Brasch Group News 2012
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November 2012: Undergraduate student Mary Waddington joins the group. Welcome Mary!
October 2012: Harishchandra, Rohan, Joe, Anthony, Andrew, and Dr. Brasch attend an Ohio Inorganic Weekend Conference at Wayne State University, Detroit. Rohan presents a talk, others present posters, and Andrew wins a Merck Index Handbook award for an outstanding poster!
August 2012: Alex is one of only two students selected from the KSU NSF-REU summer research program to give an oral presentation at The 9th Annual Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Akron. Well done Alex! Click here for more photos of Alex at the Symposium.
June 2012: Jeffrey Brown, who graduated with a BS (Biochemistry) in May, is accepted into Medical School at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. Congratulations Jeff!
June 2012: KSU undergraduate student Alexandria Lesak joins the Brasch Group. She is participating in the KSU NSF-REU summer research program for undergraduates this summer. The photo shows her working in a cell culture hood. Welcome Alex!
June 2012: Hanaa and Andy’s paper on the effects of ligand decomposition on the pseudo first-order profile of a ligand substitution reaction is published (New J. Chem. 2012, 36, 1408).
May 2012: The Brasch group is awarded a KSU College of Arts & Sciences Innovative Research Seed Award to develop intracellular vitamin B12-based imaging agents.
May 2012: Together with the McDonough group in Biological Sciences, the Brasch group is awarded a KSU College of Arts & Sciences Collaborative Research Award entitled “Biochemical Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis Cortex”.
April 2012: Awards for Brasch Group members:
- Jeffrey and David are awarded the prestigious Lubrizol Scholarship from the Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry.
- Andrew Hunt is awarded the Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry from the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry.
- Harishchandra is awarded the Taylor Scholarship for Graduate Research from the Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Harishchandra also receives an Honorable Mention for Graduate Teaching.
- Jeffrey Brown is awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Senior Leadership Award.
March 2012: The Brasch group is awarded a KSU Arts & Sciences Research Resources & Tools Incentive Award.
March 2012: Congratulations to Andrew Hunt who has been accepted into the Redox Biology NSF REU program at the University of Nebraska this summer!
March 2012: Former graduate student Dr. Riya Mukherjee accepts an Asst Professor position in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Science, Birbhum Institute of Engineering and Technology (BIET), Suri, India.
February 2012: Rohan and Noah’s cover page article on the reactions of cob(I)alamin with nitrite and nitrate is published in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (Europ. J. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 913).
January 2012: Harishchandra and Rohan present posters at the Bioinorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar in Ventura, California.
Dr. Brasch attends the Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference at the same location.
January 2012: Anthony Giovengo joins the group for his PhD studies. Welcome Anthony!
January 2012: Rohan successfully defends his candidacy proposal!