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The GSU The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) program.
The American Chemical Society Georgia Local Section
The Center for Workshops in the Chemical Sciences is a National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement sponsored initiative lead by Georgia State University Chemisty.
Glactone, funded by the Chancellor of the University System of Georgia, provides instructional resources for chemistry and biochemistry students and faculty in the State of Georgia.
Poster Day 2010
The Department of Chemistry will hold its second annual Poster Day on Saturday, February 27, 2010. Prospective students interested in attending should submit their Application to the Graduate Program by the Priority Deadline of January 15th for consideration. Please click on the above for highlights of Poster Day 2009.
2008 Chemistry Newsletter
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Other News
Dr. Donald Hamelberg Receives Award
Dr. Hamelberg has won the American Chemical Society's Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. The award will be presented at the Washington D.C. ACS meeting in the Fal and the presentation of the award will be published in the schedul for the meeting. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Hamelberg!
Ms. Ying Zhang Presents at SER-CAT Symposium
Ms. Zhang delivered a keynote presentation on "HIV-1 Protease: Structural Perspectives on Drug Resistance" at the Southeast Regional Collaborative Access Team Symposium in Huntville, AL. Ms. Zhang is one of our 79 PhD students, and she is working under the direction of Dr. Irene Weber.
Graduate Recruitment Fair, October 26, 2009
For the first time, Georgia State University will participate in the Georgia Graduate Fair Circuit and the Department of Chemistry will be hosting lab tours and interviews for potential chemistry graduate students. Students interested should contact Mr. Sanford Dennis, 404-413-1840, sdennis10@gsu.edu.
Dr. Aimin Liu Receives Two Important Grants
June 22, 2009. Dr. Liu has received a grant from the National Science Foundation for the trapping and characterization of reactive intermediates in two tryptophan oxidizing enzymes. The funding for this study will continue through FY 2013. Additionally, Dr. Liu has also received a Distinguished Cancer Scientient Award from the Georgia Cancer Coalition. Not only is this five year award a great acknowledgment of Dr. Liu's hard work, but it also puts Dr. Liu in the top 20 hires for the State of Georgia for all disciplines including medical schools in cancer research.
Dr. Liu is the sixth recipient of the Distinguished Cancer Scientist Award in the Department - Drs. Markus Germann, Binghe Wang, Zhen Huang, Yujun George Zheng, and Donald Hamelberg have also been honored recipients. It is quite a distinction for a department our size to have this many honored faculty members.
In all, the Department is now expecting $6 million per year in external funding for research.
Dr. Zhen Huang's Research Featured in C&E News
The work of Dr. Huang and coworkers at Georgia State University on Methyl-Phosphate H-bonds is featured in the June 8, 2009 edition of Chemical & Engineering News. (Vol 87, No 23, p 51)
Dr. Jenny Yang Joins NIH Study Section
It is an honor to announce that Dr. Yang has accepted an appointment to serve on the Biochemistry and Biophysics of Membranes study section at the NIH.
Dr. Yujun George Zheng receives AHA award.
Dr. Zheng has received notification of research support from the American Heart Association. Congratulations!
Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov Joins the Chemistry Department
Dr. Ivanov will be joining the Computational Chemistry group of the Biophysical Section in the Department of Chemistry this Fall. He has completed his post-doctoral work conducted jointly at The Scrips Research Institute and UCSD after having completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. His research objectives include examing enzymatic reactions catalyzed by DNA repair enzymes (endonuclease IV, APE1) and modeling dynamic fluctuations and conformational reorganization within realistic models of protein-nucleic acid assemblies.
Dr. Ivanov will be joining Dr. Stuart Allison, Dr. Donald Hamelberg, Dr. David Wilson, and Dr. Markus Germann as our Computational reseach faculty in the Biophysical Chemistry PhD section.
Please click here for a list of all Faculty members and their research interests.
Congratulations to Our 2008 - 2009 Graduates!
The Department of Chemistry would like to congratulate the Graduate and Undergraduate Chemistry students who have completed their degree requirements within the 2008 to 2009 academic year. May you have great success!
Please click here for a list of all Graduate Student accomplishments
January 27, 2009
The Department of Chemistry and the Chemistry Department Awards Committee are pleased to announce the winners of the following student awards
- Natalie Maor (Dr. Jenny J. Yang's Group): "2008 Award for the Best Overall Chemistry Undergraduate Student"
- Catharine Collar (Dr. W. David Wilson's Group): "David W. Boykin Graduate
Fellowship in Medicinal Chemistry" - Yidan Liu (Dr. Binghe Wang's Group): "2008 Graduate Award for Outstanding
Research at the Thesis Masters Level" - Kevin Francis (Dr. Giovanni Gadda's Group): "Ambrose H. Pendergrast Fellowship"
- Hongxia Pei (Dr. Stuart Allison's Group): "2008 Graduate Award for
Outstanding Research at the Doctoral Level" - Jia Sheng (Dr. Zheng Huang's Group): "2008 Graduate Award for Outstanding
Research at the Doctoral Level and Best Overall Chemistry Graduate Student"
January 27, 2009
Dr. Gadda's article, "Crystallographic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Analysis of a Flavin C4a-oxygen Adduct in Choline Oxidase." Biochemistry, 2009 on the "funny" flavin of choline oxidase has been selected to be highlighted on the ACS Biochemistry web page. The article has been evaluated for the Faculty of 1000 Biology series, an award-winning online service that highlights the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences.
January 27, 2009
Dr. Aimin Liu has been granted a major NFS award for his mechanistic studies of Enzymes Oxidizing Enzymes..
December 10, 2008
Eminent Scholar Binghe Wang (P.I.) has been awarded a major 5-year NIH-STTR grant on Aptamer-based Glyco-tools. Work on this project is geared toward the development of commercialization of research discoveries.
April 18, 2008
Professor Zhen Huang has won the University Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award.