News items about Faculty Members
NSF Funds Elliott Group to Probe Mysteries of the Disulfide Bond
Disulfide bonds play critical catalytic, structural and signaling roles throughout nature. However, little is known about what governs their reactivity at the molecular level. To gain insights into disulfide bonds, the National Science Foundation, has funded Professor Sean Elliott and his Research Group to use direct electrochemistry to characterize the influence of protein sequence and […]
BU Chemistry Welcomes Professor Xin Chen to Faculty
Professor Xin Chen is an experimental physical chemist and his interdisciplinary research at Boston University is in the area of the surface chemistry of soft materials. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Stanford University, working with Professor John Brauman in the field of gas-phase ion chemistry. Following his Ph.D, he had two highly […]
Tian Qin Named Vertex Scholar
The recipient of this year’s Vertex Scholar Award is Tian Qin, a third year student in the Professor John Porco’s Research Group. His selection was based on his development of an extremely elegant and enabling synthetic methodology towards a very difficult series of natural product targets with anticancer and cytotoxic activity. This work was recently […]
Straub Group Receives NSF Award to Simulate Phase Changes
As theoretical chemists John Straub and his Research Group apply mathematical statements of basic physical laws to accurately simulate known phenomena, and then from this basis, make predictions about the unknown. The intellectual challenge they face is first choosing the appropriate mathematical description of a problem that embodies its basic physics, and then coming up […]
Chemistry Receives NSF Multi-User Research Instrument Award
The Boston University Department of Chemistry has received funds from the NSF MRI program to acquire a Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectrometer, which will enhance the research of scientists in several departments encompassing biological and organic chemistry. In addition to the Principal Investigator, Professor Karen Allen, there are five major users at BU whose research will […]
Drug Mechanism of Action Using Bioinformatic Pathway Analysis
Professor Scott Schaus and Graduate Student Lisa Christadore are co-authors of: Network-based prediction for sources of transcriptional dysregulation using latent pathway identification analysis Published in PNAS in July 2011, the paper represents their collaborative work with researchers in the BU Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor Eric Kolaczyk and Graduate Student Lisa Pham. It reports […]
Teaching Lab Protocols Now Freely Shared
Boston University Chemistry has launched a new Digital Common site for organic chemistry teaching lab protocols. According to Prof. John Snyder, “developing a freely accessible, dynamic data base of sophomore organic lab experiments was driven by the reality that we were creating most of our sophomore course labs rather than relying on a lab textbook. […]
Laursen Fund Halfway to Goal
When Professor Emeritus Richard Laursen retired in 2009, his students and colleagues wanted to recognize his 43 years of excellent research, teaching, and mentoring by establishing the Laursen Fund in his honor. The goal is to raise $100,000. We are now halfway to meeting that goal. Led by Chemistry alumnus Luis Ruzo (CAS 1970), a […]
Doerrer Receives Basic Energy Sciences Grant
Professor Linda Doerrer and her research group have received a 4-year, $710,000 grant from the Office of Basic Energy Sciences in the Department of Energy to investigate a new potential water oxidation system. Entitled “Development of Earth-Abundant Transition Metal Catalysts for Water Oxidation,” the study will focus on the separation of water into its elements […]
Chemistry’s Renovated Front Office
Chemistry friends and alumni are invited to view our completely redesigned and renovated front office by clicking here or — better yet — by visiting. While looking radically different, the new front office fits seamlessly into the original footprint. The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) commissioned the design from Kristine Stoller and Alan Westman […]