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AlUMNI RECEPTION planned for April 21, 2012. Please save the date, details will be forthcoming
IMPORTANT LECTURESHIPS PLANNED: The two major external lecturships for 2012 have been arranged. On March 19 2012 Professor Valentino Stella, University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas, will present the Fifteenth Annual Robert W. Murray Lecture and on April 30, 2012, Dr. Stephen A. Kolodziej BA 1987, PhD 1992, will present the 25th Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Details for both will be forthcoming.
Undergraduate student Erin Martin's research with Professor Eike Bauer is featured in an UMSL Daily interview. Click here to see the article.
Faculty members, Mike Nichols and Alexei Demchenko, are featured in an article and video Advancing Missouri's Health on the University System web site here.
GEORGE GOKEL named Director of the Center for Nanoscience. See story in UMSL Daily.
GEORGE GOKEL WINS CHANCELLOR"S AWARD FOR RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY. Dr. George W. Gokel, Distinguished Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Associate Director of the Center for Nanoscience, received the 2011 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creativity. The award was set up to honor a full-time faculty member who has demonstrated superior research or creative contributions to the university. It includes a cash stipend to be presented as part of the State of the University Address in September.
ALUMNA HONORED BY THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. Dr Elizabeth A. Amin (see below) BA 1996, PhD 2003, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, was named winner of the ACS HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for 2011 by the Division of Computers in Chemistry, and was honored at the ACS meeting in Denver in the fall.
UMSL Licenses Non-Invasive Glucose Monitor Technologies. Professor Zhi Xu's research is featured in a press release and an article in the UMSL Research Newsletter.