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Maximum Potential
Aug 06, 2020
Congratulations to Texas A&M chemist David Powers, selected to receive a $1.8 million National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) to support his group’s research toward metal-free electrocatalysis for fine-chemical synthesis with potential impact on the development of new pharmaceuticals.
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Pioneering Catalyst
Texas A&M chemist Marcetta Darensbourg has been selected to receive the 2020 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, one of five annual awards presented by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society to recognize exemplary achievement in science and engineering.
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On the Surface
Aug 04, 2020
A multi-institution team of scientists led by Texas A&M chemist James D. Batteas has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to establish the NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry (CMCC), one of three new Phase I Centers for Chemical Innovation funded through the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry for 2020 and the first-ever in Texas.
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Stimulating Environments
Jul 30, 2020
Texas A&M chemist Michael Nippe has been named a Scialog Fellow for a new initiative on negative emissions science in which more than 50 promising early-career scientists will take up the pressing challenge of greenhouse gases accumulating in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.
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Inspirational Innovation
Jul 29, 2020
Congratulations to Texas A&M chemistry graduate students Anuvab Das and Liang Feng, who have been selected as finalists for Elsevier’s 2020 Reaxys® PhD Prize recognizing innovative and original research in chemistry and the associated sciences.
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Degrees of Distinction
Jun 30, 2020
Congratulations to Caltech chemist, 2000 Texas A&M chemistry graduate and College Station native Dr. Thomas F. Miller III, who has been selected by the Texas A&M College of Science for its highest alumni honor — induction into the college's Academy of Distinguished Former Students.
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Best and Brightest
Jun 29, 2020
Texas A&M seniors Mary-Catherine Clark '20 and Oscar Gonzalez '20 have been selected as 2020 recipients of the John B. Beckham Award in Science, the College of Science's highest mark of distinction recognizing students who best exemplify characteristics of academic achievement, character, leadership and extracurricular activities.
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Career Educator
May 28, 2020
A Texas A&M-sized thanks and gig 'em to Texas A&M chemist Ganesa Gopalakrishnan, the organic chemistry artist affectionately known as "G.G.," who is retiring May 31 after four decades of educating, encouraging and inspiring an estimated 25,000 Texas A&M students.
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Innovative Experiences
May 11, 2020
Texas A&M chemistry Ph.D. candidate Hannah F. Drake ’18 is one of 62 recipients nationwide of a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Award — the second consecutive Texas A&M student and Zhou Laboratory member to earn selection thus far in the program’s six-year history.
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Prestigious Pinnacles
Apr 29, 2020
Congratulations to Texas A&M University's latest National Academy of Sciences member, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Karen Wooley — the most recent faculty member to earn the prestigious accolade while at Texas A&M since fellow Distinguished Professors Marcetta Darensbourg and Ron DeVore were elected to the Academy in 2017.
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Apr 27, 2020
In 1962, Texas A&M University’s first campus glassblower, Jack Shannon, inspired William “Bill” Merka to follow in his footsteps and take up the profession. Now, as a master scientific glassblower, Merka has been the university’s go-to man for all glassware needs for 35 years.
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COVID-19 Clinical Trial
Apr 20, 2020
As the first person to identify the experimental drug remdesivir as the only viable medicine for treating COVID-19 in a January research study, Texas A&M chemist Wenshe Ray Liu has two words to describe preliminary results from its use in a University of Chicago clinical trial: “quite exciting.”
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Honorable Achievements
Mar 27, 2020
Congratulations to Texas A&M chemist Karen Wooley, one of seven faculty-researchers from Texas-based institutions elected as 2020 American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering Fellows, among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer.
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Targeting COVID-19
Mar 26, 2020
Texas A&M chemists led by Wenshe Liu are seeking to stop COVID-19 and other coronaviruses in their cellular tracks by developing drugs capable of preventing the virus from replicating once inside its human host and also neutralizing its presence in human plasma.
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Bioorthogonal Trailblazer
Stanford University organic chemist and National Academy of Sciences member Carolyn Bertozzi — who is known for founding the field of bioorthogonal chemistry — has been selected to receive the 2020 F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research, presented jointly by Texas A&M Chemistry and the Texas A&M Section of the American Chemical Society to honor the late Texas A&M chemist Albert Cotton.
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