News items about the department as a whole, e.g., lectureships, new staff, etc.
Three New Faculty Join Department of Chemistry
It is with great pleasure that the Department of Chemistry welcomes three new Assistant Professors to our faculty. Professor Doerrer is a synthetic inorganic chemist. She received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Professor Stephen Lippard. She was appointed a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow from 1996 to 1997 in the […]
Two New Faculty Join Department of Chemistry
It is with great pleasure that the Department of Chemistry welcomes two new members to its faculty, Professor Pinghua Liu in biochemistry and Professor Feng Wang in theoretical and computational chemistry. Professor Liu received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Minnesota. Most recently, he was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Professor […]
New Postdoctoral Faculty Fellows Join Second Term of Successful Program
Three new Postdoctoral Faculty Fellows (PFFs), Robert F. Harris, John Miecznikowski, and Clifford Murphy, have joined “veteran” PFF, Tom Castonguay, in the highly successful teaching/research program. Robert Harris received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2003, where he was also a Research Associate. He is doing research in Professor Grinstaff’s laboratory and teaching in“General and […]
Professor Mark Grinstaff Joins Chemistry Department
Professor Mark Grinstaff has accepted a newly created position at Boston University — a joint appointment between the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry — funded by a Whitaker Foundation Leadership Award. The Whitaker Foundation’s mission is to promote better human health by supporting academic research in biomedical engineering. Professor Grinstaff’s highly interdisciplinary research is […]
Professor Kevin Smith Accepts Joint Appointment with Chemistry Department
In recognition of the important role chemistry plays in his scholarship, the Chemistry Department has extended a joint appointment to Professor Kevin Smith of the Boston University Physics Department. Prof. Smith’s research is highly interdisciplinary, involving aspects of physics, chemistry, and materials science. He uses high-resolution versions of x-ray fluorescence and photoemission spectroscopies to study […]
Professor Sean J. Elliott Joins Chemistry Department
Professor Sean J. Elliott (Inorganic Chemistry) joined our faculty in Fall 2002. Sean received his B.A. summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1994 in Chemistry and English. He received his Ph.D. with Sunney Chan at Caltech 2000, for his work on the enzymology and biophysical characterization of the copper centers of particulate methane monooxygenase. […]
Professor Scott E. Schaus Joins Chemistry Department
Professor Scott E. Schaus (Organic Chemistry) joined our faculty in Fall 2001. Scott received his B.A. in Chemistry, summa cum laude from Boston University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry with Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University in 1999. In the Jacobsen laboratory, Scott worked on the development of asymmetric catalytic reactions for the synthesis […]