Porco Group Awarded $1.6 million to Investigate Biomimetic Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
Professor John Porco and his group have received a 4-year, $1.6 million award (2010 to 2014) to develop and refine biomimetic syntheses using copper-mediated enantioselective oxidation processes; photochemical cycloaddition employing excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT); and asymmetric reactions of acylphloroglucinols. Professor Porco and colleagues are applying these methodologies to synthesize complex natural products, including […]
Help create the Undergraduate Center for Discovery Chemistry
The Center will provide the physical framework for a new curriculum dedicated to cultivating chemical intuition and encouraging independent investigation. With this curriculum, we will be able to immerse students in the process of collaborative innovation and discovery. To do so, we will need to provide them with advanced scientific instrumentation and integrated modern laboratory […]
Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Alumni Celebrate Guilford Jones, Our “Newest” Emeritus
Over 200 people turned out to honor Professor Guilford Jones on his retirement and his contributions to Boston University and the Department of Chemistry. At a reception and dinner on Friday, April 23, in the BU School of Management, former students and postdocs from the Jones Group mingled with Chemistry and University colleagues and family […]
Professor Bassam Shakhashiri Celebrates 50 years as a BU Chemistry Alumnus
Nothing makes us prouder than being able to to claim Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Ph.D, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as one of our own! He received his B.A. in Chemistry from BU in 1960. It launched him on a distinguished academic career that includes an M.Sc. and Ph.D from the University of […]
BU Chemistry Fall 2010 ACS Alumni Reception
We are pleased to invite BU Chemistry Alumni and Friends to a reception at the Fall ACS National Meeting in Boston on Monday, August 23, 2010, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel (adjacent to the conference center). Please let us know if you plan to attend.
Ellison Medical Foundation Sponsors Tom Tullius to Explore Role of Gene Oxidative Damage in Aging
Professor Tom Tullius has received a 2009 Senior Scholar Award in Aging” from the nonprofit Ellison Medical Foundation. The Foundation supports basic biomedical research on aging relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. The Ellison award supports a new project in the Tullius lab on genome damage and aging, particularly the […]
Karen Allen research reported in Nature
Karen Allen research reported in Nature solves how the enzyme acetoacetate decarboxylase (AADase) works in cell environment Professor Karen Allen, an internationally renown crystallographer in the Department of Chemistry and her colleagues, BU graduate student Meng-Chiao Ho and post-doctoral associate Jean-Francois Menetret, and Hiro Tsuruta of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource of the National Accelerator […]
Reinhard Group Receives NIH Award to Probe Underlying Mechanisms of the Abnormal Behavior of EGFR in Cancer Cells
Professor Bjoern Reinhard and his group have received an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health, “Illuminating Dynamic Receptor Clustering in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signal Transduction Pathway Using Plasmon Coupling.” The goal of their research is to use near-field interactions between individual nanoparticle labels to probe the underlying mechanisms of the abnormal […]
John Snyder Receives the Templeton Prize
Snyder Recognized for Excellence in Student Advising For the second year in a row, a member of the Chemistry faculty has received the Templeton Prize for Excellence in Student Advising, the top undergraduate advising award given by the College of Arts and Sciences. The 2009 recipient is Prof. John Snyder. Despite his busy schedule which […]
Chemistry Awarded Lectureship Sponsored by Organic Syntheses, Inc.
The objective of the publication, Organic Syntheses, Inc., is to sponsor highly talented and innovative research seminars in organic chemistry. The first of these lectures at Boston University will be on April 13 and will be given by Professor Tehshik Yoon, University of Wisconsin at Madison. Prof. Yoon is investigating how transition metal catalysts modulate […]