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2003 - Departmental News and Highlights
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December 21,
2004
Anne McCoy receives the Outstanding Woman in Science Award for 2004-5
Since 1986 the Outstanding Woman in Science award honors a woman distinguished in science, through research, teaching, mentoring, and/or service. Professor McCoy was chosen to join this list of women who have inspired and assisted other women scientists and students. The award will be presented at an Awards Dinner in early February 2005.
December 5,
2004
Chemical Abstracts has recently given $20,000 to Professor Susan Olesik's WOW program.
More information.
December 2,
2004
Dean Royster Announces Hatcher Award Winners
The Harlan Hatcher Memorial Awards for Excellence are presented in recognition of distinguished, sustained, and balanced achievements in the areas of teaching, research, and service. The purpose of the awards is to honor those individuals in the Arts and Sciences who, over a period of years, have developed a noteworthy profile, with exceptional strength in research and teaching, and who serve as role models for younger colleagues and students.
Robert S. (Rob) Coleman was born in Sioux City, Iowa, and grew-up there and in DeKalb, Illinois. He started his collegiate career at Southern Illinois University, later transferring to the University of Iowa. After graduating from Iowa with Honors in Chemistry, he spent ten months at Argonne National Laboratory working with Arnold Friedman on radiobromination of aromatic systems.
Professor Coleman started his post-baccalaureate career at the University of Kansas in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, initially in the research group of Bob Hanzlik, where he worked on peptidase inhibitors and was the first to demonstrate the formation of a covalent adduct between enzyme and inhibitor by 13C NMR. He joined the research group of Dale Boger, where he began work on the total synthesis of the antitumor agent CC-1065. He received his M.S. degree in Medicinal Chemistry in 1984, and moved with the Boger group to Purdue University in 1985, from which he received his Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry in 1987. His doctoral thesis described the first total synthesis of CC-1065.
Professor Coleman joined the research group of Sam Danishefsky at Yale University in 1988 as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, where he worked on the total synthesis of the immunosuppressant FK-506, and participated in the first total synthesis of the enediyne antitumor agent calicheamicin. In the autumn of 1989, he joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor, where he built a research group in the areas of synthetic organic and bioorganic chemistry. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995, and in the summer of 1996, he moved his research group to The Ohio State University, where he was promoted to Full Professor in 2000. Professor Coleman is also a member of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Ohio State Biochemistry Program.
October 28,
2004
Professor Patrick G. Hatcher receives the 2005 American Chemical Society Geochemistry Division Medal
The Division of Geochemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has granted Professor
Patrick G. Hatcher the prestigious Geochemistry Division Medal. The medal is awarded to an individual for outstanding accomplishment in any area of Geochemistry.
The award consists of an engraved bronze medallion plus a $2000 cash award. The medal will be presented to Professor Hatcher by ACS President during an award symposium at the 229th ACS National Meeting in San Diego, California, March 13-17, 2005. Professor Hatcher will receive an allowance for travel to the award ceremony, as well as registration costs for the ACS meeting at which the award will be conferred. He is invited to nominate a small number of speakers for award symposium presentations.
October 15,
2004
Two undergraduate Chemistry students awarded research scholarships
Two undergraduates Chemistry majors are congratulated on having been
awarded research scholarships in the Spring 2004 competition held by the
Honors Committee of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences:
Deanna Rae Cettomai, Molecular Genetics and Chemistry, Measurement of
MxA mRNA as a Surrogate Marker of IFN&beta in Patients with Multiple
Sclerosis, Professors Kottil Rammohan and Terry Gustafson.
Greg T. Drozd, Chemistry, Investigation of Metal-Humic Substance
Complexation: Capillary Electrophoresis Based Measurement Following
Unique Isolation of Humic Substances with Similar Chemical Functional
Groups, Professors John Olesik and Susan Olesik.
August 10,
2004
Ross Dalbey featured in Chronicle of Higher Education story on Summer Research Opportunities Program
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a story on the Summer Research Opportunities Program- and our Ross Dalbey, a mentor to one of the students is featured in this article. The website for the article, "Opening the Door to a Doctorate," is available
online at this address:
Summer Research Opportunities Program
August 1,
2004
Eric Herbst chosen as Centenary Lecturer of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Eric Herbst has been chosen to be one of
the Centenary Lecturer of the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom
for 2004-2005. Eric will be visiting 6 universities and there will also be
a special symposium in his honor at Leeds. More information about the award
can be found here
July 16,
2004
Undergratuade Student wins grant from Research on
Research
program sponsored by TELR
Stanton Wheasler, this year's outstanding freshman chemistry major, was one of
eleven students selected to participate in the Research on Research program
sponsored by TELR. He will be working in the area of Laser Spectroscopy with Dr.
