Dr. Jeff Gaffney, chair of UALR’s Department of Chemistry, and three students will be joining a month-long Department of Energy field study on climate.
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Dr. Brian C. Berry, assistant professor of organic chemistry at UALR’s College of Science and Mathematics, has received a National Science Foundation grant of $150,000 over three years to help develop what could be the next generation of memory storage media.
Dr. Jeffrey Gaffney, chair of UALR’s Department of Chemistry, and four other scientists have made use of state-of the art chemical modeling to examine the atmospheric impacts of compounds that were supposed to make aerosol spray products and other products safer for the environment.
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With the help of mentoring by UALR Chemistry Professor Jeff Gaffney, Purdue University Ph.D. candidate Carrie Christiansen’s paper on the atmospheric reaction of freon and their replacements will be featured in March issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Gaffney, chair of UALR’s Department of Chemistry, is a Department of Energy mentor for its Atmospheric Science Program. Christiansen holds a fellowship from DOE’s Global Change Education Program.
Purdue Professor Joe Francisco, the new president of the American Chemical Society, is Christiansen’s thesis advisor.
Dr. Jeffrey Gaffney, chair of UALR’s Department of Chemistry and lead scientist for the Department of Energy Atmospheric Science Program’s Megacity Aerosol Experiment – Mexico City (MAX-Mex), joined a growing list of climate scientists asking the American Farm Bureau to rethink its position on global climate change.
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UALR graduate student William “Billy” Griffin won the American Chemical Society’s Communities Challenge for posting the most compelling discussion or question during the ACS’s National Meeting last month.
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Ten graduate students from a French engineering school in Angouleme bid adieu to UALR last week, ending a summer of research and exchange with counterparts at the UALR Nanotechnology Center, the College of Engineering, and the College of Science and Mathematics.