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Career in Chemistry: Exstrom builds up students, UNK’s research reputation

January 12, 2018 by gottulatm

Career in Chemistry: Exstrom builds up students, UNK’s research reputation

By JAN TREFFER THOMPSON UNK Communications Inside a University of Nebraska at Kearney laboratory, two chemical elements have just become tungsten selenide. Argon that surrounded the reaction has just been purged from the container. It’s time for a heat treatment. Later, scientists will check the compound’s composition in a Raman spectrometer and use an x-ray diffractometer to test its crystalline structure. If all the crystals are oriented in the same direction, the compound’s electrons … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 2017/2018, Faculty, Natural & Social Sciences, New Frontiers, News Tagged With: aerogels, Argon, Chemistry, Christopher Exstrom, Crystalline, iron pyrite, Nanocrystalline, research, Semiconductor nonoparticle synthesis, Solar Cell

Mahesh Pattabiraman gets $50k grant for non-opioid geriatric pain management

October 18, 2017 by gottulatm

Mahesh Pattabiraman gets $50k grant for non-opioid geriatric pain management

Name: Mahesh Pattabiraman Title: Associate Professor of chemistry College: Natural and Social Sciences Education: Postdoctoral Fellow, Florida International University, 2009; Ph.D., organic chemistry, University of Miami, 2006; Master of Science, inorganic chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, 2001; Bachelor of Science, chemistry, University of Madras, 1999. Years at UNK: Five Area of research/specialization: Organic and inorganic supramolecular chemistry, photochemistry, host-guest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Natural & Social Sciences, News Tagged With: Chemistry, Geriatric Pain, Grant, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Non-opioid, sh Pattabiraman, UNMC

Allen Thomas awarded $399K for brain tumor drug delivery work

September 29, 2017 by gottulatm

Allen Thomas awarded $399K for brain tumor drug delivery work

By TODD GOTTULA UNK Communications KEARNEY – Allen Thomas has received a $399,000 National Institutes of Health award for his research on treating brain cancer and selectively delivering drugs to brain tumors. An assistant professor of chemistry in the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s College of Natural and Social Sciences, Thomas is recognized for his project titled “Identification of New LAT-1 Transporter Substrates for Drug Delivery.” One of the challenges for treating brain … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Natural & Social Sciences, News Tagged With: Allen Thomas, Brain Tumor, Cancer, Chemistry, Drug Delivery, LAT-1, National Institutes of Health, research, Transporter Substrates

From family farm to Harvard Medical School, Rachel Flaugh’s journey continues

May 4, 2017 by gottulatm

From family farm to Harvard Medical School, Rachel Flaugh’s journey continues

By SARA GIBONEY UNK Communications KEARNEY – Rachel Flaugh’s love of science began as a child on her family’s farm with a curiosity about the health of animals. That curiosity took her on a journey to explore the medical field as a certified nursing assistant in high school and as a chemistry major at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Her journey will continue as she heads to Harvard Medical School. “I was always inquisitive about nature,” said Flaugh, 21, of Hartington. “My … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Natural & Social Sciences, News Tagged With: Chemistry, Hartington, Harvard, Medical School, Peggy Abels, pre-med, Rachel Flaugh

Fluorescence: Cao studies hydrogen sulfide as cure for neurodegenerative diseases

October 25, 2016 by gottulatm

Fluorescence: Cao studies hydrogen sulfide as cure for neurodegenerative diseases

By KELLY BARTLING Hydrogen sulfide is an interesting compound. H2S. A colorless gas, it’s that stinky rotten egg smell. It’s toxic and volatile – can make humans and animals sick or it can explode. But chemists such as University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Haishi Cao know the human body produces small amounts of H2S as a signaling molecule. As a top university researcher in bio-organic chemistry, Cao may one day find the right amount of hydrogen sulfide that in the brain could be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 2016/2017, Natural & Social Sciences, News Tagged With: Chemistry, Fluorescence, Haishi Cao, New Frontiers

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