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A teaching assistant instructing undergraduate students in the newly renovated organic chemistry labs.

Student in the Sinitskii research laboratory

New technique yielding insights, potential ihibitors of disease-related enzyme

If serine racemase is the magician that for decades disguised its trick — inverting an amino acid to assist learning and memory but also levitate risks of Alzheimer’s and stroke — Husker chemists, David Berkowitz and his group, just snuck a high-res camera behind the curtain.
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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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