First Stony
Brook Chemistry Research Day was held
November
19, 1999 - The schedule included a departmental
lunch, followed by poster
presentations in the SAC lobby, and then a seminar by Prof.
Joanna Fowler at 4:00 pm. Here
was the full schedule.
1999/09/02
Tianbo
Liu, (postdoc with Chu,
Ph.D. with him this year) was awarded an NSF Young Researcher Travel Award
to attend the NSF-ESF Symposium on Nanoparticles: Technologies and Applications,
in Tacoma, Washington in October
Akhilesh
Tripathi, (graduate student with Parise)
was chosen to attend the first United States National School on Neutron
and X-ray Scattering at Argonne National Laboratory in August.
Khurram Javed,
a junior with a double major in Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named
an ACS Scholar for 1999-2000. The one-year award conveys a scholarship
of up to $2500.
Songnian Lin
(Ojima
group) has been awarded a second Travel Grant by the American Chemical
Society, Division of Medicinal Chemistry
1999/06/22
Suparna Gupta
(Sampson
group) and Tao Wang
(Ojima
group) have received travel grants from the ACS Medicinal Chemistry Division
to attend the New Orleans, ACS National Meeting.
The winner of the
1999 Sujishi Award
is Sabbath Troisi
1999/05/18
Charlotte Eng,
an Engineering Chemistry undergraduate, has been chosen as one of two Stony
Brook students selected for a Beckman Scholars Award. Charlotte
will be working with Clare
Grey starting this summer.
On May 9 and 10,
there was a Statistical Mechanics Conference at Rutgers University at which
George
Stell was the guest of honor.
(Conference Program)
A special "Festscrift" issue of Journal of Statistical Physics in his honor
will be assembled in August 1999 for publication asap.
1999/05/05
Songnian
Lin (Ojima),
Tao
Wang (Ojima),
Tianbo
Liu (Chu)
were selected as recipients of 1999 Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in
Research.Chris Borella (Ojima),
Gregory
Hewitt (Sieburth),
Sapan
Parikh (Tonge),
and Jeonghoon Sun (Sampson)
were selected for Sigma Xi Travel Awards.
1999/04/23
Clare
Grey and Andreas
Mayr each had their proposals selected to receive funding for USB-BNL
Seed Grants. Clare's proposal is titled "Research initiative
in Lithium Manganese Oxides: A Study of Charge Ordering in Battery
Materials" and Andreas will receive funding for his proposal titled
"Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonds as Building Blocks for Molecular Electronic
Devices."
1999/04/23
Iwao
Ojima's recent paper (PNAS, 1999, 96, 4256-4261)
is featured in the April 26 issue of C&E News. Professor Ojima's
research team, including Susan B. Horwitz
(Albert Einstein Coll. Med.) and Samuel
J. Danishefsky (Sloan-Kettering), discovered
a common structure that is responsible for the anticancer activity of Taxol
and other "hot" anticancer agents that share the same mechanism of action,
i.e., freezing cell division cycle, leading to cell death. The paper
is co-authored with Dr. Subrata Chakravarty,
Songnian
Lin, and Dr.
Tadashi Inoue (Stony Brook), Dr.
Scott D. Kuduk (Sloan-Kettering with Prof.
Danishefsky; Ph.D. with Professor Ojima, 1996), and Lifeng He (Albert Einstein
with Professor Horwitz).
1999/04/16
Congratulations
go to Brian Kuhlman
(Advisor, Dan
Raleigh) and Tianbo Liu
(Advisor, Ben
Chu) for receiving the President's Award for Outstanding Doctoral
Students
1999/03/30
Kwajo Abeyie,
an undergraduate in Professor
Nicole Sampson's lab, has been awarded a Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Summer Scholar fellowship.
1999/03/13
Also receiving a
MARC Scholarship for 1999-2000 is Khurram
Javed, a junior working on a double major
in CHE and BCH and a top student in CHE 321 last Fall. Khurram is
doing research in the laboratories of Prof.
Nisson Schechter (Psychiatry).
Naphtali O'Connor,
previously included as recipient of a MARC Scholarship, has more
recently been awarded a UNCF Merck Fellowship, which provides for the recipient
to spend two summers doing research at Merck's laboratories, in addition
to academic year financial support. A current holder of a UNCF
Merck Fellowship at SUSB, Patrick Safo,
will graduate this year as a double major in chemistry and pharmacology.
1999/03/07
Naphtali (Nappy)
O'Connor, an undergraduate in our department,
has been awarded a Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) fellowship.
The fellowship is funded by NIH and administered through the Department
of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.. Nappy is a member of the Undergraduate
Chemistry Society and has been conducting research with Professor
Nancy Goroff since spring of his sophomore year. He is a
junior, and plans to go to graduate school in chemistry. Nappy received
the fellowship based on his outstanding academic performance and his career
goals.
1999/03/03
Donna Barrington-Stotsky
has been selected for a 1999 President's Award for Excellence in Professional
Service!!!
Nicole
Sampson's important work on fertilin has received
a considerable amount of attention in the national and international press.
For examples, see;
The following individuals
were honored at this year's service awards ceremony
35
Years
Prof. John Alexander
30
Years
Prof. Ben Chu
Prof. Frank (Bill)
Fowler
Prof. Philip Johnson
Prof. George Stell
20
Years
Prof. Stephen Koch
1999/01/12
Christopher Cahill,
a graduate student in John
Parise's group, was the 1999 recipient of the research grant in
crystallography from the Edward H. Kraus Crystallographic Research Fund
of the Mineralogical Society of America for the proposal titled "Time resolved,
in situ X-ray diffraction studies of precipitation, transformation and
oxidation reactions in the hydrothermal Fe-S system".
1999/01/05
Young Joo Lee,
graduate student with Clare
Grey, won a Graduate Student Award at the recent MRS in Boston
for her poster entitled 6Li
and 7Li
MAS MR and In Situ X-ray Diffraction Studies of Lithium Manganate Cathode
Materials
