{"id":12356,"date":"2013-04-10T13:14:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/?p=12356"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:27:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:27:34","slug":"pff-alumnus-promoted-to-associate-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/2013\/04\/10\/pff-alumnus-promoted-to-associate-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"PFF Alumnus Promoted to Associate Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8825\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/05\/pr_jmiecznikowski11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/chemistry\/files\/2011\/05\/pr_jmiecznikowski11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Professor John R. Miecznikowski\" title=\"John R. Miecznikowski\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8825\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. John R. Miecznikowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former BU Chemistry Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow (2004-2007), John Miecznikowski, has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairfield.edu\/index.html\">Fairfield University<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Prof.  Miecznikowski started his independent career at Fairfield  University in  September 2007 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairfield.edu\/cas\/chem_index.html\">Chemistry &amp; Biochemistry Department<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 A dedicated and enthusiastic chemistry educator, he was selected as the Undergraduate  Teacher of the  Year at Fairfield University\u00c2\u00a0by Alpha Sigma Nu (Jesuit  Honor Society) in  2011.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Miecznikowski received his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Yale University in 2004, where his research with Prof. Robert  Crabtree focused on developing several new aspects of transition-metal  N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Following his Ph.D., he joined the BU Chemistry Department as a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow (PFF).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/people\/faculty\/pal\/\">PFF Program<\/a> provides a two-to-three-year, full time appointment in  the Department of Chemistry for recent Ph.D. graduates who plan to  pursue academic careers at 4-year liberal arts colleges as Prof. Miecznikowski did.\u00c2\u00a0 It gives Fellows first-hand  experience in teaching chemistry, while enabling them to conduct  research.\u00c2\u00a0 As a PFF, Prof. Miecznikowski was  involved in team teaching General Chemistry I (CH101), and Inorganic  Chemistry (CH232). \u00c2\u00a0 He did postdoctoral research under the direction  of Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/people\/faculty\/caradonna\/\">John Caradonna<\/a>. His research focused on synthesizing and  characterizing Fe(II) and Fe(III) model complexes for the 2-His  1-Carboxylate Motif of mononuclear nonheme iron oxygenases.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Miecznikowski joins the distinguished list of PFF alumni who have also achieved tenure: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilkes.edu\/pages\/969.asp?pidm=340778\">Amy Bradley<\/a>, Associate Professor and Chair, Wilkes College;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcla.edu\/Undergraduate\/majors\/chemistry\/robertharris\/\">Robert Harris<\/a>, MA College of Liberal Arts; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belmont.edu\/chemphys\/faculty__staff\/alisonmoore.html\">Allison Moore<\/a>, Belmont University; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/academic_depts\/chemistry\/faculty\/tyler\/index.php\">Laurie Tyler<\/a>, Union College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former BU Chemistry Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow (2004-2007), John Miecznikowski, has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Fairfield University.\u00c2\u00a0 Prof. Miecznikowski started his independent career at Fairfield University in September 2007 in the Chemistry &amp; Biochemistry Department.\u00c2\u00a0 A dedicated and enthusiastic chemistry educator, he was selected as the Undergraduate Teacher of the Year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82,997],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12356"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12365,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions\/12365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}