Dr. Kerry Gilmore was featured in UConn Today in an article titled, “Want to Contribute to Scientific Research? There’s An App – and a Network – for that.” What we are trying to do is to open up access to being able to do research. Read the article here: https://today.uconn.edu/2024/04/want-to-contribute-to-scientific-research-theres-an-app-and-a-network-for-that/
Faculty News
Meet New Head of Chemistry, Dr. Mark Peczuh
Dr. Mark Peczuh was featured in UConn Today as the new Department Head for UConn Chemistry. In the article, the seasoned chemist discusses the study of ‘stuff,’ raves about his department’s faculty, and pits AI against Taylor Swift. To read the full article please visit, https://today.uconn.edu/2024/03/meet-new-head-of-chemistry-mark-peczuh/.
Graduate Student Maggie Ward Awarded NSF-GRFP
Maggie Ward, a first-year doctoral student in inorganic chemistry, was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP). She works in the lab of Assistant Professor J. Nathan Hohman, focusing on crystallography and working is to synthesize and characterize metal-organic chalcogenolates, a class of semiconducting nanomaterials. The lab has primarily synthesized and studied silver materials, but her focus is currently those made […]
Prof. Nicholas Leadbeater Awarded 2023 CLAS Mentoring Award
Congratulations to Prof. Nicholas Leadbeater for being awarded the 2023 CLAS Mentoring of Undergraduate Students Award! The Faculty Mentoring Awards recognize faculty who demonstrate exemplary support, encouragement, and the creation of opportunities to enrich the learning and professional development of others.
Interactive Periodic Table Tells Stories, One Element at a Time
Department Chemistry Periodic Table Display | UConn Christian Brückner started collecting more than 45 years ago when he was a young teenager in Germany and his father a metallurgist who’d bring home laboratory leftovers to feed his son’s growing interest in crystals and science. From an early 19th century bottle of a mercury salt to manganese […]
Workplace Navigators
A group of faculty and staff from STEM departments in CLAS have recently formed the Workplace Navigators group with the goal to provide a safe place where faculty, staff, post-doctoral associates, and graduate students can informally discuss academic and nonacademic concerns including administrative, workplace, and climate issues. Together we will work to define the problem, […]
Professor Sotzing’s 3BC Inc to Find Differences in THC
3BC Inc. is a cannabinoid company of which Prof. Gregory Sotzing is the Chief Scientific Officer. The company has been conducting research with UConn School of Nursing professor Steve Kinsey and his team in order to investigate the differences in physical and psychoactive effects of various forms of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. They found that two […]
Pushing Boundaries of RNA Modifications
Dr. Dan Fabris, Harold S. Schwenk Sr. Distinguished Chair in Chemistry, is currently developing technologies for the detection and characterization of RNA. He is particularly focusing on investigating the role of RNA modifications in the relationship between drugs of abuse and HIV. Using 908 Devices, Fabris pushes boundaries within the field with capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS). […]
UConn Celebrates Early-Career Faculty Award Recipients, Approves ‘Innovation Faculty’ Plan
A prestigious group of UConn faculty are being honored this year as the University’s latest recipients of early-career awards from the National Science Foundation, recognizing their potential as role models in education and research. The UConn Board of Trustees and Interim President Radenka Maric recognized 10 faculty members at Wednesday’s trustees meeting, noting that the […]
Twelve UConn Faculty Members Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
UConn’s 12 new CASE members include researchers, university leaders, entrepreneurs, and educators. UConn is well represented in the newest class of inductees to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). The organization announced that 12 UConn and UConn Health faculty members will be honored at the Academy’s 47th annual meeting, to be held virtually […]