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Several CSN participants received recognition from the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry this Spring. Liz Laudadio (Hamers group, top left) was chosen for the John and Beverly Schrag Analytical Chemistry Outstanding Peer Award, which celebrates a grad student “committed to pursuing excellence in teaching/mentorship, leadership, scientific excellence, and community building.” Kelly Zhang (Hamers group, top middle) and Liz Laudadio each received a Michael W. McCoy Memorial Scholarship (for grad students who “exemplify a love of life, love of people, and love of chemistry”). Finally, Managing Director Mike Schwartz (far right) received a 2019 Graduate Student Faculty Liaison Committee (GSFLC) Mentor Award “to recognize graduate students, postdocs, and academic staff/faculty who have had a profound positive impact on the graduate students of… Read More »CSN Students and Staff Win UW-Madison Chemistry Awards

CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy, Larry Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been elected to the 2019 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy’s website states, “The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of its new members for 2019. The new class of more than 200 members recognizes the outstanding achievements of individuals in academia, the arts, business, government, and public affairs.” Congratulations, Cathy!

CSN graduate student Diamond Jones (Mason group) has been awarded a Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship to support her participation in the 2019 Environmental Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference. Congratulations, Diamond!

Jenny Klutts (Rosenzweig group) successfully defended her Master’s thesis, entitled “Molecular level studies of the impact of poly (oxonorbornenes) on D. rerio. embryos.” Congratulations Jenny!

Congratulations to CSN grad students Becky Curtis (left) and Eric Ostovich (right), both from the lab of Rebecca Klaper at UW-Milwaukee, who won awards for their research presentation posters at the Midwest Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting in LaCrosse last week! Becky won the “best poster presentation” award for her poster titled “Next-generation battery cathode material lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) nanosheets and metabolomic impacts to freshwater crustacean Daphnia magna.” Eric won “runner-up” for his poster “Developing an in vitro model from Daphnia magna to evaluate the molecular Interactions of nanoparticles.”

Congratulations to Dr. Joe Bennett (Mason group), who accepted a position as a Research Assistant Professor in the Natural Sciences Pre-Professorate Fellowship Program at UMBC.

CSN Professor Rebecca Klaper and was featured in a February 25 article on the UWMResearch website, by Adam Hinterthuer, called “Tiny changes, big impact.” Congratulations, Rebecca!

CSN graduate student Natalie Hudson-Smith has won one a 2019 Thesis Research Travel Grant from the University of Minnesota.This grant will help support Natalie’s stay in Valencia, Spain to do CSN-related protein corona studies central to Associate Director Christy Haynes’ sabbatical research. ¡Felicitaciones!

CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy and Murphy group alumna Ariane Vartanian were recently interviewed by the American Chemical Society in honor of the United Nation’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science! You can read the interview here.

CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy has been announced as the recipient of the 2019 Remsen Award, which is granted by the American Chemical Society Maryland Section. Dr. Murphy will present the Remsen Lecture on May 30 at the 47th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Congratulations, Cathy!