Awards and Accolades
Both TTU and FAPESP have given funding to Dr. Poirier's proposed collaboration with
Dr. Brett Carlson, entitled “Riding Quantum Trajectories beyond Born-Oppenheimer:
Building better methods for reaction dynamics”. The total grant amount is $20,000.
Dr. Poirier was chosen as the Spring 2022 Arts and Science Students' Choice Top Faculty.
Dr. Ruibin Liang has won a Welch Grant for $300,000 for 3 years! The achievement
is particularly impressive, given that the number of applications was considerably
higher, and the number of grants awarded fewer, than in recent years.
The Gorden group has officially been notified of funding to be awarded $650,000 from
the National Science Foundation for their project on "NSF2154848 - LnIII Complexes
Displaying ErIII-centered Upconversion Emission in Solution and the Solid State with
YbIII, NdIII or a Porphyrin-based ligand as Activators."+ More This is in collaboration with groups at University of Nevada and Cal Poly - Humboldt.
Guigen Li's paper, “Asymmetric [4 + 2] cycloaddition synthesis of 4H-chromene derivatives
facilitated by group-assisted-purification (GAP) chemistry”, was selected by the Royal
Society of Chemistry as a 2021 HOT RSC Advances article. You can find his publication
in the link below as well as the others selected for this honor: RSC Advances HOT Article Collection
Additional Departmental News
Student Highlights
Mona Goli (graduate student in Prof. Mechref's group) received the 2022 Ming Sun Family Graduate Research Award , was selected to receive
a Texas Tech University Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship
for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Aiying Yu (graduate student in Prof. Mechref's group) received the 2022 Ginny Shen Lin's Scholarship.
Aiying Yu (graduate student in Prof. Mechref's group) received the 2022 CGSO Scholarships.
Dr. Andrew Cho (a former graduate student of Prof. Mechref's group) co-shared the 2022 Song Prize for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in the Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Adineh Rezaei also was awarded with Chemistry Graduate Student Organization (CGSO)
Scholarship Award (Inorganic Division), Ming Sun Family Graduate Research Award, and
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Upper-Division Chemistry
Texas Tech's own, Sean Meyer (‘17) received his PhD in materials chemistry couple
weeks ago from Univ Illinois.
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