Chemistry Newsletter 11/02/2009

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Cathy Middlecamp Receives Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award
We're delighted to announce that Cathy Middlecamp has been selected to receive the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award. This is a terrific honor and an outstanding recognition of Cathy's teaching and mentoring. Please congratulate Cathy on her excellent teaching and dedication to the department!
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2009 Dates of Finance/Department Meetings
Department/Executive Committee Meetings - Tuesdays - 1:30 PM - Room 9341 Chemistry

Finance Committee Meetings - Tuesdays - 1:30 PM - Room 1130

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SEMINARS
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dr. Ben Ocko, Brookhaven National Lab. "Equilibrium-Surface Freezing of Liquids"
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Tim Jamison, MIT.
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 - Inorganic McElvain Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dr. Greg Kubas, Los Alamos.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009 - Organic Chemistry McElvain Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Ronald Breslow, Columbia University. "The Origin of Homochirality on Prebiotic Earth"
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009 - Analytical Chemistry Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Arne Gericke, Kent State University.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009 - Materials Science Seminar, 4:00 p .m., Room 265 MS&E Building. J. Alexander Liddle, Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology, NIST. "Measuring Nanostructures with Light"
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009 - Herb Seminar, 4:00 p.m., Professor Yaroslaw Bazaliy, University of South Carolina. "Invariant Form of Spin-Transfer Switching Condition"
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Friday, November 6th, 2009 - Chemistry Department Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Paul DeLuca, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
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Friday, November 7th, 2009 - EC&T Seminar, 12:05 p.m., Room 102 water Science & Engineering Lab. Professor Frank Keutsch, UW-Madison, Chemistry Department. "Formaldehyde and Glyoxal as Tracers of Oxidation and Aerosol Processes in the Atmosphere"
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Ben McCall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Astrochemistry: From H3+ to C60"
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Wednesday, November 11th,  2009 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Richard Jordan, University of Chicago. "Metal Catalyzed Copolymerization of Olefins with Polar"
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009 - Organic Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building.  Joseph Gerdt - Blackwell Group.
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Monday, November 16th, 2009 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dr. Amit Mitra, UW-Madison, West Group.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 - McElvain Seminar in Physical Chemistry, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Marsha Lester, University of Pennsylvania. "Dynamical Outcomes of Quenching: Reflections on a Conical Intersection"
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Wednesday, November 18th,  2009 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., - Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Northwestern University.
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009 - Organic Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Aaron McCoy - Mecozzi Group.
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Patricia L. Clark, University of Notre Dame. "Vectorial Folding During Translation Alters Protein Folding Mechanisms"
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., - Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Eugenia Turov, Berry Group, Student seminar.
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 - Organic Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Lindsay Fay - Gellman Group.
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Friday, December 4th, 2009 - Chemistry Department Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Justin Anderson, WARF. "Protecting Your Invention - Intellectual Property at UW-Madison"
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Jennifer Kohler, UT-Southwestern. "Capturing Glycoconjugate Interactions with Metabolically Incorporated Photocrosslinking Sugars"
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., - Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Gene Wong, Landis Group, Student seminar.
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009 - Organic Graduate Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dongxu Shu, Tang Group.
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor William Schneider, University of Notre Dame. "Environmental Catalysis from First Principles"
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 - Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Keith Fagnou, University of Ottawa.
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010 - Department Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Sangtae Kim, Executive Director of the Morgridge Institute for Research.
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Monday, January 25th, 2010 - Theoretical Chemistry Institute Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Feng Wang, Boston University.
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Jin Quan Yu, Scripps.
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dr. John Orlando, National Center for Atmospheric Research. "Laboratory Studies of Hydrocarbon Oxidation Mechanisms Under Atmospheric Conditions"
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010 - Organic Graduate Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building.  Anna Hurtley, Yoon Group.
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010 -  Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Kenneth Caulton, Indiana University.
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building.  Professor Robert Waymouth, Stanford University.
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Angel E. Garcia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Tuesday, February 3rd,  2010 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Kenneth Caulton, Indiana University.
