Interested in Being a Chemistry Teacher?
Keep This in Mind!
The American Chemical Society (ACS) offers scholarships to support those who want to be secondary school chemistry teachers. The ACS-Hach Post Baccalaureate Teacher Scholarship recipients must be pursuing a Master’s degree in education or becoming certified as a chemistry/science teacher. You can find information here (http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/scholarships/acs-hach-baccalaureate-teacher-scholarship.html).
Chemistry Group Comps Presentation
Friday, April 1, 2016
3:30 p.m.
Boliou 104
Milstein Group:
Clara Ledsky, Jack Lee, Nathan Rockey, Jumannah Flowers, Margaret Schaff, Richard Liu
It’s a team effort: Controlling hydrogen management through metal-ligand cooperation
The preparation of metal catalysts that are both efficient and able to perform unique transformations under mild reaction conditions with little to no waste presents a major challenge in organometallic chemistry. David Milstein has made important headway in this field, developing metal complexes that utilize metal-ligand cooperation as a means to accomplish this greener chemistry with ruthenium and earth-abundant iron catalysts. In particular, the complexes mediate organic oxidation or reduction reactions by generating or consuming hydrogen gas, thereby avoiding toxic and/or wasteful stoichiometric reagents. These strategies also have important implications for using hydrogen as a fuel source—an extraordinarily desirable alternative to current fossil fuels.
Periodic Table Meets This Week
Periodic Table meets this Thursday in the LDC. We meet at noon in the chemistry hallway and walk over together, or you can join us there. If you are off board, the department will cover your lunch. Note: We do not have one of the dining rooms reserved this week.