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10/16/2008
09/08/2008
08/25/2008
- With
the beginning of the Fall semester, we note the retirement of two
faculty members. Prof Arnold Wishnia,
who joined the department in 1965 and Prof.
Robert Schneider who was a member of the department
since 1960.
08/22/2008
We
hear that the various activities at the Philaselphia ACS meeting were
all emimently successful, namely:
- The
Symposium in Honor of the scientific career of John
M. Alexander
- Stony
Brook’s Department of Chemistry Alumni Social hour
- The
ceremony celebrating the ACS Division of Chemical History's Chemical
Breakthrough Award to Stony Brook University for the paper by Prof.
P. C. Lauterbur, "Image Formation by Local Interactions:
Examples Employing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance," published in
Nature in 1973 (vol 242, p 190-191).
We
hope to present more details about these events in the future.
07/08/2008
- The long awaited
current
issue of The Chemistry Department annual newsletter has been maiied
and is posted
on this Web site. Among the items it describes is the announcement
of “Celebrating 50 Years of Chemistry at Stony Brook”.
The event will take place at the Student Activities Center (SAC) on
Friday, Oct 17, 2008. It will be a full-day symposium including cutting-edge
research posters by students and short lectures by alumni, friends
and faculty. The event is scheduled in conjunction with Homecoming
Weekend, so we hope to see many Alumni attend.
06/25/2008
- Liz
Boon has received a 2008 Office of Naval Research Young
Investigator Award!
06/05/2008
05/23/2008
- Today marked
the 38th Graduation Convocation of the Department of Chemistry. The
convocation address was presented by Prof.
David R. Walt who is Robinson Professor
at Tufts University. David is an alumnus of the department having
received his Ph.D. under the direction of Francis
Johnson in 1979.
05/16/2008
- David
Hanson has been designated Distringuished
Service Professor
05/02/2008
Graduate Student
Awards - 2008
- Maria Tzamarioudaki
Memorial Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student - Yuan (Betty) Bi
- Lee Myers Award
for Outstanding Doctoral Chemistry Student - Liang Sun
- Chemistry Award
for Outstanding Doctoral Student - Benben Song, Fen Wan, Kyunghwan
Yoon
- Chemistry Award
for Excellence in Doctoral Research - Shuyi Chen, Ruchi Gupta, Lesley
Holmes, Meng Jiang, Jong Kahk Keum, Carl Machutta, Ce Shi, Hongwen
Zhou
- Chemistry Award
for Outstanding Service - Ruchi Gupta, Lesley Holmes, Carl Machutta,
Pranav Nawani, Xianrui (Ray) Zhao
- Chemistry Award
for Advanced Graduate Student Teaching Assistant - Stephen Chaterpaul,
Edison Zuniga
- Chemistry Award
for First-Year Graduate Student Teaching Assistant - Bernadette Henares
04/29/2008
- Many URECA undergraduates
worked with Chemistry faculty during this academic year (list).
04/23/2008
The following graduate
students have received Excellence in Research or Travel Awards from
Sigma Xi:
- Hailong
Chen, Juah Chung, Yuonjoo Lee, Liang Luo, Salma Rafi, Ce Chi, Lauren
Wickstrom, Bi Yuan, Hongjun Zhou, Gary Teng, Fen Zhang
03/06/2008
- Roy
Lacey has co-authored Frontiers of Nuclear Science: A
Long Range Plan, in his capacity as a member of the DOE/NSF Nuclear
Science Advisory Committee.
03/05/2008
02/26/2008
- Ben
Chu, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, has been designated
an honorary member of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan.
02/25/2008
01/12/2008
- The
The Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical
Society has selected Stony BrookUniversity to receive one of this
year’s Citations for Chemical Breakthrough based on Paul Lauterbur's
Discovery of Magnetic Resonance Imaging while a member of the Chemistry
Department.
01/4/2008
- Liz
Boon has won the American Chemical Society/Dreyfus Foundation
ACS PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship Award (so called the "Rising
Star" award) in 2008.
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