Chemistry News
Bradley Wile, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, co-organized and presided over a symposium with Amelia Anderson-Wile, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, in the Chemical Education division at the 245th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans, LA.The symposium, titled "Increasing Student Comprehension and Retention in the Undergraduate Organic or Inorganic Curriculum," included presentations by over 20 contributors from around the country and spanned a day...
Bradley Wile, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, co-organized and presided over a symposium with Amelia Anderson-Wile, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, in the Chemical Education division at the 245th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans, LA.The symposium, titled "Increasing Student Comprehension and Retention in the Undergraduate Organic or Inorganic Curriculum," included presentations by over 20 contributors from around the country and spanned a day...
Two Ohio Northern University students have been selected as Goldwater Scholars by the trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. This marks the ninth consecutive year that ONU students have been recognized by the trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. During this time, 10 ONU students have been selected as Goldwater scholars, and five have received honorable mention.Morgan Hammer, a senior...
Two Ohio Northern University students have been selected as Goldwater Scholars by the trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. This marks the ninth consecutive year that ONU students have been recognized by the trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. During this time, 10 ONU students have been selected as Goldwater scholars, and five have received honorable mention.Morgan Hammer, a senior...
Drs. Bradley Wile, Ph.D., and Amelia Anderson-Wile, Ph.D., assistant professors of chemistry, were recognized by the Younger Chemist’s Committee of the American Chemical Society (ACS) with a Leadership Development award. The award is made was made on the basis of scientific merit to 15 people nationwide, and was competitive in nature. The award covered the cost of travel, accommodation and registration at the three-day ACS Leadership Institute in Dallas, Texas, from Jan. 25-27, 2013. This...
Allison McCarthy, a senior in chemistry from New Washington, Ohio, will be taking part in the 245th ACS (American Chemical Society) National Meeting in New Orleans, La., April 7-11. Her poster presentation, “Hetero Diels-Alder reactions of 3-formylchromones” will be part of the Division of Organic Chemistry session “New Reactions and Methodology, Heterocycles and Aromatics,” held the evening of April 10.McCarthy also received a travel award from the Division of Organic Chemistry to attend the...
Christopher Spiese, Ohio Northern University assistant professor of chemistry, is working on the development of a new technique for measuring dissolved phosphorus in freshwaters that could introduce a new testing method that will allow for a more cost-efficient and quicker way to monitor watersheds.Working with ONU student Joanne Berry, a junior biochemistry major from Brunswick, Ohio, Spiese reached a breakthrough in 2011 when a novel reagent (a substance that, because of the reactions it...
Dr. Bruce E. MaryanoffDr. Bruce E. Maryanoff will deliver Ohio Northern University’s 2012 Kritzler Lecture, titled “A Story of Adventure: The Discovery of the Drug TOPAMAX® Topiramate for Treating Epilepsy and Migraines,” in The Freed Center for Performing Arts on Monday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. Maryanoff discovered and championed TOPAMAX® topiramate, a unique sugar sulfamate derivative, which is sold worldwide for treating epilepsy and migraine headache. Topiramate is a main component of...
A collaborative study involving ONU’s Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the College of Pharmacy has resulted in a paper published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. The paper reports on the use of jewelweed to prevent poison ivy rash.Titled “The effectiveness of jewelweed, Impatiens capensis, the related cultivar I. balsamina and the component, lawsone in preventing post poison ivy exposure contact dermatitis...
An article by ONU faculty, students and alumni is being published in the August, 2012, edition of Tetrahedron Letters, the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry.Titled “A direct conversion of carboxylic acids to methylthiomethyl esters using a microwave-assisted pummerer rearrangement with dimethylsulfoxide,” the article is authored by Allison McCarthy, a senior in chemistry from New Washington, Ohio, Russell Spatney, BS ’12 in...
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