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Kudos Corner - Issue 33
Dr. Mark dela Cerna (BCP) was awarded the 2024 Jean Dreyfus Lectureship Grant for Undergraduate Institutions. This foundation only awarded the grant to eight institutions.
The Jean Dreyfus Lectureship awards provide a $25,000 grant to bring a leading researcher to a primarily undergraduate institution to give at least two lectures in the chemical sciences. One of the lectures should be accessible and promoted to a wide audience that includes the general public. The remaining lecture(s) may be more technical. The lecturer is expected to spend more than one day at the institution to substantively interact with undergraduate students and a broad range of faculty over the period of the visit.
A portion of the award is to support two undergraduates in summer research. The undergraduates engaged in summer research are expected to work with mentors in contemporary chemistry.
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Dr. Jianhou He (BCP) published a paper in the journal Science of The Total Environment (Q1, IF 8.2). The title of the paper is Microplastic effects on carbon cycling in terrestrial soil ecosystems: Storage, formation, mineralization, and microbial mechanisms.
The paper is a review of the current state of understanding of the impact of microplastics on soil environments. The full reference is, Liu, Y.; Wang, W.; He, J. "Microplastic effects on carbon cycling in terrestrial soil ecosystems: Storage, formation, mineralization, and microbial mechanisms" Science of The Total Environment Volume 954, 1 December 2024, 176658
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PhD student, Carisa Macpherson (SEES) was awarded a $30,000 ForEverglades Research Enhancement Grant from the Everglades Foundation entitled Is the (Sea)Grass Always Greener on the Other Side of the Reef: Florida Bay Seagrass-Modified Seawater and its Capacity to Buffer Ocean Acidification on Florida's Coral Reef?
