Laurie Tyler, assistant professor of Chemistry, has been awarded a prestigious Jerome A. Schiff Charitable Trust grant of $30,000 for the academic year 2007-08 in support of her project, “Structure Determination and Dynamics of Transition Metal Complexes Using Isotopically Labeled Ligands: Through Metal Coupling of NMR Active Nuclei.”
Tyler will use her award to purchase chemicals and related equipment and to provide stipends for several students who will be conducting research under her guidance. She is interested in developing new, innovative methods for determining chemical structure using NMR spectroscopy. Her initial NMR studies have yielded promising and exciting findings that have not been reported previously.
Tyler holds a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Schiff grant is designed to assist a faculty member whose research has been difficult to fund externally because it is too interdisciplinary or esoteric for traditional funding agencies.