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Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 7:00pm
Please congratulate Dr. David Vicic, who has been elected as a Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the American Chemical Society Division of Fluorine Chemistry.
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Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 7:00pm
Peter Kaplan, a graduate student in the Vicic Lab, was a co-winner of the best poster award at the 22nd Winter Fluorine Conference at St. Pete Beach, FL for his poster entitled "New Reagents for (CF2)n Transfer and the Construction of Fluoroalkyl-...
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Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 7:00pm
Congratulations to the following chemistry graduate students awarded departmental fellowships for 2015-2016: Kelly Burns (Thévenin Group), Peter Kaplan (Vicic Group), and Godfred Fianu (Flowers Group).
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Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 7:00pm
Please welcome the following new graduate students for the 2015-2016 academic year: Xiang Ao, Caroline Bartulovich, Qingqing Cao, Phillip Esempio, Yu Han, Conor Jenkins, Michael Kerner, Sophia Miotto, Kelcie Molchany, and Haomin Wang.
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Monday, October 26, 2015 - 8:00pm
Damien Thévenin, assistant professor of chemistry, and Ph.D. candidate Kelly Burns are developing a system that delivers anti-cancer drugs exclusively to cancer cells based on the relative acidity of their environments.
Faculty Research
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - 12:00am
presented a talk at the International Conference on Scanning Probe Microscopy on Soft and Polymeric Materials. His topic was “Multimodal Mechanical and Infrared Spectroscopic Nanoscopy.”He coauthored “Phase stabilized homodyne of infrared scattering type...
Faculty Research
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - 12:00am
has given invited lectures at U. of Oxford, U. of St. Andrews, U. of Edinburgh, Free U. of Berlin, Humboldt U. of Berlin, and the Chinese National Organic Synthesis Conference. An invited talk at UNC Chapel Hill was cancelled, as all flights into Chapel...
Faculty Research
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - 12:00am
co-authored several journal articles: “In-plane force–extension response of a polymer confined to a surface” in Eur. Polymer J., “Spontaneous stepwise self-assembly of a polyoxometalate–organic hybrid into catalytically active one-dimensional anisotropic...
Faculty Research
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - 12:00am
published a research article in Molecular Pharmaceutics, “Inhibition of cancer cell proliferation and breast tumor targeting of pHLIPmonomethyl auristatin E conjugates” with Kelly Burns et al. in Mol. Pharm., 12(4), 1250–8(2015). Thévenin presented at the...