Tom Chang has been promoted to full Professor, and Sean Johnson to Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2013.
They both deserve congratulations for these well-deserved promotions.
Also in the news...
Regioselective C-C Bond Cleavage
Doctoral student Caleb Allpress in the Berreau lab has published studies of water-dependent regioselective aliphatic carbon-carbon bond cleavage in JACS.
Graduate student Laurel Gui (Hevel lab) shows in a recent Biochemistry paper that the identity of the peptide substrate can control what type of methylated product is formed.
Stephen Bialkowski has been chosen to be the new Editor-in-Chief for Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry. This is a top 10 journal in analytical chemistry with an impact factor rating of 3.9.
Doctoral student Vyacheslav Kuznetsov in the Hengge lab has published evidence for a novel metavanadate molecule at the active site of the phosphatase VHZ. Spotlighted by JACS.
One of our chemistry majors, Tyler Gish, was one of two USU Goldwater Scholars.
Shawn Helm, the undergrad in Dr. Edwin Antony's laboratory got an URCO grant.