Mark Grinstaff appointed a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor
Congratulations to Mark Grinstaff for being appointed a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor! This is the highest recognition that Boston University bestows on a faculty member. Read more about him here.
Malika Jeffries-EL Promotion to Full Professor
Congratulations Malika Jeffries-EL for being promoted to full professor! Read more about her in BU Today’s article.
QC Receives an Award From The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Professor of Chemistry Qiang Cui, who is also a Research Fellow at the Hariri Institute, received a 2021 Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Award from The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to develop a machine-learning approach for analyzing protein allostery. The project, entitled “Understanding Protein Allostery using Machine Learning and Deep Mutation […]
Congrats to Our Graduate Student Award Winners
Here is a list of our latest Graduate Student Award Winners: The Feldman Awards: Nicole Berry, Lizzy Karnaukh The Sugata Ray Award: Xingda An The Lichtin Award: Samantha Muellers Director’s Award for Excellence: Albert Lamonda
Focused Research Program Faculty Awarded NSF EAGER Grant
Via Gina Mantica: Organic materials that convert electricity into light are greener than the more common inorganic materials often used in light emitting diodes, or LEDs. But organic materials for large scale display and lighting applications are more challenging to develop due to the cost and energy required for their production. Artificial intelligence can help […]
Fall 2021 Advising
Please be on the lookout for e-mails from your advisees looking to schedule registration advising appointments. Fall 2021 registration dates are April 18th for rising Senior/Juniors and April 25th for rising Sophomores and any spring admitted Freshmen.
Giving Day on April 7th
BU’s annual Giving Day will be on Wednesday, April 7th. Please share the link to Chemistry’s giving page on your social media: https://givingday.bu.edu/campaigns/chemistry-department#/
Congratulations to Binyomin!
Congratulation to Professor Binyomin Abrams for winning the 2021 Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching and Technology. This award recognizes the faculty member that best exemplifies innovation in teaching through the use, development, or adaptation of technology. The award reflects Binyomin’s outstanding teaching and innovative use of technology to engage and […]
March 2021 Faculty Meeting
The faculty meeting will be held remotely this Friday, February 26th at 12:20 PM. Please join through the following Zoom Link!
Juan Lopez (Class of ’22)
Single-Step Replacement of an Unreactive C–H Bond by a C–S Bond Using Polysulfide as the Direct Sulfur Source in the Anaerobic Ergothioneine Biosynthesis Ergothioneine, a natural longevity vitamin and antioxidant, is a thiol-histidine derivative. Recently, two types of biosynthetic pathways were reported. In the aerobic ergothioneine biosyntheses, non-heme iron enzymes incorporate a sulfoxide into an […]