Nine Students Present Research at National Chemistry Conference
Posted On Thursday, April 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: American Chemical Society, biochemistry students, Chemistry, Dharni Vasudevan, New Orleans
Several chemistry and biochemistry students (including one 2012 graduate) recently presented their research at the April 7-11 National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society, which took place in New Orleans.
All nine Bowdoin students who applied to present were accepted, according to Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies Dharni ...
Sorting Out The Structure of A Parkinson’s Protein
Posted On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: American Chemical Society, Collin Stultz, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, MIT computational scientists
Clumps of proteins that accumulate in brain cells are a hallmark of neurological diseases such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Over the past several years, there has been much controversy over the structure of one of those proteins, known as alpha synuclein.
MIT computational scientists have now modeled the ...
Greg Voth to Receive American Chemical Society’s Theoretical Chemistry Award
Posted On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ILLINOIS Tags: American Chemical Society, Gregory Voth, Multiscale course graining, Theoretical chemistry
The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society has awarded its 2013 Award in Theoretical Chemistry to the University of Chicago’s Gregory Voth.
The award cites Voth “for the development and application of powerful new theoretical and computational methods in the study of biomolecules, liquids, materials and quantum mechanical systems.”
Voth ...