Dear Friends, We are excited to bring to you the Spring 2018 edition of Chemistry Connections ! I am delighted to tell you that this Spring we graduated another great class of chemistry students (29 B.A., 15 B.S., 1 M.S. and 1 Ph.D.). Some of these students are going to higher studies including professional schools,… Read more »
Edition 03, Spring 2018
Identifying ‘designer’ drugs taken by overdose patients
Unfortunately opioid drugs are constantly in the news. Overdose patients taking these dangerous designer drugs often pass out or, in some cases, even die. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, every day more than 115 Americans die after overdosing on opioids. Fortunately, a young IUPUI chemistry faculty member and his team, using paper… Read more »
Distributed Drug Discovery (D3) Takes its Global Collaborations to Cuba
Since 2005 IUPUI’s Distributed Drug Discovery program has established multiple collaborations between our department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and schools across the globe. These contacts have been with students and/or professors in Poland, Russia, Spain, the Czech Republic and Kenya, as well as at multiple schools across the United States. Now it has been implemented in Cuba.
Faculty Expectations and Lessons Learned: Faculty Member, Chair, and University Administrator
With my retirement last December, I have spent nearly 38 years at IUPUI. I have been very fortunate to have a wide range of responsibilities during that time that have given me a highly varied perspective of work in the university and our global priorities. It is clear that the recurring theme across all of… Read more »
Voice of a Chemistry Alumnus: Robin Polt
A Chemistry Degree at IUPUI 36 Years Out By: Robin Polt, BS Chemistry 1981 Thirty nine years ago, still on active duty stationed at Fort Harrison, I enrolled in Will Fife’s evening organic chemistry class on the 38th Street campus, with the idea I would transfer any credit to Purdue or another institution upon discharge from… Read more »
Keith Anliker receives 2018 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
We are told that in teaching the very first few minutes of the first day of the semester of any class are the most important. These first few minutes set the direction and demeanor for the rest of the term. Students look at the professor as he (or she) first walks in and they say… Read more »