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    Professor Andrew Gewirth and graduate student Stephanie Chen have designed a new kind of copper electrode that more efficiently converts CO2 to ethylene.
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    Cheng (PhD, ’74, Gutowsky), a research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, was elected in October as the 2020 American Chemical Society president-elect by members of the ACS.
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    A theoretical chemist, Nick Jackson joins the Chemistry at Illinois faculty from the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago where he was an assistant scientist in the Materials Science Division and applied machine learning ideas to develop a computational technique called electronic coarse graining.
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    Most recently dean of the College of Engineering and a full professor in both the Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering at Wichita State University, Dennis Livesay (PhD, '00, Subramaniam) will become dean of Michigan Technological University’s College of Computing in...
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    Leonard, Nelson Jordan (1916-2006)

    Nelson J. Leonard, one of the most important chemists of the twentieth century, was not only a master in the application of organic synthesis to the solution of important problems in chemistry, biochemistry, and plant physiology, but very highly regarded as a professional colleague. Leonard was born on September 1, 1916, grew up in Bronxville, New York, and attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, before moving to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. The beginning of World War II in September 1939 forced Leonard's return to the United States. Chemistry was not the only part...
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