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Professor Jeffrey Rack receives NSF grant

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)

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

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


Yun Zhang wins 2011 FACSS award.

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.


Weiying Lu completes PhD defense.

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.


Dr. Howard Dewald named Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences


Professor of Analytical Chemistry Howard Dewald has been appointed Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences by Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Dewald on his appointment. More...



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