Dr. Bin Chen Receives NSF Career Award

LSU Department of Chemistry professor Dr. Bin Chen was recently recommended by the NSF Physical Chemistry program for full funding of his NSF Career proposal, “Advancing Simulation Methods for Long Time-Scale Chemical and Biological Events.”  The proposal will be funded at the full requested amount for a five year period.  The start date of this award will be January 15, 2005.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards for new faculty members. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER awardees will be selected on the basis of creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from new faculty at all CAREER eligible institutions. Such plans should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education.

Dr. Chen is the second Department of Chemistry faculty member to receive a career award in under a year.  Dr. Gudrun Schmidt earned the NSF Career Award for her research entitled “Bio-Nanocomposites: An Approach Towards Tissue Engineering.”

Chemistry Launches IMSD Initiative

The Department of Chemistry has launched a new research program called the Initiative for Minority Student Development (IMSD).  The IMSD Program at LSU provides qualified undergraduate students valuable training in biomedical research while enhancing diversity in the biomedical sciences.  The program is supported by an award from the Institute of General Medical Sciences, Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Branch, of the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Dr. Isiah Warner from the Department of Chemistry and Dr. Su-Seng Pang from the Department of Mechanical Engineering are C0-PI's for the IMSD program.  Dr. Robert Strongin was named Director of the Program and Gretchen Schneider Burton was selected as Program Coordinator.

Dr. Isiah Warner Receives New Patent

Dr. Warner has received a new patent entitled "Polymerized Oligopeptide-Surfactant Chiral Micelles."  Other inventors included on the patent are Eugene Billiot, Shahab Shamsi and Stefan J. Thibodeaux.  This brings the total number of patents issued to LSU to 226.

Welcome to Visiting Professor Leo Klasinc

Leo Klasinc, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Zagreb and Director of  Physical Chemistry at The Rudjer Boscovich Institute in Zagreb will be a Visiting Professor in The LSU Chemistry Department from February 11, 2005 until March 13, 2005.

Congratulations to our December Graduates

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry                 Master of Science
Blake Dewayne Babcock                                  Brandy Courtney
Armand Roger Erwin                                         Chayla Freeman
Kathie Lee Lusker
Stafford Leert McCaskill                                    Doctor of Philosophy 
Beverley Yayra Moore                                       Catherine Evans
Gina Maria Odom                                              Petia Gueorguieva
Kimberly Renell Rogers                                      Robin Macaluso
Shannon Laneetra White                                     Mrunal Thatte
                                                                          Zakiya Wilson
                                                                          Jongtae Yang

Isiah M. Warner was the recipient of the Tuskegee University, George Washington Carver Achievement Award, January 27, 2005. 

Onur Alpturk                            Colgate Palmolive Research Scholar

Maria Appeaning                      Colgate Palmolive Research Scholar

Lakia Champagne                     Colgate Palmolive Teaching Scholar

Brandy Courtney                      Colgate Palmolive Teaching Scholar

Vivian Fernand                         Colgate Palmolive Teaching Scholar

Vijay Gottumukkala                  Colgate Palmolive Research Scholar

Veronica Holmes                      NOBCChE Regional Meeting, Oral Presentation

Mary Kamande                        Colgate Palmolive Research Scholar

Mary Kamande                        Robinson Analytical Scholar

Mary Kamande                        Pfizer Analytical Scholar

Kyu Kwang                              Kim Colgate Palmolive Research Scholar

Robin Macaluso                       Coates Research Scholar

Robin Macaluso                       ICDD Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship

Jasmine Millican                        Procter & Gamble Research Fellow

Owendi Ongayi                        Coates Research Scholar

Anne Sauer                              Troy Middleton Award

Anne Sauer                              Procter & Gamble Research Fellow

Ryan Simon                              Colgate Palmolive Teaching Scholar

Sibel Turksen                           Dow Macromolecular Scholar

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Dorothy Wood

Dorothy Wood, Sean McGlynn and Paresh Roy, “Geometry of the Electronically-Excited  A²Σ  State of the OH Radical”, an oral presentation by Dorothy Wood at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Oxford, Mississippi, 02/17&18/05. 

