2024 Departmental News
Heather Higgins received the Phenomenal Women of Texas Tech University Award for 2024.
Dr. Elka Georgieva become a 2024 Honored Listee of Marquis Who's Who.
Olamide Ishola, a graduate student in the Georgieva lab, received a travel award to
attend
DiscoverBMB 2024 in San Antonio, TX (March 23-27).
Mr. Juan C. Dominguez, a student of the Morales group, earned an award for his poster
presentation "Electron nuclear dynamics of ion cancer therapy reactions on prototype
systems
C6+ + C4H4N2O2 (uracil) at ELab = 1.47 keV" at the 63rd Sanibel Symposium, Saint Augustine,
Florida, February 27, 2024.
Dylan M. T. Eralie - a graduate student in the Gorden group - has been awarded the
College of
Arts and Sciences student award in Excellence in Engagement and Outreach Award.
The Park Group has received a Max Planck Partner Group award for the project titled,
"Fundamental Chemical Processes at Model Catalyst Surfaces." The grant provides a
total of 100k EUR over the 2024-2029 period to support experiments at the Dalian Coherent
Light Source.
Sara Strickland, a Student in Prof. Pappas' Group, presented her talk at the Texas
Microscopy Society and won Best Talk.
Sara Strickland also won the small grant competition at the Texas Microscopy Society
to fund reagents on her project.
Sara Strickland received a Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate
School.
The Park Group has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for the project titled, "CAREER:
Tiny Drops of Acid: Microwave spectroscopy and isomer-resolved IR spectroscopy of
hydrohalic acid-water clusters." The award is for a total funding of $569,970 over
the 2024-2029 period.
Prof. Georgieva was selected as a recipient of a Gilead Research Scholars Program
(HIV) Award to advance her studies in HIV-1 Vpu complexes with host proteins.
Prof. Korzeniewski's lab is part of the new Center for Ionomer-based Water Electrolysis
(CIWE) led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in connect with the DOE Energy
Earthshot Research Center program+ More(https://science.osti.gov/Initiatives/SCEarthshots/EERCs). The Center aims to improve
hydrogen generation by analyzing the use of ion-conducting polymers (ionomers) for
low-temperature electrolysis. CIWE partners are Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Colorado
School of Mines, Texas Tech University, University of Oregon, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine,
and UC Merced. Texas Tech will receive $670,000 over the four-year project period
beginning Jan 1, 2024.
