IUP’s Student Affiliate American Chemical Society (ACS club) will travel to Carnegie Science Center on Saturday, October 24, 2009, to participate in National Chemistry Week events.

Mr. Ardian (Soca) Wibowo, a 2005 graduate of the Biochemistry Program, will return to IUP on Friday, October 23, 2009, to present his research on “Structural Analysis of the Human Folate Receptor and its Implications in Drug Discovery.”

The American Chemical Society (ACS) student chapter in the Department of Chemistry was given its second Honorable Mention Award from the National ACS Office for its 2008–2009 club activities.

Ms. Jennifer Casanova, a student in the IUP Chemistry Department, completed a Research Experience for Undergraduates for ten weeks in Summer 2009, working on a biochemistry-related question: “Identifying Binding Partners For Soluble Guanylate Cyclase (Sgc) Using Transient Transfection Into Mcf-7 Cells and Immunoprecipitation.”

Ms. Laura Fox, a junior Chemistry major, participated in an International Research Experiences for Undergraduates (IREU) during Summer 2009. She conducted chemistry research in the analytical chemistry department of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

Dr. John Woolcock of the Department of Chemistry delivered a presentation at the 238th American Chemical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 19, 2009: “Using Crystallographic Databases in the ACA Summer Course in Small Molecule Crystallography”

Students in the Student Affiliate American Chemical Society (ACS Club) announced that they will be offering their tutoring services again this Fall. Undergraduate upperclassmen in the club, usually majoring in chemistry or biochemistry, offer their time during weeknights to help students in freshman- and sophomore-level Chemistry courses.