Department Overview
Chairman - Prof. John Straub
Faculty
Tenure-track faculty members: 25
Teaching and science awards: Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Gitner Award for Excellence in Teaching, Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching
Funding: Federal (National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Defense); Foundations (American Cancer Society, Petroleum Research Fund, Dreyfus, Whitaker, Sloan, Medical Foundation); Corporations (Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Amgen, Johnson&Johnson, AstraZeneca)
Endowed chair: Carlos Samour Family Chair in Organic Chemistry
Endowed lecture: Lambert Lecture
Postdoctoral Research Associates: 25
Students
Undergraduate chemistry majors: approximately 25/year
Graduate students: 117
Research Areas
- Bioanalytical - Pinghua Liu, Sean Elliott, Rosina Georgiadis, Guilford Jones, Richard Laursen, Brandon Xia
- Biological - Richard Laursen, Pinghua Liu, Scott Mohr, Scott Schaus, Tom Tullius, Adrian Whitty
- Theoretical - David Coker, Dan Dill, Tom Keyes, John Straub, Feng Wang, Brandon Xia
- Inorganic - John Caradonna, Sean Elliott, Warren Giering, Tom Tullius, Linda Doerrer
- Organic - Warren Giering, Mark Grinstaff, Guilford Jones, Jim Panek, John Porco, John Snyder, Scott Schaus, Corey Stephenson
- Photochemistry - Guilford Jones, John Porco, Larry Ziegler
- Physical - Rosina Georgiadis, Al Prock, Larry Ziegler, Kevin Smith, Bjoern Reinhard
- Biophysical - Sean Elliott, Rosina Georgiadis, Mark Grinstaff, Guilford Jones, John Straub, Tom Tullius, Brandon Xia
Collaborations & Affiliations
Center for Chemical Methodology and Library Development at Boston University (CMLD-BU)
Location
Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering - newly renovated 320,000 square-foot building with high quality laboratories, classrooms, and computer facilities.
Photonics Research Center - recently built, 350,000 square-foot facility where traditional academic science is coupled with start-up companies to create innovative new technologies.
Life Science and Engineering Building - completed in 2005, 280,000 square-foot facility to accommodate and encourage interdisciplinary and cross-departmental research in the life sciences.
Resources
Chemical Instrumentation Center - Newly constructed 5,500 square-foot facility located in the Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering.
Instrumentation - in addition to extensive instrumentation in individual faculty research groups, the Department’s resources include a high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer facility with 300 MHz, 400 MHz, and 500 MHz FT-NMR spectrometers, several FTIR spectrometers with time-resolved capabilities for kinetics measurements, a high-resolution mass spectrometer with a gas-chromatographic interface, a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer, and GC-mass spectrometer, two liquid chromatography mass spectrometers, which include an autosampler and diode array detection, coupled to single quadrupole or ion-trap detectors.
Computing - diverse and sophisticated computer facilities are capable of high-end computation and graphics processing. Terminals throughout the Department are connected via the departmental Ethernet, which in turn connects to the University network, and then externally to the Internet and beyond. There is a special computer facility for graduate students in the Department, which includes equipment and software for data analysis, word processing, image scanning and other research activities. Outstanding additional resources for scientific computing come from the CCS and from the Boston University Office of Information Technology.
Library - The Science and Engineering Library at Boston University maintains an extensive collection of electronic and paper research journals, monographs and reference books. Boston University is also part of the Boston Library Consortium, which gives us ready access to reference and research materials at numerous other Boston area institutions.