Category: Student News
Physical Chemistry 3rd Year Talks, July 17th
Physical Chemistry Rotation Talks, June 15th
Gaby Bailey receives 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award
UO Chemistry graduate student Gaby Bailey has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Gaby is a 2nd year doctoral student in the Jasti Lab.
Gaby’s Research: The Jasti lab synthesizes cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs) which have unique optical properties. Gaby’s project involves systematically altering the size, electronic modulating groups, and the strain induced on these electronic modulating groups to study the effects on the fluorescence emission of these materials. This information will further inform on how to tune the optical properties of CPPs. Brightly fluorescent materials with tunable optical properties can be envisioned to play a role in biological imaging as well as in new light emitting materials.
About the Award: The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) seeks to ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. Fellowships provide the recipients with a three-year annual stipend of $37,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees (paid to the institution), as well as access to opportunities for professional development available to NSF-supported graduate students.
Dissertation Defense – Mellie Lemon, June 1st
Good luck to Mellie Lemon as they defend their thesis for their PhD in Chemistry!
Thursday, June 1, 2023
2PM in 150 Columbia and via Zoom
Mellie’s thesis title is “Investigation of Ternary Layered Thin Film Materials”
Lab Spotlight: Willow Davis in the DWJ Lab
Watch Willow in this video as she shares about her research in the Darren Johnson lab!
OIM 1st Year Rotation Talks – April 6th & 7th
Chemistry and Biochemistry Annual Newsletter
Check out department news highlights and catch up with some of our alumni in the latest issue of the UO Chemistry and Biochemistry newsletter!
Chemistry Major Lawren Paris receives ASMS Travel Award
Lawren Paris, an undergrad researcher in the Prell lab, has been selected by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) for a travel award based on her research abstract submission for the 2023 ASMS Annual Conference.
The ASMS Undergraduate Student Travel Award recognizes up to ten undergraduate students whose academic achievements and interest in mass spectrometry research display a high level of excellence and distinction. The Awards will be presented during the annual ASMS conference in Houston, Texas, June 4 – 8, 2023, and are intended to support ASMS conference travel. Each award includes $500, free conference registration, and a certificate.
Lawren’s research in the Prell group focuses on the unfolding thermochemistry and kinetics of gas-phase ions inside mass spectrometers. Her main project involves modeling the vibrational heat capacity of gaseous biomolecular ions using quantum computational theory, the results of which she will be presenting as a poster at the ASMS conference in June. The data from Lawren’s research is being used to better quantitatively determine how ions dissociate and unfold in the gas phase, and to create more accurate thermodynamic modeling software within our group.