Professor Dan Dill Honored by Kodak
As evidence of what an accomplished photographer he is, one of Dan Dill‘s photographs has been selected by Kodak as their Picture of the Day. A poster version of the photo is shown below. The image appears on the Kodak Home Page, and every few minutes on the Kodak Times Square Gallery in New York […]
Sean Elliott receives 5-year Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation
From BU Today: The National Science Foundation honored CAS assistant professor of chemistry Sean Elliott for his research on biological electron transfer, with the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a five year grant that will give Elliott the opportunity to further develop a course curriculum that highlights the intersection of chemistry and biology. CAREER […]
Morton Hoffman Honored with Outstanding Professional Achievement Award by Hunter College
Morton Z. Hoffman, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Boston University, will receive the 2006 Hall of Fame Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from the Alumni Association of his alma mater, Hunter College of the City University of New York. Hoffman, a graduate in the class of June 1955 as a chemistry major, will receive the award […]
Iwona Wrona Receives 2005-2006 Novartis Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Women and Minorities
Iwona Wrona is a fourth year graduate student in James Panek’s laboratory. She graduated with a B.A. in chemistry (cum laude) from the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (2002), and she received her M.S. in Chemistry from Boston University (2004). Iwona is working on the total synthesis of reblastatin. Her publications include: Wrona, […]
CMLD-BU Scientists Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant in Pilot-Scale Libraries for High-Throughput Screening Program
Co-investigators of the Boston University Chemical Methodology and Library Development Center (CMLD-BU) (http://cmld.bu.edu) have been awarded a three-year grant for their joint proposal “Generation of Stereochemically and Structurally Complex Chemical Libraries.” The goal of the work by Professors Porco, and co-Principal Investigators Panek, Schaus, and Snyder, is to generate a number of stereochemically and structurally […]
Prof. Straub Receives $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to continue research on the causes of Alzheimer’s disease
College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry Professor John Straub, who won one of BU’s Metcalf Awards for Excellence in Teaching last May, is known as a charismatic lecturer. But he is also internationally recognized for his research, especially in theoretical and computational chemistry. Indeed, Straub recently received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes […]
Sha Lou Receives Merck Research Laboratories-Boston 2005-2006 Fellowship
Merck Research Laboratories (MRL)-Boston awarded us a graduate fellowship to support an advanced-year student whose thesis research focuses on organic synthesis. After careful consideration of several outstanding nominees, the recipient of the 2005-2006 MRL-Boston Fellowship is Sha Lou. Sha joined the graduate program in 2002 and is a member of Professor Scott Schaus’s Group. His […]
Jason Lowe wins ACS Organic Division 2005-2006 Fellowship
Jason Lowe is a fourth year graduate student in James Panek’s laboratory. He graduated with a B.A. in chemistry and geology from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI. Jason is working on the total synthesis of bistramide A and kendomycin using a [4+2] annulation approach. His winning fellowship essay was “Direct Coupling of […]
2004-2005 Novartis Graduate Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Women and Minorities.
Lauren Wolf (5th year graduate student in the Georgiadis Group) accepted a ChemLuminary Award at the August 2005 national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington, DC. The Northeastern Section Younger Chemists Committee (NSYCC) was given the competitive “Most Creative Local Section Younger Chemists Committee Event Award” for the Career Fair they organized […]
New Catalytic Method Discovered by Schaus and CMLD-BU featured in C&E News
From Chemical & Engineering News (Vol 83, p. 13): The asymmetric construction of monastrol and other dihydropyrimidones has been a challenge for some time. The compounds are generally produced as racemates by the Biginelli reaction, developed in 1893, and single enantiomers are obtained by chiral resolution. Assistant professor of chemistry Scott E. Schaus and coworkers […]