CHEMISTRY NEWS
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Recent News
Perimeter Chemistry Professor Selected for Carnegie African Fellowship
As part of the Carnegie fellowship, Paulos Yohannes will work with chemistry faculty at both Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and at Georgia State to help identify and analyze key healing ingredients in medicinal plants native to Ethiopia.read more ❯
Georgia State Day giving totals to GSU Chemistry
We are excited to share the giving totals on Georgia State Day!
The Department of Chemistry raised $55,055!
The funds raised represent an astounding 23% of the funds raised by the whole College of Arts and Sciences. With gifts to the Harry P. Hopkins, Jr....read more ❯
Jina Yu won 1st place poster prize at GSU's Scientific Computing Day!
Congratulations to Jina Yu from Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov’s lab for winning the first place poster prize at GSU’s Scientific Computing Day! Her poster was titled “Dynamic conformational switching underlies TFIIH function in transcription and DNA repair and impacts...read more ❯
Highlights on interesting internship work with Chemistry/Geoscience program
Chemistry student Gabrial Goldner joined geosciences lab run by Dr.Nadine Kabengi with recommendation from Dr.Elina Stroeva to work on testing water samples for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances which are commonly referred to as "forever chemicals".
More details...read more ❯
Congrats Dr. Luo on new awarded 5-year grant!
Please join us in congratulating Prof. Ming Luo for being awarded a new competing five-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The project, titled Study of arenavirus assembly (1R01AI171426-01), will involve structural and...read more ❯
Spring 2022 Chemistry PhD Graduates!
To Chemistry Faculty, Staff and Students:
We are very pleased to announce that:
Emmanuel Ramsey Buabeng (#282 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled " RATIONAL DESIGN OF SMALL BIOPROBES FOR MEDICAL APPLICATION " on...read more ❯
8/5/22: 41th Annual Biological Stain Commission Conference on “Emerging Innovations and Research in Fluorescence Applications”
The deadline to submit an abstract to the conference is on June 30/2022. The conference is welcoming an abstract submission from undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. For registration please use the link, which is shown in the attached...read more ❯
Georgia State Selects Newest Beckman Scholars
Chinedu Odedo and Jade Kang have been selected as Beckman Scholars. They will work closely with faculty members to conduct long-term undergraduate research.read more ❯
Congratulations to Dr. Ming Luo and Dr. Binghe Wang on their collaboration to fight emerging diseases with the Midwest Antiviral Drug Discovery Center!
Dr. Ming Luo and Dr. Binghe Wang are partnering with the University of Minnesota, other institutions, and other researchers at Georgia State University to establish a new Midwest Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) Center. They have been awarded more than $6 million in...read more ❯
Chemistry Graduate Student Association (CGSA) Spring Symposium Update & Rewards
The Department of Chemistry would like to thank the CGSA Officers for organizing a truly enjoyable and engaging spring symposium earlier this month! A job very well done!
Forty-four students presented posters at this year’s event, and six graduate students...read more ❯
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Giovanni Gadda
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Maged Henary
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