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News from April 2011

Champion Advises Student who Wins Top Young Scientist Honor

Tim Trippel, a Marian High School senior who works with Matthew Champion, research assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, won Top Young Scientist honors at the Hoosier Science and Engineering Fair.

Published April 26, 2011

Mobashery's Group Sheds New Light on Antibiotics and Survival of Bacteria

Research in the laboratory of Shahriar Mobashery in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has led to further understanding of how penicillin and other antibiotics disrupt the process of bacterial cell wall assembly, a process that is critical for the survival of bacteria.

Published April 26, 2011

Corcelli Named Kavli Fellow

Steven Corcelli's participation in the 17th German-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium identifies his as a Kavli Fellow, a group that has included more than 100 National Academy of Science members and eight Nobel Prize winners.

Published April 21, 2011

Young Researchers in Helquist Lab Publish Research

A team of student researchers in the laboratory of Paul Helquist, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was published in the American Chemical Society's Organic Letters.

Published April 14, 2011

Professors Xavier Creary and Jeff Peng Win Rev. Joyce Award

Xavier Creary and Jeff Peng, Professors of Chemistry and Biochemistry have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Published April 13, 2011

Olaf Wiest is Associate Editor for the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Olaf Wiest has accepted the position of associate editor for the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, and open access journal that publishes research articles on all aspects of organic chemistry.

Published April 13, 2011

New Center Established with Notre Dame and Palacky University

As a result of cooperation between the University of Notre Dame and the Department of Organic Chemistry at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, a new Center for High Throughput Organic Synthesis has been established.

Published April 13, 2011

ACS Features Two Videos from Kamat Group

Two videos which illustrate graduate research by Prashant Kamat's group related to energy conversion have been posted on the American Chemical Society's publication pages.

Published April 12, 2011

NIH Grants Patricia Clark $3.36M to Study Protein Folding

Patricia Clark, the Rev. John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C. Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, has received two NIH grants totaling $3.36 million for studies on protein folding.

Published April 8, 2011

Breakthrough Research by Notre Dame and Cornell Scientists

A paper announcing a breakthrough discovery in the fight against Niemann-Pick Type C, coauthored by Olaf Wiest and Paul Helquist at Notre Dame, and Frederick Maxfield at Cornell University, appeared recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Published April 4, 2011