Hirst Receives AAUW Fellowship
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has awarded Liz Hirst, a fifth year graduate student in the Jasti Group, with a year-long American Fellowship that will enable her to complete her dissertation research in the next year. Hirst’s research is highly interdisciplinary, combining chemistry, physics, and materials science. The focus of her work is […]
Caradonna Group Receives NSF Research Award
Prof. John Caradonna and his group have received a 3-year National Science Foundation award from the Chemical Catalysis (CAT) Program in the Division of Chemistry (2013-2016). Entitled “Utilizing Iron-Coenzyme Oxygen Activation in Catalysis,” the project aims to investigate new oxidation processes that directly use dioxygen in sustainable metal-based systems that preclude non-selective free-radical chain reactions. […]
PFF Alumnus Promoted to Associate Professor
Former BU Chemistry Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow (2004-2007), John Miecznikowski, has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Fairfield University. Prof. Miecznikowski started his independent career at Fairfield University in September 2007 in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department. A dedicated and enthusiastic chemistry educator, he was selected as the Undergraduate Teacher of the Year […]
Allen Student Gets Banner Honors
Tianyang (Shasha) Ji’s structure of a Hot-dog thioesterase was chosen as the top banner image of the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s “Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS: A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Measurement” (21-26 April 2013). The Hot-dog Fold superfamily enzymes, which have been studied by the Allen Laboratory for the […]
Graduate Student Receives NSF Fellowship
Benjy Cooper, a second-year Chemistry graduate student in the Grinstaff Group, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. These awards are highly competitive: in 2013, the NSF chose only 2,000 fellows from among 13,000 applicants. Fellows share in the prestige and opportunities that become available when they are selected and receive a […]
X-ray Crystallography Outreach to High School Students Continues
For a second year, Professor Karen Allen and Dr. Jeff Bacon of the BU Chemical Instrumentation Center have continued their X-ray Crystallography outreach program to local area high schools. This February, they welcomed a group of Advanced Placement Biology students from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. Prior to coming to BU, the students had grown their […]