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News from December 2009

Instrumentation funding for Nanostructure Analysis

The National Science Foundation has awarded $397,535 for the Construction of a Spectrometer for Ultrafast Absorption and Emission Studies of Nanostructures.

Published December 20, 2009

NIH funding for CD spectropolarimeter and stopped-flow apparatus

Professor Patricia L. Clark was awarded $144,480 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Research Resources to purchase a circular dichroism (CD) spectropolarimeter and a stopped-flow mixing apparatus.

Published December 20, 2009

NIH funding for biomolecular interactions

Funding from the National Institutes of Health was awarded for the purchase of an ultrasensitive microcalorimeter for the study of biomolecular interactions.

Published December 20, 2009

Serianni and Duman discover novel natural antifreeze

For the first time, researchers have found a natural high-molecular-weight antifreeze molecule that does not contain protein. The find may someday be applied in the food industry or in tissue cryopreservation for organ transplants.

Published December 18, 2009

Professor Richard Taylor elected as a Fellow of AAAS

Richard Taylor, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, has been has been awarded the distinction of Fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Published December 16, 2009

Prof. Hartland has been elected as a Fellow of the AAAS

Professor Hartland has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Published December 15, 2009