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Graduate Students Awarded CBBI Fellowships

Seven graduate students in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have been awarded CBBI fellowships for 2008-2009.  The fellowships carry an annual stipend of $25,000 plus health insurance and travel support for research internship.

Published June 19, 2008

Graduate Student Charles Vardeman II wins CRC Computational Science Award

Graduate Student Charles Vardeman II won the CRC award in Computational Science and Visualization.

Published April 29, 2008

Post Doc Leticia Llarrull Named a Pew Fellow in Biomedical Sciences

Leticia Llarrull, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was named a 2008 Pew Latin American Fellow in Biomedical Sciences.

Published April 8, 2008

Bradley Smith Appointed Emil Hofman Chair in Chemistry & Biochemistry

Professor Bradley D. Smith will be appointed to the Emil T. Hofman Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry effective in the new academic year.

Published April 3, 2008

Professor Castellino wins the 2008 Wyeth-ISFP Prize

Professor F. J. Castellino has been awarded the Wyeth-ISFP Prize 2008 which is given to investigators who have made outstanding contributions to the field of fibrinolysis, proteolysis, and thrombolysis.

Published April 3, 2008

Kuno group's Nanowire results featured in Nature

The work of the group of Marasu K. Kuno, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was recently featured in a December 2007 article in Nature titled "Charge of the light brigade"

Published March 17, 2008

Space Shuttle carrying N.D. experiments to space station

When the space shuttle Endeavour launched on March 11th, it carried with it a set of experiments designed and constructed in the laboratory of Professor Dennis Jacobs.

Published March 11, 2008

Trozzolo Wins the 2008 National Marconi Science Award

Professor Anthony Trozzolo was presented with the 2008 UNICO National Marconi Science Award in Chicago on March 8. A world-renowned authority on photochemistry, Trozzolo has focused his lifelong research efforts on the creation and detection of reactive intermediates.

Published March 8, 2008

Gregory Crawford appointed Dean of the College of Science

Gregory P. Crawford, currently dean of engineering and professor of physics and engineering at Brown University, has been appointed dean of the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame.

Published March 7, 2008

Nathan Silvernail wins a Ludo Frevel crystallography scholarship

Nathan Silvernail, a graduate student in the Scheidt laboratory, has been awarded a presitgious Ludo Frevel crystallography scholarship for 2008.

Published February 15, 2008