by Julie Pollock | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog, Department, Teaching
Dr. Bill Myers — a significant presence in the chemistry department at the University of Richmond for 43 years — retired in spring 2016 — left this world last week. I thank you for your thoughtful questions during my interview, your enthusiastic...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 23, 2016 | Academia, Teaching
A new semester, another year. The students have moved in, the textbooks have been opened, and the classes have begun. Yesterday was the first day of my third year as a professor (how is that possible?) and my first class as an instructor of organic chemistry (CHEM...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 12, 2016 | Publications, Research
When you’ve been in research a long time, you have your favorite journals– the ones that you always read the table of contents when they come out and put a number of their articles in your “to-read” pile. Now as a professor, my...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 10, 2016 | Lab Thoughts, Research
Summer research #2 is finished! Here are some of the thoughts running through my mind. How is it already August 10? This summer flew by. We made progress on all of the projects despite running into some complications (synthesis yields low, DNA sequencing...
by Julie Pollock | Jul 11, 2016 | Lab Thoughts, Research
One of the most difficult things about starting your own research lab (well, actually starting research in any new location) is getting new protocols up and running. You organize everything as you have done before, work meticulously through the steps of an established...
by Julie Pollock | Jun 30, 2016 | Events
The lab gathered earlier this week for dinner at Dr. Pollock’s house. We consumed summer food (grilled burgers, corn salsa, cucumber water, etc.), had good conversation, and even got to enjoy some frisbee in the backyard. It is nice to take some time to relax...
by Julie Pollock | Jun 27, 2016 | Lab Thoughts, Research
When I started at UR, I inherited some of the equipment that had previously inhabited my lab space under the direction of my predecessor: some bench top shaking incubators, an electroporator, a -20 freezer, etc. and two balances. The analytical balance has been...
by Julie Pollock | May 31, 2016 | Research
If you have been trained as an organic chemist (especially a synthetic one), you have most certainly sat for hours in front of a fume hood collecting test tubes as hopefully your desired product eluted off of a silica gel column. Looking back at graduate school, I...
by Julie Pollock | May 25, 2016 | Academia
Gottwald Science Center is home to the chemistry, biology, and physics departments at the University of Richmond and one of the things I love most about my job is my colleagues that inhabit this building with me; the conversations about teaching, research, and life...
by Julie Pollock | May 17, 2016 | Announcements
The summer session of research at University of Richmond has officially started! Three undergraduate researchers, Hyejin, Maddie, and Kiana, are hard at work in the Pollock lab. James will join them next week. Here’s to a productive summer #2 in Gottwald Science...
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