News and Announcements

Irina Terrero-Rodríguez, who conducted research under Dr. Glen O’Neil, received the fellowship to go towards her PhD at the University of Warwick in the UK.

The exceptional senior students being recognized for their achievements this year.

The $302,000 award will fund the study of a bacterial enzyme involved in the synthesis of the amino acid tryptophan.

Dr. Mark Whitener, presented a talk in honor of being 30 years cancer free!

Tetrahedron Letters is a weekly international journal for rapid publication of full original research papers in the field of organic chemistry.

Dr. Jinshan Gao received a 3 year, $356,609 grant for the project, “Characterization and enrichment of glycoprotein/glycan via multi-functional free radical reagents”

The American Chemistry Society Committee on Professional Training has approved the program for the next five years. Click to read more about the guidelines for approval.

The grant will fund their project entitled ‘Development of Inhibitors of P. falciparum cGMP dependent (PfPKG) protein kinase inhibitors for malaria chemoprevention.’

The money is to fund her project ‘DNA Repair under Extreme Conditions’

The $279,000 grant will support Dr. Gao’s research project entitled “RUI: Glycan Characterization and Quantitative Analysis via Free-Radical Induced Dissociation”

An interdisciplinary team led by Dr. Dirk Vanderklein (Biology) and funded by the National Science Foundation’s Education Dept. seek to help first generation students succeed in STEM majors. Others on the project include Nina Goodey (Chemistry), Joshua Galster (EAES) and Julie Dalley (Research Academy for University Learning)

Dr. Michael Kruge, EAES and Dr. Kevin Olsen, Chemistry, studied sediment samples collected by the EPA from the Hackensack River that indicate the riverbed is laced for 22 miles with a toxic cocktail made up of dozens of contaminants, from its mouth in Newark Bay up to the Oradell Reservoir. Wochit