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Weekly Seminar (Friday) Departmental Seminars are held in the Van Lente Auditorium (Neckers 240) at 4:00pm unless otherwise indicated Friday, November 27, 2009 No seminar this week - Happy Thanksgiving! 2009 Alumni Hall of Fame Honoree: Department Calendars To access the Department Calendars go to: Calendars Departmental News Pictures from Homecoming 09 at Von Jakob Winery Advert: Assistant Scientist, Computational Hetereogeneous Catalysis and Materials Design 2009-2010 Scholarship and Award Recipients Congratulations to: Professor Gabriela Perez-Alvarado for the award of a 2-year NSF grant, "Mechanisms of Molecular Recognition by the Transcription Factor LM07 at the Nuclear Envelope and the Adherens Junctions". Professors Joe Davis, Dwight R. Stoll and Peter Carr who were named the winners of the 2009 John B. Phillips Award which recognizes the best manuscript relevant to the field of multidimensional gas chromatography published in the most recent calendar year. This award was named in honor of John B. Phillips (1947-1999) who invented GCxGC and who was a professor and chair in our department. Professors Gabriela Perez-Alvarado, Kara Huff-Hartz and Brian Lee for the award of an ACS Project SEED grant. Professor Dan Dyer et al for the award of a 3-year NSF REU grant Assistant Professors Punit Kohli and Luke Tolley for their promotion to Associate Professor and award of Tenure. Congratulations also to Associate Professor Dan Dyer on his promotion to Professor. These promotions are effective in the 2009-2010 academic year. Professor Luke Tolley who has received the Excellence in Innovation Award for 2008 from The Partnership for Innovation Center of the College of Business and Administration at SIUC. The following graduate students who were awarded Dissertation Research Awards for 2008-2009: Tiffany Pawluk, Chuansong Duanmu and Kathleen Chafee. Professor Bakul Dave for receiving a research contract from Biodyne Corporation. Professors Dan Dyer and Gary Kinsel for receiving an NIH R15 grant, "Protein/Peptide Separation with Polymer Brush Nanosponges". Professor Punit Kohli for receiving an NSF Career Award, "Programmable active lithography using nanotube arrays" Professors Dan Dyer, Matt McCarroll and Lichang Wang for receiving an NIH R15 grant, "Design and Evaluation of Response Selective Fluorescent Sensors" Professor Punit Kohli for receiving an NIH grant, "Investigating Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer in Conjugated Liposomes" Punit Kohli for receiving an NSF grant, "Combinatorial Process Development for the Synthesis of Novel Nano-Textured and Ultra-Hard Films" (Co-PI Prof. Samir Aouadi). Also a supplement to this grant to support undergraduate students. Professor Lichang Wang for receiving an NSF NIRT grant, "Nanostructural Bimetallic, Trimetallic and Core-Shell Fuel-Cell Catalysts with Controlled Size, Composition and Morphology" Professor Matt McCarroll for receiving an NSF grant, "Investigations in Enantioselective Interactions" Professor Gary Kinsel for receiving an NSF grant, "RF Plasma Polymer Modified MALDI Targets: Advanced Platforms for Biomarker Screening/Comparative Proteomics Applications" |
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