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May 7, 2008 - Feature in Syracuse University Magazine

The work of Prof. Rob Doyle and his student research team is featured in the Spring 2008 edition of Syracuse University Magazine for their advances in the fight against diabetes and ovarian cancer. » full story

May 5, 2008 - Asefa Receives an NSF Grant for Three Years

Professor Asefa receives a new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant from the Ceramics Program, Division of Materials Research at NSF to develop novel nanostructured and nanoporous ceramics materials with tunable dielectric and catalytic properties by self-assembly. These materials will be potential building blocks in future computer chips, nanoelectronics and photonics devices as well as robust catalysts for various chemical transformations. Asefa’s award will be for three years and it will boost Asefa’s group research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology, in addition to his currently NSF CAREER, Syracuse CoE, and Empire State Development Corporation-funded research projects.

May 1, 2008 - Syracuse CoE Awards CARTI Grant

Profs. Luk and Sponsler (Chemistry) and Ren (Biomedical Engineering) have received a Syracuse Center of Excellence CARTI project award to support a highly interdisciplinary project that integrates laser holography with organic synthesis and materials fabrication to develop sensors that can signal the presence of dilute aqueous-borne toxins through optical changes that reflect mechanical adjustments in the materials – all without elaborate instrumentation. This project also uses the fundamentally new principle of water-in-water emulsion for new biomaterials and applications.

April 28, 2008 - Remembrance Scholars Announced

Congratulations to Amy Otuonye, chemistry major, who is one of 35 undergraduate students named a 2008-09 Remembrance Scholar. The award is considered the most prestigious scholarship awarded by the University and is a means of remembrance for the 270 people who were killed in the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, of which 35 SU students were aboard. » full story

April 18, 2008 - Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Reseach Awards

Undergraduates Lindsay Avery and Amy Otuonye have both been honored with Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Student Awards at the Norma Slepecky Memorial Seminar. Lindsay was awarded first prize for her work with Prof. Totah entitled "Using Functionalized Dihydropyrones to Control Diastereoselectivity in the Dihydropyrone Diels-Alder Reaction". In recognition of her research accomplishments, Lindsay received a $750.00 prize. Lindsay graduated from Syracuse in December 2007 with Bachelor's degrees in both chemistry and biochemistry. She will begin graduate study in clinical pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University this fall. Amy, who works with Prof. Asefa, was awarded a recognition prize for her project entitled "Multifunctional Nanomaterials for the Absorption and Release of Drugs." Amy is completing her junior year, and will be traveling abroad this summer as part of the International Research Experience for Students program to the Graz Institute of Technology in Graz, Austria. Dr. Norma Slepecky was a distinguished researcher, an advocate for undergraduate student research and mentoring, and a strong supporter of women in science and engineering.

April 15, 2008 - Ouellette Honored with Young Investigator Award

Wayne Ouellette, postdoctoral associate in the group of Distinguished Prof. Jon Zubieta, has been honored with a Young Investigator Award given by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Wayne will be giving an award presentation at the Philadelphia ACS meeting this coming August.

April 7, 2008 - Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Congratulations to Troy Lam, who has been honored by the Graduate School as a recipient of an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The program recognizes those TAs who have made distinguished contributions by demonstrating excellence in significant instructional capacities. Graduate students are nominated by their departments, and selected by a university-wide committee of faculty.

March 11, 2008 - Enitiative Project funding awarded to Doyle

Professor Doyle has been awarded a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation thorough the Enitiative program. The award was for a proposal entitled "Non-invasive oral insulin delivery" and is for two years. A write-up on the award and review of the research for which it will be used appeared in a recent issue of Central New York Business Journal. » full story

January 17, 2008 - Asefa Invited to Write Multiple Book Chapters

Prof. Asefa has been invited by Wiley-VCH to write a chapter, entitled "Spherical & Anisotropic Non-Magnetic Core-Shell Nanomaterials," for Vol. 3 of a ten-volume series of books, "Nanomaterials for the Life Sciences", 2008. Asefa was also invited to contribute a chapter to “Heterogeneous Catalysis Research Progress," 2008, published by Nova Publishers in New York. Prof. Asefa will also be serving on the Advisory Board for the International Symposium, Proceedings, and Book on Nanoporous Materials V, 2008.