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010 - Analytical Chemistry Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Greg Huey, Georgia Tech.
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010 - Organic Graduate Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Brian Parker, Gellman Group.
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building.  Professor Stephen Craig, Duke University.
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Christiane Alba-Simionesco, Head of Laboratoire L‚on Brillouin.
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Wednesday, February 10th,  2010 - Inorganic and Materials Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Tobin Marks, Northwestern University.
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010 - Organic Graduate Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Elizabeth Tyson, Yoon Group.
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010 - Ferry Lecture, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Frank Bates, University of Minnesota.
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Scott Miller, Yale University.
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Horia Metiu, University of California Santa Barbara.
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Wednesday, February 24th,  2010 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Marcetta Darensbourg, Texas A & M.
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010 - Pittcon Analytical Chemistry Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Yi Cui, Stanford University.
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Thursday, February 25th,  2010 - Organic Graduate Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Olga Dykhno, Yoon Group.
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Scott Denmark, University of Illinois-Urbana.
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor John Straub, Boston University.
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Wednesday, March 3rd,  2010 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Jeremy Smith, New Mexico State University.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building.  Professor Martin Burke, University of Illinois-Urbana.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Samuel T. Hess, University of Maine.
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Shawn Burdette, University of Connecticut.
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010 - Organic Graduate Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Adam Weinstein, Stahl Group.
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building.  Professor Steve Buchwald, MIT.
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Timothy H. Warren, Georgetown University.
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Thursday, March 25th,  2010 - Organic Graduate Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Paul White, Stahl Group.
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 - McElvain Seminar in Physical Chemistry, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor George Schatz, Northwestern University. "Modeling Self-Assembly of Nanomaterials."
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Wednesday, April 7th,  2010 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Aaron Sadow, Iowa State.
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Thursday, April 8th,  2010 - Organic Graduate Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building.  Kelsey Mayer, Gellman Group.
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Friday, April 9th, 2009 - Chemistry Department Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Luis Echegoyen, Director of the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation.
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Monday, April 12th, 2010 - Theoretical Chemistry Institute Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor William G. Noid, Penn State University.
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Giovanna Ghirlanda, Arizona State.
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Niels H. Damrauer, University of Colorado.
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor David Milstein, Weizmann institute, Israel.
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010 - Analytical Chemistry Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Yiying Wu, Ohio State University.
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010 - Organic Graduate Student Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Greg Sorenson, Stahl Group.
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Monday, April 19th, 2010 - Theoretical Chemistry Institute Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Dmitri Babikov, Marquette University.
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Giovanna Ghirlanda, Arizona State.
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Joan-Emma Shea, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 - Inorganic and Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Geoffrey Coates, Cornell University.
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Roberto De Guzman, The University of Kansas. "NMR Studies of Bacterial Nanoinjectors and Hantaviral Zinc Fingers"
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Tuesday and Wednesday, April 27th and 28th, 2010 - Organic Chemistry Hirschmann Lecture Series, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Samuel Danishefsky, Sloan Kettering, Columbia University.
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Susannah Scott, UC Santa Barbara.
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010 - McElvain Analytical Chemistry Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Paul Alivisatos, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Millard Alexander, University of Maryland.
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Thomas Brunold, University Wisconsin-Madison.
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010 - Analytical Chemistry Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Peter Chen, Spelman College.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Two DSC Glass Transitions in Miscible Blends of Polyisoprene/Poly(4-tert-butylstyrene).
Zhao, JS; Ediger, MD*; Sun, Y; Yu, L.
MACROMOLECULES 42 (17): 6777-6783 SEP 8 2009.
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Photopatterned Thiol Surfaces for Biomolecule Immobilization.
Chen, SY; Smith, LM*.
LANGMUIR 25 (20): 12275-12282 OCT 20 2009.
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Palladium: It Forms Unique Nanosized Carbonyl Clusters.
Mednikov, EG; Dahl, LF*.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 86 (10): 1135-1135 OCT 2009.
