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Weber receives Inaugural Laursen Scholarship
Undergraduate student Jeremy Weber, a rising Junior doing research in Prof. Linda Doerrer’s laboratory, is the inaugural 2014 recipient of the Laursen Summer Research Scholarship (LSRS). Jeremy’s summer research continues his investigations in the Doerrer group into a synthesis of nanoscale, zero-valent iron particles. His work focuses on hydrothermal and inert atmosphere syntheses to make […]
Doerrer Student Receives 2014 NSF Fellowship
Ariel Hyre, a first-year graduate student in Professor Linda Doerrer’s laboratory, has received a 2014 NSF Graduate Research Program Fellowship on her initial attempt. NSF stated that she was awarded the 3-year fellowship based on her “outstanding abilities and accomplishments, as well as [her] potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the US science […]
Chemistry Senior Receives 2014 NSF Fellowship
Chemistry major, Dharati Joshi, who is doing honors research with Prof. Ramesh Jasti, has received a coveted NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Dharati has decided to pursue her graduate studies at UC Berkeley. (She had also received offers from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford among others.) Wherever she goes to continue her studies, Dharati knows here career […]
Commemorating Prof. Emeritus Hartman (1931-2014)
When Prof. Standish C. Hartman (‘Stan’) retired in 2005, the Department of Chemistry held a grand celebration honoring his promotion to Professor Emeritus. A man of quiet dignity, with a dry sense of humor, Stan seemed taken aback by the turnout and tributes. Stan’s modesty prevented him from seeing what everyone else knew: that during […]
Many Designs: One Winner
In the summer of 2013, the Chemistry Department held a competition for its members (graduate students, chemistry majors, postdocs, and staff) to submit graphic designs for a Departmental logo. The winner would receive an iPad and have the satisfaction of knowing that his/her design would by a symbol used by the Department for many purposes, […]
Grinstaff Group is Featured in BUToday Special Report
The interdisciplinary research of Prof. Mark Grinstaff and his group is featured in a BU Today, Special Report. Prof. Grinstaff, who holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Chemistry (College of Arts and Sciences) and Biomedical Engineering (School of Engineering), leads a lab whose current students come from graduate programs in Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, […]
BU Research and Education Benefit from New CIC Instruments
In response to BU’s continued success in recruiting faculty who are addressing today’s most challenging research problems, the Chemical Instrumentation Center (CIC) on the Charles River Campus is successfully growing its infrastructure with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University, and industry. In September 2013, the Chemistry Department and the CIC received support […]
Reinhard Research Rates Two Journal Covers
This February, the Reinhard Laboratory’s research made the cover of two peer-reviewed journals: Biomaterials Science and Advanced Functional Materials. The Biomaterials Research paper (Biomater. Sci., 2014, 2, 156), “Nanoconjugation: a materials approach to enhance epidermal growth factor induced apoptosis,” was authored by graduate students, Linxi Wu (4th year), Xinwei Yu (5th year), Amin Feizpour (3rd year), […]
Chemistry Research Addresses Deadly Disease
Dr. Scott Schaus (Associate Professor, Chemistry and School of Medicine pharmacology) and Dr. Lauren Brown (Research Professor) were named among the first eight winners of the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Discovery Fast Track Challenge program. GSK’s competition aims to translate academic starting points for new potential medicines. The initial contest attracted 142 entries across 17 therapeutic […]
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Faculty Fellows
In 2014, in recognition of the importance of Chemistry to interdisciplinary research at Boston University, the Photonics Center and the Division of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) are supporting the summer research of two Postdoctoral Faculty Fellows (PFFs) in the laboratory of Center-affiliated faculty. The Photonics Center is supporting Dr. Jennifer Fore, who is doing […]