Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Physics Janet Asper was recently chosen as the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award by the VA Section of the American Chemical Society. She was nominated by a longstanding member, Jim Beck, who said the following:Janet Asper joined the American Chemical Society in 1995 and has […]
Join us online for virtual programming from UMW Alumni and UMW’s chemistry facultyUMW chemistry professors will present “Chemistry in the Kitchen” in three Lunchtime Learning sessions. These sessions will feature chemistry experiments that you can do yourself at home in your kitchen. Watch and enjoy, or conduct your own experiments along with us–we will send […]
Charlie Sharpless had a problem to solve. He was finishing his post-doctoral fellowship and wasn’t quite sure where to go next. He loved teaching and conducting research, but there were few positions at large research universities where he could mix th…
Janet Asper has been selected as Summer Fellow at the 2013 Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Research Program. She will be conducting her summer research at the laboratories at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren.
K. Nicole Crowder presented an invited talk and a poster at the 254th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Symposium in New Orleans, LA.Her invited talk “Tethered catalysts: Self-assembled monolayers of phosphonates as a platform for heterogeneous catalysis,” was presented to a full room in the Inorganic Chemistry Division. She presented a poster entitled “Back to grad school with IONiC/VIPEr: Collaborative development of […]
