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Dr. Digambara Patra's research highlighted in natureINDIA
The prestigious natureINDIA magazine highlighted the article: "Nanoparticle assembled microcapsules for application as pH and ammonia sensor", by Chemistry professor Dr. Digambara Patra and his co-workers, as a featured research work. The work involves senior Chemistry student Nour Awwad (June 2011 B.Sc. graduate), and is in collaboration with Dr. Rohit Kumar Rana and Dr. Arlin Jose Amali from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India. The highlight says: "Researchers have designed a new type of microcapsule-embedded fluorescent molecule that can monitor the concentration of hydrogen ions and ammonia present in environmental and biological samples. Ammonia is a toxic chemical that is released into the environment by farming and chemical industries". Read article.
2nd Organic Chemistry Competition
Under the patronage of the Lebanese Ministry of Education and the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO, the American University of Beirut announces the organization of the 2012 Organic Competition, which will be held on February 7, 2012. The competition is open to ALL undergraduate students in Lebanon and the MENA region (two students per team) who have completed Organic I and Organic II courses. Interested students should send the names and email addresses of the team members to Prof. Bilal R. Kaafarani at: bilal.kaafarani@aub.edu.lb The deadline for application is on January 7, 2012. Teams from a number of regional universities have already registered and pledged participation, such as Bilkent University (Turkey), Sultan Qaboos University (Sultanate of Oman). A team from the American University of Sharjah will be registering soon.
Elizabeth Sepetdjian receives Best Talk Award
Miss Elizabeth Sepetdjian, research associate in the laboratory of Dr. Najat Saliba (Chemistry Department)
was awarded the "Best Talk Award" at the 2nd KAS CRSL Conference - Research Vision, held on May 14, 2011.
The award was presented by Dr. Youssef Mouneimneh, director of KAS CRSL. Congratulations!
Chemistry students receive University Awards
Chemistry student Habib Baydoun received the Makhlouf Haddadin Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student.
Chemistry graduate student Fadi Jradi received the Abdel-Hadi Debs Endowment Award for Academic Excellence.
Chemistry graduate student Tharallah Shoker received the Makhlouf Haddadin Award for Outstanding Graduate Student.
The prizes were bestowed upon the awardees by Provost Ahmad Dallal and Dean Patrick McGreevy. Congratulations!
Dr. Tarek Ghaddar receives research grant
Dr. Tarek Ghaddar recently received a research award from the Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources. The award amounts to USD 15,000 as research funds for a project entitled “Novel Cyclometalated Ruthenium Complexes and Electrolyte Systems for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”.
The first aim is to synthesize a new class of cyclometalated ruthenium complexes that will serve as dyes for the fabrication of dye sensitized solar cells. These complexes will act as strong light harvesting systems which might increase the efficiency of photo-to-current conversion to values above 10-11%. The second aim is to synthesize a new class of redox shuttle electrolytes based on the thiol/di-sulfide chemistry, in addition to exploring different electrocatalysts for such electrolyte on the cathode electrode.
Congratulations!
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Dr. Antoine Ghauch and his students publish feature COVER article
Dr. Antoine Ghauch recently published a paper entitled “Degradation of Aqueous Carbamazepine in Ultrasonic/Fe0/H2O2 systems” in the Chemical Engineering Journal (Chem. Eng. J. 172, 18-27). The article was elected as a “featured article”, and was selected for the cover page of the August 2011 volume (Volume 172, Issue 1). The paper highlights the research work of two senior undergraduate students: Habib Baydoun and Peter Dermesropian. Congratulations!
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Chemistry Distinction and High Distinction Students - 2011
Mr. Hisham Ghandour received his B.Sc. in Chemistry with High Distinction. Miss Farah Faytrouni, Miss Rasha Hamzeh and Mr. Omar Osman received their B.Sc. with Distinction. Congratulations!
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