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2011-12-31 - Professor Ralph Nuzzo has received the Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The 60,000 Euro Humboldt Research Award is granted to researchers whose fundamental discoveries, inventions or novel theories have influenced essentially their fields of research and who are expected to continue being top researchers in the future. The award winners are enabled to work...

2011-12-31 - Dr. Scott E. Denmark will receive the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC) Seniro Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry. The award, sponsored by Pfizer Inc. is presented at the biannual International Society of Heterocylclic Chemistry congress.

2011-12-31 - Professor Ben McCall has been named the 2011-2012 Helen Corley Petit Scholar by the College of Liberal Arts and Science. The scholarship is in recognition of outstanding research and teaching.

2011-12-31 - Dr. Cathy Murphy will receive the 2011 Inorganic Nanoscience Award, given by the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry.  The award is given to a mid-career scientist who has shown sustained excellence, dedication, and perseverance in research in the area of inorganic nanoscience. Dr. Murphy will receive the award at the Fall ACS meeting.   For more information about the...

2011-12-31 - Seiko Fujii, a member of Professer Marty Burke's research group, has made a major advance in small molecule synthesis which will be celebrated next month on the cover of "Angewandte Chemie", one of the top chemistry journals in the world.

2011-12-31 - So Hirata, Professor of Chemistry and Alumni Research Scholar, has been named a Scialog Fellow by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). The RCSA is the nation's oldest foundation for science advancement. The fellowship is awarded through Scialog®, a major new research initiative. This multi-year grant program accelerates the work of 21st-century science by funding early career...

2011-12-31 - The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Dr. Prashant Jain will be joining our faculty beginning in the Fall 2011 academic semester.  Professor Jain received his B.Tech. from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai, India in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. During 2008, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard...

2011-12-31 - Rienstra group member Gemma Comellas has been named the winner of a 2011 Baxter Young Investigator Award. The award is intended to stimulate and reward research applicable to the development of therapies and medical products that save and sustain patients’ lives. Gemma will be presented with the $1,000 prize at an awards presentation in October. For more information about the Rienstra...

2011-12-31 - Professor Ryan Bailey will receive a 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Bailey is one of 118 early career scientists and researchers from 54 colleges and universities chosen for a two-year fellowship.

2011-12-03 - Edward O. Stejskal died Friday, December 2, 2011, 48 days shy of his 80th birthday.

2011-10-31 - Marvin Hart Mahan, 91, of St. Petersburg, died peacefully Oct. 30, 2011.

2011-10-30 - Edward Martin Schulze died peacefully on October 29, 2011 in Conroe, Texas, at the age of 91 years.

2011-10-25 - George Coraor, Ph.D., 87, of Whitehall, PA, formerly of Allentown, PA, and Wilmington, DE, died Monday, October 24, 2011, at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, PA.

2011-10-22 - Ernest D. Nicolaides (Ph.D. 52', Leonard) passed away October 21, 2011 at his home in Longmont, Colo. He was 87 years old.

2011-09-30 - Paden Fasold Dismore, age 89 years, of Seaford, Delaware, died on September 29, 2011, at his home. Mr. Dismore was a chemist who retired from DuPont after 30 years of service at the Seaford Nylon Plant and at Chambers Works. After retirement he worked part time in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Delaware. Following this he consulted for the International Center for...