Chemistry Researcher Awarded Grow Grant
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Denise Greathouse, assistant research professor of chemistry, has received one of 12 GROW grants awarded by the world's largest scientific society, the American Chemical Society (ACS).
The GROW grants are intended to support educational opportunities and provide funding for women chemists and chemical engineers as part of the ACS PROGRESS Plan, a three-year pilot project aimed at facilitating the full participation and advancement women in the field.
Greathouse will use the grant to attend a training course on the operation of the Bruker Avance NMR spectrometer, including the use of BioSpin NMR software. This training will benefit her research, which focuses on the synthesis of peptides by solid phase methods, and structural studies of membrane active peptides by solution and solid state NMR spectroscopy.
Contacts
Bill Durham, chair, department of chemistry and biochemistry, Fulbright College, bdurham@uark.edu, (479) 575-4601Jennifer Sims, department of chemistry and biochemistry, Fulbright College, jssims@uark.edu, (479) 575-5198
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