Brian Maxwell awarded both the 2013 Presidential Fellowship and Pelotonia Graduate research fellowship

Brian Maxwell, a graduate student of the Biophysics program in Dr. Zucai Suo's lab, was awarded both the 2013 Presidential Fellowship and Pelotonia Graduate research fellowship and was selected to give a Plenary talk at the IGP symposium. Please join us all in congratulating him!

Graduate student to receive an award

Colleagues, Please congratulate, Vagulejan Balasanthiran, graduate student of Malcolm Chisholm. Vagulejan has been notified that he will receive an International Precious Metals Institute, IPMI, Student Award to be given at the IPPMI 37th Conference June 22-25, 2013

Dr. Shore and Dr. Dutta receive College of Engineering Awards

Colleagues, Please congratulate Sheldon and Prabir for receiving this outstanding awards from the OSU College of Engineering. Sheldon Shore and J.-C. Zhao awarded the 2013 College of Engineering Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award Prabir Dutta, 2013 College of Engineering ‘Building Bridges’ Excellence Award

Dr. Anne McCoy awarded Harlan Hatcher Award

Dongping Zhong receives Guggenheim Fellowship

Colleagues, join us in congratulating Dongping Zhong! He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the only person to receive the award from Ohio, let alone The Ohio State! Congratulations Dongping!

Three Students win awards at Denman Forum

Congratulations to Stephen Firkins of Gopalan Group, Edward Alten of Magliery Group and Ben Albrecht of Herbert Group. All three students won an award at the Denman Forum! Join us in congratulating them!

Biological Sciences:

1st Presenter(s): Stephen Firkins
Biochemical Characterization of 6-phospho-β-glucosidases to Gain Insights into Cellobiose Utilization by Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052

Advisor(s): Venkat Gopalan
Arts and Sciences - Natural and Mathematical Sciences Thaddeus Ezeji Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

1st Presenter(s): Edward Alten
Improving Therapeutic Proteins through PEGylation: Cancer-Imaging Antibodies

Advisor(s): Thomas Magliery
Arts and Sciences - Natural and Mathematical Sciences

MAPS:

3rd Presenter(s): Ben Albrecht
Benchmarking Polarizable Continuum Model Methods for Macromolecular Analysis

Advisor(s): John Herbert
Arts and Sciences - Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Veronica Angeles selected for 2013 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Veronica Angeles, a 2nd year graduate student in Mattson lab, was selected for a 2013 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Please join us all in congratulating her!

Seven faculty researchers honored for mentorship

Seven research mentors were honored Thursday (3/28) as winners of two awards by the Undergraduate Research Office. The announcements were made at the Denman Undergraduate Research forum at RPAC. The five Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor are Mathew Coleman (Geography), Christopher Callam (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Carolyn Gunther (Human Nutrition), Anil Pradhan (Astronomy), and Michael Tweedle (Radiology). Also, Kelsie Bernot (Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics) and Michael Mandel (Computer Science and Engineering) received Outstanding Research Mentor awards.

For more information about the awards, and to see past winners, please visit here.

Congratulations go to Matt Stoltzfus!

Please join us in congratulating Matthew Stoltzfus who just received one of the Provost's Awards for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer. As the inaugural year for this award, this is outstanding recognition for Matt and the department. Well done Matt!

2013 Hayes Forum Award Winners

Congratulations to Lindsay Morrison (Wysocki Group), Michael Severance (Dutta Group) and Eric Coleman (Co Group) - who became 2013 Hayes Forum Award Winners yesterday. Well done!

Math & Physical Sciences Oral Presentations

1st place - Lindsay Morrison, Chemistry & Biochemistry - Wysocki

2nd place - Michael Severance, Chemistry & Biochemistry - Dutta

Engineering, Math, & Physical Sciences Posters

1st place - Eric Coleman, Chemistry - Co

Congratulations to Anne McCoy!

For those who were not able to attend the faculty meeting yesterday, the reason for the meeting was to announce that Anne McCoy has just received the 2013 OSU Distinguished Scholar Award. This is a well-deserved honor for Anne and a positive attribute for the department. Congratulations again Anne!

More congratulations to Anne McCoy!

Colleagues, please join me in congratulating Anne McCoy for another award. Anne has had an incredible week. I was also informed that she is the 2012-2013 Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award from the College of Arts and Sciences. This is an award in recognition of full professors who have truly exceptional records in teaching, research and service. This award will be presented at ACS Spring Recognition Reception on April 1st.

