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ACS Celebrates the Achievements of Women Scientists
Women’s History Month honors the contributions of women to American culture and society. To celebrate, ACS is recognizing distinguished women scientists, including Nebraska's own Rachel Lloyd.
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New PLU officers
We are glad to announce the new PLU officers: President Amber Schuster, Vice President Sheryl Sharma, Secretary Jacob Jones, and Treasurer Micah Jeppesen! We are grateful to have been able to serve PLU and the chemistry department and know that the new officers will do an excellent job in the upcoming year.
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Dorian Bobbett, a junior in chemical engineering from Lincoln, conducts an experiment in a newly remodeled lab on the fourth floor of Hamilton Hall.
Chemistry department rolling out lab expansions, upgrades for students
As the enrollment of Husker chemistry students began climbing, Jody Redepenning understood that the number of hoods and sashes would need to increase in kind.
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Hemp-based composite could facilitate soil-free farming
Nebraska chemist Barry Cheung and his colleagues recently introduced an approach that chemically couples a structure-granting component of hemp fibers, lignin, with “linking molecules” that fortify the resulting biocomposite. The team proceeded to grow both Daikon radishes and green peas from the biocomposite, a promising sign for its potential as a viable, eco-friendly growth medium.
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Checco earns NIH research award
James Checco and his research group earned a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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