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Graduate student Gretchen Stanton's research profiled
Oct 2, 2012
Chemistry is all about the details. While lab work might revolve around scientific discovery, practicalities like time and money are inevitable byproducts. Gretchen Stanton, a chemistry doctoral candidate, is working to combat low efficiency reactions by researching easier ways to build molecular complexity.
Read MorePenn Chemistry Alumni Reception at ACS Meeting
Aug 3, 2012
Join us at the Philadelphia ACS meeting for an alumni reception! Reconnect and network with former faculty and colleagues.
Monday, August 20, 2012
5:00 - 7:00 PM
The Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Ivan Dmochowski honored by McKnight Endowment Fund
Jul 23, 2012
Ivan Dmochowski has been named a recipient of a 2012 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award along with his colleague James Eberwine (Perelman School of Medicine). The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience supports research projects that develop and apply innovative technologies for studying the brain and its diseases.
Read MoreMadeleine Joullié Oral History Featured by CHF
Jul 22, 2012
The Chemical Heritage Foundation, located in Philadelphia, has hosted more than 400 oral histories from the biggest names in the field of chemistry. Madeleine Joullié's oral history is highlighted in the July issue of First Person. Click the link to read it.
Read MoreJeffrey Winkler's Research Featured
May 15, 2012
Prof. Jeffrey Winkler's collaborative research effort with Prof. Ravi K. Amaravadi and colleagues in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center is featured in an early edition of PNAS. The research focuses on development of a potent new drug that clogs up the recycling machinery of tumor cells.
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Graduate Student Yitao Zhang honored for teaching
May 3, 2012
Yitao Zhang of the Chenoweth group has received a 2012 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students.
This award recognizes the profound impact of graduate students on undergraduate education at Penn. Nominations come directly from undergraduates and ten prizes are awarded annually.
Jeff Saven's Research Featured
Apr 29, 2012
University of Pennsylvania chemistry professor Jeffery Saven and his group are part of a team that has become the first to use computational methods to create the first custom-designed protein crystal. Protein design is a technique that is increasingly valuable to a variety of fields, from biochemistry to therapeutics to materials engineering.
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