Congratulations to John Herbert!

Please join us in congratulating John Herbert! He was just informed that he is the recipient of a new ACS award: The Inaugural Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship Award for JPC-A This goes to someone who has made major impacts on the field of physical chemistry research and is also within 10 years of earning a Ph.D.

ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences

Dr. Heather Allen was given an award for encouraging women into careers in the chemical sciences. Congratulations Dr. Heather Allen!

Click here for the full article (PDF)

OSU Chemistry and Biochemistry Digital First Faculty Fellow Matthew Stoltzfus Featured in Public Radio News Story

Dr. Matthew Stoltzfus of The Ohio State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is featured on StateImpact Ohio in the story "How MOOC's are Changing Higher Ed" in which he and others discuss the implementation of MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses in higher education. Dr. Fus, as he is known to his students, is Lecturer and Digital First Faculty Fellow incorporates the "flipped classroom model" delivered via iTunesU. Dr. Fus has also been featured on digital first and he maintains a chemistry education website at DrFus.com.

Chemistry major wins first place in national nanotech competition

Elisabeth Bianco, a senior chemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences, received the $3,000 first place award at the second annual Notre Dame Competition in Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in October. Bianco competed against student researchers from top universities around the country. Her winning project explored the properties of a one-atom thick layer of germanium, which she synthesized and characterized — for the first time. This work could have many practical applications, including developing new transistors for computers.

Bianco’s advisor, Joshua Goldberger, assistant professor of chemistry, supported and encouraged her every step of the way. Her undergraduate research in Goldberger’s leading-edge materials research lab became the basis for her Notre Dame project.

Andrew Petit receives 2012 Rao Prize

Congratulations to Andrew Petit, a Chemical Physics graduate student in Professor Anne McCoy’s research group, who received a 2012 Rao Prize for his talk entitled "Exploring Rotation-Vibration Coupling in Highly Fluxional Molecules Using Surface Hopping Diffusion Monte Carlo" at the 2012 OSU International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy. This award recognizes the best talks given by graduate students at the 2012 conference.  Congratulations Andrew!

Dr. Jaroniec receives 2012 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Christopher Jaroniec, chemistry, recently received a 2012 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, which supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences at an early stage in their careers. Based on institutional nominations, and the researcher's track record of significant accomplishments, the program provides an unrestricted research grant of $75,000.

Read more here.

Zheyun Lio and Wei Hua receive Presidential Fellowship!

Please join me in congratulating Zheyun Liu, a chemistry student in Prof. Zhong's research group, and Wei Hua, an Environmental Science student in Prof. Allen's research group.  Each of them received a Presidential Fellowship!

Dr. Jaroniec selected to receive the 2012 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Colleagues,

Please join us in congratulating Chris Jaroniec. Chris has been selected as a recipient of the 2012 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Well done Chris!

Dr. Anita Mattson Featured in C&EN News

Congratulations on the write up on your work in the most recent C&E News!

The Full article can be read here.

Dr. RajanBabu named the 2013 recipient of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) medal

You can learn more about CRSI by visiting them at www.crsi.org.in

Excellent paper coauthored by Terry Miller entitled, "Imaging Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics with Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction."

Colleagues,

Please take note of the excellent paper coauthored by Terry Miller entitled, "Imaging Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics with Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction," Cosmin I. Blaga,1 Junliang Xu,2 Anthony D. DiChiara,1 Emily Sistrunk,1 Kaikai Zhang,1 Pierre Agostini,1 Terry A. Miller,3 Louis F. DiMauro1 & C. D. Lin2, Nature, 483, 194 (2012) http://www.nature.com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/nature/journal/v483/n7388/full/nature10820.html<

Dr. Platz accepts the position as Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at UH Hilo

http://hilo.hawaii.edu/blog/chancellor/2012/02/27/matthew-platz-vice-chancello/

Dr. Chisholm will be the 2012 recipient of the Edward W. Morley Award!

Colleagues,

I just received word that Malcolm Chisholm will be the 2012 Recipient of 
the Edward W. Morley Award given by the ACS Cleveland Section. This award 
is given to "recognize significant contributions to chemistry through 
achievements in research, teaching, engineering, research administration 
and public service, outstanding service to humanity, or to industrial 
progress."

CONGRATULATIONS Malcolm!

