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2001 - Departmental News and Highlights
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Professor Heather Allen received a Research Innovation
Award from
Research Corporation. This grant program, which considers
faculty early in their careers, recognizes innovation and potential based
on a competititve proposal. Heather is the first
recipient of this award at Ohio State.
Professor Emeritus Andy Wojcicki is the recipient of the 2001
Casimir Funk Natural Science Award, presented by the
Polish Institute of
Arts and Sciences of America. The award committee cited Andy as "one of
the leading explorers of inorganic reaction mechanisms in the world." Andy
will receive his award at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland
in New York at a ceremony on December 8. Previous chemist recipients of
this award are
Roald Hoffmann and
Peter Wolczanski, both of Cornell University.
In a ceremony at Ohio Stadium on October 6, three Chemistry professors were among
26 OSU faculty honored
for acheivements in teaching, research, scholarly or creative work, and service.
Professor Platz was one of two to receive the
university's highest faculty honor, the title of Distinguished University Professor.
Professor David J. Hart received an Alumni Award
for Distinguished Teaching. And Professor Arthur J. Epstein
was recognized as a University Distinguished Lecturer. See the
Columbus Dispatch article covering this awards event, the first of its kind at OSU.
Professor Matthew Platz received the
2001 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the
ACS on Aug. 28 in Chicago for his study
of reactive intermediates. His work in this area invented ways to precisely
trace the sequence of steps organic chemicals undergo during conversion,
yielding insights as far-reaching as how to protect blood supplies.
Professor Pei's research on
peptide library synthesis is featured in a July issue of
Modern Drug
Discovery.
Professor Richard McCreery's new
book, "Raman Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis," recently claimed the honor of
Book of the Week from ChemWeb.
McCreery's book details the history,
fundamentals, and applications of the Raman effect -- the way a beam
of light changes wavelength when it interacts with a molecule.
You can read the book review if you
login with an account at ChemWeb.
Christopher Callam, one of the graduate students at the Department of Chemistry,
was one of the 10 recipients of this year's Graduate Associate Teaching
Awards, the university's highest recognition of exceptional teaching by
graduate associates. Christopher was honored at a ceremony on
June 5 with President Kirwan, and received a $1,500 award.
Christopher Callam also recently received an ACS Division of Organic Chemistry
Graduate Fellowship, sponsored by
Aventis Pharmaceuticals
for the 2001-2002
academic year.
Professor Platz was formally
introduced as Distinguished University Professor at the June 1 meeting of the
Board of Trustees. The title of
Distinguished University Professor is
conferred upon no more than three OSU faculty members per year and is given
for a continued record of excellence in research, training, and service.
Professor Rob Coleman has
achieved the first total synthesis of azinomycin A, an unstable molecule
that possesses antitumor activity. See
the
article in
Chemical & Engineering News.
Professor Bruce Bursten was
awarded the Regional 2001
Responsible Care Catalyst Award of the
American Chemistry Council.
The Council recognizes outstanding teachers at elementary schools, high
schools, and universities who have "demonstrated exceptional ability to teach
students as well as inspire students towards careers in chemistry and
science-related fields." Ten winners from across the country received
cash stipends to be used towards furthering education in chemistry
in their local departments. Bursten was one of the two recipients of the
award at the university level.
The April 9
Chemical & Engineering News featured the research of
Professor Phil Grandinetti.
If you have an ACS membership number, you can access the
article.
Professor Russ Pitzer
gave the 2001 Robert S. Mulliken Lecture at the
Center for Computational
Quantum Chemistry at the University
of Georgia. Russ's lecture was entitled "The Seredipitous Role of the
Uranyl Ion in Science and How to Study It with Relativistic Quantum Chemistry."
On April 18, Professor Terry
Gustafson was the recipient of the
2001 Honors Faculty Service Award.
Professor Gustafson was also selected by the Arts and Science Student
Council to receive the
2000-2001 Outstanding Teaching Award. There is only
one recipient each year of this completely student-selected award, so this
is a tremendous honor.
Professor Hart received a
2001 OSU
Distinguished Teaching Award.
Professor Susan Olesik's innovative
Wonders of Our World Program was featured in a meeting on March 27 of the
Columbus Section of the ACS.
The research of Professor Ming-Daw Tsai
and his Graduate Student Alexander Showalter was featured in the Science &
Technology section of
Chemical & Engineering News. Their research is on low-fidelity DNA
polymerases.
In March, Discover
magazine had
an
article featuring
Professor Kohler's research
on ultrafast studies of excited DNA.
Professor Kohler also had his
research featured in
New Scientist magazine in September of last year.
Professor Woodward is the newest recipient of an
NSF CAREER Award, having been funded through the Division of Materials
Research. The Chemistry Department has received more
CAREER Awards in recent
years than any other University Department in the country. See
below for other NSF CAREER recipients.
The research of
Professor Robert Coleman was
featured in one of a series of Putting Research to Work videos aired during
halftime of the OSU-Indiana Basketball game on January 31, 2001.
The video is entitled Shedding New Light on DNA and can be
viewed at http://www.osu.edu/movies
if you have QuickTime
installed on your machine.
A special issue of the
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (Volumes 614-615, 2000) was dedicated to honoring the research accomplishment
s of Professor Shore.
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