Miriam Krause

Congratulations to CSN student Melissa Muth, who won the second place Poster Prize for the Division of Chemical Toxicology at the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston last month. Melissa's poster, "Impact of Core Composition and Surface Chemistry of Semiconductor Quantum Dots on their Stability in Biological Solutions," was co-authored by Richard Brown, Taeyjuana Curry, and Zeev Rosenzweig. Dr. Rosenzweig's lab is at the University of Maryland – Baltimore County.

Congratulations to CSN student Mimi Hang, who received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for her talk at the recent American Chemical Society meeting in Boston, entitled "Investigation of the impact of Li1/3Ni1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2 (NMC) nanoparticles on bacterial model system Shewanella oneidensis MR-1." The presentation was part of the Division of Environmental Chemistry Symposium on Environmental Transformation of Nanoparticles, and described a collaboration among the Hamers and Pedersen labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Haynes group at the University of Minnesota.

We are pleased to announce that Center scientist Catherine J. Murphy, Professor of Chemistry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the recipient of two recent honors. First, she has been named as one of the Langmuir Lecturers for the upcoming ACS National Meeting in Boston, sponsored by the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry. Second, Cathy is one of the first three people to be named as a recipient of the new TREE Award (Transformational Research and Excellence in Education) from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. The RCSA website states that the TREE Award is "intended to recognize and advance truly outstanding research and education." Congratulations, Cathy!