Lakia M. Champagne's abstract for research was accepted for the NOBBCHE conference. This organization wants her to give a brief seminar at the National Conference held in Orlando Florida on March 21st, 2005.

Dr. Michael F. Summers from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, as part of the Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture series, will be giving a talk on Friday, March 4, 2005 entitled "NMR Studies of Retrovirus Assembly and Genome Packaging."  Dr. Summers will be speaking at 3:40 p.m. in the Life Science Annex Auditorium.

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S. P. Kazazic, L. Klasinc, S. P. McGlynn and W. A. Pryor, “Proton Affinities of Nitrogen  Oxyradicals”, Croatica Chimica Acta, 2004, 77, 465-468 .

T. Azumi and S. P. McGlynn, “Triplet Excited States of a d⁶ Ligand System in a Cubic Field”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2004, 108, 6968-6974.

S. Kazazic, L. Klasinc, S. P. McGlynn, D. Srzic and M. G. H. Vicente, “Gas-Phase Metallation Reactions of Porphyrins with Metal Monocations”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2004, 108, 10977-11000.

Mary W. Kamande, Xiaofeng Zhu, Constantina P. Kapnissi- Christodoulou and Isiah M. Warner, "Chiral Separations Using a Polypeptide and a Polymeric Dipeptide Surfactant Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Coating in Open-Tubular Capillary Electrochromatography", Analytical Chemistry (2004), 76(22), 6681-6692.

Jepkoech Tarus, Thomasas Jernigan, Kevin Morris, and Isiah M. Warner, "Enantioselectivity of Structurally Modified Poly-Sodium Undecenoyl-L-Leucinate by Insertion of Triton X-102 Surfactant Molecules", Electrophoresis, 2004, 25(16), 2720-2726.

Cevdet Akbay, Nicole L. Gill, Aleeta Powe, and Isiah M. Warner, “Monomeric and Polymeric Anionic Gemini Surfactants and Mixed Surfactant Systems in Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography: Part I: Characterization and Application as Novel Pseudostationary Phases”, Electrophoresis, 2005, 26(2), 415-425.

Cevdet Akbay, Rezik A. Agbaria, and Isiah M. Warner, “Monomeric and Polymeric Anionic Gemini Surfactants and Mixed Surfactant Systems in Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography: Part II: Characterization of chemical selectivity using two linear solvation energy relationship models”, Electrophoresis, 2005, 26(2), 426-445.

Three Chemistry Faculty Awarded Summer Stipend Grants 

All three recently hired Chemistry Assistant Professors have been awarded the LSU Council on Research Summer Stipend Grants. The Professors are Dr. Bin Chen, Dr. Jayne Garno, and Dr. Evgueni Nesterov.

The Summer Stipend Program is intended for faculty development. An RFP is sent out in September of each year calling for brief proposals for scholarly activity to take place during the month of July. The awards are targeted toward faculty at the assistant professor level, although associate professors in the arts and humanities are eligible to apply. Each stipend provides $5,000 in summer salary to the recipient. More information about this program can be found here.

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To the faculty:  Please come by and introduce the new post docs, grad students or visiting professors to our office staff. We will be glad to help in getting an account established in our Online Order Tracking System and give them a brief training session on using the OOTS system.

Three academic positions are open in Jackson State University

(http://www.jsums.edu) Chemistry, Jackson, Mississippi:

1. Instructor, Organic Chemistry

2. NMR technician

3. Tenure track, Inorganic (see Chronicles of Higher Education for description of this position)

Anyone with an interest in investigating these posts should contact Professor Hongtao Yu, Chairman: yu@ccaix.jsums.edu and/or http://chem.jsums.edu/yu/