Tyler Casselman wins 2016 Laursen Summer Research Scholarship
Undergraduate student Tyler Casselman, a rising Junior doing research in Prof. John Snyder’s laboratory, is the 2016 recipient of the Laursen Summer Research Scholarship (LSRS). Tyler’s summer research continues his investigations in the Snyder group into a synthesis of drug transport within a polymer. His work focuses on developing a procedure to integrate a highly reactive ring system, […]
Dr. Malika Jeffries-EL, coauthor of a paper selected for the Journal of Materials Chemistry C Hot Papers
BU Chemistry Professors are moving and shaking these days, with publications like this on being accepted into Journals such as the 2016 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Hot Papers. The paper, whose lead author was Dr. Ramiro Chavez, a graduate student at BU in the lab of Malika Jeffries-EL, focuses on a structure–property investigation of a series of […]
2016 NEIC Distinguished Chemist: Professor Mark W. Grinstaff Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry Director, Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology Boston University Boston, Massachusetts Every year NEIC gives an award to a Distinguished Chemist in New England who has made substantial contributions to not only their field, but also to promoting chemistry through education, outreach, and […]
Professor John Straub receives United Methodist Church Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award
Boston University’s Chemistry Department is proud to announce that Professor John Straub has been selected as this year’s recipient of the United Methodist Church Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award! This award is given each year to a Boston University faculty member in recognition of their record of ongoing, outstanding research and scholarship, and excellence as a teacher. This […]
Assistant Professor Deborah Perlstein awarded NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant
Dr. Perlstein, who has been with Boston University’s Chemistry Department since 2010, was recently awarded a 5-Year early investigator award through the NSF CAREER grant program.The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars […]
Professor Jeffries-EL awarded funding for NSF Chemistry Early Career Investigator Workshop
In an effort to develop the next generation of Chemistry researchers, the National […]
BU Chemistry REU Program Awarded 3 Year Renewal of Funding
BU Chemistry is pleased to announce a 3-year renewal of funding for our NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program. This summer program, hosted by the Chemistry Department, provides students from primarily undergraduate institutions with opportunities to work in advanced research laboratories. Of the 33 students who participated in the program over the past three […]
Bravaya Named 2014 Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow
The Junior Faculty Fellows program of Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering was established in 2011 both to recognize outstanding junior faculty at Boston University working in diverse areas of the computational sciences, as well as to provide focal points for supporting broader collaborative research in these areas at BU and […]
Chemistry Research Addresses Deadly Disease
Dr. Scott Schaus (Associate Professor, Chemistry and School of Medicine pharmacology) and Dr. Lauren Brown (Research Professor) were named among the first eight winners of the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Discovery Fast Track Challenge program. GSK’s competition aims to translate academic starting points for new potential medicines. The initial contest attracted 142 entries across 17 therapeutic […]
AstraZeneca Fellowship Awarded to Thomas Sisto
Fourth-year graduate student Thomas Sisto in Prof. Ramesh Jasti’s group has been awarded the 2013-2014 AstraZeneca Fellowship in Organic Chemistry. The award is in recognition of his scientific creativity and productivity. Tom joined the Jasti research group as a Dean’s Fellow in the Summer of 2010. Since then he has published four papers (three as […]