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11/23/2005
11/04/2005
11/02/2005
- Gabriela
Jara, from
Kings Park High School, has been selected as a FINALIST in the Siemens
Westinghouse Science Competition! Gabriela will be one of five individual
regional finalists who will be traveling to Pennsylvania on November
17-21, to present her research results on "Design
and Synthesis of a Biotin Ligand in Anticancer Drug Conjugates Comprised
of Fluorescent Probes and SB-T-1214" at Carnegie-Mellon
University. Gabriela
was one of Professor
Ojima's summer 2005 high school student researchers and
joins a group of students who have worked in the Ojima group and placed
as finalists or semi-finalists in the Siemens competition (Nora
Micheva, from Ward Melville H.S. was also a semifinalist
this year).
11/02/2005
10/11/2005
10/08/2005
10/07/2005
- The Chemistry
Department with a grant from the Dreyfus Foundation, the Departments
of History, and Mathematics, and the Office of the Graduate School
announce a panel
discussion with questions and answers on careers and
life in general -"The Stony Brook PhD – Entering the Real World"
- October 21, 2005, 3:30 PM in Graduate Chemistry room 412
10/06/2005
- Chemistry
Research Day will take place this year on Friday,
November 4, 2005. Graduate, undergraduate, and high school
students as well as postdoctoral fellows and staff scientists involved
in departmental research are strongly encouraged to submit a poster
for this annual celebration of our collective research achievements.
Professor Nicole
Sampson will be delivering the afternoon lecture, entitled
“Bacteria on Steroids: Homing in on Antibacterials”.
The deadline
for submission of poster titles is October 26, 2005.
Poster title and names of all contributors (including advisor) should
be submitted to Carol Brekke at cbrekke@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. To
ensure that everyone has a fair and equal opportunity at presenting,
we will limit contributions to one per person.
09/16/2005
08/21/2005
- We welcome Susan
Oatis (Ph.D., 1990, Phil Johnson) who joins the department
as a Lecturer. Susan has been on the faculty of the Southampton campus
of Long Island University and has conducted research at the Brookhaven
National Laboratory. She is involved in the Introductory Laboratory
course and the Organic Chemistry lecture course.
07/21/2005
- The 2005 REU
students come from a variety of colleges and universities. Here they
are:
07/18/2005
- Andreas
Mayr gave a talk entitled "Molecular Nanostructures
for Single-Electronics and Other Applications" as part of the
SBU/BNL Nanoscience Seminar Series at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
06/29/2005
- The department
welcomes Norma Reyes
as Assistant to the Chair. Norma's background includes over six years
of administrative and supervisory experience as Assistant to the Director
of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric and four years as the Program
Coordinator for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center.
- The SBU
Graduate Chemical Society (for graduate students,
faculty and staff in chemistry-related fields), has been registered
as a Univ. Club by its student founders. Its monthly meetings will
take place in the evenings at the Univ. Cafe. The GCS welcomes any
member of the Chemistry Department to join.
06/14/2005
06/07/2005
05/31/2005
- Honors and Awards
- Ben
Chu and Ben
Hsiao were the keynote speakers at a Multidisciplinary
Symposium at the Cooper-Hewitt National
Design Museum. The Symposium, "Extreme Textiles: Designing
for High Performance," addressed the convergence of science
and design in textiles technology. Their talk was entitled "What
can you do with fibers 1,000 times smaller than spider silk?"
- Douglas
Sturm, an undergraduate chemistry major working
with Iwao
Ojima was awarded a Bristol-Myers Squibb 2005 Undergraduate
Research Award in Organic Chemistry. Douglas will work on his
research project "Design and Synthesis of a Library of
Enantiopure Phosphoramidite Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis"
this summer.
- Luming
Peng, a graduate student in Clare
Grey's group, was recently chosen to receive a 2005
student award from The New York Section of the Society
for Applied Spectroscopy for his research in using state-of-the-art
solid-state NMR techniques to characterize Bronsted acid sites
in zeolite catalysts and in elucidating the local structure of
zeolitic materials. His four publications include the first 17O
NMR measurements of oxygen directly bound to these Bronsted acid
sites that will advance understanding of the mechanisms in bifunctional
catalysis.
05/21/2005
- The 35th departmental
convocation was held on Friday, May 20. The speaker was
alumnus, John Butera
(Ph.D.,1985, Helquist ) of Wyeth Research. The
program lists 32 Bachelor's, 16 Master's and 24 Doctoral degree candidates
(including mid-year degrees).
05/17/2005
05/11/2005
05/07/2005
05/06/2005
- Janeen
Oberlander, a student in the Chemistry M.A.T. program,
has been named a Science Teaching Fellow of the Knowles
Science Teaching Foundation. She will hold the Fellowship,
which includes a stipend and tuition support, during the 2005-6 academic
year.
05/05/2005
- Steve
Koch's work on Prussian Blue-related compounds and his
initiation of the symposium on that intriguing substance at the recent
ACS meeting are part of the Science
and Technology feature in the May 2 issue of C&E
News.
05/03/2005
- The Chemistry
Department had two entries in this year's Roth
Regatta (Pictures courtesy of Steve Koch) - the Honors
Chemistry students and their boat, the "Kochett" and the
Undergraduate
Chemistry Society's active "Cesium Metal".
04/27/2005
04/20/2005
04/18/2005
- Prof. Robert
Rizzo (an affiliated faculty member in Chemistry
whose primary appointment is in Applied Mathematics) has received
a New York State James
D. Watson Investigator Award for his project to use computational
drug discovery of small molecules to treat HIV.
04/12/2005
04/11/2005
- We welcome Heidi
Ciolfi who joins the Department as Assistant to the
Director of Laboratories
02/08/2005
This year's Service
Awards ceremony honored the following faculty, staff and other individuals
involved with the Chemistry Department
- 35
years
- David Hanson
- Franco Jona
- Jeffrey Shook
- Anthony Troisi
- 30
years
- Elena
Gamble
- Charles
Iden
- Marjorie
Kandel
02/01/2005
The following high
school students have been chosen as semi-finalists in the Intel Science
Competition. Their high school, project title and mentor are listed:
Aisha
Akhtar,
Ward Melville HS - Development of a Thermo-responsive Graft Copolymer
(Ben
Chu). Aisha is Mohammad Akhtar's daughter.
Ross
Altman,
Oceanside HS - Synthesis of Kekulene on a Cyclodextrin Scaffold:
Computational Analysis (Nancy
Goroff)
Tina
Ho,
Smithtown HS - Design and Synthesis of Novel Cytotoxic Alkaloids
by Mimicking the Taxoid Skeleton (Iwao
Ojima)
Samuel
Hollander,
Great Neck North - Manipulating DNA, Poly-L-Lysine, and PEO-PPO-PEO
Triblock Copolymer Nanoparticles for Use in High Efficiency Gene Delivery
Vehicle (Ben
Chu)
David
Rosenman,
Half Hollow Hills - Analysis Through MD Simulations on the Effects
of the Y88C Mutation in Bacillus stearothermophilius MutY Adenine
Glycosylase on Its Repair of 8-oxoG: A DNA (Carlos
Simmerling)
Futher information
and the names of other semi-finalists can be found at the following
website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/simons/intel.htm
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