This year's Three Minute Thesis competition winners for the University of South Carolina have been announced. The first-place winner moves on to the regional contest, hosted by the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools. The 3MT competition challenges graduate students to explain their research to a non-expert audience.
He received an award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS/NIH) for his project entitled "Pilot Project: Targeting Autophosphorylating Mutants of KRAS by Covalent Inhibition" for a total amount of $25,000 for the duration of September 9 2024 to May 31, 2025.
He received an award from the National Science Foundation - Environmental Chemical Sciences for his project entitled "Unraveling Chemical Sink Processes of Ammonia: Insights from Stable Isotopes" for a total amount of $409,519.
They received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their project entitled "NSF Graduate Research Fellowship: Grace Thaggard" for a total amount of $22,338.
She received an award from the Department of Energy (DOE) for her project entitled "Al-enabled investigation of mechanisms for multiscale ion transport in polymer electrolytes as anion-exchange membranes" for a total amount of $72,172.
The University of South Carolina Career Center is honored to present awards to our Chemistry Department faculty for being Career Influencers: Silvia Atim Brian Benicewicz Mark Berg Way Fountain Laura Lanni Alison Luscomb Daniel Madukwe Nick Truex Natalia Shustova Amy Taylor Perry Sheryl Wiskur Aaron Vannucci
He was recognized among the top 250 professors in the country on Circleln, an organization that works to improve retention and graduation rates.
When he was in the tenth grade, Shrihan Ganesh Babu attended a premedical conference where he got to insert a breathing tube into a mannequin. This common ICU procedure, called intubation, saves millions of lives each year – but it comes with a risk.
He received an award from the Department of Energy (DOE) for his project entitled "Al-enabled investigation of mechanisms for multiscale ion transport in polymer electrolytes as anion-exchange membranes" for a total amount of $100,688.
She won the prestigious Joseph W. Richards Fellowship from the Electrochemical Society (ECS)
She received an award from the National Science Foundation for her project entitled "Preparation of Stimuli-Responsive Materials with Directed Photophysical Behavior" for a total amount of $400,148.00.
She has been appointed to serve as an Associate Editor for ECS Sensors Plus, a journal of the Electrochemical Society.
He received a supplemental award of $49,945 for his project "Evaluating the Atmospheric Dynamics of Nitrate and Sulfate in Southern New England in Response to Emission Regulations" from the National Science Foundation.
She received an award from the National Science Foundation for her project entitled "Collaborative Research: Drinking Water Safety: Occurrence, Formation, and Genotoxicity of New Halocyclopentadiene Disinfection By-Products" for a total amount of $420,000.
He received an award from the National Science Foundation for his project entitled " Achieving Structurally Indexed Measures of Nanocrystal Surface Reactivity Toward Advanced Applications" for a total amount of $530,909.
They have been promoted to the Professional - Track Faculty rank of Senior Instructor.
Congratulations to the Fall 2024 Durig Travel Award Winners; Adam Baer, Sachini Dissanayake, & Mengxiong Qiao!
He received an NSF Award for a collaborative project entitled "Elucidating Mechanistic Processes Governing Interaction of Viruses with Non-Biological Indoor Built Surfaces" from the NSF starting August 1, 2024 for the amount of $398,481. The PI is Dr. Shamia Hoque from Civil and Environmental Engineering at USC.
Qun Lu’s quest to develop an effective drug treatment for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases has brought him to the University of South Carolina. Lu, who joined USC in January as the new SmartState Endowed Chair in Neurotherapeutics Chemical Biology, has developed, with his research team, novel therapeutic molecules that have demonstrated effectiveness in rodent models that mimic Alzheimer’s disease.
Batteries are becoming an important part of the world’s energy system, but their ability to recharge may be too limited. Morgan Stefik, a chemistry professor in the University of South Carolina College of Arts and Sciences, says typical batteries recharge only a few hundred times, or a few thousand at most. That means more batteries must be made through recycling or new manufacturing.
Congratulations to our 2024 USC Graduate School Award Winners, Md. Moinul Islam, Joseph Kuchta, Hao Liu, & Julian Stetzler!
Congratulations to our 2024 Durig Travel Award Winners, Coley Beavers, Jennii Burrell, Oluebube Ezenwafor, & Md Moinul Islam!
She received a grant from the ACS-PRF titled"Understanding Substituent Effects on Silicon Phthalocyanines towards their Future Application as Photocatalysts" for a total of $125,000.
He received a grant from the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the NSF titled, "Unraveling Novel Roles for Iron-Sulfur Cluster Trafficking Proteins in FE-S Cluster and Cell Envelope Biogenesis." The grant is funded for four years for a total of $1,117,707.
He received a Garnet Apple Teaching Award, which honors USC's exceptional faculty who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to best teaching practices and an ongoing record of developing innovative strategies to enhance student learning in their courses.