Chemistry Research

2014

 

 

 

Professor Jaswal publishes in BMC Bioinformatics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, and Protein Science

Undergraduate researchers: Paul Cohen '11, Itai Brand-Thomas '15, and Barnali Dash (Mt. Holyoke)

Collaborators & Co-authors: Amy Wagaman (Amherst), Ken A. Dill (Stony Brook University), Audrey Lee–St. John (Mt. Holyoke College)

Research in the Jaswal Lab; Research in the Wagaman Group (Math)

Prof. Jaswal's publications focus on modeling protein dynamics.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/S8/S2

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp506379r

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.2551/abstract

Professor Young publishes in Inorganic Chemistry Communications

Undergraduate researchers: Ewuradjoa Gadzanku and Afua Nti.

This manuscript focuses on the development of a water-soluable Ferrocene analog that serves a building block to study proton-coupled electron transfer. 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387700314000525

Professor Ball is awarded a $55,000 ACS Petroleum Research Fund Grant

The grant will fund for two years his laboratory's research in using metal catalysts to convert small molecule air pollutants into important high-valued functional groups in organic molecules. The grant will support undergraduate researchers, supplies, and conference travel.

Professor Young is awarded a $399,900 NSF MRI grant

This instrumentation grant will support the purchase of a transient absorption spectrometer that will used to support her research as well research of other groups in the Five College Consortium. This grant and research was featured on the Amherst College website!

https://www.amherst.edu/news/faculty/node/567569?shib_redir=425933448

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1428633&HistoricalAwards=false

Profs. Leung and Marshall publish in Journal of Physical Chemistry A and Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy.

Undergraduate researchers: Joseph Messinger, Gregory Knowlton, Kathryn Sundheim, Jasmina Cheung-Lau

The papers focus on using microwave spectropscopy to understand on the molecular structure and complexation of halogenated ethylenes with Ar and HF.

Research in the Leung Lab;   Research in the Marshall Lab

Journal of Physical Chemistry A: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jp508278d

Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Ptkw54IkGwjO

Profs. Leung and Marshall publish Instructor's Manual and Student Solutions Manual for new Physical Chemistry textbook.

The Instructors Manual is supplied in electronic format to those adopting the textbook in their courses. The Student Solutions Manual, which contains solutions to all the even-numbered end-of-chapter problems in the textbook is available both in electronic and print versions.

http://www.uscibooks.com/leung2.htm

The Leung and Marshall Labs attend the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

The chemistry department was well represented at the 69th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition to current students from the Leung and Marshall laboratories, including Joey Messinger '14, who presented a talk based on his senior thesis research project, there several alums spanning many years.


From left to right.
Front Row: Prof. Mark Marshall, Kimberly Greenberg '17, Hannah Tandon '16, Jesse Fajnzylber '17
Back Row: Prof. Robert Field '65 (MIT), Nazir Khan '15, Joey Messinger '14, Nathan Seifert '10 (Virginia), David Grimes '09 (MIT), Brent Amberger '08 (Wisconsin), Prof. Helen Leung