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Chloro and Azido Diruthenium complexes Bearing Electron-Rich N,N ',N ''-Triphenylguanidinate Ligands.
Pap, JS; Snyder, JL; Piccoli, PMB; Berry, JF*.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 48 (20): 9846-9852 OCT 19 2009.
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Modifying the Charge State Distribution of Proteins in Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Chemical Derivatization.
Krusemark, CJ; Frey, BL; Belshaw, PJ; Smith, LM*.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 20 (9): 1617-1625 SEP 2009.
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Water structure, dynamics, and vibrational spectroscopy in sodium bromide solutions.
Lin, YS; Auer, BM; Skinner, JL*.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 131 (14): Art. No. 144511 OCT 14 2009.
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iso-Migrastatin, Migrastatin, and Dorrigocin Production in Streptomyces platensis NRRL 18993 Is Governed by a Single Biosynthetic Machinery Featuring an Acyltransferase-less Type I Polyketide Synthase.
Lim, SK; Ju, JH; Zazopoulos, E; Jiang, H; Seo, JW; Chen, YH; Feng, ZY; Rajski, SR; Farnet, CM; Shen, B*.
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 284 (43): 29746-29756 OCT 23 2009.
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Characterization of SgcE6, the flavin reductase component supporting FAD-dependent halogenation and hydroxylation in the biosynthesis of the enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027.
Van Lanen, SG; Lin, SJ; Horsman, GP; Shen, B*.
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS 300 (2): 237-241 NOV 2009.
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Regioselective copper-catalyzed chlorination and bromination of arenes with O-2 as the oxidant.
Yang, LJ; Lu, Z; Stahl, SS*.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS (42): 6460-6462 2009.
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Curvature Generation and Pressure Profile Modulation in Membrane by Lysolipids: Insights from Coarse-Grained
Simulations.
Yoo, J; Cui, Q*.
BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL 97 (8): 2267-2276 OCT 21 2009.
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Interactions of the Osmolyte Glycine Betaine with Molecular Surfaces in Water: Thermodynamics, Structural Interpretation, and Prediction of m-Values.
Capp, MW; Pegram, LM; Saecker, RM; Kratz, M; Riccardi, D; Wendorff, T; Cannon, JG; Record, MT*.
BIOCHEMISTRY 48 (43): 10372-10379 NOV 3 2009.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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None for This Newsletter
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FACULTY POSITIONS/TEMPORARY FACULTY/ACADEMIC POSITIONS
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The Department of Chemistry at Hendrix College, http://www.hendrix.edu/chemistry is seeking to fill a tenure-track position to commence in August 2010. A Ph.D. is required, and postdoctoral research experience is strongly preferred. Candidates must be committed to excellence in teaching and to the establishment of a sustainable research program with undergraduates. The successful candidate will teach organic chemistry while participating in general chemistry and non-majors chemistry courses as needed. Hendrix has a strong commitment to experiential learning, including research, as evidenced by the Odyssey Program http://www.hendrix.edu/odyssey. The College demonstrates its commitment to research by assigning a portion of the standard teaching load for chemistry faculty to research with undergraduates. The successful candidate will receive 50% time reassignment for research during the first year in this position, and 25% thereafter. The department is housed in a facility that is a combination of recently constructed and completely renovated buildings joined into one complex. Ample laboratory space is available for both teaching and research, and competitive start-up funding will be provided. Interested candidates should send an application letter addressing the candidate's interest in teaching in a demanding liberal arts environment, CV, all undergraduate and graduate transcripts, a statement of teaching philosophy, detailed research plans, and should arrange for three letters of reference (including the phone numbers and email addresses of the references) to be sent to: Dr. David Hales, Department of Chemistry Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Avenue Conway, AR 72032. Questions may be directed to Dr. Hales at: hales@hendrix.edu. Applications will be reviewed upon receipt until the position is filled. Please visit our website at: http://www.hendrix.edu.
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POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AND/OR JOBS
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None for This Newsletter
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