Accomplishments: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Nemanja Novakovic (Sciences and Honors) is the 2017 UNLV undergraduate recipient of the Regents' Scholar Award. The award is bestowed upon one undergraduate student from each NSHE institution for their academic achievements, leadership ability, and service contributions. Each honoree receives a $5,000 stipend.
Novakovic is pursuing a double major…
Jacqueline Phan and her mentor, Ernesto Abel-Santos (both Chemistry and Biochemistry), placed second and won the People's Choice Award in the three-minute thesis (3MT) competition at the Western Association of Graduate School's (WAGS) 2017 conference, earlier this month. In November, under professor Abel-Santos’ mentorship, Phan placed first…
Daniel Mast and Bradley Childs (Chemistry) won awards in the 2016 Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), office of fuel cycle technologies.
Mast was awarded a first-place prize in the open competition in the category of nuclear science and engineering. His award-winning research paper, “…
Biochemistry professor Ernesto Abel-Santos and former postdoctoral scholar Amber Howerton were recently issued patent #9,079,935, which describes a novel compound designed to prevent Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infections.
Frederic Poineau (Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently received a three-year, $640,000 Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) grant. The grant supports his work investigating the thermochemistry of used fuel zirconium cladding components chlorides as well as their activation products and residual radionuclide metal chlorides. The research…
Balakrishnan Naduvalath (Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently published an article titled, "The Geometric Phase Controls Ultracold Chemistry," in the July 30 issue of Nature Communications. The research demonstrates a new interference mechanism in ultracold chemical reactions, one which has important technological…
Balakrishnan Naduvalath (Chemistry) coauthored a paper, Quantum Dynamics of CO-H2 in Full Dimensionality, that appeared in Nature Communications in March.
Ernesto Abel-Santos (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and his team have received a five-year, $3.25 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a more potent and stable drug to prevent clostridium difficile, or C. difficile. The grant is an R01, or research project grant, which is the original and historically oldest grant…
Pradip Bhowmik (Chemistry) was named a 2014 Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Those selected have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in chemistry and made important contributions to ACS, the world's largest scientific society. He was recognized at the ACS Fellows ceremony and reception in August during the society's 248th…
Clemens Heske (Chemistry) was part of a research team that received an award through the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) hydrogen and fuel cells program. The award is for contributions to the overall efforts of the program and to recognize achievements in specific areas.
Heske, Todd Deutsch (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), and Tadashi…
Natalie Schibrowsky (Chemistry) has been named the American Marketing Association's Student Marketer of the Year. President of the UNLV chapter of the AMA, she was selected for the award from the 9,986 AMA student members. The award, selected by the AMA students, focuses attention on the varieties of ways AMA collegiate members demonstrate…
Radiochemistry has seven doctoral students who have received fellowships in 2013 and 2014. They are:
Jamie Daum and Daniel Mast, who received graduate fellowships through the U.S. Department of Energy's integrated university program.
Marc Fitzgerald, who received an internship through the Livermore Graduate Scholar Program and a nuclear forensics…