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  • Larese Group News Highlights
  • Nick Strange, second year graduate student in the Larese’s Group, participated in the 10th Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) School on Neutron Scattering January 6-15. The school focused on materials in extreme environments. Members of the Larese group gave presentations at the American Physical Society (APS) meeting in Denver, CO March 3-7. Larese discussed work […]
  • Larese Group Hosted Science Olympiad High School Students
  • The Larese’s group at the UT Chemistry Department prepared the chemistry examination for the Tennessee State Science Olympiad on Saturday, April 12. High school students from all across Tennessee came to UTK and were challenged experimentally with a reaction set in which the oxidation state of manganese was altered, as well as chromatography of fountain pen […]
  • Derek Mull Received NSF Fellowship
  • Derek Mull, a first year graduate student in the Jenkins’ Group, received National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Mull is one of the three students at the University of Tennessee Knoxville received the GRFP Fellowship this year. The GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who […]
  • Chemistry Department Held 2014 Honors Day
  • Chemistry Department held 2014 Honors Day on Thursday, April 24 in Buehler Hall 555. Gerald DeVault, Project Manager for Technology at Y12 Uranium Processing Facility, also an alumnus of the Department, gave an invited speech before the awards ceremony. Following is a list of this year’s awardees. UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS STAFF AWARDS GRADUATE AWARDS FACULTY AWARDS […]
  • Shelby Stavretis Admitted to NSNXS
  • Shelby Stavretis, first year graduate student in Professor Xue’s group, was recently admitted to the National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering after a nationwide competition. The school is a Department of Energy program and only selected students in physics, chemistry, materials science, or related fields across the country are admitted. Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, Stavretis went to […]
  • Chemistry Faculty and Students Lauded at Chancellor Honors Banquet
  • The Chancellor’s Honors Banquet is held each spring to recognize students, faculty, staff, and friends of the University of Tennessee for their extraordinary achievements. The 2014 banquet was held April 23rd at the University Center. Following are the chemistry faculty and students who received this year’s honors. 2014 Alumni Public Service Award AL HAZARIScience is […]
  • Hobbie Turley Received Eastman Fellowship
  • Hobbie Turley, a chemistry graduate student in Professor Camden’ group received 2014 Eastman Chemical Company Fellowship Award. Established in 2001, the fellowship was designed to assist students in their research as well as help Eastman identify top performers who are in the early stages of their graduate careers. Each year, selected universities are requested to submit nominations of […]
  • Professor Long Received Army Research Office Young Investigator Award
  • Assistant professor of chemistry Brian Long has received the Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award in March 2014. The ARO Young Investigator Program was designed to attract “outstanding young university faculty members, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers.” The award is highly competitive and considered prestigious among young […]
  • Jessica Gooding Received NIH Award
  • Dr. Jessica Gooding, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Campagna Group, received Mentored Research Scientist Development Award in Metabolomics (K01) funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her project titled “Metabolic Regulators of Insulin Secretion and Insulin Resistance”. This Award will allow Gooding to expand her skill set in metabolomics and apply them on three NIH-funded […]
  • Professor Schweitzer Recognized for 65 Years of Service
  • Dr. George K. Schweitzer, Alumni Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, has been given the Joe Johnson Lifetime Service Award in recognition of his 65 years of dedicated service to the University of Tennessee. UT President Joe DiPietro and UTK Chancellor Jimmy Cheek presented Schweitzer the Award on December 11th, 2013. “Dr. Schweitzer’s commitment to lifelong learning and his passion […]
  • Dai Group Research Highlighted in Nature Chemistry
  • The work from Dai Group was highlighted in the most recent issue of Nature Chemistry. Nature Chemistry is a monthly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality papers that describe the most significant and cutting-edge research in all areas of chemistry. Dai group’s development of a new class of mesoporous copolymer was mentioned in an article written by Yi Lu from […]
  • Professor Mays Elected Fellow of RSC
  • Jimmy Mays, professor of chemistry and distinguished scientist, was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). The RSC is the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. Mays’ name along with other recently admitted Fellows will be published in the Times (London) newspaper. The Fellow status is awarded to individuals who […]
  • Chemistry Department Hosted 2014 SURC
  • The Department of Chemistry hosted the 46th Southeast Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) in the University Center on January 31, 2014. The Conference was well-attended by 120 attendees from almost fifty institutions in the southeast region and ten graduate school and industry recruiters. “The Conference was a huge success.” said the conference organizer Rachel Rui. “One of the recruiters […]
  • Xue Group News Highlights
  • Former group member, Dr. Julia Abbott, currently Science Education Program Manager at ORAU (Oak Ridge Associated Universities), was featured in Knoxville News-Sentinel. She has helped organize the “Science Saturdays — a program that brings together scientists, local teachers and students through interactive presentations and hands-on science.” Julia received Ph.D. from our group in 2010 with research […]
  • Professor Bursten Elected AAAS Chemistry Chair
