CSN graduate student Diamond Jones (Mason group) has been awarded a Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship to support her participation in the 2019 Environmental Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference. Congratulations, Diamond!
Congratulations to CSN grad students Becky Curtis (left) and Eric Ostovich (right), both from the lab of Rebecca Klaper at UW-Milwaukee, who won awards for their research presentation posters at the Midwest Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting in LaCrosse last week! Becky won the “best poster presentation” award for her poster titled “Next-generation battery cathode material lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) nanosheets and metabolomic impacts to freshwater crustacean Daphnia magna.” Eric won “runner-up” for his poster “Developing an in vitro model from Daphnia magna to evaluate the molecular Interactions of nanoparticles.”
CSN graduate student Natalie Hudson-Smith has won one a 2019 Thesis Research Travel Grant from the University of Minnesota.This grant will help support Natalie’s stay in Valencia, Spain to do CSN-related protein corona studies central to Associate Director Christy Haynes’ sabbatical research. ¡Felicitaciones!
CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy has been announced as the recipient of the 2019 Remsen Award, which is granted by the American Chemical Society Maryland Section. Dr. Murphy will present the Remsen Lecture on May 30 at the 47th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Congratulations, Cathy!
Ronghua (Andy) Bei, who participated in the CSN Research Experience for Undergraduates program last summer, has won second place in the Materials Engineering and Sciences IX section of the student poster competition at AIChE, the Global Conference for Chemical Engineering. Andy’s poster was “A Computational Study of the Coverage of Poly(oxonorbornenes) and O-(2-carboxyethyl)-O′-(2-mercaptoethyl)heptaethylene Glycols on Gold Nanoparticles,” based on work he did in the lab of Professor Rigoberto Hernandez at Johns Hopkins University, in collaboration with postdoctoral researcher Dr. Ali Rahnamoun.
Professor Rigoberto Hernandez of Johns Hopkins University has been selected for the SERMACS (SouthEastern Regional Meeting of the ACS) Stanley Israel Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences. He received the award on November 1st, in Augusta, GA at the SERMACS conference.
Congratulations to Franz Geiger for being elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Franz is being honored for his distinguished contributions to unraveling important yet previously unidentified molecular aspects of environmental interfaces, including atmospheric aerosols and geochemical surfaces, using non-linear, laser-based spectroscopy. Franz and the other new AAAS Fellows will be honored Feb. 16 at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.
Congratulations to Christy Haynes on being awarded the New Orleans Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecture! Christy was one of 13 candidates submitted by 9 divisions and was nominated by the Analytical Division of the ACS. Christy will deliver her award lecture, "Biological and ecological toxicity of engineered nanomaterials" at the American Chemical Society National Meeting on April 8, 2013.
