Cascade Magazine article, “Chemical Twofer,” covers a new filter created in the Darren Johnson lab that will extract valuable metals and create clean water.
One gram of a material being used by chemist Darren Johnson for water filtration has the same surface area as the football field in Autzen Stadium.
Darren Johnson doesn’t want to “get the lead out.” But he does want to get the neodymium and ytterbium out.
Yes, those are real things. They’re among the so-called rare earth elements, metals that often get leached from underground minerals and brought to the surface in briny, hot, underground water that’s increasingly being tapped to generate electricity in geothermal energy plants. Often toxic, the metals need to be removed before the water can be used and then discharged into a river.
Good luck to Bev Smith as she defends her thesis for her PhD in Chemistry!
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
3:30 PM in 110 Fenton
The title of her thesis is “Investigating Thermal Transformations of Ligand-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles: Influence of the Structural Attributes of the Nanoparticle and its Environment on Thermal Stability”
The event, held outside Seattle, Washington, attracted over 50 junior women chemists from the Pacific Northwest for workshops and panel discussions. The retreat also provided participants with valuable opportunities to enhance their professional networks and build leadership and communication skills.
Future Retreats may move south to Oregon, which was well-represented as seen in this picture of UO and OSU attendees. UO student participants included Mary Collins, Rachael Cunningham, Jackie McGrath, Laura McWilliams, Leticia Montoya, Kara Nell and Emily Reister.
Good luck to Ethan Walker as he defends his thesis for his PhD in Chemistry!
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
3:30 PM in 171 Onyx Bridge
The title of his thesis is “Injection, Transport, and Ionic Interactions of Carriers in Polyacetylene Ionomers as Probed by NIR Absorbance and Visible Photoresponse”
Six Chemistry and Biochemistry undergraduate students will present their research today in the EMU at the Undergraduate Research Symposium taking place from noon 7:15PM.
Oral Presentation:
Presenter: Nicholas Rinehart Maple Room, Oral Session 2 1:45-3:15PM
Title: Design and Synthesis of a Coordination Complex for Dinitrogen Rejection from Natural Gas
Mentor: Dave Tyler, Chemistry
Major: Biochemistry
Posters:
Presenter: Benjamin Blue
Poster: 5
Title: Diet as a Mediator of Life-History in Ceanorhabditis elegans
Mentors: Patrick Phillips and Stephen Banse, Biology
Major: Biochemistry
Presenter: Lindan Comrada
Poster: 14
Title: In Vitro Angiogenesis Increases with Chronic Passive Heat Therapy: Likely Mechanism for Improved Cardiovascular Health
Mentors: Christopher Minson and Vienna Brunt, Human Physiology
Major: Biochemistry
Presenter: William Crowley
Poster: 15
Title: Silver Tip Preparation for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Mentors: Ben Taber and George Nazin, Chemistry
Major: Chemistry
Presenter: Nathaniel O’Neal
Poster: 49
Title: Asymmetrical Heteroatom Substitution in the Indenofluorene Framework
Mentors: Michael Haley and Jonathan Marshall, Chemistry
Major: Biochemistry
Presenter: Charlotte Taylor
Poster: 62
Title: Do Progenitor Subpopulations Contribute to Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System Development?
Mentors: Judith Eisen and Julia Ganz, Biology
Major: Biochemistry
Good luck to Josh Lowry as he defends his thesis for his PhD in Chemistry!
Good luck to Bev Smith as she defends her thesis for her PhD in Chemistry!
Good luck to Ethan Walker as he defends his thesis for his PhD in Chemistry!
Good luck to Jet Meitzner as he defends his thesis for his PhD in Chemistry!
Six Chemistry and Biochemistry undergraduate students will present their research today in the EMU at the Undergraduate Research Symposium taking place from noon 7:15PM.
