Departmental News Dr. Yehia Mechref attended the 36th Annual Tandem Mass Spectrometry Workshop in Alberta, Canada where he gave an invited lecture titled, “Isomeric Separation of Glycans and Glycopeptides with Mesoporous Graphitic Carbon Material for Effective Tandem MS Interpretation”. The department hosted a First Aid/CPR/AED course taught by the TTU Rec Center. The following people are now certified in first aid and CPR as well as AED usage: Jeanne Bertonazzi, Mona Goli, Heather Higgins, Adrienne Pedrech, Linda Rodriguez and Quentin Vaughn. The department has purchased an AED for emergency usage. It is located on the 1st floor near the Blue Phone in the middle corridor. Dr. Yehia Mechref presented an invited lecture, “Isomeric Separation of Glycans and Glycopeptides with Mesoporous Graphitic Carbon Material for Effective Tandem MS Interpretation” at the 36th annual Tandem Mass Spectrometry workshop in Alberta, Canada. G. Gamez, Fast Chemical Imaging of Materials Surfaces Enabled by Plasma Spectrochemistry, Invited Talk at Seminar Series, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, McMurry University, November 8, 2024 R. Joshi, H. Agrawaal, D. Pappas, G. Gamez. Glow Discharge Optical Emission Elemental Mapping for Studying Nanoparticle Interaction and Uptake in Cells, Invited talk at the Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024 G. Gamez, E. Akatugba, D. Barroso, B. Bhattarai, S. Shi. Synthetic and Natural Polymer Characterization and Imaging via Laser-Assisted Micro-Pyrolysis FAPA MS, Invited talk at the Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024 E. Akatugba, D. Barroso, B. Bhattarai, S. Shi, G. Gamez. Analysis of Per- and Poly-alkyl substances (PFAS) via Laser-Assisted Micro-Pyrolysis FAPA HRMS, Poster presentation at The Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024 D. Barroso, E. Akatugba, B. Bhattarai, S. Shi, G. Gamez. Biopolymer Analysis by Laser- Assisted Micro-Pyrolysis FAPA HRMS, Poster presentation at The Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024 B. Bhattarai, D. Barroso, E. Akatugba, S. Shi, A. Cozzolino, G. Gamez. Metal-Organic Frameworks Analysis via Laser-Assisted Micro-Pyrolysis FAPA HRMS, Poster presentation at The Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024 R. Joshi, H. Agrawaal, G. Gamez. Glow Discharge Coded Aperture Optical Emission Spectroscopy, Poster presentation at The Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024 R. Joshi, H. Agrawaal, G. Gamez. Glow Discharge Optical Emission Coded Aperture Elemental Mapping (GOCAM) For Single-Shot Characterization of Nanoscale Materials, Poster presentation at The Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024 E. Branch, A. Monroe, B.T. Kumara, S. Ray, G. Gamez. Laser-Induced Plasma Diagnostics to Elucidate the Effects of Applied Microwave Interactions, Poster presentation at The Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024 M. Stry, G. Gamez, S. Ray. Development of a Microwave-Enhanced Glow Discharge Atomic Emission Spectrophotometer, Poster presentation at The Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024 B.T. Kumara, G. Gamez, S. Ray. Design and Optimization of a New Microwave Microreactor for Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Poster presentation at The Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024 Barratt Park gave an invited talk at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Max Planck Society- Chinese Academy of Sciences Cooperation on the 28th of October 2024 in Berlin titled Scattering Open-Shell Atomic Beams from Surfaces Using a Free Electron Laser Based Source Barratt Park gave a seminar for the TTU Department of Chemical Engineering on Nov. 22, 2024 titled, Atomic and Molecular Dynamics at Surfaces and Tunneling Dynamics in the “Tiniest Droplets of Acid” Hans Lischka, Leonardo Ueno, Luiz Ferrao, FranciscoMachado, Leticia Silva, Luan Fonseca, Adelia Aquino “Creation of Charge Transfer States for Photocatalysis by Polar Boundaries in π-Conjugated Doped Systems” November 15, 2024, XII International Meeting on Photodynamics and Related Aspects, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Rajendra Joshi, Ejoke Akatugba, Bibek Bhattarai, and Ezekiel Branch from Prof. Gamez’group received Graduate Student Travel Awards from the TTU Graduate School to attend the Great Scientific Exchange (SciX) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 20-25, 2024.
H. Garza, A. Perry, R. Posey, J. Tropp "Standardizing the Characterization of Conductive Hydrogels" Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SWRM), Waco, TX, October 2024. Awarded 1st Place Poster at the Undergraduate Poster Session
Dr. Joshua Tropp was awarded the Apple Polishing Award from the Texas Tech Mortar Board for 2024.
Dr. Ruibin Liang won a poster award in the Laboratory Heads category at the Welch Foundation Conference 2024. https://welch1.org/conference/conferenceoverview/2024-poster-session
Congratulations to our fall graduates! Dr. John Ducilon Dr. Dylan Tharp-Eralie Dr. Olivia Villanueva Dr. Yihui Yuan
Arvin Saffarian Delkhosh from the Georgieva Research Group has received the Graduate Student Research Support Award for the fall 2024 semester for the project, “Structural and fluorescence-based approaches to assess the ionconductance mechanisms of viral membrane proteins in liposomes”.
Tan Nguyen, a graduate student in the Kristufek Research Lab, won 3rd place at the 2024 3-minute Thesis Competition
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is committed to providing high quality education in the chemical and biochemical sciences for undergraduate and graduate students, producing research contributions that are recognized nationally and internationally, and making service contributions at all levels.
The Bill Hase Memorial Scholarship continues to receive a steady flow of donations, with 21 new non-anonymous donors having contributed since November, 2021. These come from around the country and around the world—and of course, from TTU. Click here for more details.
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