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2003 Department Newsletter (164K PDF file)
Previous Department Newsletters
2008
- Enviro health scientists, chemists join forces to promote safe chemicals (Environmental Health News, November 2008)
- Breaking Ground: Matyjaszewski's ATRP Research (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, October 2008)
- The Thinkers: For CMU scientist, the one word is plastics (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,October 6, 2008)
- Chemistry researchers publish "Bringing Stability to Highly Reduced Iron-Sulfur Clusters" in Science (Science 12 September 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5895, pp. 1452 - 1453) (Subscription to Science magazine required to view article)
- Nick Tsarevsky (S'05) Won the National Starch & Chemical Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry
- What's in the Air? Chemistry professor Neil Donahue talks about studying air pollution (The Allegheny Front, August 20, 2008)
- Green Catalysts Provide Promise For Cleaning Toxins and Pollutants (Carnegie Mellon press release, August 18, 2008)
- Hydrogels Provide Scaffolding For Growth of Bone Cells (Carnegie Mellon press release, August 18, 2008)
- The journey to safe chemicals: Congress must do more to protect the public from toxic products (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 20, 2008)
- The Department of Chemistry Welcomes New Faculty Member Maumita Mandal (Department of Chemistry story, June 2008)
- Alumna Melanie Vrabel co-recipient of the EPA’s James W. Craig Pollution Prevention Leadership Award (Department of Chemistry story, June 2008)
- Newell Washburn's biomaterials work mentioned in article about regenerative medicine (NEWSWEEK, May 19, 2008)
- MCS Faculty to Participate in Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) (Mellon College of Science story, April 2008)
- Hanadie Yousef Receives the 2008 Judith A. Resnik Award (MCS story, May 2008)
- Prof. Terry Collins is first recipient of $50,000 Charles E. Kaufman Award (Pittsburgh Foundation press release, May 2008)
- Carnegie Mellon's Art Conservation Research Center Receives $3.87M From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Carnegie Mellon press release, April 28, 2008)
- Haifeng Gao Receives Prestigious 2007 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (Department of Chemistry story, April 29, 2008)
- MCS Faculty to Participate in Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) (Mellon College of Science story, April 2008)
- Chemists Clean Up the Water (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, April 2008)
- Andrew DeYoung Receives Goldwater Scholarship (Department of Chemistry story, April 2008)
- Paul Karol is this year’s winner of the Richard Moore Award (Mellon College of Science story, April 2008)
- MCS Faculty to Participate in Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) (Mellon College of Science story, April 2008)
- Wei He Receives the Astrid and Bruce McWilliams Graduate Fellowship in the Mellon College of Science (Mellon College of Science story, March 2008)
- Krzysztof Matyjaszewski on Radical Polymerization, A ScienceWatch.com Featured Interview, February 2008
- Dickson Prize Awardee Jean M. J. Fréchet
2007
- The Heinz Endowments: $45 Million Goes to Nonprofits in Region
Major Grants For New Carnegie Mellon University School, Green Chemistry, Computer and Robotics Sciences
In the green chemistry field, new funding and previously approved
grants will allow $8.5 million to go to an endowment increase and
program expansion (Heinz Endowments press release, October 25, 2007) - Richard D. McCullough has been selected to receive the 2007 Pittsburgh Award (MCS Press Release, October 19, 2007)
- Green Chemistry Attracts Fans on Campus (Associated Press, October 9, 2007)
- Kurnikova Group Members Investigate Initial Molecular Mechanism That Triggers Neuronal Firing (Carnegie Mellon press release, August 22, 2007)
- Bier Uses Mass Spectrometer To Weigh Heavy Virus Particle, von Willebrand Factor (Carnegie Mellon press release, August 23, 2007)
- Matyjaszewski Group Members Develop Nanogels That Enable Controlled Delivery of Carbohydrate Drugs (Carnegie Mellon press release, August 20, 2007)
- Richard McCullough featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's monthly series "The Thinkers", highlighting people from Western Pennsylvania who are on the forefront of new ideas in their fields.
- Audio Interview with Richard McCullough: Chemists Advance Organic Semiconductor Processing (Semiconductor International, June 30, 2007)
- Richard McCullough Named VP of Research
- McCullough Group Advances Organic Semiconductor Processing
- Terry Collins interviewed by Science and Society host David Lemberg
- Stefanie Sydlik Receives the 2007 Judith A. Resnik Award
- Kimberly Zanotti receives 2007 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
- Halimatu Mohammed Receives National GEM Consortium Fellowship
- Andrea Benvin and Haifeng Gao are recipients of the new Astrid and Bruce McWilliams Fellowship
- Arani Chanda Named Science Communication Fellow
- Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Receives the first Herman F. Mark Senior Scholar Award from the ACS
- Terry Collins Receives Distinguished Alumni Award From University of Auckland.
