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UT Arlington
Four of the UTA College of Science (COS) honors were awarded to members of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. They were: COS Distinguished Record of Research, Dr. Carl Lovely; COS Teaching in the Non-Tenure Track Category, Dr. Bill Cleaver; COS Outstanding Technical Staff Award, Dr. Brian Edwards; COS Outstanding Administrative Staff Award, Mrs. Jill Howard.
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Among the awards given to students were: ACS Award for Outstanding Chemistry/ Biochemistry Undergraduate Student, Umang Dhaubhadel; President Spaniolo Graduate Student Award. Abbas Vali. Students Weike Chen and Maumita SinghaRoy received awards at the recent online Meeting-in-Miniature.
Dr. Fred MacDonnell was selected to join the UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars. Dr. Sherri McFarland has received a three year, $440,000 NSF grant to study “The Excited State Behavior of Ru (II) Photodrugs.” Dr. Kevin Schug and his group have entered into a research contract with Genentech to study and characterize advanced drug delivery modalities. Dr. Kayunta Johnson-Winters was one of three guest hosts for CHE’s “Listening Session on Broadening Participations, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.” The session was held on Mar. 17 with 400 attendees.
UT Dallas
The 2021 UT Dallas President’s Teaching Excellence Award in Undergraduate Instruction was awarded to Associate Professor Jeremiah Gassensmith Chemistry and Biochemistry, The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NS&M) Teaching Award for Professors of Instruction was awarded to Dr. Nimanka “Pathum” Panapitiya, and the School of NS&M Graduate Student Teaching Award was awarded to Abhi Bhadran (Stefan Lab).
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Nisansala Sandamali Abeyrath-
na (University of Texas at Dallas) 2nd prize Arezoo Shahrivarkevishahi (University of Texas at Dallas) 3rd prize Yingyu Huang (University of Texas at Dallas) Special prize Weike Chen (University of Texas at Arlington) Special prize
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Andrew Duy Vu (University of Texas at Dallas) 1st prize Samantha Martin (Tarleton State University) 2nd prize Arun Kumar Raja (University of Texas at Dallas) 3rd prize Yujin (Lisa) Kim (Southern Methodist University) Special prize Jacob Lynd (University of Texas at Dallas) Special Prize Abigail Lewis (University of Texas at Dallas) Special Prize
From the ACS Press Room Continued “Invisible Ink”
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light was shown on the writing, the invisible ink illustrated the desired message “BEGIN”. Because these algorithms can notice minute modifications in symbols, this approach has the potential to encrypt messages securely using hundreds of different unpredictable symbols, the researchers say. The authors acknowledge funding from the Shenzhen Peacock Team Plan and the Bureau of Industry and Information Technology of Shenzhen through the Graphene Manufacturing Innovation Center (201901161514).
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the intensity across blue wavelengths, unlike commercial LED light bulbs. The prototype’s optical properties revealed the color of objects almost as well as natural sunlight, fulfilling the needs of indoor lighting, the researchers say, though they add that more work needs to be done before it is ready for everyday use. The authors acknowledge funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Welch Foundation.
“Illuminating Fingerprints”
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mixed with the polymer, suggesting that any genetic material found after processing a print could still be analyzed to further identify a suspect, the researchers say. The authors acknowledge funding from Yao Liu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; the Major Basic Research Project of the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China; the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions; and the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China.
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sorbent than the commercial product. And because the material still contains anthocyanins, which have antimicrobial activity, the purple litter could fight bacteria and reduce odors, the researchers say. Used purple corn cob litter could also be composted along with other organic matter, resulting in no waste, they explain. The authors acknowledge funding from Fondazione Cariplo.
