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Welcome to the Department of Chemistry at Whitman College.
Department News
Faculty and Staff News
The Department welcomes Assistant Professor Nathan Boland, who will be teaching quantitative analysis and general chemistry.
Congratulations to Prof. Marion Gotz, who recently received tenure and will be promoted to Associate Professor at the start of the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instrumentation and Funding
The Department has added several new instruments for use by laboratory classes and in student-faculty research. A new Agilent HPLC and two Buck Scientific GCs were installed in Fall 2011, a new Agilent LC-MS was installed in Spring 2012, and a new Perkin Elmer AAnalyst 400 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer was obtained in Fall 2012.
Assistant Professor Marion Götz received a $35,000 grant from Research Corporation in May 2010. This grant provided funding for two years of student-faculty research exploring "Structure-based design and synthesis of bimodal proteasome inhibitors as therapeutic agents."
Tim Machonkin was awarded a NSF-RUI grant of $259,000 to carry out work on "The Sources of Substrate Specificity in Hydroquinone Dioxygenases." Funding from the grant supports collaborative student-faculty research over a period of three years (April 2010 - Mar 2013).
The Department of Chemistry was awarded an NSF-MRI grant of $389,000 for the acquisition of a new 400 MHz NMR spectrometer. Installed in the Hall of Science in January, 2010, the Bruker Avance 400 NMR is used for student-faculty research and in chemistry laboratory courses.
Whitman College received an $800,000 Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant to enhance the Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology (BBMB) programs. This money, along with contributions from the college, has provided funds for the creation of new laboratory spaces and a program to support student-faculty research. This HHMI grant has also supported a summer-institute for middle school science teachers, curriculum development for new courses in the biomolecular sciences, and a new tenure-track position in Chemistry.
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Chemistry Seminars
Spring 2013 - Noon in room 151
Friday, Jan. 25th
Nathan Boland, Whitman |
Friday, Feb 8th
Erik Johansson, Portland State |
Thursday, March 28th
Brode Lecture – Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley and Lawrence-Berkeley National Lab |
Friday, March 29th
Kevin Kubarych, University of Michigan |
Friday, April 26th
Nathalie Wall, WSU |
Friday, May 3rd
Chantal Stieber (Whitman '08), Princeton |
Fall 2013 - Noon in room 151
Friday, Sept. 6th
TBA |
Friday, Sept. 30th
TBA |
Thursday, Oct. 3rd (evening)
Visiting Educator – Timothy Strathmann, University of Illinois
"Sustainable Energy and Water Supplies: Unique Challenges Require Unique Solutions" |
Friday, Oct. 4th
Visiting Educator – Timothy Strathmann, University of Illinois
"Developing the Next Generation of Catalytic Water Treatment Technologies – From Mechanistic Investigations to Life Cycle Analysis" |
Friday, Oct. 18th
TBA |
Friday, Nov. 1st
TBA |
Friday, Nov. 15th
TBA |
Friday, Dec. 6th
TBA |
Spring 2014 - Noon in room 151
Friday, Jan. 24th
TBA |
Friday, Feb 7th
TBA |
Friday, March 7th
TBA |
Friday, April 4th
TBA |
Friday, April 18th
TBA |
Friday, May 2nd
TBA |
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