Nana-Hawwa graduated from UAlbany with a B.S. in Chemistry. She was also interviewed by Spectrum News which can be found here. Congratulations Nana-Hawwa!
Kristen, Meghan and Allix celebrating with Nana-Hawwa.
Nana-Hawwa as a flag bearer.
Dr. Tianyu He Graduates
Dr. Tianyu He graduated with his Ph.D. He will be working as a post-doc at the University at Minnesota. Congratulations Dr. He!
Professor Musah and Dr. Tianyu He.
Professor Musah Interviewed by Ms. Online
Professor Musah was interviewed by Professor Janell Hobson of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Department at UAlbany. The article, titled “Black Feminists in Public: How Rabi Musah Uses Chemistry to Advance Social Justice”, was published in Ms. Online. This featured the lab’s work on sexual assault trace evidence. The article can be found here.
Allix Featured in “Today at UAlbany”
Allix (on the right) as well as other UAlbany NSF recipients.
Nana-Hawwa Receives SUNY Award
Nana-Hawwa (front right) with UAlbany President Rodriguez.
Nana-Hawwa received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. Congratulations Nana-Hawwa!
Allix Receives NSF Honorable Mention
Allix received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention for her research on the application of mass spectrometric techniques to the study disease progression, and how mass spectrometry can be used in disease diagnostics. This accolade recognizes outstanding science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduate students who have demonstrated significant achievements and are expected to have a substantial impact in the STEM field. The NSF press release can be found here. Congratulations Allix!
Paper Accepted by Forensic Science International
Kristen’s first-author paper titled “A Validated Method for the Quantification of Mitragynine in Sixteen Commercially Available Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) Products” was accepted by Forensic Science International.
Musah Lab Gets New Instruments
The Musah Lab has been fortunate enough to acquire several new instruments through NIJ funding and generous donations from the NYS Food Laboratory. We now have a GC-MS equipped with a thermal desorption unit, an NWR 213 laser that can be used for mass spectral imaging, a FT-IR, an ICP-MS, a HPLC and microwave reactors. We are looking forward to the great work that will come from using these instruments!
Kristen, Nana-Hawwa and Mark Receive President’s Awards
Kristen received the President’s Academic Leadership Award, Nana-Hawwa received the President’s Outstanding Senior Award and the Dr. Seth Spellman NIA ALANA Award, and Mark received the Christine A. Bouchard School Spirit Award. Congratulations to all!
Nana-Hawwa receiving her award.
Mark receiving his award.
Professor Musah Invited to Present at WGSS Seminar Series
Professor Musah was invited to present at the Women, Race and Class seminar series hosted by the University at Albany’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department. Her talk was titled “Addressing Rape Kit Backlogs and New Paradigms in Sexual Assault: Feminist Interventions Through Scientific Methods”.
Professor Musah Invited to Present in Canada
Professor Musah traveled to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada to present at the Canadian Forest Service Workshop. Her talk was titled “DART-MS and LADI-MS—Versatile Tools for Tree Species Identification, Within-tissue Small-molecule Profiling, and Tree Ring Interrogation”.
Professor Musah and Meghan Receive WIR Cayman Travel Awards
Professor Musah and Meghan each received a Women in Research Travel Grant from Cayman Chemicals. This award is designed to offset the costs of presenting at conferences. Congratulations to both!
Musah Lab Presents at Pittcon 2019
Kristen presenting her poster.
Professor Musah, Kristen, Cameron and Meghan traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to present at the 2019 Pittcon Conference and Expo. Professor Musah presented a talk titled “Chemometric Processing of Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) Mass Spectrometric Data for the Identification and Classification of New Psychoactive Substances”. Kristen, Cameron and Meghan all presented posters titled “Forensic Applications of the Laser Ablation Direct Analysis in Real Time Imaging – Mass Spectrometry (LADI-MS) Technique”, “Establishing Exposure to Organic Explosive Compounds by Mass Spectrometric Means”, and “Detection and Identification of Illegally-Traded Woods by Mass Spectral Techniques” respectively.
Cameron presenting his poster.
Meghan presenting her poster.
Nana-Hawwa Participates in UAlbany Human Library
Nana-Hawwa participated in the University at Albany’s Human Library Exhibit. She shared her experience as an immigrant from Ghana.
Kristen and Meghan Receive ASMS Travel Awards
Kristen and Meghan were awarded travel awards by the American Society of Mass Spectrometry. Kristen received the Graduate Student Travel Award and Meghan received the Graduate Student Stipend. Both awards will offset costs to this year’s ASMS Meeting in Atlanta, GA. Kristen will also be recognized at the ASMS Business Meeting. Congratulations to both!
Paper Accepted by Polyhedron
Tianyu’s first-author paper titled “Multidimensional High-resolution NMR Structural Characterization of a Carborane Cluster Derivative: The Case of 2-Amino-3-(1,7-dicarba-closo-dodecaboranyl-1-thio)propanoic Acid” was accepted by Polyhedron.
Musah Lab Presents at AAFS
Professor Musah, Kristen, Cameron and Meghan traveled to Baltimore, MD to attend the 71st American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Scientific Meeting. Professor Musah and Kristen both presented talks titled “The Identification of Necrophagous Insect Species by Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry and Chemometrics for Postmortem Interval Estimations” and “The Forensically Relevant Applications of Laser Ablation Direct Analysis in Real Time Imaging-Mass Spectrometry (LADI-MS)” respectively. Cameron presented a poster titled “Bomb Biometrics: Detection and Imaging of Markers Indicative of Explosive Compounds in Fingerprints” and Meghan was able to attend due to being awarded a Forensic Sciences Foundation Travel Award.
Cameron presenting his poster.
Kristen presenting her talk.
Paper Accepted by ACS Omega
Tianyu’s first-author paper titled “Evaluation of the Potential of 2-Amino-3-(1,7-dicarba-closo-dodecaboranyl-1-thio)propanoic Acid as a Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Agent” was accepted by ACS Omega.
Monica Ventura Joins the Musah Lab
The Musah Lab welcomes first year Ph.D. student Monica Ventura. Monica graduated from the University of New Haven in 2018.
Tianyu Receives his Ph.D.
Tianyu successfully defended his doctoral work titled “Carborane Functionalized Cysteine - Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Biological Evaluation for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy”. Congratulations Dr. He!