Assumption College in Thonburi, Thailand, celebrated the grand opening of their Doxsee Green Chemistry Laboratory, named in honor of Uo Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty Ken Doxsee. Doxsee has worked with green chemistry in Thailand since 2006.
UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty Shannon Boettcher has been selected to receive a 2014 Cottrell Scholars Award from the Research Corporation for Science and Advancement.
The Cottrell Scholar Awards were instituted in 1994, and are named in honor of Frederick Gardner Cottrell, a scientist, inventor and philanthropist. The awards are presented to early career faculty who are committed to excellence in both research and teaching. The Spring 2014 awards recognize a dozen teacher-scholars.
Douglas Anderson
Ben Armstrong
Matthew Bailey
Elaine deLorimier
Dylan Farnsworth
Mellissa Hale
Matthew Hartle
Josh Lowry
Jacqueline McGrath
Leticia Montoya
Emily Reister
Ellen Robertson
Adam Struck
Luke Wheeler
Research professor Richard Chartoff, director of the Polymer Characterization and Thermal Analysis Laboratory at the Center for Advanced Materials Characterization in Oregon (CAMCOR), was recently featured in an article in Men’s Journal for his work associated with a Grand Challenges Explorations grant.
Abstract:The lecture will cover our recent efforts in the development of redox-neutral reactions that lead to the mild C-H bond functionalization of simple amines for the rapid buildup of molecular complexity.
UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty members Mark Lonergan, Geri Richmond and Tom Stevens were recognized on February 17th at a College of Arts and Sciences reception honoring faculty for excellence in research and teaching.
Winter 2014 McNair Scholar Symposium
February 19, 2014
1:00-3:00pm
Oak Room, EMU
Four UO Chemistry and Biochemistry undergraduates will be participating in the McNair Scholar Symposium. Everyone is invited to attend the symposium and to hear our students present their research.
3:00PM – Lindsay Guzman, New Pt(II) Complexes for the Investigation of Copper-Mediated Degradation in Pt-Bound RNA Click Reactions
Mentors: Victoria DeRose and Jonathan White
1:30PM – Benedicta Wanjeri, Characterizing the Neuromuscular Effects of Tribendimidine in the Nematode Worm Caenorhabditis elegans
Mentors: Janis Weeks and Kristin Robinson
2:00PM – Eric Goytia Nummendal, Using Mice as Models to Investigate Neuronal Response in the Thalamic Lateral Geniculate Nucleus,
Mentors: Cristopher Niell and Wayne Tschetter
2:30PM – Lyle McPherson, aPKC Induces Polarization of Numb by Disrupting Cortical Targeting Mechanisms
Mentors: Kenneth Prehoda and Matthew Bailey
About the McNair Scholar Symposium
The University of Oregon celebrates the research achievements of its McNair Scholars during the annual McNair Symposium. These achievements are made possible by faculty mentors who guide Scholars through scholarship activities and help prepare
them for the challenges and culture of graduate school.
McNair Scholars participate in paid summer research internships in their fields of study. During the internships, students are involved in original research culminating in a presentation of their findings. Held winter term, the McNair Symposium provides a public forum for students to share their work with peers, mentors, faculty and staff, family members, and the general public.
“Synthesis of natural products with conformational chirality”
Abstract: In molecules that possess sp3-hybridized stereogenic carbon atoms, identification of chirality is trivial. However, in molecules that do not possess such atoms, the identification of the presence of chirality is not straightforward. Furthermore, demonstrating the existence of molecular chirality using experimental techniques is rare, especially when attempting to distinguish between achiral and racemic molecules. Our group is interested in the synthesis and study of molecules that possess chirality by virtue of their conformation. I will present our home-grown strategies for the synthesis of such molecules, and I will describe an experimental (NMR-based) determination of their racemization half-lives.