2018 Lambert Lecture featured Dr. Eric Jacobsen of Harvard University
On April 30th, 2018 Dr. Eric Jacobsen, Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, presented The 2018 Lambert Lecture, speaking on New Modes of Anion-Binding Catalysis. His work is focused on low molecular weight, chiral organic molecules possessing distinct hydrogen-bond donor motifs, which have been shown to catalyze an array of C–C and C–heteroatom bond-forming reactions […]
Assistant Professor Aaron Beeler Award a $975k Grant from DARPA
We are happy to announce that Assistant Professor Aaron Beeler was recently awarded a $975,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) titled “High-Throughput Chemistry Platform (HTCP) for Reaction Screening.” The funding, which will last a year, will help Professor Beeler and his Co-PI’s, Professors Scott Schaus and John Porco of Chemistry and […]
Professor Arturo Vegas Awarded a Two-Year Grant from Combined Therapeutics
We are happy to announce that Assistant Professor Arturo Vegas was recently awarded a $255,000 grant from Combined Therapeutics. This nontraditional corporate funding, which will last for 2 Years, will help Professor Vegas as he aims to reduce the immunogenicity and alter the tissue tropism of viral-based therapies. Congratulations to Dr. Vegas for this exciting […]
Professor John Porco selected as the new Samour Family Professor of Chemistry
It with great pleasure that we announce Professor John Porco has just been selected by the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Dean Ann Cudd to be our Samour Family Professor of Chemistry for the 2018 – 2023 term. This endowed Chaired position in the Boston University Chemistry Department was first established in 2003 by Carlos […]
Job Opening: Chemical Instrumentation Center Seeks Proteomics Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation Specialist.
The Proteomics Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation Specialist in the Chemical Instrumentation Center reports to the Center Director, and works closely with the Center Director and other Instrumentation Specialists, as well as research and instructional faculty and students. The Specialist will hold a Ph.D. in chemistry, biochemistry or related fields, with strong expertise in Proteomics Mass Spectrometry, […]
Professor Karen Allen Awarded 3 Grants in the 2016/2017 Academic Year
Professor Allen was awarded 3 grants in the 2016/2017 academic year. One was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), while two were awarded through the National Institute of Health (NIH), one directly and the other via a subaward agreement with the Scripps Research Institute. The Scripps subaward will study diverse approaches to treating botulism […]
Prof. David Coker Awarded $435,000 NSF Grant
Congratulations to Professor David Coker for receiving a National Science Foundation Grant (NSF) totally $435,000. This project will fund Dr. Coker and his team’s research into two areas. The first project will focus on extending, first principles, excited state quantum chemical methods and conformational sampling techniques to compute the distributions of parameters in models of […]
Boston Universities Chemistry and Physics Departments welcome one of our newest faculty members, Professor Masha Kamenetska!
We are happy to welcome Dr. Kamenetska as our newest Assistant Professor who will hold academic appointments in the Boston University Departments of Chemistry and Physics. Her hire resulted from faculty search associated with the Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) Program for a CAS junior faculty member. Masha’s experimental interests focus on single molecule measurements […]
Professor Deborah Perlstein is engaging local female rising seniors in STEM Research through the GROW Program.
University’s Learning Resource Network (LERNet) in collaboration with Prof. Deborah Perlstein in the Department of Chemistry at BU. Based on their interests, GROW participants will be matched with a lab and a graduate student or postdoc research mentor in the department of chemistry, biology, biomedical engineering or mechanical engineering. They will be assigned an independent […]
Professor Ksenia Bravaya Awarded $405,000 3 Year NSF-CTMC Grant to study Metastable Electronic States
Ksenia Bravaya, who has been an Assistant Professor of Computational Quantum Chemistry here at BU since August 2013, was recently awarded a 3-year $405,000 grant from the National Science Foundation‘s Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods (CTMC) division to pursue her research into Metastable Electronic States. Specifically, electron-molecule interactions often lead to complex chemistry initiated by […]