News items about the department as a whole, e.g., lectureships, new staff, etc.
Boston University Chemistry 2015-2016 Academic Year Grant Awards
The Chemistry Department is one of the most active research departments at Boston University. With 24 research active faculty involved in many different focus areas, we are committed to a research active learning environment where our faculty and students are afforded the opportunity to do cutting edge chemical research. In order to continue to build on […]
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 […]
NIH Funds Alkaloid Synthesis Research
The Stephenson Group Receives NIH Funding for Alkaloid Synthesis using Visible Light. These visible light-mediated methods provide innovative avenues toward challenging molecular architectures with broad biological activity.
NIH $5.9 million stimulus award granted to BU Chemistry
This award will reinforce our Life Science research infrastructure on the Charles River Campus by renovating space on the 4th floor in the East Wing of the Metcalf Science and Engineering Center Department of Chemistry space. Started in April, 2010, the one-year effort will renovate 6,700 square feet of laboratory and office space to create […]
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 […]
Department of Chemistry welcomes Professor Karen Allen, world renowned crystallographer, to faculty
Karen Allen, a distinguished research scientist in biochemistry and structural biology has joined the Department of Chemistry. Most recently on the faculty of the Boston University Medical School, she has made seminal contributions to the understanding of protein structure and function through X-ray diffraction and chemical kinetic studies. Professor Allen’s training spans the fields of […]
Adrian Whitty joins faculty as Associate Professor in biochemistry
Prof. Whitty received his undergraduate degree (B.Sc., Hon.) in Chemistry at King’s College, University of London in 1985, and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1991 working with Professor Paul Young. Following postdoctoral research with Professor William P. Jencks at Brandeis University in the field of Enzymology, Adrian […]
Chemistry Co-sponsors Art Installation in Metcalf Plaza
The Departments of Chemistry and Physics are sponsoring the installation of an art piece, “The Evolution of Darwin,” by artist Esther Solondz. Between November 2006 and April 2007, Solondz, who is on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design, is creating “rust portraits” of Charles Darwin and other evolutionary scientists on the concrete […]
Nobel Laureate Robert Grubbs delivers 2007 Lambert Lecture
The Chemistry Department is pleased to announce that Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Grubbs, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, will be giving this year’s Lambert lecture. The Lambert Lecture is supported by an endowment established by alumnus Benjamin Lambert , who earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at […]
Chemistry receives NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site Award
The Chemistry Department is please to announce our receipt of an NSF REU site award. The Chemistry Research Addressing Biological Problems program gives undergraduates the opportunity to conduct research in basic chemical science projects that address fundamental questions in biological systems. The program is offered by the Department of Chemistry at Boston University and is […]