News
Science Under the Stars This year's 9th annual Science under the Stars is scheduled for Tuesday September 24, 2013 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. The event will be held on the ground floor hallway (undergrad lab area) of the French Family Science Center and on the lawn between French and the Greenhouses.
From 6 to 7:30 PM, there will be hands-on interactive stations that the guests can partake followed by a demonstration show staged outside by the Duke Chemistry Outreach team, weather permitting. If weather does not permit, the stations will run to 8:00 PM.
Faculty Appointments in Beratan Group Congratulations to recent graduates of Beratan's group who have landed tenure-stream faculty appointments in 2012 and 2013:
Alexander Balaeff (University of Central Florida), Julia Contreras-García (CNRS, Paris, France), David Minh (Illinois Institute of Technology), Dequan Xiao (University of New Haven), and Ravindra Venkatramani (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)!
2013 ACS Fellows Congratulations to Professor David Beratan and Professor Emeritus Louis Quin, who have been selected as 2013 Fellows of the American Chemical Society, in recognition of their outstanding contributions both to science and to ACS.
The Current State of the Glass Problem Prof. Patrick Charbonneau's simulations of glasses in higher dimensions could have important implications for the degree of disorder in 3-D glasses. Read more on the Smithsonian Magazine blog.
Melony Ochieng Receives GEM Associate Fellowship Chemistry graduate student, Melony Ochieng, was awarded a GEM Associate Fellowship. Melony is a 2nd year graduate student working on a joint project between the Craig and Zauscher Labs that involves the synthesis and characterization of mechanoresponsive polymer brushes.
Student Fellowship Awards Congratulations to our fellowship award winners for 2013-2014. These fellowships are made possible by the generous donations of various individuals and companies, and are intended to recognize our strongest students. Please take this opportunity to congratulate the awardees, who were selected from many outstanding nominees.
Adams Fellow
JongKang Park (Therien/Warren Groups)
Bradsher Fellow
Tana Villafana (Warren Group)
Burroughs-Wellcome Fellows
Lily Du (Yang Group)
Andrew Franks (Franz Group)
Minhee Lee (Hong Group)
Jerry Ortiz (Wang Group)
Gross Fellows
Yusong Bai (Therien Group)
Yang Yang (Yang Group)
Hauser Fellows
Zachary Kean (Craig Group)
DoYeon Kwon (Hong Group)
Megan Lanier (Hong Group)
Hobbs Fellow
Keely Glass (Simon Group)
Krigbaum Fellow
Tana Villafana (Warren Group)
Wilder Fellows
Ariel Geer (Fitzgerald Group)
Jason King (Toone Group)
Zeilik Fellows
Robert Harris (Widenhoefer Group)
Yingrong Xu (Fitzgerald Group)
Lasers & Art Conservation Though they were developed to study melanoma, the Warren lab also tunes their lasers to art imaging.
The Science of Cooking Class Blog Check out Prof. Charbonneau's CHEM 89 class blog on the chemistry and physics of cooking.