McNeill Group News
May 2, 2008Alicia Peterson awarded Doctoral Dissertation FellowshipAlicia Peterson was one of five Chemistry Department graduate students to be awarded the prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate School. The dissertation fellowship is awarded to a select group of graduate students based on their academic excellence and research accomplishments. The fellowship will provide Alicia with one year of support. Congratulations Alicia! |
April 28, 2008Kris named Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and inducted into the Minnesota Academy of Distinguished TeachersKris was among this year's16 inductees into the Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers, due to his being awarded the Morse-Alumni Award for Contributions to Undergraduate Education. |
April 18, 2008McNeill Group participates in Earth Day Watershed CleanupOnce again, the McNeill group participated in the Earth Day Watershed Cleanup sponsored by the Minneapolis Solid Waste Division and the Minneapolis Parks District. Danny, Britt, Elodie, Kristen, Jeff, Sarah, and Kris hauled trash bags full of bottles, cans, and miscellaneous trash from the banks of the Mississippi near the historic Stone Arch Bridge. |
February 11, 2008Matt Grandbois recognized with college-wide TA awardMatt Grandbois is one of teaching assistants in the Institute of Technology voted Best TA by students in the college. He will receive his award at the IT Week Banquet later this month. Congratulations Matt! |
November 1, 2007Kris recognized with "Excellence in Review" Award from Environmental Science and TechnologyKris was among the 24 reviewers for Environmental Science and Technology that were recognized for their reviews in the November 1 issue (Vol. 41, Issue 21) of the journal. |
27 July 2007Environmental fate of tylosinGraduate student Jeff Werner (Ph.D. '06) is the lead author on a study of tylosin, a veterinary antibiotic and growth promoter, that was a collaborative effort between the the McNeill group, the Arnold group (Minnesota Civil Engineering), and the Wammer group (University of St. Thomas, Dept. of Chemistry). The study shows that tylosin is quickly photo-equilibrated with a much less active isomer before being broken down further by sunlight. |
25 July 2007Chlorination of cimetidine, a wastewater contaminant, leads to unexpected productsResearch by graduate student Jeff Buth shows that chlorination of cimetidine, a commonly used heartburn medication that is found in wastewater, leads to the formation of unexpected products. Some of these products are expected to have a greater ecological impact than the parent compound. This research is part of a long-standing collaboration between the McNeill group and Professor Bill Arnold in the Department of Civil Engineering on the fate of pharmaceutical pollutants in the aquatic environment. |
5 June 2007Inactivation of virus MS2 by singlet oxygen is enhanced by association with natural organic matter (NOM)Research by Matt Grandbois of the McNeill group, in collaboration with Tamar Kohn (EPFL) and Kara Nelson (UC Berkeley), has been published online in Environmental Science and Technology. The study extends previous work by Kohn and Nelson on the mechanism of the photoinactivation of MS2 and our work on the microheterogeneous distribution of singlet oxygen in natural waters. The results of this work are relevant to the inactivation of pathogens in waste stabilization ponds and other sunlit aquatic systems. |
4 May 2007McNeill Group undergraduate researchers win awardsCongratulations to Sarah Page and Kyle Dullinger, McNeill Group undergraduate researchers who are the recipients of three awards. |
8 February 2007Collaborative study of Co-C bonding appears onlineA combined experimental and theoretical study on the Co-C bonding in chlorovinyl complexes, relevant to dechlorination reactions, appeared online in Inorganic Chemistry. This study, which is a collaboration between the Cramer group and the McNeill group, shows that there is very little Co-C pi-bonding. This is despite appearances as the chlorovinyl group is nearly always found to be coplanar with the trans pyridine ligand. Much of the experimental work in this paper was conducted by a University of Minnesota undergraduate, Katie McNabb, who was a first-year at the time. |
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