| News and Updates from IOWA Chemistry | | Our interactive periodic table shown above at the grand entrance to our chemistry building welcomes thousands of students, visitors, and alumni each year. It sits in front of what many alumni remember as the former entrance and steep stairs down into the large 300 CB lecture hall. This email newsletter is our latest way to connect with you - our valued alumni, friends, and supporters. | | A Message from Chemistry Department Executive Officer and Professor Renée Cole
Hello Iowa Chemistry Department Alumni, Friends, and Supporters!
We hope you enjoy reading here about some of our department’s exciting recent news that connects you to our dynamic chemistry community and maybe a story or two will stir up a few pleasant memories. Check out our Chemistry News page for more great stories of our faculty, student, and staff recent achievements and activities! We are very grateful for your continued support of our department's growth and vitality. Our transition from a formal annual Newsletter to periodic News and Updates emails will hopefully increase your connection and interactions with our IOWA Chemistry Department.
| | | Welcome to our New Computational Chemistry Faculty Members | | | | The Vlaisavljevich group uses several computational strategies to examine complex inorganic materials with transition metal, lanthanide, and actinide components. | | | The Miro group computationally examines the structure-function relationships with polyoxometallates, including those with radiochemically useful properties. | | | Major Advances for our Growing Radiochemistry Program | | | | The Carver Charitable Trust funded a grant written by several Iowa Chemistry faculty (left to right: Scott Daly, Renee Cole, Korey Carter, and Tori Forbes) to build a state-of-the-art radiochemistry facility in our Chemistry Building. This greatly expands the capabilities of our growing radiochemistry program. | | | Two or our radiochemistry faculty members, associate professors Scott Daly and Bess Vlaisavljevich, were recently awarded a major research grant from the US Department of Energy to establish a Transuranic Chemistry Center of Excellence at Iowa (TRUCoRE).
| | | Instructional Faculty Grow and Succeed | | | | Dr. Eveland-Parrott joins us after spent five years as an inorganic instructor at Wittenberg University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Iowa State University in 2019. She is jumping right in to our largest enrollment introductory chemistry lecture and laboratory courses (and learning to become a Hawkeye!). | | | Associate Professor Brummett continues to expand and redesign our undergraduate instruction for introductory and inorganic chemistry. He also in in his third year as the faculty director for the Sustainable Chemistry Along the Rhine Study Abroad course. | | | Leddy and Shaw Promoted to Full Professor! | | | | Professor Leddy and her group advance fundamental ideas on electrocatalysts for energy technologies such as batteries and fuel cells. Catalysis is by physical means. Gradients about micromagnets drive electron transfers; constructive interference of ultrasound in thin fluid layers amplifies efficiency. | | | Scott Shaw is well supported by his research group members who actively investigate materials and electrochemical structures to create new understanding of the molecular-level behavior at interfaces. They are making new discoveries supported by a $9 million Department of Defense collaborative research project. | | | International Speakers and Faculty Inventors | | | | Professor Margulis delivered an invited Spiers Memorial Lecture at the Royal Chemical Society in London. It recognizes distinguished faculty whose research has led to outstanding contributions to the field of a Faraday Discussion. | | | Professor Ned Bowden recognized for his applied agricultural research with membership in the National Academy of Inventors. Bowden's new technology for agricultural fertilizer delivery is being commercialized in a local startup company that he co-founded, Harvest Increase Agriculture. | | More Good News from Faculty, Staff, and Students in the IOWA Department of Chemistry!
- Associate Professor Chris Pigge is awarded an NSF grant for the development of new transition metal catalysts useful in organic synthesis.
- Dr. George Crull, Assistant Director of the Chemistry NMR Facilty, was awarded a well-deserved University of Iowa Outstanding Staff Award.
- Associate Professor of Instruction Adam Brummett awarded a UI academic technology grant to expand the use of AI in personalized student feedback in courses.
- Graduate students Borah and Welker recognized for outstanding research poster presentations at national ACS and AAAR meetings, great work!
- Many of our talented undergraduate chemistry majors and graduate students receive Iowa Chemistry awards and scholarships at last year's Awards Night.
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