Alumni & Friends Reception at ACS: August 23 2010
The Chemistry Department invites alumni, faculty, and students to a reception during the Fall 2010 National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society in Boston, MA. Join us for an evening of light appetizers, drinks, and good conversation and a chance to catch up with friends at the Westin Waterfront Hotel beside the Boston Convention Center.
To attend, please register at the BU Alumni Website before August 16th.
Date
Monday August 23rd 2010
Time
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Location
Westin Boston Waterfront
Harbor Ballroom III
425 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02210
The Westin Boston Waterfront is beside the Boston Convention Center and a short walk from the World Trade Center Stop on the MBTA Silver Line.
Questions?
Please e-mail Katinka Csigi.
Help create the Undergraduate Center for Discovery Chemistry
Undergraduate Center for Discovery Chemistry Conceptualization
The Center will provide the physical framework for a new curriculum dedicated to cultivating chemical intuition and encouraging independent investigation. With this curriculum, we will be able to immerse students in the process of collaborative innovation and discovery. To do so, we will need to provide them with advanced scientific instrumentation and integrated modern laboratory systems. Here is where we need your help. To achieve our ambitious goal, we need to renovate 6000 square feet of space on the third floor of the Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering at a cost of $7 million. To learn more about the project, please click here. If you have questions or would like to make a donation, please contact Christopher Johnson in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations or if you wish to contact Chemistry directly, please contact Katinka Csigi.
If you can help us realize our dream, please know that you’re building more than a lab. You’re building the most innovative organic chemistry curriculum in Boston: as a Chemistry alumnus, that should make you very proud.
Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Alumni Celebrate Guilford Jones, Our “Newest” Emeritus
Over 200 people turned out to honor Professor Guilford Jones on his retirement and his contributions to Boston University and the Department of Chemistry. At a reception and dinner on Friday, April 23, in the BU School of Management, former students and postdocs from the Jones Group mingled with Chemistry and University colleagues and family and friends and partied into the wee hours – actually just until 11 pm, rushing to get their cars before the SMG Garage closed! The program of tributes and song was MC’d by Professor Larry Ziegler and featured speakers who paid tribute to Professor Jones’ role as scientist, entrepreneur, mentor, friend, and father. Highlights of the evening were a musical medley by members of Professor Jones’ choral group and a musical skit by Professor David Coker, accompanied by his backup group, Professor Karen Allen, Ms. Sarah Coenen, and Ms. Lauren Montague. We will shortly upload photographs of the event, so that you can relive the fun if you were there and share in it if you were not. In the meantime, here is a link to the terrific video summarizing his life and career: Gil Jones: Scholar, Entrepreneur, and Friend. We have established a fund to create the “Jones Lecture in Photochemistry” in his honor. If you would like to make a contribution, please go here.Professor Bassam Shakhashiri Celebrates 50 years as a BU Chemistry Alumnus
UW-Madison Professor Bassam Shakhashiri
Nothing makes us prouder than being able to to claim Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Ph.D, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as one of our own! He received his B.A. in Chemistry from BU in 1960. It launched him on a distinguished academic career that includes an M.Sc. and Ph.D from the University of Maryland, being named the first holder of the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, and receiving seven honorary doctoral degrees. He is a distinguished scientist whose ability to explain and demonstrate science with charisma and passion is legendary. He is well known internationally for his effective leadership in promoting excellence in science education at all levels and for his development and use of demonstrations in the teaching of chemistry in classrooms, as well as in less formal settings such as museums, convention centers, shopping malls and retirement homes. The Encyclopedia Britannica cites Shakhashiri as the “dean of lecture demonstrators in America.”
BU Chemistry Fall 2010 ACS Alumni Reception
We are pleased to invite BU Chemistry Alumni and Friends to a reception at the Fall ACS National Meeting in Boston on Monday, August 23, 2010, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel (adjacent to the conference center). Please let us know if you plan to attend.
Department Notes the Passing of former Chair, Professor Lowell Coulter
Professor Emeritus Lowell Coulter
Professor Emeritus Lowell Coulter, passed away on May 2 at the age of 95. Dr. Coulter, a physical chemist by training (PhD, University of California, Berkeley), was Professor of Chemistry at Boston University for over 35 years (1942 and 1977). In an energy related topic that resonates today as much as it did when he worked on it over fifty years ago, his research focused on the thermodynamic properties of clathrates (inclusion compounds). He explored the variation of their heat capacities from cryogenic to ambient temperatures, building impressive calorimetric equipment with which to do comprehensive and accurate measurements to derive detailed thermodynamic properties. Professor Coulter’s research qualified him for election in 1963 as a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His scientific talent also connected him to a momentous historical event: early in his career he was a group leader on the Manhattan Project.
Prof. Coulter was a dedicated teacher and devoted member of the Boston University community, which he served in many ways, most notably as Chair of Chemistry between 1961 and 1973. During his tenure as Chair, he recruited 21 teaching and research faculty. Of those still here or recently retired (in order of recruitment) are: Al Prock, Mort Hoffman, Rich Laursen, Stan Hartman, Scott Mohr, Bob Umans, Richard Clarke, Warren Giering, Gil Jones, Dan Dill, and Georgia Weinstein. The legacy of talent he left our department is truly impressive, and one for which we owe him a debt of gratitude.
For the Boston Globe article that reviewed the contributions and career of Professor Coulter, please click here.
For the BU Today article about Professor Coulter, please click here.
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