SEMINAR
PROGRAM
2008-2009
Seminar:
"Reactivity
of Gem-Iodoacetyl-Perfluoro-Alkylethane: Novel Methodology for the
Synthesis of Perfluoroalkyl and Trifluoromethyl-Heterocyclic Compounds",
by Dr. Salem El-Kharrat, post-doctoral fellow, University of Montpellier.
On Wednesday October 8, 2008;
at 4:00 pm. Room 101 Chemistry. All are welcome.
NEWS
Dr.
Bilal Kaafarani receives American
Chemical Society (ACS) grant
Dr.
Bilal R. Kaafarani received a $65,000 grant from the Petroleum Research
Fund (PRF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS), funding the project
entitled "Design and Synthesis of Novel Pyrene Discotics
and Their Investigation in Organic Photovoltaic Cells".
This project is funded for the next three years (Jan 1, 2008 - Aug
31, 2011). Congratulations!
New
faculty member joins Chemistry
Dr.
Digamabara Patra
joined the Chemistry Department as a new assistant professor. Born
in Gambhariguda, Kalahandi, Orissa, India, he received his B.Sc.,
M.Sc. and M.Phil. in
Chemistry from Sambalpur University, Orissa, India. He then obtained
his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
in 2001. He joined the University of Basel, Switzerland as a Postdoctoral
Fellow in 2001. Then he received the Alexander von Humboldt Research
Fellowship in 2002 and moved to Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany.
In 2003, he visited the "Katholiekie" University of Leuven,
Belgium in a Europe Research Fellowship. Afterwards, he joined the
National Institute of Natural Sciences (Okazaki), followed by Waseda
University (Tokyo) in Japan as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan
Society for the Promotion of Sciences from 2004 to 2006. He worked
as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Physics, Waseda University
Tokyo from 2006 to 2007. His research interest is in Physical Chemistry
and Applied Spectroscopy where he gives emphasis on fluorescence
spectroscopy, imaging, probing, and single molecule studies.