- Terry Collins is this year's winner of the annual Excellence in Catalysis Award, administered by the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York.
- Plastics Made of Vitamin C
- Terry Collins has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, The University of Auckland. Collins sat down with Radio New Zealand's Kim Hill to talk about what inspired him to become a green chemist, how and why he developed Fe-TAML activators, and what the world needs to do to achieve a more sustainable civilization.
- Plextronics Receives $750,000 in Funding to Further Development of Plexcore PV for Organic Solar Cells
(Plextronics is a spin-off company co-founded by Rick McCullough in 2002.) - DNA Gets New Twist: Armitage Group and Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center Develop Unique "DNA Nanotags"
- Carnegie Mellon University Hosts Series of Environmental Talks
2006
- Fe-TAML: Catalyst for Cleanup, Environmental Health Perspectives, November 2006
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The Matyjaszewski Group Uses "Green" Approach To Transform Plastics Manufacturing Process
Media coverage:
CMU chemists improve plastics technology, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 10, 2006
Pimp My Polymer, Plenty Magazine
A Method for Better, Greener Plastics, Seed Magazine, October 19, 2006
Vitamin C and Water Not Just Healthy for People — Healthy for Plastics, too, The National Science Foundation press release, October 24, 2006
Polymers With Safe Amounts Of Copper (subscription may be required), Chemical & Engineering News, October 30, 2006
Engineering team pictures tomorrow's polymers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 01, 2006 - Eckard Münck Receives National Award from American Chemical Society
Media Coverage:
Alfred Bader Award announcement in Chemical & Engineering News
(C&E News subscription required) - University Lecture Series: In Situ Spectroscopy on Mars-following the water in current NASA missions, Philip Gütlich, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
- The Department of Chemistry welcomes new faculty members Subha Das and Rongchao Jin
- Malika Jeffries-EL, former post-doc in the McCullough group, receives Emerald Honor as Most Promising Scientist by Science Spectrum magazine
(Science Spectrum magazine announces 2006 Emerald Honors) - 2006 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Student Award in Green Chemistry awarded to Ke Min (C&E News subscription required)
- The Collins group, U.S. Department of Agriculture Report That Fe-TAML® Catalysts Degrade Estrogenic Compounds
- Daniel Siegwart selected for NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) Fellowship
- Delia Popescu is co-recipient of Hugh Young Graduate Teaching Award for MCS
- Carnegie Mellon Reappoints Richard McCullough Dean of the Mellon College of Science
- James Fitzpatrick discusses his fluorescence correlation microscopy research in relation to the $13.3 million NIH Networks and Pathways grant.
- NIH Awards $13.3 Million to Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh For National Technology Center for Networks and Pathways
- Ke Min selected for 2006 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award in Green Chemistry
- Amy Sage receives P.E.O. Scholar Award from P.E.O. International
- Chuanbing Tang receives prestigious 2005 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
- Laura Mueller receives 2006 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNA) Seminar Hosted by Carnegie Mellon Highlights Pittsburgh’s Leadership in PNA Research
- Revamped Building Supports Interdisciplinary Teaching at Carnegie Mellon University
Download the article featuring Karen Stump discussing the labs renovation project. (172 KB pdf file) - Catalina Achim Receives Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship
- Newell Washburn has received a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award
- Kris Matyjaszewski among Five Carnegie Mellon Professors Elected Into the Prestigious National Academy of Engineering
- Richard D. McCullough Wins 2006 Carnegie Science Center Start-up Entrepreneur Award
- Mark Bier Receives NSF Funding to Build Innovative Mass Spectrometer to Study Complex Biomolecules
- Green Chemistry a Hit at Pittsburgh’s First Night Celebration
- Interdisciplinary Course Links Art and Chemistry
2005
- Plextronics Awarded R&D Contract to Further Organic Light Emitting Diode Development
- Catalina Achim and Clayton Merrell ’s course, the Color of Minerals & Inorganic Pigments, is discussed in the 11/21 issue of Chemical and Engineering News (Subscription may be required)
- Researchers, Led by Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Professor Neil Donahue, Create New Center to Study Tiny, Unhealthful Airborne Particles
- The Achim Group Creates PNA Molecule With Potential To Build Nanodevices
- Reactive Intermediate Long-Suspected of Playing Key Role in Common Chemistry Ruled Out by the Münck group and collaborators
- Carnegie Mellon University and CUNY’s Lehman College Receive $350,000 from the USDA To Enhance Minority Students’ Laboratory Skills
- Interdisciplinary Carnegie Mellon Class Bridges Chemistry and Art
- Alumnus Dr. Anindya Ghosh (S' 04) receives the Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Student Award for research in green chemistry carried out during his doctoral studies at Carnegie Mellon University under Prof. Terry Collins.
