FIU Chemistry GSO

11/24/2021

If any current FIU graduate student needs plans for Thanksgiving dinner, please reach out.

02/24/2021

Please join the annual Three Minute Thesis (Regional 3MT) Competition taking place virtually at the University of Alabama on (Tomorrow) Thursday, February 25, 2021, at 2:45 PM, EST.

FIU's very own Anahita Esmaeilian has a 3-minute talk about her research and needs our support. To vote for Anahita, there will be a QR code to scan or a link in the chatbox to click that will connect to the People's Choice voting. You'll want to scan the code when the slide appears; it won't appear again.

Please join the event through the link below. Once the event starts, they won't be able to constantly let people in from the waiting room. So, please join on time.

Zoom link:

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02/23/2021

Heads up grad students: Starting this week, ORED is going to reach out to 10% of people authorized to work in labs during the pandemic. If they contact you, you need to schedule a PCR test for COVID-19 within 2-3 days and provide the results to the COVID Response Team.

02/10/2021

Today in Chemistry - Per Teodor Cleve, a Swedish chemist credited with the discovery of holmium and thulium, was born in 1840. In 1874, Cleve also predicted that didymium was actually two elements - a theory proven right 11 years later when Welsbach discovered neodymium and praseodymium.

Read more about Cleve's life here:

Per Teodor Cleve, Swedish chemist who discovered the elements holmium and thulium. Cleve became assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Uppsala in 1868 and in addition taught at the Technological Institute in Stockholm from 1870 to 1874. He then was appointed professor of general and

02/09/2021

Today in Chemistry - Jacques Monod, a French biochemist who is regarded as one of the founders of molecular biology, was born in 1910. Monod would go on to share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis."

Learn more about Monod here:

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965 was awarded jointly to François Jacob, André Lwoff and Jacques Monod "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis".

08/22/2019

Welcome to our new students, and welcome back to our returning ones. Thanks everyone for joining us for another great orientation week! I hope you had as much fun as we did. Email us at [email protected] if you want to get in touch, and keep an eye out for our upcoming events this semester!