Alumnus Cornelius “Corny” Steelink, PhD’56 (Geissman), emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Arizona (UA), died on November 12, 2016. Steelink was an internationally recognized expert on soil humic acid, and he started the toxicology degree program at the University of Arizona in 1973.  He was educated in Southern California, beginning with his undergraduate […]

Altering the form of platinum nanoscale wires could reduce the amount of precious metal used in fuel cells leading to lower the costs. In addition to Duan and Li, graduate student Zhaoyang Lin was also a co-author on the paper titled “Ultrafine jagged platinum nanowires enable ultrahigh mass activity for the oxygen reduction reaction”, which was […]

A synthetic version of a rare natural toxin appears to hold promise for treating cancer while minimizing the harmful side effects of chemotherapy drugs. Harran’s chemistry efforts and close collaboration with specialists from several fields over the past 15 years has revealed unique aspects of how DZ-2384 functions in animals.  In 2015, Dr. Hui Ding, […]

John (Jack) Roberts (BA ’41, PhD ’44, Seaborg medalist ‘91) died on October 29, 2016, of complications following a stroke. Roberts was one of the most influential chemists of the last 75 years, and his scientific education started at UCLA. A native of Los Angeles, Roberts was born on June 8, 1918. He graduated from Los […]

The innovative organic online tutorials are now being used by students and teachers around the world. Garg, an award winning UCLA organic chemistry professor, developed the program with his recently graduated Ph.D. student Dr. Tejas Shah who is now a Discovery Chemist at Dow AgroSciences in Indiana.Their goal was to help demystify organic chemistry, a […]

5th year graduate student Jesus Moreno was introduced to the industrial research career options for minority science students at the four-day event. “Jesus is a superb student, so it is nice to see his countless research accomplishments being rewarded like this by Dow,” said his research advisor Prof. Neil Garg. The 10th annual Building Engineering […]

The noted polymer physicist, Professor Alexander (Shura) Grosberg, presented the 10th annual Robert Scott lecture on October 17, 2016.   Grosberg, a professor of physics and mathematics at New York University, gave a talk titled “Polymer Physics and Chromatin”. His talk examined how simple universal concepts of polymer physics can be used to understand how […]

Professors David Eisenberg and Jose Rodriguez are part of the international team whose research may help reduce mosquito-carried diseases. The team has used X-rays to reveal the structure of a molecule that is toxic to disease-carrying mosquitoes. An article about their research was recently featured in the prestigious journal Nature. “De novo phasing with X-ray […]