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2011-08-01 - David Yarrow Curtin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 22, 1920 the eldest of three sons of Margaretta Cope Curtin and Ellsworth Ferris Curtin.

2011-04-15 - Harold Rosenberg, age 87 of Dayton, passed away Thursday April 14, 2011.

2010-12-31 - Professor John Katzenellenbogen has been selected as the first 2010 Philip S. Portoghese Medicinal Chemistry Lectureship Awardee. This lectureship honors the contributions of an individual who has had a major impact on medicinal chemistry research. The lectureship has been established to further strengthen ties between the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and the ACS Division of Medicinal...

2010-12-31 - Martin Gruebele has been selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a Fellow of the AAAS, he joins the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Read more about the 2010 Class of AAAS Fellows here

2010-12-31 - Dlott and Wieckowski have developed a powerful laser spectrometer that uses nonlinear coherent vibrational spectroscopy (sum-frequency generation) to probe molecules in real time at electrochemical interfaces in a thin cell (TLE) configuration with a 25 µm gap.

2010-12-31 - Rienstra Group Member Kristin Nuzzio has been awarded a NSF Fellowship. The prestigious NSF fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based masters and doctoral degrees in the U.S. and abroad. More information about Kristin can be found on...

2010-12-31 - Catherine Murphy, the Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor of Chemistry, was recently honored as the Harold McMaster Visiting Scientist at Bowling Green State University. This annual event allowed Professor Murphy to connect with the students and faculty of BGSU through a public lecture, a departmental seminar, and a variety of other events.

2010-12-31 - Rienstra Group Member Anna Nesbitt has been awarded a National Institutes of Healthy National Research Service Award Fellowship. For more information about Anna Nesbitt, please visit her page at the Rienstra Group website.

2010-11-28 - Maurice "Maury" L. Ward was 93 years old when he died November 27, 2010, at home while living with his daughter in California.

2010-06-02 - Stanley G. Smith, 78, died June 1, 2010. Smith was born on June 20, 1931, in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of Glen and Katherine Keck Smith. He was preceded in death by his sister, Lorraine Fetscher. Smith received a B.S. degree from the University of California-Berkeley in 1953, where he carried out undergraduate research with Donald Noyce on the mechanism of aromatic semicarbazone...

2010-04-06 - Richard Helmich (Suslick group ) and Tim Kucharski (Boulatov group ) have been accepted to the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany.

2010-03-01 - Martin Gruebele and his team of researchers have developed a new technique to study protein dynamics in living cells. Read the News Bureau article here.

2009-12-31 - Andrzej Wieckowski has been appointed a Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry. According to the ISE web site: "ISE Fellow is a category of membership conferred upon an individual in recognition of her/his continuing outstanding scientific and/or technical achievement within the field of electrochemistry. This honor should be limited to a small fraction of the active membership (...

2009-12-31 - Susan Odom, a postdoctoral researcher with Beckmans Autonomous Materials Systems group, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The award, from the NSFs Division of Chemistry, is for $200,000.

2009-12-31 - Andrew Young, Eric Gillis, and Nathan Werner recently were selected as the 2009 Sigma-Aldrich Graduate Student Innovation Award recipients.