Dear Friends, We are excited to bring you the Winter 2023 edition of ChemConnections! A year ago, I informed you about the impending restructuring of IUPUI. The planning process is complete and a definitive agreement between the two universities was signed last June. We are now in the execution phase. The Chemistry Department will be… Read more »
Edition 14, Winter 2023
Dr. Martin “Marty” O’Donnell
Eulogy by Dr. Bill Scott— Thank you, Kitty and family, for asking me to give this eulogy for Marty. It’s a privilege and honor. Marty and I met in the mid ‘70s. He came to Indianapolis to be a faculty member at newly established IUPUI. I had just joined Lilly as a research scientist in… Read more »
New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Lyniesha Ward
Lyniesha Ward, Ph.D., is the newest Assistant Professor at Indiana University Indianapolis in Indiana. Her academic journey began with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with double minors in Education and Anthropology from the University of Richmond in Virginia. As an undergraduate student, she did computational research with the late Samuel Abrash, PhD studying reactions… Read more »
STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute (SEIRI)
The STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute (SEIRI) is an independent interdisciplinary institute at IUPUI founded in 2016 by Pratibha Varma-Nelson, to increase the capacity for innovation and research in STEM education delivered through colleges and universities. Initially developed with support from the schools of Engineering and Technology, Science, and Informatics, SEIRI is dedicated to… Read more »
Dr. Frank J. Welcher Chemistry Lecture
The fourth IUPUI Welcher Lecture, delivered by Prof. John Hartwig, can be summarized in one simple sentence: Catalysis is at the core of human progress and technologies. In a thoughtful manner, Prof. Hartwig, led the general audience from how we represent chemical structures in drawings through how functional groups (sets of atoms with characteristic reactivity)… Read more »