Tag: chemistry
Switzer wins ACS award
Dr. Jay A. Switzer, Donald L. Castleman Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla and a senior investigator in the UMR Materials Research Center, has won the 2006 American Chemical Society Midwest Award. The award will be presented at the ACS 2006 Midwest Regional Meeting in Quincy, Ill., in October.
Read More »Drinking water: make mine unleaded, says UMR chemist
The use of monochloramine to disinfect drinking water can cause harmful levels of lead in the water, says a University of Missouri-Rolla chemist. His research will be published in the May 15 issue of the journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Read More »Whitefield named chair of chemistry at UMR
Dr. Phil Whitefield, professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla and director of the UMR Center of Excellence for Aerospace Particulate Research, has been named chair of the chemistry department. The appointment took effect Sept. 1.
Read More »UMR chemist earns EPA award for "green" latex paint additive
University of Missouri-Rolla chemist Dr. Michael Van De Mark, director of the UMR Coatings Institute, received a Presidential Green Chemistry Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for his invention of an environmentally friendly latex paint additive that reduces volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions. The additive is marketed under the trademark Archer RC by Archer […]
Read More »UMR students tout new future for soybeans
If two University of Missouri-Rolla chemistry students have their way, soybeans will one day line Missouri’s highways — literally.
Read More »Chemist’s research named one of year’s top discoveries
A UMR chemistry professor’s development of a process to sort biologically potent, useful chemicals from their less useful and sometimes toxic counterparts is listed as one of the most important advances in chemistry in 2003 by Chemical and Engineering News, the magazine of the American Chemical Society.
Read More »Research suggests neutron repulsion a major energy source
Research by an undergraduate chemistry student at the University of Missouri-Rolla may shed new light on where the Sun gets its energy.
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