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The Grayson Group

 

Group Goals

The goal of the Grayson research group is to find creative solutions to the world's material and medical needs by tailoring the nanoscale architecture of synthetic macromolecules.

Group News

2009

SEP   Jessica’s paper on the preparation and degradation of cyclic poly(esters) appears in Macromolecules
AUG   Yi receives Arlo Harris Award for outstanding first year graduate student
AUG   Dr. M. Ejaz joins the Grayson Research Group
AUG   SMG receives NSF CAREER Award (ARRA) to pursue research related to cyclic polymers
JUL  

SMG give invited talk at the Polymers Gordon Research Conference (Mt. Holyoke, MA)

JUN   Boyd’s review on synthetic approach for preparing cyclic polymers appears in Chem. Soc. Rev.
MAY   Dawanne’s 2008 Macromolecules paper is featured in a special Virtual Issue of Macromolecules featuring “Click Chemistry in Macromolecular Science
MAY   Marco's and Roy's synthesis of dendronized cavitands appears in a special dendrimer themed issue of Israel Journal of Chemistry

MAY

  Swati receives the Alworth Prize, Gesine receives the ACS Honors Award, and Brian receives the Merck Index Award for graduating seniors

 

2008

OCT   Lin receives grant from Newcomb Institute to pursue her undergraduate research project
OCT   Marco's and Roy's communication on dendronized cavitands (in collaborations with the Gibb group at UNO) appears in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
SEP   SMG awarded Tulane's Presidential Early Career Development Award
AUG   SMG gives a talk at the Philadelphia ACS on supramolecular chemistry of polymers
JUN   Dawanne's manuscript on the synthesis of cyclic block-copolymer appears in Macromolecules
MAY   Gesine receives the Ann Hero Northrup Prize, for excellence in undergraduate chemistry
MAY   Brian receives ACS Award for outstanding graduating senior in chemistry
APR   Boyd to present his research at the ACS "Excellence in Graduate Polymer Science Research" symposium
APR   The Grayson group to present 10 posters and 3 talks at the New Orleans ACS meeting
APR   SMG and Prof. W. Godbey's review appears in the Journal of Drug Targeting
MAR   SMG gives invited talk at NIST's MALDI-TOF MS Workshop
MAR   Boyd's JACS paper is ranked by JACS as the 18th most cited from 2006
FEB   Kaitlin's senior thesis project is published in Tetrahedron Letters

2007

NOV   Gesine receives a Newcomb grant for her undergraduate research project
OCT   Swati receives a Provost FSSE grant for her undergraduate research
SEP   SMG awarded ACS PRG-G Grant.
AUG   Roy receives first place poster Award for his summer LAMP research project
JUL   Boyd awarded Arlo Harris Award for outstanding graduate student.
MAY   SMG gives invited lecture at Canadian Society of Chemistry Conference.
MAY   Kaitlin awarded ACS Award for outstanding graduating senior.
MAY   Mallory receives Outstanding First Year Graduate Student Award.

2006

SEP  

SMG (as co-PI) awarded NSF-MRI grant for Chemistry department’s acquisition 

of MALDI-TOF MS and ESI MS.

SEP   Dawanne and Boyd present posters at the San Francisco ACS.
AUG   SMG awarded Louisiana Board of Regents RCS Grant.
AUG   Jessica awarded Board of Regents Fellowship.
AUG   Mallory awarded Board of Regents Fellowship.
MAY   SMG awarded Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.
APR   Boyd’s JACS paper reviewed as “research highlight” in Nature Materials.
MAR   Boyd’s publication on “click” cyclization of polymers appears in JACS.
FEB   SMG (as co-PI) awarded NIH grant to study transdermal vaccination.   

2005

DEC   Grayson group returns home to New Orleans!
SEP   Grayson group hosted by Karen Wooley at Washington University in St. Louis.
AUG   Evacuation of New Orleans due to Katrina.
AUG   Boyd awarded Board of Regents Fellowship.
JUL   Dawanne, Board of Regents fellow, joins Grayson group.

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