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. 

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. 

Hometown Living interview 

Operation Education: Important summer research happening on quiet IU South Bend campus

Operation Education: Women still underrepresented in STEM fields