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Week of 29 October 1999 |
Vol. III, No. 12 |
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Hoffman receives Hill Award
CAS Chemistry Professor Morton Hoffman received the
Henry A. Hill Award at the October 4 meeting of the
Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society
(NESACS). The award is given annually to a member of the
society's Northeastern Section for outstanding service.
Hoffman, who joined the BU faculty in 1961 -- and received the Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 1994 -- was introduced at the meeting by BU Trustee Esther Hopkins (CAS'47), who is also a trustee and councilor of the section. She received the Hill Award in 1988.
Hoffman has chaired the NESACS Committee on Education, has been a driving force behind the annual Northeast Regional Undergraduate Day, and has been an advocate of chemical education, undergraduate student affiliates, and younger chemists in the Northeastern Section. He has also served as councilor and alternate councilor of the section. He has been active in the ACS on a national level, having served on the President's Task Force on International Education, the society's Committee on Education Task Force on Undergraduate Programming, and the Division of Chemical Education Program Committee, which he will chair from 2000 to 2002.
Hoffman's research in the area of the photochemistry and photophysics of coordination complexes earned him election as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1992. He has published almost 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals and served as associate editor for radiation research.