Gustafson, creating an e-portfolio on characterizing the structural properties
of new materials for use as electroluminescent conducting polymers. A list of
other 2004 TELR grant winners and more about the program are
here .
July 1,
2004
Cabral's teaching nets award
Jose Cabral, associate professor of chemistry on the Newark campus, has earned
the 2003 Barnes Award for Exemplary Teaching. The award is based on Jose's
excellent teaching contributions.
July 1,
2004
Allen quoted, featured in publications
Heather Allen, assistant professor of chemistry, was quoted in a March 31 San
Diego Union-Tribune article on the air-sea interface. This is the boundary where
the Earth's atmosphere rests upon its waters, a region that may be the most
physically and chemically active environment in the world. The full article can
be viewed
here
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Four years ago, Chemical & Engineering News profiled seven professors, including
Allen, who had just begun their careers (June 19, 2000, page 41). They included
professors from a wide variety of institutions. Three women and four men were
featured, some of whom entered academia along a traditional path and some who
came into it after a detour. In its June 21 issue, Chemical and Engineering News
caught up with these seven professors and had them reflect on the past four
years and describe where they are now.
July 1,
2004
Kohler earns fellowship, appears on cover
Bern Kohler, associate professor of chemistry, recently received a Humboldt
Research Fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. Humboldt
Research Fellowships enable young, highly qualified scholars who reside outside
Germany and hold doctorates to carry out research projects of their own choice
in Germany (age limit: 40 years). Applications may be submitted for long-term
research stays of between 6 and 12 months. Bern will be on sabbatical next year
at the Department of Physics, University of Munich working on femtosecond
spectroscopy of DNA.
Kohler's research on DNA photophysics appeared in the April issue of Chemical
Reviews, a special issue on Femtochemistry. His research is captured on the
cover page (see image of DNA duplex and sun at lower right).
Link
July 1,
2004
Chemists research featured by University Relations
Sandhya Gopalakrishnan, postdoctoral researcher in chemistry, and Heather Allen,
assistant professor of chemistry, are studying how oleic acid- a heart-healthy
fat touted for lowering cholesterol levels- interacts with other molecules
once it gets into the atmosphere. Gopalakrishnan presented the findings of their
research in Columbus on June 25 at the annual Molecular Spectroscopy Symposium.
Read
the Ohio State news story.
July 1,
2004
Olesiks work reaches Saturn
Material developed at Ohio State reached Saturn this week. Work by Susan Olesik,
professor of chemistry, is aboard NASA's Cassini-Huygens, the first spacecraft
to orbit Saturn. It took the spacecraft almost seven years and four
gravity-assisted swing-by maneuvers, two by Venus, one by Earth and one by
Jupiter, to reach its destination. Over the next four years, the Cassini project
will collect information about a variety of science mysteries, including the
origin of Saturns rings, the subtle colors in the rings and chemical reactions
occurring in the atmosphere of its largest moon, Titan.
According to information from the Center for Materials Research, the Huygens
probe aboard the Cassini is carrying professor Olesik's work. On December 25,
2004, the probe will be released from the Cassini orbiter and begin a 22-day
journey to Titan. The probe will reach the Titan atmosphere on January 14, 2005.
During its descent a Gas Chromatograph and Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) will collect
gas samples of the atmosphere. Professor Olesik's material lines one of the
three GCMS columns that will separate the permeable gas samples. She developed
the material from a polymer that was converted into a high-strength glassy
carbon film that could be durable enough for the mission, yet be applied in a
thin layer. The compounds will move from the column into the mass spectrometer.
The instrument will identify the compounds by sensing how much each molecule
weighs. The data will be transmitted to earth for NASA interpretation.
The Cassini mission is documented at here. More
about the GCMS and how it will be used in the study of the atmospheres of Saturn
and Titan is at
here
Objectives of the mission are at
here .
An article about this in The Columbus Dispatch can be viewed at:
here
(You need to be registered with dispatch.com to read the story.)
