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October 2020

Papers Published

• Tony Masiello聽published his research:聽鈥淎nalysis of several high-resolution infrared bands of perdeutero-spiropentane, C₅D₈鈥�,听Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy,听372, 111350聽(2020).鈥�
• Andr茅s Aragoneses聽published his research: 鈥溾��,听The Physics Teacher,听58, 7, 488聽(2020).

Grants

• 罢丑别听WiSE Club聽has granted scholarships to a handful of female CSTEM students for a total of $1900 awarded. Funds came from the jewelry sales from last year.
• Tony Masiello聽submitted a grant as the PI to National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Atmospheric Composition Grant, with Title: 鈥淚nfrared Spectroscopy of Isotopic Isomers of Halogenated Gases for Remote Sensing Applications鈥�. Amount Requested $970,443.

Students

• Former student, Biochemistry Eagle, and Berenice鈥檚 son, Raymond Emehiser, got his PhD in Chemistry this summer from the University of Idaho and subsequently got a job at Olix US, a pharmaceutical firm in San Diego.

Outreach

• 罢丑别听WiSE Club聽is coordinating a virtual tutoring program that will help CSTEM faculty/staff parents as well as local K-12 public schools.

Nobel Prizes

Not to the department this year.

• Physics: To Roger Penrose (Oxford U.) for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity; and to Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck & UC Berkley), and Andrea Ghez (UCLA) for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.
• Chemistry: Emmanuelle Carpentier (Max Planck) and Jennifer A. Doudna (UC Berkley), for the development of a method for genome editing.