Chemistry

Assistant Professor Boone Prentice was selected to receive one of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships! Congratulations! According to the press announcement, 126 scholars from 51 institutions were selected to receive this prestigious award. These fellowships “honor exceptional researchers at US and Canadian educational institutions, whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand … Read more

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The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Prof. Boone Prentice with a prestigious CAREER Award from the Chemical Measurement and Imaging (CMI) Program in the Division of Chemistry. The NSF CMI program supports research focusing on chemically-relevant measurement science and chemical imaging. The 5-year award will fund research in the Prentice Group developing mass spectrometry … Read more

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Michael Christopher was awarded the NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute in December 2024. Michael is a PhD candidate in the analytical chemistry division co-mentored by Dr.’s Timothy Garrett and Boone Prentice. Prior to joining the Dr. Garrett and Dr. Prentice labs in 2021, Michael studied biochemistry … Read more

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The Thomson Medal Award is named after Sir JJ Thomson, who was responsible for the first mass spectrograph and its resulting data more than 100 years ago. He also predicted many features of modern mass spectrometry. He discovered the electron using mass spectrometry and won the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his research. The International Mass Spectrometry … Read more

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