Jun 15,
2004
Hypercube Scholar 2004 award has been made to Keith Thomas
Thornley, who graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude and with Distinction in Chemistry, and a GPA of 3.95. Keith comes from
Cincinnati and plans to attend the University of North Carolina as a graduate student in chemistry. He did undergraduate research with Professor
Bruce Bursten, which he presented in the 2004 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. The award consists of version 7.5 of the HyperChem
program.
Jun 14,
2004
Professor Susan V. Olesik will be honored
with the Columbus Section Award,
in recognition of her scientific endeavors and her contributions to science education.
May 2,
2004
Woodward recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship
Patrick M. Woodward, assistant professor of chemistry, is the recent
recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Sloan Foundation.
The awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young
faculty members in specified fields of science. A total of 116
fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry,
computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science,
economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics.
Woodward is an expert in solid state chemistry, and his research
involves developing an understanding of the correlation between
composition, crystal structure and physical properties. He joined Ohio
State in 1998 and received a CAREER Award from the National
Science Foundation in 2001. He holds B.S. degrees in chemistry and
engineering from Idaho State University, and an M.S. in materials
science and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Oregon State University.
Selection procedures for the Sloan Research Fellowships are designed
to identify those who show the most outstanding promise of making
fundamental contributions to new knowledge. Sloan Research Fellows,
once chosen, are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of the
most compelling interest to them. Their Sloan funds can be applied to a
wide variety of uses for which other, more restricted funds such as
research project grants cannot usually be employed.
Sloan Fellowship Information
Apr 28,
2004
Professor Anne McCoy, her work,
and lab are featured in the most recent
Research Spotlight/News Makers page on the OSU Center
for Materials Research web site.
Apr 27,
2004
Bonnie Bloom, a Department of Chemistry MS graduate, was named the
ACS Columbus Section High School Teacher of the Year. She was
recognized for her creativity and dedication in preparing lessions
that challenge students and her dedication in mentoring both
students and colleagues.
Feb 18,
2004
AUTUMN 2003 ASC UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
- Steven Akira Kawamoto, Chemistry, Elucidating the Mechanism
of Inhibition of Bacterial Rnase P by Aminoglycoside Derivatives,
Professor Venkat Gopalan
- Matthew Herbert Larson, Chemistry, Transient
Absorption of Polynucleotide Reverse Micelles, Professor Bern Kohler
- James D. White, Chemistry, Mechanistic Studies of M32
Carboxypeptidases, Professor
Michael K. Chan
- Kerry Marie Katz, Chemistry, The Epstein-Barr Virus and
Interleukin-15, Professor Michael A. Caligiuri
- Jonathan E. Janoski, Chemistry, Novel Method for the
Enantiocontrolled Synthesis of Chiral Biaryl Systems,
Professor Robert
S. Coleman
- Karen Michelle Callahan, Biochemistry, Fundamental Studies
of n-Octanol in the Presence of Organic Chlorine and Bromine, Professor Heather C. Allen
Feb 18,
2004
Shuzhi Dong has been chosen to receive the department's 2004 Innovative
Ph.D.
Proposal in Organic Chemistry Award and will receive a check for
$500 and a certificate at an upcoming Organic Division Seminar. Shuzhi
is a member of Professor Leo
Paquette's research group. Shuzhi's proposal was entitled "Parallel
Synthesis of Fluoroside Libraries as DNA Probes Using a Titanium-Catalyzed
Three-Component Coupling Reaction." The award recognizes the best original
research proposal presented each year by a graduate student in organic
chemistry.
Feb 03,
2004
Chemistry's Master Glass Blower Tim Henthorne was featured
in
an article in the Columbus Dispatch Science section. A gallery of Tim's work is
available online. His most recent large project was a
glass microwave chamber
commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security.
Jan 23,
2004
Professor Heather Allen featured
Professor Heather
Allen, her work, and lab are featured in the most recent
Research Spotlight/News Makers page on the OSU Center
for Materials Research web site.
Jan 23,
2004
Michael Drummond wins International Young Chemistry Writer of the Year Award
Graduate student Michael Drummond
(Advisor Bruce Bursten) has won won the
International
Young Chemistry Writer of the Year Award (sponsored by Elsevier)
for his essay "From Hades to Eden: The Birth of Life." He will receive
$2,500 and an iPAQ Pocket PC as prizes. You can read Mike's winning
essay here.
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