to the University of Memphis Department of Chemistry

• Graduate Student Ruddick awarded NASA Fellowship
• 2009 Student Research Forum winners
• Burkey and Webster Groups publish a Centennial Feature Article in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• Graduate Student Ruddick awarded American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Award
• Pinkhassik group publishes paper in Chem. Comm.
• Dr. Yongmei Wang and Jesse Ziebarth travel to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to receive the ORAU/ORNL HPC Computing Grant
• 2009 Undergraduate Research Conference was a great success!
• NSF-REU Opportunity in Chemistry
• NSF-REU Grant: Professor Abby Parrill and Assistant Professor Charles Edwin Webster, "REU: Collaborative Chemistry Research at the University of Memphis"
• NSF-REU Opportunity in Physics, Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering
• Pinkhassik group wins honorable mention in Global Venture Challenge
• Spring 2009 Seminars

• Chemistry Graduate Student Ruddick awarded American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee Eli Lilly Travel Award
• Thank you Endyne, Inc for gift of AA lamps
• NOBCChE students host Dr. Holder for lunch and a meet and greet - October 17, 2008, 12:30 PM, SM 220
• Pinkhassik Group publishes two Communications in Angewandte Chemie
• UofM team receives $2,000,000 from NSF to increase students graduating with STEM undergraduate degrees
• Ice Cream Social!!! - September 5, 2008, 3:00 PM, SM 102
• Dr. Dass has "best seller" with his Mass Spec book!
• Dr. Bridson wins CAS Award for Teaching Excellence
• Dr. Emmert wins Early Career Research Award
• Welcome to our new faculty member, Dr. Xuan Zhao!
• Fall 2008 Seminars

• Chemistry Graduate Students Watkins and Tekobo awarded First Generation Ph.D. Fellowships
• Summer Project SEED students selected!
• Two of our Ph.D. graduates start their faculty careers
• Dr. Gary Emmert receives $305,000 NASA EPSCoR grant
• Dr. Gary Emmert receives grant for $80,000 from FedEx Institute of Technology
• $2,500 stipend for Project SEED summer students; applications accepted now!
• Dr. Charles Edwin Webster receives $56,974 contract from Conoco Phillips

• UofM Undergraduate Scholarship and Award Winners
• UofM Student Research Forum Award Winners
• 2008 Undergraduate Research Conference was a great success!
• Dr. Burkey named First Tennessee Professor
• $2,500 stipend for Project SEED summer students; applications accepted now!
• NSF-REU Opportunity in Physics, Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering
• New Aviv 410 spectrometer installed!
• Department of Chemistry hosted Dr. Kelsey Cook, NSF Program Officer
• Dr. Mark Freilich elected as the Chair-elect of the ACS Div Chem Ed
• Spring 2008 Seminars

• AHA Graduate Fellowship: James Fells, American Heart Association Greater Southeast Affiliate, "Computationally-Guided Screening for LPA₃ Antagonists"
• NSF Instrumentation Grant: Professor Abby Parrill, Associate Professors Eugene Pinkhassik, Ramin Homayouni (Biology), and Gary Emmert, "MRI: Acquisition of a Spectropolarimeter for Research and Education"
• TBR Access Diversity Grant: Professor Ted Burkey, "Minority Undergraduate mentoring and Immersion Research"
• NSF Chemistry division standard grant: Associate Professor Yongmei Wang, "New chromatographic separation systems for polyolefins-theoretical explorations and experimental realization".
• NIH Diversity Supplement: Professor Abby Parrill
• Elsa Pardee Research Grant: Professor Abby Parrill and Assistant Professor Daniel Baker, "Identification of ATX Inhibitors as Potential Cancer Chemotherapeutic Leads"
• Welcome to our new faculty member, Dr. Tomoko Fujiwara!
• Fall 2007 Seminars

• Congratulations to Department of Chemistry Graduate students Jeff North, Angela Howard, and Ben Clayton for their award-winning presentations at the 19th Annual Student Research Forum!
• PRF Research Grant: Associate Professor Yongmei Wang, Petroleum Research Fund, "Computational Investigation of New Separation Schemes for Branched Polymers"
• Graduate Fellowship: James Fells, American Heart Association Greater Southeast Affiliate, "Computationally-Guided Screening for LPA3 Antagonists"
• 2007 Undergraduate Research Conference was a great success!
• $2,500 stipend for Project SEED summer students; applications accepted now!
• Spring 2007 Seminars