January 9, 2008 - New Course solves century-old problem in stereochemistry/symmetry

A new course (Chemistry at the Interfaces) carried out in chemistry department by Luk, Boddy and Doyle solved a century-old problem in stereochemistry/symmetry. Ever since 1901 when symmetry labels were applied to molecules and crystallography, there is a set of symmetry labels (T, O and I) that exist theoretically, but it has been extremely difficult to imagine or visualize any real objects or molecules that fulfill this set of symmetry. Several Nobel laureates published proposed structures that are either incorrect or less than rigorous. In this class, we made a serendipitous discovery on how to design objects, as well as molecules, that satisfy rigorously the requirement of symmetry T, O or I. This work entitled "Chiral Molecules with Polyhedral T, O or I Symmetry: Theoretical Solution to A Difficult Problem in Stereochemistry" by Sri Kamesh Narasimhan, Xiaoying Lu and Yan-Yeung Luk* will be appear in Chirality in 2008. Other unsolved problems will be explored and studied in this class in Spring 2008. » course info

December 11, 2007 - Oral-insulin paper by Doyle Group generates worldwide interest

A paper entitled "Vitamin B12 as a carrier for the oral delivery of Insulin" has been cited in numerous media outlets across multiple countries. It has been seen on CBS, NBC and FOX in the US and appeared in the National review of Medicine (Canada), In-Pharma Technology Magazine (UK) and appeared in newspapers in countries such as India, Holland, Norway and Australia. It has also been cited by Wall Street analysts as impacting certain stock prices. In addition the paper has been listed by the 'Faculty of 1000' as a 'must-read' article and it has been selected as a spotlight article by Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. It is also a cover and most accessed article of ChemMedChem (the only communication to be so). The work is the thesis project of Prof. Doyle's graduate students Amanda Petrus.

December 6, 2007 - Most-Accessed Article

A paper entitled "Tailored Core-Shell-Shell Nanostructures: Sandwiching Gold Nanoparticles between Silica Cores and Tunable Silica Shells" by Yan-Li Shi and Teddy Asefa is one of the most-accessed articles published in the ACS Journal, Langmuir, in the third quarter of 2007 and is being featured on the journal's Most-Accessed Articles web site. Dr. Yan-Li is a postdoctoral fellow working in Prof. Asefa's group. » view articles

December 3, 2007 - Asefa Receives Additional Funding from Syracuse CoE

Prof. Asefa, along with his collaborators, Prof. Eric Schiff (Physics Department) and Anthony Terrinoni (Antek, Inc., located in Syracuse), received additional funding from the Center of Excellence. This seed-grant will help Asefa and his collaborators develop nanostructured materials based efficient solar cells, which have potential for being future alternative and renewable energy sources.

October 21, 2007 - Doyle Group Develops Promising Oral Insulin

Prof. Robert Doyle, grad students Amanda Petrus and Anthony Vortherms, and Timothy J. Fairchild, assistant professor of exercise science, have designed, tested and patented a new method of oral insulin delivery that can potentially help reduce daily insulin injections for those with diabetes. » full story

October 2, 2007 - Luk Awarded NSF Grant

A research initiative led by Professor Luk that integrates disciplines across different departments has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their proposal: Porous Multi-Functional Interfaces for Controlling Biofoulings. Centered at the ability to make new molecules by organic synthesis and to fabricate new materials by water-in-water emulsions, this research will build functional three-dimensional materials that control unwanted biological interactions on a wide variety of surfaces that are in contact with aqueous fluid. This project is part of a bigger research effort that includes biosensor development (Funded by CARTI) and heterogeneous bio-catalysis.