Chemistry
mikayla.makleDon Matteson, professor emeritus, chemistry, was named to receive the Emeritus Society Legacy of Excellence Award at WSU Showcase 2020.
Don Matteson, professor emeritus, chemistry, was named to receive the Emeritus Society Legacy of Excellence Award at WSU Showcase 2020.
Cliff Berkman, professor, chemistry, co-authored “First-in-Human Phase I study of CTT1057, a Novel 18F Labeled Imaging Agent with Phosphoramidate Core Targeting Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen in Prostate Cancer” in Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Sue Clark, Regents professor, chemistry, was appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee to evaluate the U.S. Department of Energy’s cleanup technology development efforts.
Nathalie Wall, associate professor, chemistry, coauthored “Non-destructive characterization of corroded glass surfaces by spectroscopic ellipsometry” in Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.
Cecilia Eiroa Lledo, doctoral student, chemistry, received a G.T. Seaborg Institute research fellowship to study nuclear forensics at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Mitchell Friend, doctoral student, chemistry, received a fellowship from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to study plutonium.
Trevor Omoto (PhD ’17) and Nathalie Wall, associate professor, chemistry, coauthored “Evaluation of Vanadium(IV) as a Non-radioactive Surrogate for Technetium(IV) by Comparison of Stability Constants for Polyamino Polycarboxylate Ligand Complexation” in Journal of Solution Chemistry.
Nathalie Wall also coauthored with Gannon Parker, post-doctoral researcher, and Donald Wall, director, WSU Nuclear Science Center, and others “Synthesis and Crystal Structures of Volatile Neptunium(IV) β-Diketonates” in Inorganic Chemistry; and with Mitchell Friend, graduate student, she presented “Complexation Thermodynamics of Oxalate with Hf(IV) for Application to Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing” at the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting in Washington D.C.
Nathalie Wall, associate professor, chemistry, coauthored “Evaluation of Vanadium(IV) as a Non-Radioactive Surrogate for Technetium(IV) by Comparison of Stability Constants for Polyamino Polycarboxylate Ligand Complexation” in
Mitchell Friend, doctoral candidate, chemistry, won first place in the open competition category of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards for his paper “Hafnium(IV) complexation with oxalate at variable temperatures,” originally published in the journal Radiochimica Acta.
Nathalie Wall, associate professor, chemistry, presented “Aspects of technetium chemistry for nuclear waste management and nuclear forensics” at the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories; and “Having fun with environmental radiochemistry” at the Nuclear Forensics Summer School at the University of Utah.