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Portland State University is the only institution
in Portland to offer a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry.
Please explore this page and its links to get a feel for what exciting
research and coursework is ongoing in the department. We invite you to
check out:
The department is currently seeking graduate students for Fall 2009,
deadline for application is February 1, 2009. Please click here for a
quick link to the Ph.D. application procedure
.
Quick Contacts:
Sinnamon Tierney - Department Manager, Research Administrator and
Graduate Admissions Coordinator - 503-725-8904 email:
tierney@pdx.edu
Elisa Cooper - Chemistry General and Organic Lab Coordinator -
503-725-8987 email: ecooper@pdx.edu
News and Announcements
November 2008
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce Dr. James F. Pankow
has been asked to serve as one of the University Fellows for the
Sustainability Center. He will serve alongside two other Fellows for
the Sustainability Center, Dr. Sergio Palleroni, Architecture and Dr.
Dave Ervin, Environmental Science & Resources. The Fellows will help
guide PSU in sustainability initiatives, including Urban Transportation,
Photovoltaic Solar Energy, Aerosols & Climate, and Renewable Enegy.
September 2008
The Department of Chemistry is please to announce and welcome the
addition of two new faculty members who arrived Fall 2008.
Dr. Andrea Goforth, an ONAMI
Signature Research Fellow whose research involves advancement of the
field of bionanotechnology by the development of novel, nanometer sized
inorganic imaging agents.
Dr. Mark Woods, whose primary research is involves the design and
chemical synthesis of targeted contrast media for magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI). Dr. Woods also works at the Advance Imaging Research
Center (AIRC) at Oregon Health
and Sciences University.
PSU Chemist, Dr. Robert Strongin uses Dyes in Biomedical
Applications of Near-IR imaging
http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/86/i38/html/8638sci1.html
Chemistry Tenure-Track Faculty Opening in Environmental Chemistry or
Renewable Energy, beginning Fall 2009
August 2008
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to welcome Dr. James F. Pankow.
Dr. Pankow will start at PSU in September. He has a split appointment
between the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science (MCECS)
and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS).
July 2008
Dr. Robert Strongin's research on new fluorophores is published as an open access article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA: http://www.pnas.org/content/105/26/8829.full.pdf+html?sid=1c3d65c4-c28a-4fca-bd68-6bea929e2933
Dr. Shakar Rananavare's discovery of a nanofilm-based room temperature sensor for chlorine is featured by Institute of Physics at their website: http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34537;jsessionid=C52A57005818F68979028B5A517CC72F
Dr. Robert Strongin is named a Sigma Xi Distinguished National Lecturer for the term 2009-2010.
June 2008
Dr. Mingdi Yan was just awarded a 5 year National Institute of Health
R01 Grant for $1,410,440. Project titled: Photogenerated Carbohydrate
Microarrays.
May 2008
Dr. Mingdi Yan's patent "Patterned Polymeric Structures, Particularly Microstructures and Methods For Making Same" is licensed to SuSoS AG, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
Dr. David Peyton and Dr. Robert Strongin each receive Outstanding Researcher Awards from the Sigma Xi Columbia-Willamette Chapter.
April 2008
Dr Kevin Reynolds is elected to the Board of Directors for the Society of Industrial Microbiology.
March 2008
The PSU BioAnalytical Mass Spectral Facility web site
is now available.
December 2007
Chemistry Faculty member, Shankar Rananavare is
the recipient of an NIH grant subcontracted by OHSU.
The project is titled "Interfacial Phase Behavior of Pulmonary
Surfactants". Dr. Rananavare is collaborating with Dr. Stephen Hall at
the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Laboratory at OHSU. The
project will last four years and is for over $235,000.
November 2007
The Antimalarial Hybrid designed by Dr. David Peyton
was
acknowledged in Chemical & Engineering News, November 12, 2007 edition
under "Drug Hybrids enter the Fray".
The Department of Chemistry acquires a New Mass Spectrometer
The Mass Spectrometer is a Bruker micrOTOF-Q. It features precise mass
determination capabilities (20-40,000 m/z range), MS/MS and SigmaFitTM
isotopic analysis, making it possible to determine the formula of small
molecules, perform metabolic studies, analyze complex mixtures and
digests, and evaluate intact proteins.
October 2007
Dr. Robert Strongin
was awarded
$168,904 from Department of Justice. The project is titled "Developing
Fluorogenic Reagents for Detecting and Enhancing Bloody Fingerprints"
PSU Ph.D. Student, Aaron Burton
was awarded a NASA Earth and
Space Science Fellowship, renewable for three years. Project titled
"Selection in Vitro of a Ribonucleotide Reductase Ribozyme".
September 2007
Dr. Niles Lehman
was awarded a
NASA grant for nearly $400,000 over three years. The project is titled "
A Self-Assembling Collectively Autocatalytic Set of RNA Oligomers".
June 2007
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