- Deboshri Banerjee has been selected as Teresa Heinz Scholar for Environmental Research.
- Mellon College of Science Research Impact Remains High
- Chemistry Grad Student Jessica Cooper Receives Honor
- 2005 MCS Staff Awards honor staff achievements in all MCS departments
- BSA Senior Joana Ricou Has Art on the Brain
- The Kowalewski Group Adapts Simple Casting Technique To Create Ordered Nanocarbon
- Nick Tsarevsky’s work on a drug-delivery system to reduce chemotherapy side effects in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Karen Stump received the William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching
- Carnegie Mellon Creates New Nanotechnology Center To Study and Design a New Generation of Technologies
- Graduate Students are Honored This Week for Their Drive and Creativity. As part of Graduate and Professional Student Association Week from April 4–8, Chemistry faculty are showing appreciation to students in their groups and TAs in their courses.
- Carnegie Mellon to Award Dickson Prize to George M. Whitesides, Harvard University
- Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop New, Green Chemistry by Combining Oxygen with Well-Studied Fe-TAML Catalyst
- Chemistry Textbooks Lack Connection to Real Chemistry
- Chemistry lab technician Rob Dalmasse participates in 11th Annual Official Electric Football Super Bowl & Convention
2004
- Danith Ly Develops Way To Deliver Promising Genetic Tool into Living Cells
- Krzysztof Matyjaszewski has received the award of the Foundation for Polish Science, which is commonly called the Polish Nobel Prize (Press Release)
- Point/Counterpoint: Terry Collins and C. T. Howlett Jr. debate the many faces of chlorine in Chemical and Engineering News
- InnovationWORLD recognized Plextronics as one of 21 companies that are poised for growth in the 21st century.
- Professor Terry Collins Receives Award From American Chemical Society
- Dean McCullough was a guest on an Internet-based science talk-radio show on August 11. (Listen online)
- Carnegie Mellon University Hosts ACS-PRF Summer School on Green Chemistry (ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry website) (Chemists will use a CMU forum to learn about going green, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 30, 2004)
- Carnegie Mellon second among high-impact U.S. universities in organic chemistry & polymer science in average citations per paper
- Bruce Armitage received the Mellon College of Science’s (MCS) Julius Ashkin Teaching Award at the MCS Annual Faculty Meeting on May 4
- Carnegie Mellon Spinoff Plextronics Receives Financial Boost to Make Plastics that Conduct (Carnegie Mellon Today Story) (MCS Story) (USA Today story) (Tribune-Review story)
- Chemist Catalina Achim Receives Prestigious CAREER Award
- Congratuations to the students who will be awarded their degrees at Carnegie Mellon’s commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 16, 2004
- Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski has been named a University Professor (Carnegie Mellon Press Release)
- Chemist Richard McCullough Finds One-Step Method to Produce Highly Conductive Polymer Nanowires (Carnegie Mellon Press Release) (Post-Gazette story)
- Innovative Polymer Chemistry Used To Create Novel Carbon Nanoparticles with Vast Potential (Carnegie Mellon Press Release) (NSF Press Release) (Post-Gazette story)
- Internet-based Tools Could Bridge Gap in Chemistry Education, Reports Carnegie Mellon University
- Team of Engineers and Scientists Develop New Nanoparticles To Clean Up Contaminated Sites (Carnegie Mellon Press Release) (Post-Gazette story)
- John Pople, former Carnegie Mellon professor and 1998 Nobel Laureate, died March 15
- Krzysztof Matyjaszewski receives prestigious Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering at American Chemical Society meeting
- Students will study the health effects of zero gravity aboard NASA’s KC-135A aircraft
- Dave Yaron Wins Carnegie Science Center Education Award
- Kowalewski Group Uses Atomic Force Microscopy to Discover Effects of Experimental Alzheimer’s Drugs on Plaque Formation
2003
- Virtual Lab mentioned in Science’s Netwatch column (Link may require subscription)
- Green chemistry article in Science’s Editor’s Choice (Link may require subscription)
- Robert H. Neilson, Carnegie Mellon alumnus, has received the 2003 W. T. Doherty Recognition Award for his research in inorganic polymer chemistry. C&EN News story (Link may require subscription)
- Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association Honors Chemistry Alumni Frank Millero with the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award and Jennifer Elisseeff with the Young Alumni Award
- NPR interview with Terry Collins on "Talk of the Nation — Science Friday" is available online.
