CSN faculty member Christy Haynes (University of Minnesota) was named a finalist in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition. She is one of 10 chemists being considered for the award; the final announcement will be made after a science symposium and gala in September 2017. Find out more about the award and Christy’s selection here. Congratulations Christy!
Congratulations to CSN graduate student Sunipa Pramanik for winning a best poster prize at the 2017 University of Minnesota iPrime conference!
Juli Troiano’s manuscript, entitled “Quantifying the electrostatics of polycation-lipid bilayer interactions,” has been accepted by the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Julianne M. Troiano, Alicia C. McGeachy, Laura L. Olenick, Dong Fang, Dongyue Liang, Jiewei Hong, Thomas R. Kuech, Emily Caudill, Joel A. Pedersen, Qiang Cui and Franz M. Geiger, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139 (16), 5808-5816.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has announced that Professor Qiang Cui has won a Kellett Mid-Career Award, which recognizes outstanding faculty seven to 20 years after their first promotion to a tenured position. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), “The awards are intended to honor those faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities”. Congratulations QC!
