Novartis Continues Sponshorship of Graduate Fellowship and Lecture
For the sixth year in a row, the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (Cambridge, MA) is continuing its support for the Novartis Graduate Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Minorities and Women, an undergraduate summer researcher (TBA), and the Novartis Lectureship in Organic Chemistry. The recipient of the competitive 2008/2009 Fellowship is Ms. Jen Goss (pictured […]
Chemistry Faculty Receive Top Teaching and Advising Awards
The Department of Chemistry prides itself on faculty who attain an admirable balance between their research and scholarship and their commitment to teaching and advising. Two of our faculty, Professor Sean Elliott and Professor John Caradonna, both renowned researchers, were singularly honored by the College of Arts and Sciences with undergraduate advising and teaching awards. […]
Mark Grinstaff receives CIMIT’s Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation
Professor Mark Grinstaff (Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering) has received the 2008 Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation from CIMIT as part of the CIMIT Cancer Advanced Technology Team. CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology) is a non-profit consortium of Boston teaching hospitals and engineering schools, whose mission is to foster interdisciplinary […]
NIGMS Renews Funding for the CMLD-BU
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) is continuing its support of the CMLD-BU as one of five Centers of Excellence addressing the problem of how to develop small molecule libraries and techniques for making them that meet all the needs of pharmaceutical and biomedical scientists. The CMLD-BU was originally established in 2002. The […]
John A. Porco, Jr. Receives 2009 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
John Porco, Professor and Director of the CMLD-BU, has received a 2009 Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. He joins Professor Jim Panek, a 2002 awardee, as our department’s second recipient of this prestigious award. The Cope Scholar Award is given to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry, and consists of $5,000, […]
Two Chemistry faculty receive NSF CAREER Awards
Feng (Seymour) Wang has received his CAREER award for his work on “Molecular Dynamics Study of Growth and Dissolution Dynamics of Stable and Meta-Stable Methane Hydrates.” The goal of his research is to gain an atomistic scale understanding of the growth and dissolution processes of methane hydrate, which is an important but little understood part […]
Three Talented Chemistry Graduate Students Receive 2007-2008 Research Fellowships from Pharmaceutical Companies
Amal Ting – Novartis Graduate Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Women and Minorities Amal Ting is a fourth-year graduate student in Prof. Scott Schaus’ Group. Her fellowship will support her work investigations of the use of isonitriles in conjunction with imines to synthesize complex heterocycles. This project has been primarily her design and has resulted […]
Jason Lowe Receives Merck Research Laboratories-Boston 2007 Fellowship
Each year, Merck Research Laboratories (MRL)-Boston awards the Department of Chemistry a graduate fellowship to support an advanced-year student whose thesis research focuses on organic synthesis. Several outstanding young scientists were nominated for consideration by the Graduate Affairs Commitee. After careful deliberation, the Committee selected Jason Lowe, a member of the Panek Group. Jason joined […]
Ji Qi Receives 2006-2007 Novartis Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Women and Minorities
Ji Qi is a third-year graduate student in John Porco’s laboratory. Ms. Qi’s fellowship will support her ongoing project “Studies Towards the Synthesis of Polyprenylated Benzophenone Natural Products.” She has developed a novel process to assemble the bicyclo [3.3.1]-nonane-1,3,5- trione core of this natural product class.
Leland L. Johnson, Jr., Research poster cited for exceptional quality
A research poster presented by Lee Johnson, a third-year graduate student in the laboratory of Professor James Panek, was cited for its exceptional quality. The poster was presented at the March 2006 ACS meeting organized by the German Chemical Society’s Younger Chemists Committee in Konstanz, Germany. The title of Lee’s poster was: “Expansion of [4+2] […]