December 8-12, 2008

December 8 (Monday)
2 pm		BUYCC Officers Meeting (LSEB 904)
December 9 (Tuesday)

December 10 (Wednesday)
4 pm		PChem Seminar (SCI 512) - Professor Vassiliy Lubchenko, University of Houston, "Cooperative Transport in Supercooled Melts: from Ionic Conductivity to Non-Lineaer Rheological Response"
6 to 8 pm		Northeastern Section Younger Chemists Committee "Bowling at Jillian's Boston" and campus representative appreciation night. For more information, contact Kathryn Duffy Bewley
December 11 (Thursday)
11 am		Faculty Candidate Presentation (LSEB 103) - Dr. Hemali Rathnayake (UMass Amherst, Paul Lahti laboratory)
3:30 to 5 pm		BUWIC’s Holiday No-Stress Study Break (LSEB 804)
4:30 pm		Faculty Candidate Research Presentation (LSEB 103) - Faculty Only
December 12 (Friday)
12 noon		Faculty Research Presentation (LSEB 103) - Dr. Richard Cate, Visiting Scholar in the Whitty Lab, "How processing of Anti-Mullerian Hormone, a member of the TGF-beta family, affects binding to its receptor and latency" ("meet&greet" reception follows the presentation)
1 pm		"New College" discussion for any faculty members who could not earlier sessions (location TBD
3 to 5 pm		Chemia Study Break with refreshments (SCI 294)

Congratulations

Dr. Xiang Liu, Snyder Group, on his successful thesis defense, "Chiral Anthracenes as Stereocontrolling Elements in Organic Synthesis"
Professor Linda Doerrer (and her co-PI's Dr. Joyce Wong, Boston University BME and Dr. Igal Szleifer, Northwestern University BME) for receiving an Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC) award for their project "Magnetic, sub-pore scale metal oxide particles for enhanced magnetic resonance and optical characterization of rock pore structure and fluid composition in reservoir rock"

Professor Emeritus Morton Hoffman's "Report from Mauritius" on the 20th Internatinal Conference on Chemical Education (ICCE 2008) in The Nucleus, December 2008
Student front desk schedule: Elise, Diana, Kayla (Monday); Jessica, Diana, Hannah, Heather (Tuesday); Zack, Heather, Kayla (Wednesday); Jessica, Diana, Zack, Hannah (Thursday); Zack, Hannah, Elise (Friday) - This is the last week this semester that we expect to have students assisting us at the front desk.