UH Chemist is One of America's Rising Stars in Science

April 25, 2008 - A University of Houston chemist has been honored as one of America’s most promising young scientists for research that ultimately could lead to breakthroughs in solar cells and memory devices such as flash drives.

Vassiliy Lubchenko, assistant professor of chemistry, researches the electronic structure of amorphous materials – a category that includes glass, porcelain and plastics. He is one of only 16 recipients in the nation of the coveted Beckman Young Investigator Award. The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announced the 2008 winners this month. [More]

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Simplifying Manufacture of Drugs, Plastics Earns UH Chemist Top Honor

April 14, 2008 - Simplifying the process for forming compounds that can be used in many everyday products, such as pharmaceuticals and plastics, has earned one University of Houston chemist a prestigious honor.

Olafs Daugulis, assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UH, is among 118 outstanding young scientists, mathematicians and economists in the United States and Canada to be named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow for 2008. This distinction is bestowed upon exceptional researchers early in their academic careers. Thirty-five of these fellows have gone on to win the Nobel Prize since the Sloan Foundation first began these awards in 1955. [More]

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The Department Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

March 25, 2008 - The Department of Chemistry welcomes its newest faculty members, Dr. Jeremy May and Dr. Ognjen Miljanić.

Dr. May received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology while working in the lab of Professor Brian Stoltz. He then pursued postdoctoral research in the lab of Professor Samuel Danishefsky. Dr. May's research efforts include the development of novel reaction methods catalyzed by transition metals and the total synthesis of natural products for further study. [More]

Ognjen Miljanić was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of California, Berkeley where he worked with Professor K. Peter C. Vollhardt on the synthesis and characterization of novel aromatic hydrocarbons. He subsequently moved to UCLA, where he conducted postdoctoral research in the lab of Professor J. Fraser Stoddart. Dr. Miljanić's research at UCLA focused on the development of mild synthetic methods suitable for use in supramolecular chemistry. [More]

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