- Scott Gaynor (Ph.D. 1997, Chemistry) was named to MIT Technology Review’s 100 innovators 35 or younger. (Technology Review article — free registration required)
- Dave Yaron is featured in the Post-Gazette as a newsmaker for his MERLOT award for the virtual lab.
- Collins Laboratory Announces Potential Applications of Environmentally Friendly Catalysts at National ACS Meeting (Press Releases) (Scientific American) (USA Today) (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) (Carnegie Mellon News) (The Alchemist - ChemWeb.com — free registration required)
- Virtual Chemistry Lab at Carnegie Mellon University Wins Prestigious MERLOT Award
- Kris Matyjaszewski’s group develops methods to synthesize polymers degradable by light, water and bacteria
- Anindya Ghosh selected as a Teresa Heinz Scholar for Environmental Research
- Symposium honoring the career of Eckard Münck
- Nick Tsarevsky receives Hancock Scholarship for work in green chemistry
- Catalina Achim Receives Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
- The DNA Challenge, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Forum essay by Dean Richard D. McCullough
- The Armitage Group Creates Unique DNA Probe With Potential to Understand, Treat Disease
- Virtual Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Transforms Learning Experience: Product of Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh Collaboration (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story) (newsbrief in Science, 76K pdf) (Chronicle of Higher Education article)
- Münck Group paper in Science and lead story in News of the Week segment of Chemical & Engineering News
2002
- Guy Berry has been selected as an ACS PMSE Fellow for 2003
- Rea Freeland appointed Associate Dean for Special Projects
- Bayer Graduate Fellowship
- Hyung Kim Appointed as Department Head
- Open House For New Labs In Doherty Hall Set For October 4
- Carnegie Mellon Ranks Second in Organic Chemistry & Polymer Science
- McCullough is the 2002 recipient of the ACS Akron Section Award
- Post-doc Sarbu Shares Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
- Guy Berry named University Professor
- Symposium in honor of Guy Berry’s 65th birthday and upcoming retirement
- Aksel Bothner-By donates Xerox Sigma-5 mainframe to the Computer History Museum
- Collins Receives NSF Grant to Boost Homeland Security Research
- Aksel Bothner-By Receives Gunther Laukien prize for NMR research
- Collins group paper in April 2002 issue of Science
- David Yaron receives Ashkin Award
- Karen Stump awarded regional 2002 Responsible Care® Catalyst Award
- Audria Stubna and Ben Janesko receive 2002 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Awards
- "Green" Chemist Terry Collins Receives Thomas Lord Professorship
- Ellen Reichenbach Retires After 23 Years in the Department
- Mort Kaplan selected as the Deputy Council Chairperson of STAR Collaboration
2001
- Karen Stump named New Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Hyung Kim Selected as Interim Department Head
- Carolyn Bertozzi is Women in Science Seminar Speaker
- Kris Matyjaszewski has received both the ACS Award in Polymer Science (sponsored by Exxon) and the ACS Pittsburgh Award.
- Carnegie Mellon Chemistry Professor Richard D. McCullough Named Dean of the Mellon College of Science
- Honorary Degree Recipient and Alumna Stephanie Kwolek Speaks on the Discovery of Kevlar®
- University Celebrates Beginning Of New Undergraduate Science Labs
- Chemistry professors in Chemical & Engineering News
- University Lecture Series - Terry Collins
- Dickson Prize recipient Alexander Pines will speak at Carnegie Mellon
- Undergraduate Laboratory Renovation
- Jake Warner biography written by Truman Kohman, Chemistry Professor Emeritus, is available online. Jake Warner was a professor of chemistry and head of the department from 1938 to 1949, and president of Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1950 to 1965.
- Collins paper in January 2001 issue of Science, "Toward Sustainable Chemistry"
2000
- Dave Yaron receives Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
- Yaron virtual chemistry software profiled on Carnegie Mellon home page
- Hendrich paper in August 2000 issue of Science
- Asteroid named after Emeritus Chemistry Professor Truman Kohman
- New Faculty Hired in Polymer, Atmospheric and Bioinorganic Chemistry
1999
1998
Departmental Events
March 24 and 25, 2006
Frontiers in Peptide Nucleic Acid and Related Technologies
May 24, 2003
Pioneering Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Chemistry and Biochemistry
Symposium honoring the career of Eckard Münck
May 3–4, 2002
From Structured Fluids to Complex Nanostructures
Symposium in honor of Guy Berry’s 65th birthday and upcoming retirement.