JACS Paper Number Two is Here!
Our second paper submitted to the Journal of the American Chemical Society was just accepted! Congratulations to Matt, Rami, and Cristian!
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Another grad student!
Welcome Ally Milenkovic to the Topczewski lab! She comes to us from Macalester College. We're all excited for another grad student to come join us!
We're on the cover of Euro JOC!
Our most recent paper (The Effect of Proximal Functionality on the Allylic Azide Equilibrium) was selected to design the cover art for an upcoming issue of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry! The art was done by local artist/illustrator/author Drew Brockington (http://brockart.format.com/). To see it up close and learn more about it, visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejoc.201701430/full
Congrats to Mary, James and Vicky!
Amy Ott and Angela Carlson Won Awards!
The Topczewski lab is doing awesome! Two of our members, Amy Ott and Angela Carlson, were recognized at the first departmental seminar. Amy was one of the recipients of a third year Excellence in Graduate Studies Fellowship (the Wayland Noland Fellowship in particular), and Angela was honored for obtaining a 4.0 GPA last year. Wow! Looks like their hard work is paying off (figuratively and literally)!
Congrats again!
For more, see the department story (https://chem.umn.edu/news/department-honors-student-award-and-fellowship-recipients-0).
Two new undergrads!
This semester we welcome Ryan Brunner and Austin Peterson to our lab! Thanks for coming to work with us guys!
STEM Day at the Minnesota State Fair!
In collaboration with Market Science (https://marketsci.org/), we went to the state fair to teach kids from all over about how fun chemistry can be! I don't know who had more fun: the kids, the adults, or us volunteers! Overall, we taught over 400 people about ocean acidification, precipitation reactions, catalysis, and how to make slime!To learn more about STEM Day at the state fair, visit http://www.mnstatefair.org/entertainment/special_days_events.html or https://www.facebook.com/MNSTEMDay/
Back to Midtown Farmer's Market for another Market Science Session!
On Saturday, the Topczewski lab once again showed the Midtown Market that chemistry is fun and interesting! Despite the wind, almost 100 people came to learn about ocean acidification, precipitation reactions, catalysis, and how to make slime!
Grant number two was funded!
It's official! The National Institute of Health has officially given us money in the form of a MIRA grant. That's huge for an up-and-coming lab like us. Visit our Funding page to learn about our other funding sources, or, visit the department story (https://chem.umn.edu/news/professor-topczewski-researching-chiral-amines-nih-mira-grant) to see more.
Our JACS paper was written up in Synfacts!
Look at us go! Our JACS paper was written up in Synfacts (https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/journal/10.1055/s-00000131)! This has really been a great year for us.
Paper number three is online!
Our lab just keeps churning out the papers! Already, paper number three is in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Way to go, Mary, James, and Vicky!