Department of Chemistry | UMass Amherst

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Web Name: Department of Chemistry | UMass Amherst

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The Farkas group uses molecular tools to study, image, and treat cancer subtypes The Advanced Laboratory for Iontronic, Electronic and Nanomaterials (ALIEN), led by Prof. D. Venkataraman, works on developing next generation materials for energy conversion and storage. Thompson group using biophysical and biochemical approaches to probe the structure and mechanism of membrane proteins UMass Chemistry Fosters Collaborations: A member of the Thayumanavan Lab pipets protein-containing nanogels for SDS-PAGE analysis in the Hardy Lab Thayumanavan group uses fundamental surpramolecular and synthetic chemistry tools to impact a broad range of challenges including therapeutic delivery, sensing and diagnostics Andrew’s team develops the materials science needed to transform ordinary textiles into electronic devices You lab is illuminating the cell biology with DNA- and RNA-based next generation sensors Top 25 public university Chemistry department in research expenditures, articles published and citations$10.7 million in external research funding4 faculty are AAAS Fellows Interdisciplinary training programs and coursesChemistry-Biology Interface (CBI)Biotechnology (BTP) Most Distinguished Teaching Award winning faculty of any department at UMassAll B.S. Chemistry majors do undergraduate research; many publish papers! Stein-Covestro Seminar, Thursday, October 1, Prof. Jeffrey Moore Prof. Jeffrey Moore received his B.S. in chemistry (1984) and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering with Samuel Stupp (1989), both from the University of Illinois. He then went to Caltech as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow working with Robert Grubbs. In 1990, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and in 1993 returned to the University of Illinois, where he is currently the Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair, Professor of Chemistry, as well as a Professor of Materials Science Engineering.“Materials Functions for Polymer Lifecycle Control”Thursday, October 1111:30am via Zoom        Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the molecular design of organic structural materials that mimic living systems to protect, report, heal and even regenerate themselves in response to damage, with the goal of increasing lifetime, safety and sustainability of many manufactured items.  I will emphasize recent developments in frontal ring-opening metathesis polymerization (FROMP) to manufacture composites with minimal energy consumption. FROMP is an energy efficient bulk polymerization method with a traveling reaction boundary. Depending on intrinsic reactivity and boundary conditions, FROMP persists in stable and unstable modes of propagation. I will discuss opportunities for pattern generation by taking advantage of the unstable modes. NSF Support for National Energy Workshops Project leader and chemistry professor Dhandapani “DV” Venkataraman, is one of five researchers from a campus group that has been selected to receive a one-year, $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s “10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments” series to conduct a series of national workshops to identify research challenges associated with transitioning to an equitable and sustainable energy system.The grant is the second this year from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to researchers at UMass for a similar purpose, evidence of a growing worldwide interest in developing sustainable energy systems that consider and even prioritize the resources and needs of all communities.“A transition toward a less carbon-intensive energy system is underway globally,” Venkataraman points out. “The challenge is to envision how the energy system might evolve in a way that is consistent with resources and needs.”Further, he explains, “When we are thinking about the emerging energy technologies landscape, we need to incorporate equity as an intrinsic design component. This requires energy scientists, equity scholars and other stakeholders who normally work independently to come together and identify the priorities and needs.” Finalist for ACS President Has Ties to UMass Chemistry Professor Mary K. Carroll of Union College is one of two finalists in the fall election for 2021 president-elect of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society with 152,000 members in more than 140 countries. Carroll has local ties to the UMass Chemistry department, having been a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Julian Tyson (1991-92).Carroll has co-directed the Union College Aerogel Laboratory, a productive interdisciplinary research group. To date, more than 150 undergraduate STEM majors, several high-school students and faculty colleagues from Union and other institutions have participated in the group’s research in the fabrication, characterization and applications of aerogel materials.She is active in the American Chemical Society (ACS) and since 1998 has served as a councilor of the Eastern New York ACS section. At the national level, she currently serves on the ACS Committee on Science. Based on her contributions to science and service to the ACS, Mary Carroll was selected for recognition as a member of the class of 2016 ACS Fellows. Farkas Named Scialog Fellow Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) has named Michelle Farkas, chemistry, one of 13 new Fellows for its Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell (CMC) initiative.Co-sponsored by RCSA and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell aims to catalyze breakthroughs in our understanding of chemical processes in the living cell that will lead to a new era of advancement in cell biology.The new early-career researchers, together with Fellows selected in the previous two years, will convene virtually Oct. 9, for a half-day meeting. The final in-person CMC conference is scheduled for Oct. 7 – 10, 2021, in Tucson, Ariz.“It’s terrific to have 13 new Fellows join this outstanding community of rising stars,” said senior program director Richard Wiener. Scialog is short for “science + dialog.” As part of each multiyear initiative, a diverse and inclusive cohort of Fellows is selected from multiple disciplines and institutions across the U.S. and Canada to maximize creative thinking and innovative ideas.At each conference, participants form multidisciplinary teams to design research projects, which they pitch to leading scientists who have facilitated discussions throughout the meeting. A committee of these facilitators then recommends seed funding to catalyze the most promising of those team projects.“Even though we can’t meet in person in 2020, we’re excited to keep the community engaged virtually to think of new, potentially high-impact ideas to advance our understanding of cellular processes,” Wiener added. “That momentum will carry us into our final CMC conference and a final round of funding next year.” Department of Chemistry “Capture of Carbon Dioxide from Room Air in Accelerated Droplet Reactions with Amines: Superacid/Superbase Chemistry at Air/Water Interfaces” Host: Joe DuChene 11:30 am Zoom:TBA

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