News items about Faculty Members
BU Chemistry Alumni Gathering at the 250th Annual National ACS Meeting
BU Chemistry Alumni Gathering In conjunction with the 250th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) BU’s Chemistry department hosted an Alumni Reception at the beautiful Seaport Hotel. The reception was a tremendous success attracting over 150 alumni, faculty, students and guests. Ann Cudd, the new Dean of the College of Art 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 […]
BU Chemistry welcomes our newest faculty member, Malika Jeffries-EL
Chemistry is pleased to welcome our newest faculty member. On January 4, Malika Jeffries-EL joined the Chemistry Department as an Associate Professor with tenure. Professor Jeffries-EL comes to BU from Iowa State University, and her research focuses on the development of organic semi-conductor materials. She received B.A. degrees in Chemistry and Africana Studies at Wellesley College, […]
Professor Perlstein to present at the 2016 Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference
Associate Professor Debbie Perlstein is going to sunny Ventura, CA next week to present at the week long Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference. Her talk, which she will give on Tuesday evening, is titled “Piecing Together Apo-Target Recognition in Cytosolic Iron Sulfur Cluster Biosynthesis.” For more information about Dr. Perlstein and her research please visit: Perlstein Faculty Page
Sean Elliott Promoted to Full Professor
Professor Sean Elliott, who joined the Department of Chemistry in 2002 and was tenured in 2008, has been promoted to full Professor. Professor Elliott’s research is at the intersection of biochemical processes and electron-transfer chemistry. By studying how electrons are moved within and between proteins in Biology, he and his group provide a novel, […]
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 […]
DOE Funds Bioenergy Study
Professor Sean Elliott and his group have received funding from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science for their project, “Tuning directionality for CO2 reduction in the oxo-acid: ferredoxin superfamily.” Their aim is to provide a unique, molecular perspective on how electron transfer processes are coupled to catalytic processes that can either be oxidations that […]