VCU Chemistry Department

Come join us for our Women in Chemistry Careers panel, this Friday March 29th at 2pm in the STEM building room 202. You will need to register with the QR code to receive the zoom link.

Marissa Watkins, Senior Regulatory Specialist at Milliken Chemical
Jessica Christian, Chemist II for AdvanSix, and earned both her Bachelor's and PhD in Chemistry from VCU.
Ashclynd Love, Chemist at Afton Chemical, earned her Bachelor's and currently completing Masters in Chemistry from VCU
Alexis Coulibaly, Incoming first year (D1) student at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Taylor Harrold, Medical School Student, just matched into Family Medicine residency at St. Francis in Midlothian
Maureen Danaher, Cosmetic Chemist, Director of Research and Development at Active Concepts, LLC
(participate via zoom)
Jazmine Povlick, Analytical Chemist at Videojet Technologies (participate via zoom)

I know the Deadline is tomorrow! Still an opportunity for Study Abroad this summer!!!

Come join us for our next Chemistry Connect this semester, the Friday after Spring Break!

Come join us for a seminar "Biophysics of Proteins in Nanobubbles" by Dr. Nathaniel Nucci of

this Thursday at 4pm in Oliver 1024

We're looking for awesome people to come work with us!! https://vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/4556?c=vcu

Join Our Ramily!

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VCU Department of Surgery’s Martin Mangino, Ph.D., will serve as co-investigator on a $1.52 million four-year NIH grant to develop a solution to help prevent infection and complications for patients receiving chemotherapy, dialysis and other treatments through their veins.

Learn more about the partnership with VCU Chemistry Department:

news.vcu.edu/article/2023/04/vcu-chemistry-professor-seeks-a-solution-to-benefit-chemo-and-dialysis-patients

You have to have a little bit of fun when designing new bulletin boards around the department, what were your favorite cartoons growing up?

If you hear random noises coming from labs or offices at 2pm this Friday, I promise we are totally doing important chemistry work and don't have this game on projectors throughout the building. 😜

Your Rams are dancing! Cheer on the Rams as they play in the NCAA Tournament! The No. 12 seed VCU men’s basketball team is headed to Albany, New York, this Friday, March 17. There, the team faces the No. 5 seed, St. Mary’s Gaels, in the first round.

Come join us for the 2022 John B. Fenn Lecture this December 1st at 5pm. Our speaker this year will be the Jacob and Betty Belin Distinguished Professor from North Carolina State University, David C. Muddiman, Ph.D. He will be presenting his lecture "Controlling Chaos: A Novel Molecular Microscopy Platform with Diverse Applications in Human Health and Disease"

This will take place in the T. Edward Temple Building, room 1169. 12/01/22 at 5pm.

Questions, Contact: [email protected]

Just a reminder, this Thursday at 5pm in Temple room 1169 you can come hear our annual John B. Fenn Lecture for 2022 with David C. Muddiman. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Come join us for the 2022 John B. Fenn Lecture this December 1st at 5pm. Our speaker this year will be the Jacob and Betty Belin Distinguished Professor from North Carolina State University, David C. Muddiman, Ph.D. He will be presenting his lecture "Controlling Chaos: A Novel Molecular Microscopy Platform with Diverse Applications in Human Health and Disease"

This will take place in the T. Edward Temple Building, room 1169. 12/01/22 at 5pm.

Questions, Contact: [email protected]

We loved celebrating Halloween with all our faculty, staff, and graduate students yesterday!! We’re on the downhill slope to finals now Rams! You got this!!

Come join us for our next series in Chemistry Connect, we will be hosting a working session where students can bring questions, applications, opportunities related to chemistry or research to work on with advisors. Temple 3309, November 4th @ 2pm.

Bineta Doucoure from the Lucas Lab was awarded an Advancing Science Conference Grant from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) in order to present her research at the 49th Annual NOBCChE Meeting in Orlando, FL. The title of her presentation was “Photoinduced Crosslinking Patterns of Synthetic and Natural Phenols”. Congratulations, Bineta!

The Fuglestad Lab has been awarded a R35 MIRA grant from the NIH-NIGMS. This award funds their efforts in basic understanding and inhibitor design for peripheral membrane proteins. The Fuglestad lab will also use this award to develop reverse micelle-based technologies to enhance study for this challenging class of protein. Congratulations to the hardworking students who made this award possible!

Further award information may be found here:

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Just a heads up for all you undergraduates!!

https://chs.vcu.edu/newsroom/chs-newsroom/local-news/major-gift-funds-new-position-for-an-interdisciplinary-mass-spectrometry-faculty.html

Woohoo! We got a gift that's really going to help us out, check this out!

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https://news.vcu.edu/article/2022/06/naomi-ghahrai-embraces-new-study-abroad-opportunity-in-taiwan

Check it out! Congratulations Naomi!

Naomi Ghahrai embraces new study abroad opportunity in Taiwan VCU grad is conducting research, taking a class and teaching young students as part of the program.

The Department of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University invites applications for a non-tenure-track assistant professor position in Analytical Chemistry to begin in August 2022. Primary responsibilities will include the management, supervision, and instruction of the analytical undergraduate teaching laboratories (Quantitative Analysis Laboratory (CHEZ 309) and Instrumental Analysis (CHEZ 409)) and the instruction of undergraduate chemistry courses as determined by department needs. We particularly seek applicants who are excited about teaching analytical chemistry to a diverse pool of undergraduate students and working with graduate student teaching assistants (TA) to create independent thinkers capable of addressing and solving the next generation of scientific and technological problems. Teaching effectiveness is the most important criterion for faculty evaluation and promotion and thus, applicants must be willing to foster a supportive and inclusive learning environment, work effectively with graduate student TA’s, participate in curriculum development, effectively deliver course content, and be adaptable to multiple methods of content delivery.

Apply here
https://vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/996?c=vcu&source=Higheredjobs

Spring 2022 commencement by the numbers Roughly 5,000 graduates, more than 40 different ceremonies and a whole bunch of beach balls

Let’s go Rams!! You made it!

Check out this cool feature on one of our own! Congrats Trevohn! https://news.vcu.edu/article/2022/05/class-of-2022-commuting-hundreds-of-miles-per-week-trevohn-robinson #

Class of 2022: Commuting hundreds of miles per week, Trevohn Robinson has the drive to succeed in chemistry Graduating senior Robinson credits his mentors at VCU, his parents and his Honda Civic as he prepares for a doctoral degree and career as a chemist.

An article from Ka Un Lao's lab "NENCI-2021. I. A large benchmark database of non-equilibrium non-covalent interactions emphasizing close intermolecular contacts" published in the Journal of Chemical Physics was selected as a 2021 Editor's Choice article. This collection of articles were selected by the editors as the most innovative and influential articles of 2021. Congrats Dr. Lao!

Hurry up you don’t want to miss the ACS Bake Sale, and no worries if you do you can catch them again on Thursday 9-12 in between Temple and Oliver. Chemistry is a lot like cooking, just don’t lick the spoon!

https://news.vcu.edu/article/2022/04/how-do-bones-change-in-outer-space-this-chemistry-major-is-doing-research-to-find-out

Check out some of the awesome work our students are doing!

How do bones change in outer space? This chemistry major is doing research to find out Lovell Abraham’s hard work earned him a VCU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program fellowship and an award in last fall’s undergraduate poster symposium.

VCU students open Hopewell grade schoolers’ eyes to science at STEAM Day On their first day of spring break, VCU science, technology, engineering, arts and math students showed off science experiments to students at Patrick Copeland Elementary School.