{"id":16693,"date":"2021-01-29T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=16693"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T21:25:50","slug":"eli-fahrenkrug-receives-55000-grant-for-research-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2021\/01\/eli-fahrenkrug-receives-55000-grant-for-research-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Fahrenkrug Receives $55,000 Grant for Research Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry Eli Fahrenkrug has been awarded a $55,000 grant from the American Chemical Society\u2019s Petroleum Research Fund for a project titled \u201cSelective Polymorph Crystallization within the Electrical Double Layer.\u201d The grant, part of the ACS PRF\u2019s Undergraduate New Investigator program, will support three undergraduate research fellowships each summer for the next three summers; two fellowships will be supported by ACS PRF and one will be supported by Colorado College.<\/p>\n

Of all drugs produced, more than 60% are orally delivered in a compressed pill or tablet format. More than half of these drugs exist in more than one crystalline structure. \u201cThis means that the molecules comprising the crystal (i.e., the pill) are unchanged, but the way they arrange themselves in space differs \u2014 this phenomenon is known as polymorphism. Simple changes in crystal structure can often render a therapeutic drug completely ineffective,\u201d Fahrenkrug says. \u201cControlling polymorphism is notoriously fickle and remains an outstanding challenge in the fields of chemistry and physics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Eli Fahrenkrug has been awarded a $55,000 grant from the American Chemical Society\u2019s Petroleum Research Fund for a project titled \u201cSelective Polymorph Crystallization within the Electrical Double Layer.\u201d The grant, part of the ACS PRF\u2019s Undergraduate New Investigator program, will support three undergraduate research fellowships each summer for the next three…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-16693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-2020","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16837,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions\/16837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}