  • Dr. Bruce Bursten, distinguished professor of chemistry, was elected as the 2014 Chair-Elect, 2015 Chair and 2016 Retiring Chair of the Section on Chemistry of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS is the world’s largest and most prestigious general scientific society, with 126,995 individual and institutional members at the end of 2008. It is also the […]
  • Chris Murdock Published Paper in JACS
  • Chris Murdock, a fifth year Ph.D. student in Professor Jenkins’ group, published a paper titled Rotating Phenyl Rings as a Guest-Dependent Switch in Two-Dimensional Metal–Organic Frameworks in the Jounral of American Chemical Society (JACS*). The researchers studied a 2D metal-organic framework (MOF) in which a portion of the bridging linker can swivel to block the pore as a […]
  • Professor Musfeldt to Lead Gordon Research Conference
  • Janice Musfeldt, Chemistry Professor, will be leading Gordon Research Conference, which will be held at the University of New England, Biddleford, Maine, on August 10 to 15, 2014. The program will consist of 30 invited talks, each followed by extensive discussion. Afternoon poster sessions and activities will provide further opportunity for informal discussions. Application and more information […]
  • Chemistry Alumna elected as President of ACS
  • Dr. Diane Grob Schmidt, an UT Chemistry Alumna and the Chair of the Chemistry Department Board of Visitors, will be President-Elect, 2015 President and 2016 Immediate Past President of the American Chemical Society. With more than 163,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society, and a non-profit organization, whose members represent professional at all degree levels and in all […]
  • Chemistry New Space: Strong Hall
  • The University of Tennessee and the Department of Chemistry currently have an optimism and excitement for the future, the likes of which I have never seen. Capital improvements are in progress in nearly every area of campus. The Department of Chemistry is directly involved in two of these, Strong Hall and the Joint Institute for Advanced Materials (JIAM).  […]
  • Rosolina Won MILSET Science Photo Contest
  • Sam Rosolina, a graduate student at Professor Xue Group won Broze at the 2013 MILSET Science Photo Contest. The winning photo (left) is one of the iridescence photos of his electrode produced in August. The International Movement for Leisure Activities in Science and Technology (MILSET – MouvementInternational pour le Loisir Scientifique et Technique) is a non-governmental, non-profit and politically independent youth organization. It aims at developing scientific […]
  • The Method: Spirits and Graves
  • Professor Emeritus Dr. Jamie Adcock is featured on this edition of The Method, a radio series produced and broadcast by WUOT. Listen to the story here. Or use your phone to scan the QR code. On this edition of The Method, we examine how two researchers are putting technology to work to find and identify mass graves. Then, […]
  • Hazari Magic Show featured on WBIR and WATE
  • Click the links below to watch the magic show performed by Dr. Al Hazari, Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Laboratories in the Department of Chemistry. Magic Show on Knoxville WBIR-TV 10 Magic Show on Knoxville WATE-TV 6
  • Iberi Gave Talk at Rose-Hulman
  • Vighter Iberi, a fifth year graduate students in Professor Camden’s group, gave a talk at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on September 25th. Iberi was invited by his undergraduate chemistry professor Peter Adcock, currently a Visiting Professor of Chemistry at Rose-Hulman. Both faculty and students from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Rose-Hulman attended Iberi’s […]
  • Xue Group Paper Featured in Biodiesel Magazine and C&EN
  • Jonathan Fong, a graduate student in the Chemistry Department and his mentor Professor Xue published a paper A dye-doped optical sensor for the detection of biodiesel in diesel in Chemical Communications. Findings in this paper are well-received and the significance of the study is highlighted in Biodiesel Magazine. Read the full article: Tenn. researchers develop 5 ppm FAME detector […]
  • Recent Grad Publishes Two Papers in PRL
  • Tatiana Brinzari, a recent Ph. D. graduate from Professor Musfeldt’s group, published two papers Quantum critical transition amplifies magnetoelastic coupling in Mn[N(CN)2]2 and Electron-phonon and magnetoelastic interactions in ferromagnetic Co[N(CN)2]2 in Phys. Rev. Lett (PRL) that emanate from her thesis work. Brinzari grew up in Chisinau, Moldova and received her undergraduate degree of inorganic chemistry from Moldova State University (MSU) in […]
  • Summer of science: Harrison, Tenn., teen one of 8 selected for prestigious program at UT
  • By Dylan Platz (2013 REU participant) Humming hymns and talking himself, Brandon Hambrick lets his photographic memory take him step by step through a process known as polymerization. In the science experiment, the 18-year-old from the Harrison area is creating a chain of large molecules by combining smaller ones — kind of like linking many small […]
  • Professors Long and Best Received eVOL10 Service Awards
  • Chemistry Professors Brian Long and Michael Best recently received Service Awards from the College of Engineering for their participation in the Engineering Volunteers for Tenth Graders (eVOL10) Program 2013, a program designed to introduce tenth graders to applied sciences and raise their awareness of careers in STEM disciplines including chemistry and engineering. A total of 32 students […]
  • Chemistry BoV Chair is Official Candidate for ACS President-Elect
  • Dr. Diane Grob Schmidt, an UT Chemistry alumna and the Chair of the Chemistry Department Board of Visitors, is offically entered as a Candidate for the American Chemical Society President-Elect, 2014. With more than 163,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society, and a non-profit organization, whose members represent professional at all degree levels and in all fields of […]
  • Chemistry Summer Program Awarded NSF Grant
  • UT Chemistry Department has been offering critical research and professional development skills to undergraduate students through its summer program for more than 10 years. This year the program was awarded a three-year-grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is officially recognized as a site for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU). Chemistry professors Michael Best and Shawn Campagna are the […]
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