Chemistry Department News

  • Professor Michael Therien is one of only eight new faculty members (out of 275) featured in this year's new faculty profile at Duke.
  • Faculty Scholar Award One of our undergraduate majors, Yun (Rose) Li, has won a Faculty Scholar Award. There are usually only three such awards per academic year! The Faculty Scholar Award is the highest honor awarded by Duke faculty to our undergraduates. The award was established in 1974 by the faculty and is administered by the Academic Council through its Faculty Scholar Committee. Candidates demonstrate achievement in independent scholarship and offer outstanding academic records. For more information on the Faculty Scholar Program and a list of past recipients please go to the Academic council website: http://academiccouncil.duke.edu/faculty-scholars/.
  • Chemistry of Fire On Sept. 29, at 7pm the Department of Chemistry held its 5th Annual Evening of Chemistry Demonstration program (Photos). This year's program focused on the chemistry of fire, flammability properties of various substances, and how fire is effected by various chemical compositions.
  • Dr. Ivan Piletic was a poster prize winner at the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics' annual meeting October 6 for his presentation "Imaging Melanomas with Nonlinear Infrared Transient Absorption Microscopy". This was the only prize awarded outside of the Engineering School. The work reflects a joint effort between Duke's Chemistry, Dermatology, and Pathology Departments.
  • The 5th Annual Evening of Chemistry Demonstration Program The Department of Chemistry, Duke University, cordially invites you, your students, and families to The 5th Annual Evening of Chemistry Demonstration Program, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 (Oct. 1 Rain Date), 7:15 – 8:30 PM, on the front lawn of the French Family Science Center, 124 Science Drive. Parking is available in the Chemistry Lot off of Circuit Drive. Contact Dr. Ken Lyle for more information (kenneth.lyle@duke.edu, 681-9952).
  • CR Hauser and J.T. Adams fellowships Alexander Shestopalov is the recent recipient of the CR Hauser and J.T. Adams fellowships for his research in Catalytic Microcontact Printing. With other members of Eric Toone's group, he has developed several inkless catalytic microcontact printing techniques that achieves accurate, fast, and complete pattern reproduction on SAMs of Fmoc-, Boc- and TBS-protected amines and alcohols immobilized on gold and Si-H using a polyurethane-acrylate stamps functionalized with covalently bound catalysts. Currently, he is working on an inkless µCP protocol that permits patterning and subsequent patter-specific functionalization of the passivated silicon substrates bearing SAMs that render complete Si-C-type termination of all surface-exposed Si atoms.