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FINALS STUDY SESSION MEETING DATES: ●
Next meeting: We’ll keep you updated!
Do you have last minute questions about your Chemistry 110A, 118 A,B,C, or 124A final? Then pop by this Friday, June 3rd in Chemistry 159 and 161 to ask peer tutors and TA’s from 10am1pm. Free coffee will be provided!
CHEM CLUB SUMMER PLANS UPCOMING EVENTS: ●
06/03: Finals Study Session for 110A, 118 series, and 124A this Friday from 10am-1pm in Chemistry 159 and 161
Check your emails for further updates about any general meetings, hiking trips, outreach events, or networking events! The Newsletter will go on a summer hiatus until September. If you aren’t hanging around Davis for the summer, we’ll see you in the Fall. Have a fantastic summer everyone!
FALL QUARTER PREVIEW As usual, the Chem Club’s Fall Quarter will be packed with activities, some old and some new. What can you look forward to? Our first information session, a lab tour, the annual Spooktacular and Chemgiving, and a new club project!
GOOD LUCK ON FINALS! We will not be holding our Wednesday Study Space for the remainder of the quarter, but fear not, we will have free coffee at our Finals Study Session so feel free to stop by then.
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ELEMENT OF THE MONTH: Iron ●
Symbol: Fe
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Atomic Number: 26
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Iron is the most abundant of the metals. It not only makes up the majority of the Earth’s core, but also plays an important part in the production of chlorophyll in plants and is a part of hemoglobin in animals. FIND US:
EDITOR: CORINNE PENROD
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I joined the chemistry department as assistant professor in Fall 2015, after a long stay in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer research. I graduated in Materials Science in 2003 at the University of Milan, in Italy, after getting a Diploma in Physics at the same university. In Milan I worked with Giorgio Benedek and Marco Bernasconi, and we made atoms dance in the - back then not very powerful - computers, by performing molecular dynamics simulations of carbon nanostructured films and of silica glasses for fiber optics. Since then I never stepped into a real lab and ran all my experiments in computers. After my PhD I was in Switzerland for four years, doing research with Michele Parrinello - the guy of the Car-Parrinello method, a real Molecular Dynamics guru, and then three wonderful years in Davis, working with Giulia Galli. Moving from Germany to California in 2010 was a shock: it took some time, but I finally managed to be back to Davis as a Faculty. Since I joined I got rapidly involved into the outreach activities carried out by the Chem Club and the department. It feels good to see children in awe at our chemistry show demonstration, as it might mean that we have been able to convey our enthusiasm for science and we possibly stimulate kids’ interest in science. In my virtual lab we can tackle very diverse and interesting problems: using molecular simulations, we have been studying materials for energy harvesting, chemical reactions at surfaces, phase transitions at extreme conditions, melting and crystallization. When I am not busy cranking numbers or teaching, I love to ski, travel and take pictures. When I am not in my office you can probably find me at the climbing gym.
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