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2003 - Departmental News and Highlights
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Nov 20,
2003
Professor Philip Grandinetti
has obtained a two-year, $290,000
Creativity Extension from the NSF for his studies on NMR of glasses.
Nov 19,
2003
Professor Russ Pitzer
was awarded a honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Pitzer
College in California at the end of Spring 2003.
Nov 3,
2003
Professor Bruce Bursten
has become a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (
AAAS
) and has thus helped
OSU rank first among all
institutions for faculty members who are Fellows in this prestigious organization.
The AAAS represents the world's largest federation of scientists.
It conducts programs in the areas of science policy,
science education and international scientific cooperation. AAAS
members are elevated to the rank of Fellow for their efforts in
advancing science or fostering applications that are deemed
scientifically or socially distinguished. Professor Bursten gained the
honor for "significant contributions to the understanding of bonding
in inorganic compounds and for leadership in the discipline."
Oct 16,
2003
Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship Recipients for Spring 2003:
- Kyle Bogan, $500 for research with Jon Parquette
- Kerry Katz, $2,500 for research with Professor Michael Caligiuri
- David Wiggenhorn, $4,000 for research with Malcolm Chisholm
Oct 16,
2003
Professor James Coe's research on nanoholes in metals and their possible
applications for lignt sensors has been profiled recently in an astounding number of
publications. A sample:
OSU Research News,
BrightSurf.com,
Science Daily,
GlobalTechnoScan.com,
SciGuy Science News,
Innovations Report,
EurekaAlert!,
Newswise,
Space Daily,
and
Photonics Online.
Oct 15,
2003
Professor Richard McCreery is featured in
a Columbus Dispatch article on "Eureka!" moments in scientific research. Professor
McCreery tells of the genesis of his research into molecular
electronics.
Oct 10,
2003
Faculty of 1000 has placed
Professor Michael Freitas'
recent
publication on histones
in its
top 10 "hidden jewels" for research. Faculty of 1000 is an online research
service that highlights and reviews "the most interesting papers published in
the biological sciences" as evaluated by leading researchers.
Oct 2,
2003
Recent research
by Professor Heather Allen
and new staff member Lisa Hommel (Lab Manager
of the Surface Analysis Facility
and 2003 OSU Chemistry PhD) is highlighted on
the cover
of the October 2nd edition of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. (Click on the cover
for a larger image). This research was part of Lisa's doctoral thesis work.
July 21, 2003
The Ohio Board of Regents has awarded three research groups in chemistry
$1+ million each for their work in materials technology and biochemistry.
Professor Art Epstein, principal
investigator for the Ohio Organic Semiconductor Consortium (OOSC), received one
of the awards for work in speeding the development of electronics made
from alternative materials. Another award was garnered by
Professor Prabir Dutta, principal
investigator for Production and Storage of Hydrogen Consortium, which is working
on improved ways to produce hydrogen and safely store it in porous
materials. A third award of approximately $1.2 million was given
to the co-leaders of the Ohio State portion of the Macromolecular
Crystallography Consortium, one of whom is
Professor Michael Chan. Work there will
modernize and increase the power of X-ray facilities used to study protein
structures in the human genome.
An article detailing these awards can be found
here.
May 30, 2003
Professor Eric Herbst
is one of three researchers this year to whom the university bestows its
hightest honor,
Distinquished University Professor. Herbst and the
other professors are granted the title and an annual budget of $10,000
to support their academic work. Each also becomes a member of the
President's and Provost's Advisory Council.
May 16, 2003
In October, Professor Richard McCreery
was selected as a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society in recognition of
his scientific achievement and service to the Society.
Apr. 21, 2003
The February issue of Journal of Magnetic Resonance featured
Professor Phillip Grandinetti
and his research group's
work with Rotor Assisted Population Transfer, a technique that is helping
to give scientists new insights into the
structure of molecules. For decades, nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR) has allowed scientists to see inside everything from human organs to
building materials, by tuning into the radio waves emitted by nuclei of
various elements. Professor Grandinetti's new NMR techique significantly
boosts the signals from these elements leading to even clearer views.
Apr. 21, 2003
In early March,
Professor Richard McCreery
was awarded the Charles N. Reilley Award, the Society of Electoanalytical Chemistry's
(SEAC) highest honor. From the
SEAC abstract: "A main research thrust over the years has been the
development of spectroscopic techniques to probe electrochemical
processes, with the goal of relating electrode surface structure to
electrochemical reactivity. Of particular interest have been carbon
electrode surfaces, for which Raman spectroscopy can provide surface
and bulk structural information."
The complete SEAC abstract of Professor McCreery's Reilley Award can be found
here.
Apr. 21, 2003
In February, the Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements
was one of four research centers on campus to receive a portion of a $2.9 million
grant from the NSF to help train future scientists in nanotechnology research.
Professor Prabir Dutta is the deputy
director of CISM.
Mar. 6, 2003
Professor Heather Allen
has been named a Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold
and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
The BYI Program, which "is intended to
provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in
the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences,"
honors 16 young scientists each year. Heather joins
Claudia Turro as
the only Ohio State faculty members to have received the BYI Award.
Mar. 6, 2003
Professor Michael Freitas
was one of three recipients of the 2003
Research Award of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
This award is designed "to promote academic research by young scientists
in mass spectrometry." Mike joins
Susan Olesik
as recipients of this award.
Mar. 6, 2003
The Department of Chemistry is one of seven departments selected by the
Carnegie Foundation as a partner in their Carnegie Initiative on the
Doctorate (CID). The goal of the CID is to examine doctoral education
in the 21st Century in order to produce the best-trained "stewards of the
discipline," i.e. those new scientists who will become the researchers and
teachers of the future. See the press release at the
Carnegie Foundation web site.
Jan. 22, 2003
Professor Bruce Bursten has been awarded the
Spiers Memorial Lectureship by the Faraday Council of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Bursten will accept the award and accompanying medal at the Faraday Discussion in April.
This prestigious award is given annually as part of the Faraday
Discussion. It is awarded to "an individual who has made an outstanding
contribution to the field of the Faraday Discussion and who will provide a
stimulating and wide-ranging introductory lecture at the discussion." The
lecture will cover "changes in the field of quantum inorganic chemistry
over the last 25 years," Bursten said. "When I was a graduate student,
we had to make some pretty drastic approximations about the quantum
behavior of electrons." Today, with ever more powerful supercomputers,
Bursten said those observations can be more precise. See the
full write-up
in OSU's onCampus online magazine.
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