On June 21 and 28, members of the Chem Demo Team conducted chemistry activities for middle school students participating in the Sensing Our World summer science camps held at Jordan Hall.
A collaborative study between the laboratories of Jeff Peng at the University of Notre Dame and Felicia Etzkorn at Virginia Tech has discovered an important element of how an enzyme involved in cell division does its job.
Allen Oliver, Research Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been named Program Co-Chair for the American Crystallographic Association Annual conference in 2013, along with Jeanette Krause at the University of Cincinnati.
Four members of the Notre Dame faculty have been named Fellows of the American Chemical Society. Seth Brown, Greg Hartland, Prashant Kamat and Anthony Trozzolo are the first Fellows from Notre Dame since the ACS board of directors started the program in 2008.
Robert G. Hayes, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Notre Dame, died July 7 at Dujarie House in Holy Cross Village. He was 74 years old.