Chemists Go To Nationals!
09/01/2008
Faculty and students from the SUNY New Paltz Chemistry Department presented a total of four research posters (listed below) at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society held in Philadelphia, PA on August 17-20. New Paltz chemistry students regularly travel to conferences to present the results of their research.
- “Thermodynamics of single stranded oligonucleotide folding,” Chelsea Hull and Prof. Pamela St. John
- “Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of tricyclic alpha pinene derivatives,” Daniel Tzvi Cohen, Cynthia Colon, Giovanna Deluca, Prof. Preeti Dhar, and Prof. Maureen Morrow
- “Membrane-bound biosurfactant production by Pseudomonas putida grown on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,” Kerri S. DeGroat and Prof. Megan A. Ferguson
- “Preparation, characterization, and kinetic studies of a pair of ruthenium-thiocyanato linkage isomers,” Matthew Buck, Lucas Vandenburgh, and Prof. Daniel A. Freedman
SUNY New Paltz wins National Science Foundation Grant
08/04/2008
Megan Ferguson, John Harrington, Pamela St John, all members of the chemistry faculty, and Maureen Morrow, biology, have been awarded a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant for $253,668. This grant will be used to purchase an atomic force microscope (AFM) that sits on an inverted optical microscope platform. The new instrumentation will be used both for research with undergraduates and for teaching. This will make SUNY New Paltz the only institution in the Mid-Hudson Valley with a research grade AFM.
AFM has many applications across chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and environmental science. This instrumentation will be used to develop a diverse array of faculty and student research interests, including bacterial biofilms that remediate pollutants, proteins that bind oxygen for use in medical emergencies, surface analysis of biomolecules, and cells grown in modeled microgravity environments. Students will also use the AFM and accompanying inverted optical microscope in Cell Biology, Physical Chemistry, and Instrumental Chemistry labs.
Congratulations 2008 Chemistry Graduates!
07/11/2008
From left-to-right: Liza Valdivia, Sarah Goulet, Corinne Szewcyk, Darren Ceckanowicz and Tom Ormond (not pictured). Liza will be starting medical school at Tufts University in the fall. Sarah plans on teaching high school eventually, but will be starting a masters program at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany in the fall. Corinne has just started as a Pharmaceutical Representative for Sanofi-aventis, a pharmaceutical company. Darren will start a Ph.D. program in chemistry at the University of Minnesota in the fall. Tom has just completed his first year in a Ph.D. program in chemistry at the University of Colorado.
Contact Information
Department of Chemistry
Coykendall Science Building (CSB) 105
SUNY New Paltz
1 Hawk Drive
New Paltz, NY 12561
Phone: (845) 257-3790
Fax: (845) 257-3791