Christopher Callam, Noel Paul, Matt Stoltzfus, and John Swenton honored

Colleagues,

Please join me in congratulating

Christopher Callam, Noel Paul, Matthew Stoltzfus, and John Swenton who were honored at the 23^rd Annual Sphinx and Mortar Board Senior Class Honoraries’ Faculty/Staff reception this evening.  They were honored for contributing significantly to the education and professional growth of the nominating undergraduate students.   These strong contributions are greatly appreciated. 

Susan V. Olesik
Dow Professor and Chair
Department of Chemistry
100 West 18^th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
(614)292-0733

Dr. Ross Dalbey elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology

Dr. Claudia Turro, Dr. T.V. RajanBabu, Dr. Anne McCoy, and Dr. Dongping Zhong Elected as AAAS Fellows

OSU Chemistry Alumnus Dr. Marinda Wu Elected President-Elect of the American Chemical Society

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Dr. Tom Magliery and Dr. Christopher Hadad's work featured in OSU Today

Read the full article here.

Dr. Jim Coe’s article in Journal of Physical Chemistry Featured.

Dr. Jim Coe’s article in Journal of Physical Chemistry on the chemical composition of dust particles is currently highlighted on the OSU webpage.

Great work Jim and good press!

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/dustlib.htm

Dr. Anita Mattson Featured in C&EN News

Congratulations on the write up on your work in the most recent C&E News!

The Full article can be read here.

Dr. Sheldon Shore among those elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society this year.

Sheldon Shore was among those elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society this year. Election recognizes distinction in at least two of the following areas: research, service to ACS and the profession, and teaching/chemical education. Please join with me in congratulating Sheldon on this well-deserved honor.

This is the third year that ACS has made these awards and I am pleased to state that our department has fared very well. We now have 7 ACS Fellows of our tenured/tenure-track 34 FTE: Shore, Turro, Miller, Olesik, McCoy, Cowan and Chisholm. I believe this is a very high percentage for any Chemistry Department.

Dr. Besik Kankia awarded a Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation Grant

Dr. Besik Kankia, research scientist and manager of the Biomolecular Interactions Characterization Facility (BICF), was awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant of $900,000 over the next 3 years for his work on "Quadruplex-based technology for isothermal DNA amplification and non-enzymatic detection".

2010-2011 Biochemistry Student Awards

2010-2011 Biochemistry Student Awards

Graduate Students

Applications now open for fulltime summer research funding

The Undergraduate Research Office, in partnership with Honors and Scholars, Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Psychology, and International Affairs, is announcing the 2011 Summer Research Funding Awards. Awards are $3,500 each, and support fulltime research summer quarter. Students from all majors eligible; please encourage your advisees to apply by Friday (3/18). -- > Read more:http://undergraduateresearch.osu.edu/summerfellowships/

John Herbert selected for Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award

Colleagues,

I am please to report that John has just learned that he has been selected for a Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award. As you are probably aware these are highly competitive so it is certainly an honor and one that brings with it $75,000.00 in unrestricted funds.

Please join me in congratulating John in this his newest recognition.

Malcolm

Yiying Wu placed as 6th most influential Materials Scientist of this past decade

As published in the Times Higher Ed., Yiying Wu is placed as the 6th most influential Materials Scientist(based on citations) of this past decade.

Four OSU Chemistry Faculty Elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Four OSU Chemistry Faculty have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. We congratulate Michael Chan, Craig Forsyth, Dehua Pei and Sheldon Shore in their accomplishment.

Michael Chan, professor of biochemistry, chemistry and molecular and cellular biochemistry: For distinguished contributions to the field of biochemistry, particularly for the structural characterization of metalloproteins and the co-discovery of the 22nd genetically-encoded amino acid, pyrrolysine.

Craig J. Forsyth, professor of chemistry: For distinguished contributions to the field of complex natural product synthesis and synthesis of analogues for determination of their modes of biological activity.

Dehua Pei, professor of chemistry: For distinguished contributions to the field of mechanistic enzymology and for the development and application of chemical methods to biological problems.

Sheldon G. Shore, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical & Physical Sciences and professor of chemistry: For distinguished contributions in the areas of synthetic and mechanic boron hydride chemistry and metal cluster chemistry and their application to developing efficient hydrogenation catalysts.

Malcolm Chisholm has been selected to receive the Nyholm Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry

We are very pleased to announce that Malcolm Chisholm has been selected to receive the Nyholm Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The prize is awarded every two years to an inorganic chemist and consists of a medal, certificate and ₤5000 which will be presented at an awards dinner on November 12th, at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole Hotel, UK. Congratulations Malcolm!