Dr. Heinecke was selected to give a research talk to a national audience at the ACS meeting in New Orleans this March. She spoke on the "Role of alkali metal counterions on size of para-mercaptobenzoic acid capped gold clusters." Co-authors include Loyola students Elysse June, Elisse Ward-Dones, Noor F. Cheema, and Sarah G. McMahon. Congratulations, Dr. Heinecke!
At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Dr. Duggar was named to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Forensic Science. The position is a five-year term. Congratulations!
The American Chemical Society's Spring meeting is being hosted in New Orleans this year, which provides an unparalleled opportunity for students to interact with thousands of chemistry professionals to network and share ideas. This year, LoyNO Chemistry is represented by 11 different student presentations in seven different research laboratories!
Congratulations to alumna Dayla Rich (c/o 2017, CHFS) on graduating from the University of South Carolina with her PhD in Analytical Chemistry and joining the FBI’s Huntsville laboratory as a Chemist!
Congratulations to alumna Julia Falco (c/o 2016, CHFS ) on graduating from Boston College with her PhD in Chemical Biology!
Congratulations to alumna Kanda Borgognoni (c/o 2016, CHEB ) on graduating from Colorado State University with her PhD and joining the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow!
Dr. Allyn Schoeffler was awarded $89,000 from the Louisiana Board of Regents' Research Competitiveness Subprogram grant to study molecular determinants of specialization in bacterial topoisoemerases from extreme environments. The funding will support Dr. Schoeffler’s undergraduate research in biochemistry, in which research students will investigate how molecular machines function in hot and cold environments through wet-lab and online bioinformatic analyses.
Congratulations to alumna Mary Claire Kramer (c/o 2017, CHEB) on graduating from the JD program at Loyola University College of Law! Mary Claire continues to work in the Immigration Section of the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic for Social Justice.
Dr. Anna S. Duggar has a new publication on the use of plasma cleaning for the preparation of soil minerals for forensic comparison by photon and electron microscopy. The article was published in the Journal of Forensic Science (Duggar & Kubic, 66: 1452-1463) July 2021