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Tailgating Party
The Department of Chemistry will be hosting a Tailgate party for the Illinois State University Homecoming game against the University of South Dakota Coyotes on Saturday, October 21st from 11:00 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.! Students, faculty, staff and alumni and significant others/family are all welcome to come and join in the celebration.
The Tailgate party will be held in a new location this year! The Department of Chemistry will be tailgating in the parking lot of the Science Lab Building located at the corner of College & Fell.
To learn about parking on the day of the Homecoming game, please see the University events page.
There will be food (burgers, hotdogs, veggie burgers, and other food grilled by faculty) and beverages (Coca-Cola products, Pepsi-Cola, etc.). Feel free to bring a dish to share. Please come out and join us for the Department of Chemistry Homecoming Tailgate party. There’ll be games, food, and fun for all.
We hope to see you there!
Graduate Thesis Competition
Congratulations to Zach Lawton (Dr. Mulligan’s Lab)! His thesis, "Analytical Validation of a Portable Mass Spectrometer System for High Throughput Forensic Screening," was selected by the Graduate Studies Directors for the college award in Group A, Sciences and Mathematics. His thesis, along with two others (Group B, Social Sciences, and Group C, Humanities), will be sent to the Graduate School for the next stage in the James L. Fisher Master’s Thesis Competition.
Faculty and Student Invited to Write Chapter
Dr. Marjorie Jones and graduate student Benjamin Dorsey were invited to co-write a book chapter entitled, “Antioxidant Capacity, Immune Response, Anti-inflammatory Activity, and Potential Pharmaceutical Applications of By-Products,” in the Handbook of Coffee Processing By-Products: Sustainable Applications (Elsevier-Academic Press; editor Dr. Charis M. Galanakis). Published June 2017.