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New to the Chemistry department this year are two pieces of equipment, a thermal cycler (pictured above) which amplifies DNA extracted from human sources, and a genetic analyzer which sizes and quantifies it. Together they can be used to decipher whether DNA in two different samples is identical or a match. |
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Lucian Hunt Award Levi Ekanger is the 2012 winner of the Lucian S. Hunt Award. He worked with Dr. Tom Getman for the past two years on a research project, "synthesis and characterization of the 2, 2' " biscarboranyldifluoroborate anion". Levi is from East China, Michigan and will be attending graduate school at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan this fall. |
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Research Team Publishes Article
NMU chemistry major Caitlin Cienkus was part of a research team studying the compound 2-[(1-{[3-(dimethylazaniumyl)proplyl]- methylamino}ethylidene)azaniumyl]- nonahydro-closo-decaborate dimethyl sulfoxide disolvate, along with NMU professor Tom Getman and Michigan Tech professor Rudy Luck. The team published an article on their work in the chemistry journal Acta Cryst. Cienkus' role in the project was to prepare the compound and obtain crystals for analysis. Full article. |
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