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Chemistry professor's oxygen studies rewarded
Issue date: 10/16/08
Chemistry professor Kenneth D. Karlin has received two awards affiliated with the American Chemical Society (ACS) for his study of the structure and reactivity of molecular oxygen binding to copper and iron complexes.
Karlin is the sixth chemist to receive the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, which will be presented to him at an ACS symposium in March 2009.
He has been cited for the creative use of ligand design and low temperature solution approaches in the synthesis of elusive molecular oxygen-derived complexes of copper and heme copper.
Karlin has also been recognized by the Sierra Nevada section of the ACS with the 2009 Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist Award.
He will be visiting the University of Nevada, Reno next year to receive his award and give two lectures about the topics of his research.
Karlin, who joined the Hopkins chemistry department in 1990, began his current topic of research 30 years ago when he began his academic career at the State University of New York at Albany. After 12 years there, he was invited to come teach at Hopkins.
"When I had the opportunity to move here, it seemed like a very good situation," Karlin said. "It was an opportunity for me to do more, to have more students and to have more activities."
Over the years, Karlin has seen the chemistry department change and improve. He attributes this change to better research facilities that were the result of successes by people in the department, a younger, more invigorated faculty and an overall higher quality of students. Karlin has taught Introductory Chemistry almost every other year since he came to Hopkins, including last year.
Karlin said that his primary motivation for teaching is, and has always been, the opportunity to inspire his students.
"I do enjoy teaching, though it can be overwhelming," Karlin said. "I enjoy that you get some interaction with the students. You get to see some students struggling, and others doing incredibly well, and you hope that you can impart some enthusiasm about chemistry to them, though that doesn't always happen."
Karlin is the sixth chemist to receive the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, which will be presented to him at an ACS symposium in March 2009.
He has been cited for the creative use of ligand design and low temperature solution approaches in the synthesis of elusive molecular oxygen-derived complexes of copper and heme copper.
Karlin has also been recognized by the Sierra Nevada section of the ACS with the 2009 Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist Award.
He will be visiting the University of Nevada, Reno next year to receive his award and give two lectures about the topics of his research.
Karlin, who joined the Hopkins chemistry department in 1990, began his current topic of research 30 years ago when he began his academic career at the State University of New York at Albany. After 12 years there, he was invited to come teach at Hopkins.
"When I had the opportunity to move here, it seemed like a very good situation," Karlin said. "It was an opportunity for me to do more, to have more students and to have more activities."
Over the years, Karlin has seen the chemistry department change and improve. He attributes this change to better research facilities that were the result of successes by people in the department, a younger, more invigorated faculty and an overall higher quality of students. Karlin has taught Introductory Chemistry almost every other year since he came to Hopkins, including last year.
Karlin said that his primary motivation for teaching is, and has always been, the opportunity to inspire his students.
"I do enjoy teaching, though it can be overwhelming," Karlin said. "I enjoy that you get some interaction with the students. You get to see some students struggling, and others doing incredibly well, and you hope that you can impart some enthusiasm about chemistry to them, though that doesn't always happen."
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Minocher Reporter
posted 10/29/08 @ 11:04 PM EST
Karlin's excitement for his own current research was sparked when, as a senior undergraduate at Stanford, he attended seminars led by a well-known chemist who was working with oxygen and iron compounds ????
Bad story not giving ID of the Stanford chemist. (Continued…)
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posted 2/12/09 @ 4:25 AM EST
Chemistry professor Kenneth D. Karlin has received 2 great awards affiliated with the ACS for his study of the structure and reactivity of molecular oxygen binding to copper and iron complexes. (Continued…)
Catherine Dering
posted 3/04/09 @ 1:31 AM EST
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