Grant writing is a difficult and time intensive task with no guarantee of success. Yet, our faculty go through the process whenever possible as a means of supplementing the department budget. Grant funding has allowed the Chemistry Department to offer more research opportunities for student and faculty, purchase new or replacement instrumentation and expand opportunities for students to attend professional conferences throughout the United States. In the last five years, Chemistry Department faculty have received external grants totaling in excess of $850,000.
Prof. Buettner received an NIH Grant fundingher research on de novo mini-metalloenyzmes with hydrolase activity.
Prof. Frey and Prof. Buettner received a Procter & Gamble Fund’s Higher Education Grant. This grant is focused on evolving our Biochemistry and Chemistry curricula by increasing experiential learning and interdisciplinary thinking through new courses, such as biophysical chemistry, and half-semester, intensive lecture courses in faculty members’ field of expertise such as bioinorganic, immunology, spectroscopy, bioinformatics, and organometallics, January 2021 – present.
Prof. Frey received a grant from the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh College Equipment Grant for acquisition of six portable UV-Vis spectrometers to be in used in general chemistry and biochemistry labs.
Prof. Frey and Prof. Buettner received a grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., Jean Dreyfus Lectureship for Undergraduate institutions. This grant provided funding for two undergraduate research students in Summer 2022, funding for the same students to attend a scientific conference and a lecture series. Our Jean Dreyfus Lecturer will be Prof. Squire Booker, Evan Pugh University Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University.
Prof. Frey received a grant from the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh College Equipment Grant for acquisition of six portable UV-Vis spectrometers to be in used in general chemistry and biochemistry labs.
Prof. Funk received a Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National grant to purchase a Nicolet Summit FT-IR Spectrometer.
Prof. Funk received an NSF Grant funding his research on Development of Iron Catalysts for Sustainable, Selective Oxidations and Reductions.
Prof. Thompson received two grants funding his sabbatical research and travel in Spring 2022. A Burroughs-Wellcome Collaborative Research Travel Grant covered his travel between Gettysburg and Montreal during his sabbatical. A Professional Development Grant funded by the Mellon for Faculty Career Enhancement Program provided will provide additional support for Prof. Thompson’s research at the University of Montreal on Development of SPR based immunosensors for monitoring IgA/Anti-IgA related anaphylactic transfusion reactions
Anna Hightower ’21 received a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship from The Institute for Citizens & Scholars. This fellowship provided financial support and mentoring while Anna worked toward her master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania in AY2021-22. Upon graduation, the fellowship program places participants in high need secondary schools.
Brittany Loh ’22 received the 2021 Judith Bond Scholarship from the American Chemical Society Southeastern Local Section.
Bryn Werley ’23 received the 2022 Judith Bond Scholarship from the American Chemical Society Southeastern Local Section. Bryn also received a Goldwater Fellowship from The Barry Goldwater Excellence in Education Foundation.
