The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry would like to congratulate Joseph Eckenrode for winning a first place award in this year's Research and Creativity Expo

Joseph is an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Held's group.

Professor Jeffrey Rack received a grant of $330,000 from NSF to study the ultrafast spectroscopy of photochromic complexes and to investigate the photomechanical of photochromic polymers.

Desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) mass spectrometry, a revolutionary technique for analyzing small molecules, can now be used to analyze proteins and noncovalent protein complexes as large as 150 kilodaltons (Anal. Chem., DOI: 10.1021/ac201390w).

This collaborative work was recently completed by Dr. Joseph A. Loo at UCLA, Dr. Hao Chen of this department and coworkers, which was reported by Chemical & Engineering News as a Science and Technology Concentrate

Graduate student Zhixin Miao in Dr. Chen's group is one of the coauthors of this published article.

Congratulations to Yun Zhang for winning the 2011 Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) award.

He will be attending the meeting and giving an oral presentation.

On June 30th Weiying Lu completed his PhD defense Weiying Lu, “Development of Radial Basis Function Cascade Correlation Networks and Applications of Chemometric Techniques for Hyphenated Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Analysis” (PhD 2011).

Congratulations to Weiying Lu.