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2008-12-31 - Martin Gruebele has been elected to membership in the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. The German National Academy of Science (the Leopoldina) is highly selective and the world's oldest academy for medicine and natural sciences having been created 355 years ago. Currently it has more than 1250 members spread across many different countries. Only 21 members were elected worldwide...

2008-12-31 - Martin Gruebele, the James R. Eiszner Endowed Professor of Chemistry has been awarded the 2008 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences.

2008-12-31 - Researchers report this week that they are the first to observe the dynamic, ratchet-like movements of single ribosomal molecules in the act of building proteins from genetic blueprints.

2008-12-31 - Martin Gruebele and collaborators have proven that protein folding modifies water molecules in the environment. Gruebele is presently at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany as a result of receiving the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize. To read the Innovations Report article, click here.

2008-12-31 - According to new research, old ideas about water behavior are all wet. Ubiquitous on Earth, water also has been found in comets, on Mars and in molecular clouds in interstellar space. Now, scientists say this common fluid is not as well understood as we thought. “Water, as we know it, does not exist within our bodies,” said Martin Gruebele, a William H. and Janet Lycan Professor of Chemistry at...

2008-12-31 - Irwin C. Gunsalus, an internationally renowned biochemist and enzymologist who discovered several vitamins and made seminal contributions to the understanding of bacterial and human metabolism, died Oct. 25, 2008 at his home in Andalusia, AL. He was 96.

2008-12-31 - John Hartwig and Zhijian Liu were cited in Chemical & Engineering News for developing a rhodium catalyst system that can catalyze intramolecular cyclizations of aminoalkenes under mild conditions.

2008-12-31 - John Hartwig and Zhijian Liu were cited in Chemical & Engineering News for developing a rhodium catalyst system that can catalyze intramolecular cyclizations of aminoalkenes under mild conditions.

2008-12-31 - John Hartwig has received the RSC Joseph Chatt Lectureship. "Founded in 1995 in honour of the late Joseph Chatt, this lecture is delivered every two years and should emphasis interdisciplinary work in the areas which fall between inorganic chemistry and biochemistry and between organic and catalytic chemistry. There are no age or nationality restrictions." For previous recipients see:...

2008-12-31 - Professor Martin Burke wins the 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

2008-12-31 - Scott Denmark has received the Robert Robinson Lectureship. From the website: The Lectureship was "founded in 1962 as a result of an endowment received from the Sir Robert Robinson Foundation Inc., which was created to receive the royalties donated by the authors of "Perspectives in Organic Chemistry", published in commemoration of Sir Robert Robinson's 70th birthday, and supplemented by...

2008-12-31 - Professor Christina White was awarded the 2008-2009 Pfizer Award for Creativity in Organic Chemistry. This award is given annually for members of the organic chemistry community who have distinguished themselves through significant creative contributions to the area of organic chemistry research and through excellence in graduate student training.

2008-12-31 - Dr. Dana Dlott and his researchers have devised a method to evaluate substrate surfaces. This method could assist in the detection of deadly fumes in subways, toxic gases resulting from chemical spills and hidden explosives. This research has been reviewed in numerous articles. To read more on this exciting new discovery, please click on the articles below:...

2008-12-31 - Detecting deadly fumes in subways, toxic gases in chemical spills, and hidden explosives in baggage is becoming easier and more efficient with a measurement technique called surface-enhanced Raman scattering.

2008-12-31 - Like water and ice cubes mixed in a glass, a group of organic compounds called lipids can coexist as liquid and solid in membranes. This patchiness in phospholipid membranes is fundamental to their use as biomolecules and biosensors. Using charged nanoparticles, researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to stimulate patchiness in phospholipid membranes. “We are seeing a...