News & Events
Student Awards Announced
- 2010 U.S. Department of Energy Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards have been granted to graduate students Jenifer Shafer and Travis Grimes. Ms. Shafer's $2500 award was for her paper titled "Partitioning of U, Np, Th, and Eu Between Acidic Aqueous Al(NO3)3 Solutions and Various TOPO Extraction Chromatographic Materials" while Mr. Grimes' $1500 award was for his paper "Lactic Acid Partitioning in TALSPEAK Extraction Systems". Congratulations to both!
Announcement of 2010 ACS Fellows
- The new list of 2010 ACS Fellows currently includes 3 more WSU Chemistry faculty: Profs. Sue Clark, KW Hipps, and Ken Nash. Emeritus Prof. Glenn Crosby is a member of the 2009 class, which was its inaugural year. Congrats all!
- Note: there were only 115 Fellows appointed last year in academia and if the same holds true this year, WSU will have 4 out of 230 ACS Fellows!
Joint 65th Northwest / 22nd Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the ACS
- NORM/RMRM 2010 was held in Pullman on the WSU campus from June 20th - 23rd
- There were a number of special symposium and general sessions - see norm-rmrm2010.wsu.edu for full details
- Many thanks to the 230+ presenters and ~400 registered attendees for making this meeting a big success
Other News
- WSU College of Sciences Award Winners
Congratulations to our colleagues who won 2009 awards in the following categories:
- Distinguished Faculty Award: Professor Ken Nash
- Faculty Advising Excellence Award: Clinical Assistant Professor Jeremy Lessmann
- Young Faculty Performance Award: Assistant Professor Ming Xian
- Professor Ming Xian received a National Science Foundation CAREER award. "The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations."
- Professor Kerry Hipps was elected a fellow of AAAS in recognition of his meritorious efforts to advance science and its applications. Professor Hipps was also elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of his pioneering and innovative work in tunneling spectroscopy and orbital mediated tunneling. Congratulations Kerry!
- Congratulations again to Professor Aurora Clark who was awarded $200,000 from the National Science Foundation over two years to study the “Multiscale chemistry of U, Np, and Pu fission products in acidic and basic media” and $600,000 from the Department of Energy over three years to study the “Origin of Actinide Ion Partitioning in Biphasic Systems.”
- Congratulations to Professor of Chemistry and Physics Choong-Shik Yoo, who was recently awarded four grants, which includes an award of $450,000 from the National Science Foundation over three years to explore ““Mbar Chemistry: Novel State of Matter at Extreme Conditions;” an award of $510,000 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency over three years to explore “Novel Functional Extended Solids at Extreme Conditions; an award of $100,000 from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund over two years to explore “High-pressure Kinetic Studies of Formation, Phase Transition and Crystal Growth of Methane Hydrates in Dynamic-DAC;” and the second of a five year contract from Department of Homeland Security for $375,000 per year to continue research into “Chemical and Shock Mitigation”
- C&E News has selected Professor Ming Xian's recent JACS communication for its Science and Technology Concentrates. Read more.
- Professor Herb Hill received the Beynon Award for the outstanding paper published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (RCM) during the previous two years
- Professor Aurora Clark received a Hewlett-Packard Junior Faculty award from the Comp Division at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Salt Lake City, March 22-26. Professor Clark also was awarded an ACS Dreyfus/Progress Lectureship that will fund travel to present her research at a prestigious university of her choosing.
Upcoming Seminars
Chemical Tools for Probing S-Related Biology Problems
Professor Ming Xian, WSU - Dept. of Chemistry
Seminar Location: Fulmer 438; Seminar Time: Mon Sep 13 16:10
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Aaron Wright , PNNL
Seminar Location: Fulmer 438; Seminar Time: Mon Sep 20 16:10
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Patrick Hrdlicka , University Of Idaho
Seminar Location: Fulmer 438; Seminar Time: Mon Sep 27 16:10
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Patrick Hrdlicka , University Of Idaho
Seminar Location: Fulmer 438; Seminar Time: Mon Sep 27 16:10
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