IU South Bend Chemistry and Biochemistry
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
2024 Garber Research Fellowship Winners
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Professor Bill Feighery's Sabbatical Research
This fall semester, our inorganic chemist, Dr. Bill Feighery, is working in the Jaffe Lab at the University of Notre Dame. The research involves two-dimensional layered metal cyanide materials referred to as Hofmann clathrates. These compounds feature alternating square planar metal cation centers (typically Ni, Pd, Pt) and octahedral centers (such as Fe, Co, Ni). The goal is to incorporate atom transfer molecules thereby forming a hybrid material that can be subsequently subjected to stimuli to induce formal atom transfer.
Saturday, September 7, 2024
IUSB Chemistry/Biochemistry research in the news
As usual, our research labs were bustling with activity and students this summer. Undergraduates from various majors - and even a few high school students - worked as analytical chemists, synthetic chemists, biochemists, engineers, and even computer programmers in the labs of Professors Kasey Clear, Grace Muna, and Shahir Rizk. The unusual bit was that research in our department seemed to be all over the news this summer on WSBT (channel 22). First there was a Hometown Living interview with Professor Shahir Rizk and then there was a two-part series as part of Operation Education. The latter featured Biological Sciences major Elizabeth Hayes and Biochemistry major Alissa Sonnenberg talking about their research and goals. Sonnenberg is pictured above in a still shot captured from the second video link of the WSBT broadcast. Please check out and share these three exciting, informative, and short news items using the links below.
Operation Education: Important summer research happening on quiet IU South Bend campus
Operation Education: Women still underrepresented in STEM fields
Friday, August 2, 2024
In Honor of Instructor Clark Hartford
Monday, May 20, 2024
Summer Research Begins for LSAMP Students
Summer research begins for our biology and chemistry LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation) students who posed today with chemistry professors Muna and Rizk after a group meeting and pizza lunch. Students are pictured left to right (with their research mentor in parentheses) as front row Cordelia Bennett (Dr. Clark), Joey Malkovsky (Dr. Rizk), Edwin Cortez (Dr. Muna) and back row Guillermo Cardenas (Dr. Clark), Moses Nyirongo (Dr. Clear), Perla Diaz (Dr. Marr). Each student is financially supported by a summer LSAMP grant funded by the National Science Foundation. Summer research is a valuable educational experience for students that gives them an edge in applying to graduate school programs and jobs. We hope that students and professors will have an enjoyable summer.
Monday, May 13, 2024
2024 Graduates and Awards
Constance J. Fox Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award*
Caroline Quinqiuo
Organic Chemistry Achievement Award*
Kristen Miller
Senior Excellence Award in Biochemistry*
Ashlei Sonnenberg
Joseph H. Ross Award for Outstanding Oral Presentations
Zahra Aljuboori
Gretchen Anderson Pathways Scholarship
Alexandra Ibarra
Luke Johnson
Kristen Miller
Carolyn & Lawrence Garber Summer Research Scholarship
Luke Johnson
Sunday, April 28, 2024
2024 IUSB Undergraduate Research Conference
Nikki Sweet (Chemistry, B.S.)
Megan Conn (Biochemistry, B.S.)
Dr. Muna (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Engineering a Fluorescent Biosensor for Real-time Monitoring of Ornithine in Bacterial Cultures
Zahra Aljuboori (Biochemistry, B.S.)
Morgan Underdue (Biochemistry, B.S.)
Dr. Rizk (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Zahra Aljuboori (Biochemistry, B.S.)
Dr. Rizk (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Emily Barrera (Biochemistry, B.S.)
Dr. Marr (Biological Sciences)