Highlights and Events

• The Department received an Undergraduate Research Fellowship from Eli Lilly and Company. This grant was used to support the summer research of Nicholas Takebayashi during the summer of 2011. Nick, a professional chemistry major, and his advisor, Dr. Bryan Lynch, will be visiting Eli Lilly and Company in mid August, where Nick will have the opportunity to present his summer research and meet with Lilly scientists.
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• The Department now has a new ThermoFinnigan TSQ Quantum Ultra Mass Spectrometer . This is a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (MS) interfaced to a ThermoFinnigan Surveyor high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) system, and is capable of performing LC-MS analysis. The instrument was financed through a NOAA grant written by Drs. Kaufman, Batema and Hochwender (Biology) with support from the Kresge Foundation Science Initiative Challenge Grant.