Professor Challa Vijaya Kumar of the Chemistry Department has won the Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award 2021-22 from the US State Department for his proposal on desalination by forward osmosis. He will conduct research in developing protein-based membranes for desalination by a revolutionary concept using state of the art methods. This is his fourth Fulbright award from […]
Author: Dizon, Jacqueline
Promotion for Dr. Jessica Rouge
Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Rouge on being promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure by the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees!
Tejas Bhosale Receives GSS Community Service Award
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Tejas Bhosale (Suib Group) for being recognized as the second runner-up for the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Community Service Award for the 2020-2021 academic year. This award honors a graduate student, who, through his or her exemplary service, has made significant contributions to the intellectual, cultural, and professional capital of the entire graduate student community at the […]
UConn Nation Raises $1,000 for the Bobbitt-Chou Fund
During this year’s UConn Gives, a 36-hour giving initiative March 23-24, members of UConn Nation raised $1,000 for the Bobbitt-Chou Fund for Graduate Chemistry Students! Whether you contributed a gift or helped to spread the word, we want to THANK YOU for supporting impactful graduate research opportunities within UConn Chemistry! More information about the UConn Gives Bobbitt-Chou Fundraising effort […]
American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Award Winner
Congratulations to graduate student Scott Pierce (Angeles-Boza Group) for winning the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry (ACS-DIC) Travel Award. This program supports graduate students intending to present research talks or posters at ACS National Meetings. Scott will also be presenting in the ACS Spring 2021 (to be held online from April 5 – 30). He will be presenting […]
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipient
Congratulations to graduate student Caroline Donaghy (Angeles-Boza Group) for being awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Caroline will be working on developing green pesticides using glycopeptides throughout her fellowship.
The Wolff New Venture Competition and UConn Entrepreneurs
The Wolff New Venture Competition—championed through the UConn School of Business—mentors start-up candidates and awards those who are most likely to advance society with their ideas. Research professor Nicole Wagner ’07 (CLAS), ’13 Ph.D. is regarded as one of the first winners of this competition with her start-up company, LambdaVision. LambdaVision commercializes technology developed by professor emeritus Robert Birge to […]
UConn Startup Unlocking the Promise of Hemp
A lawyer and a chemist get on a plane. This isn’t the start of a corny joke, but of a successful startup. University of Connecticut chemistry professor Greg Sotzing met attorney Peter Belsito on an airplane coming back to Connecticut from Atlanta. They soon realized they had a common interest: cannabis. During their flight, they […]
Mani Group Paper Published in JACS
A new paper from the Mani Group appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Jason Buck, a 4th year graduate student, and Dr. Tomoyasu Mani demonstrated a new type of magnetic control of molecular emission. They take advantage of the quantum mechanical nature of radical pairs (pairs of radical anion and cation or molecular qubits) to control fluorescence by […]
Dr. James Rusling Among Highly Cited Authors
Paul Krenicki Professor of Chemistry James Rusling ranks among the top 5% of highly cited authors with Royal Society of Chemistry journals in 2019. Specifically, his most cited article, “Automated 3D-printed unibody immunoarray for chemiluminescence detection of cancer biomarker proteins,” received 15 citations in 2019. Collaborators include Chi K. Tang ’16 Ph.D. and Dr. Abhay Vaze. Royal Society of […]