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The following graduate student awards were presented on Friday, February 27, 2009.
John Simpson is this year's recipient of the Breckenridge/Lyon's Outstanding TA Award.
Jian Tian, Stephanie Lane, and Derrick Seiner were selected as this year’s recipients for the Breckenridge/Lyon's Outstanding RA Award.
Brienne Bottenus is this year's recipient of the Troutner Student Award in Radiochemistry.
Congratulations to all the award winners!
Research News
American Chemical Society honors three chemistry professors
Three professors have been named to the American Chemical Society's (ACS) 2009 Fellows Program. The new program recognizes members of the ACS for "outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and the society." Excellence in multiple activities are required for election as a fellow. The inaugural class of fellows will be recognized at the ACS national meeting in Washington, D.C., in August 2009. The society selected 162 members for this honor from a membership of 154,000.
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John Adams receives 2009 UM President's Award for Outstanding Teaching
John E. Adams, professor, Department of Chemistry, has been honored with the 2009 University of Missouri President's Award for Outstanding Teaching. This award recognizes a tenured faculty member with at least ten years of teaching experience at a University of Missouri campus. Adams has been teaching at MU since 1981. Each campus is allowed to submit one candidate.
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Professor Frederick Hawthorne: 2009 Priestley Medalist
M. Frederick Hawthorne, PhD, a pioneer in boron chemistry and director of the MU International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine, received the 2009 Priestley Medal for his achievements in the field of chemistry. The award is the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) highest honor. The world’s largest scientific society, the ACS presented the award to Hawthorne on March 24 in Salt Lake City.
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MU Professor Has Special Edition of Scholarly Journal Dedicated to his Lifelong Efforts in Chemistry
'Happy Birthday, and oh by the way, an entire scholarly journal has been dedicated to your lifelong efforts in the chemical sciences.' This is the surprise message received by University of Missouri Curators' Professor Jerry Atwood. The front cover of the New Journal of Chemistry proclaims "Issue Dedicated to Professor Jerry Atwood."
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Chemistry Professor Receives Highest Honor from the American Chemical Society
M. Frederick Hawthorne’s life work has made him one of the giants in the nano and molecular medicine field. Hawthorne, director of the University of Missouri International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine and pioneer in boron chemistry, will receive the 2009 Priestley Medal for his achievements in the field of chemistry. The award is the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) highest honor and recognizes distinguished service in the field of chemistry. The ACS, with 160,000 members, is the world’s largest professional society.
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Researcher presents origin-of-life theory for young Earth;
Presence of essential molecule in space could support life on other planets
Some of the elements necessary to support life on Earth are widely known - oxygen, carbon and water, to name a few. Just as important in the existence of life as any other component is the presence of adenine, an essential organic molecule. Without it, the basic building blocks of life would not come together. Scientists have been trying to find the origin of Earth's adenine and where else it might exist in the solar system. Professor of Chemistry Rainer Glaser may have the answer.
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Researchers create model of cancer-preventing enzyme; study how it works
Researchers at the University of Missouri- Columbia recently created a model of proline dehydrogenase, an important cancer-preventing enzyme in the human body, and analyzed how it works.
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New family of pseudo-metallic elements may change how scientists fight disease, create materials
The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie, the journal of the German Society of Chemists, allows scientists to manipulate a molecule discovered 50 years ago in such as way as to give the molecule metal-like properties, creating a new, pseudo element. The pseudo-metal properties can be adjusted for a wide range of uses and might change the way scientists think about attacking disease or even building electronics.
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