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Prof. David Coker Awarded $435,000 NSF Grant
Congratulations to Professor David Coker for receiving a National Science Foundation Grant (NSF) totally $435,000. This project will fund Dr. Coker and his team’s research into two areas. The first project will focus on extending, first principles, excited state quantum chemical methods and conformational sampling techniques to compute the distributions of parameters in models of […]
BU’s Chemistry and Electrical and Chemical Engineering Departments welcome Professor Chen Yang!
BU’s Chemistry and Electrical and Chemical Engineering Departments welcome Professor Chen Yang! We are happy to welcome a new colleague to our ranks in Professor Chen Yang. Professor Yang will be moving from the Purdue University Chemistry Department where she also has a joint appointment in Physics. Her work focuses on the development of new […]
Boston University to Host the American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry July 16th-21st, 2017
With a $10,000 grant from the Department of Energy (DOE), secured by Dr. David Coker, Boston University is pleased to host the 2017 American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry! Held every three years since 1972, the ACTC is widely attended by chemists from both the United States and […]
Dr. Norman Lee awarded an NIH-SIG Instrumentation Grant
The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Instrumentation Center (CIC) was recently awarded a National Institute of Health Shared Instrumentation Grant (NIH SIG) led by Dr. Norman Lee, Director of CIC, to acquire a MicroScale Thermophoresis (MST) instrument. This instrument will enable investigators in Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry and others to advance their research in life processes […]
Dr. Arturo Vegas Highlighted in BU Today
Dr. Arturo Vegas was recently featured in BU Today for his research into Type 1 Diabetes. The full article is called “New Targets to Treat Type 1 Diabetes” and there’s an excerpt from the article by Barbara Moran is below. For more information about Dr. […]
Tyler Casselman wins 2016 Laursen Summer Research Scholarship
Undergraduate student Tyler Casselman, a rising Junior doing research in Prof. John Snyder’s laboratory, is the 2016 recipient of the Laursen Summer Research Scholarship (LSRS). Tyler’s summer research continues his investigations in the Snyder group into a synthesis of drug transport within a polymer. His work focuses on developing a procedure to integrate a highly reactive ring system, […]
Chemistry Alumni Reception Aug 18 at Seaport Hotel
Register Here On August 18, the Department of Chemistry is hosting a special cocktail reception for Chemistry Alumni, 5:30PM-7:30PM at the Cityview Ballroom of the Boston Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center. In conjunction with the ACS National Meeting, the Department of Chemistry is hosting a special reception on August 18, 2015 at Boston’s Seaport Hotel. […]
NSF Graduate Fellow Joins Straub Group
2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award recipient, George Pantelopulos, has joined Chemistry to do his proposed graduate research in theoretical chemistry with Prof. John Straub and his group. George aims to model the kinetics of phase transitions in a system of components (lipids and cholesterol) commonly found in eukaryotic cell membranes using the […]
Environmental Health Scientist Speaks at Chemistry Convocation
The Director of the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports, Dr. Urvashi Rangan, was the Distinguished Alumni Speaker at this year’s Chemistry Convocation (May 16, 2015). Dr. Rangan received her BA in Chemistry from Boston University in 1990, doing undergraduate research in organic chemistry with Prof. John Snyder. She received her PhD in […]
Chemistry Welcomes Arturo Vegas to the Faculty
We are happy to announce that Arturo José Vegas will be joining the Department on July 1 as Assistant Professor. His research will aim to develop novel targeting therapeutics and delivery systems for selective cancer chemotherapy, immunomodulation, and diabetic immunosuppression. At the same time, the Vegas laboratory will create a general and systematic approach to […]