| 12/09/2006
11/29/2006
- Robert
Robinson
has been selected as 2006 winner of the Sujishi
Award. The award was announced
in this morning's CHE 321 lecture and is given each year to the prior
year's outstanding freshman student.
11/28/2006
11/24/2006
11/23/2006
11/15/2006
10/19/2006
10/16/2006
- Chemistry
Research Day - 2006 will take place on Friday Dec 8,
2006. Prof.
Ben Chu will present the keynote lecture: "Nanofiber
Technology & Molecular Engineering for Health and Environment:
Applications to Medicine and Water Purification"
10/02/2006
- Benjamin
Chu has been awarded the Gutenberg-Lecture-Award
2007 by the Graduate School of Excellence at the Johannes
Gutenberg University in Mainz for his "extraordinary contributions
in the field of polymer science." In addition, Prof. Chu also
recently received a Distinguished Honorary Professorship appointment
from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIOAC) in China.
09/27/2006
- Iwao
Ojima, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Director
of the Institute
for Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, has been named
to the "Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame" which was established
this year by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the American Chemical
Society. Inductees into the Hall of Fame "are members of the
Division who have made an overall outstanding contribution to medicinal
chemistry through a combination of research, teaching and service..."
Congratulations to Professor Ojima for this well deserved honor!
09/05/2006
08/28/2006
- Craig
Munn, who has served the department as Laboratory
specialist supporting the Introductory Chemistry Laboratories for
over 25 years, is retiring.
08/11/2006
08/10/2006
08/09/2006
- Kathy
Parker and Demosthenes
Fokas's Morphine paper earlier this year in J.
Organic Chem. was featured on the cover
of that Journal issue.
08/02/2006
- Posted schedule
for the 2006
Summer Research Symposium featuring visiting undergraduate
researchers participating in the 2006 Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(REU) Chemistry Program, and Stony Brook University students from
the Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities (URECA) and the
Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Programs
07/31/2006
07/28/2006
07/27/2006
07/22/2006
07/20/2006
07/17/2006
- Joanna
Fowler, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Director
of the Center for Translational Neuroimaging at Brookhaven National
Laboratory, has received the 2006 New York State Senate Woman of Distinction
Award. The award was presented to her in Albany by Senator Caesar
Trunzo (3rd Senate District, Brentwood) for her "selfless dedication
to science, education and health [which] are an inspiration for the
entire community," said Senator Trunzo. Professor Fowler's most
recent research centers on using neuroimaging to study the mechanisms
of drug addiction.
07/10/2006
- Jiangyong
Jia is pleased to announce that Hanxi Kevin Jia was
born Friday (07/07/2006) at 10:43pm.
He weighed 7lb 7oz and is 20 inches long. Congratualations to him
and Chanjuan.
06/23/2006
05/30/2006
05/23/2006
- The work of Aiwu
Sun, Nancy
Goroff and Joe
Lauher on polydiacetylenes, is reported in Science
and referenced in C&E
News' Concentrates. The polymerization is made possible
by co-crystallizing di-iodo butadiyne with a novel bis(nitrile) oxalamide
spacer molecule.
05/19/2006
- The department
held its 36th departmental commencement. The commencement speaker
was Dr. Stuart Rosenblum
of the Schering-Plough Research Institute. Dr. Rosenblum is an alumnus
of Stony Brook, having received his Ph.D. in 1987 under the direction
of Prof. Ron Bihovsky. Dr. Rosenblum is the winnner of several awards
including ACS Heroes of Chemistry (2004) for his discovery of Zetia
- a novel agent for the treatment of high cholesterol. Pictures
of the commencement exercise are posted.
05/18/2006
- The Doctoral
Graduation and Hooding Ceremony was dominated by the Chemistry Department.
The Principal Speaker was Raymond
Mackay (Ph.D., 1966), who received the first Doctoral
degree conferred by the University at Stony Brook. This was the 40th
anniversary of that event. The Doctoral Student Speaker was Deborah
Stoner-Ma who received her degree at the ceremony
and who was a recipient of an award for a distinguished doctoral dissertation.
05/17/06
- The department
welcomes Katherine Hughes
as its new Student Activities Coordinator. Prior
to joining the department as an administrative assistant, Katherine
served as an editor and writer in various offices of the United Nations
in New York City, including the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
and the United Nations Development Programme. Katherine earned her
undergraduate degree (B.A.) here at Stony Brook in 1982, and a Masters
of Arts from New York University in 1990.
05/12/2006
The following are
the 2006 recipients of Graduate Student Awards:
- Maria Tzamarioudaki
Memorial Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student
Andisheh
Abedini
- Lee Myers Award
for Outstanding Doctoral Chemistry Student
Yuanbing
Mao
- Chemistry Award
for Outstanding Doctoral Student
Julien
Breger, Wolf Holzmann, James Lightstone, Yuefeng Tang, Ling Yang
- Chemistry Award
for Excellence in Doctoral Research.
Burcu
Anil, Gina Chiarella, Ying Li, Luming Peng, Deborah Stoner-Ma
- Chemistry Award
for Outstanding Service
Andisheh
Abedini, Burcu Anil, Gina Chiarella, Erik Stolarzewicz, Deborah Stoner-Ma
- Chemistry Award
for Advanced Graduate Student Teaching Assistant
Audra
Selvaggio
- Chemistry Award
for First-Year Graduate Student Teaching Assistant
Baris
Key
- President's
Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students
Andisheh
Abedini and
Deborah
Stoner-Ma
05/09/06
05/05/06
- The department
is pleased to announce that three junior faculty search candidates
have agreed to join our Department this coming Fall! They are Dr.
Elizabeth Boon and Dr.
Isaac Carrico, both at Berkeley, who are planning
to establish research efforts in chemical biology, and Dr.
Jiangyong Jia , presently at Columbia, who will be
a joint appointment with USB Chemistry and Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physics in high energy physics research.
03/29/2006
- Dean Lawrence
Martin of the Graduate School has just announced the winners of the
2006 graduate awards and two of our students, Andi
Abedini and Deborah
Stoner-Ma, have been chosen to receive the President's
Award for Distinguished Doctoral Students, the University's
highest honor for graduate students.
- Turner
Fellowship Awards were also awarded to one of our current
students, Melissa Patterson,
and a new student, Freda Sansaticq,
who will be joining us in the Fall.
03/07/2006
- Simmerling
and Rizzo
group's work on intramolecular dynamics of HIV-1 protease and its
implications for AIDS drug interactions featured in PNAS
and JACS.
- Grey,
Kang (MIT) et al's work on the development of electrode
materials for the next generation of Li-batteries recently appeared
in Science (Kang, et al, Science 311, 977 (2006)
03/02/2006
The
Department continues to welcome contributions to the GCS-Sylvia Tracz
Fund.
Contributions may be sent to:
Department
of Chemistry
University at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11790-3400
Interested
individuals can follow Sylvia's progress in a blog
dedicated to her situation and to Andy Jaye, another victim of the accident.
02/24/2006
- Five Chemistry
faculty (Professors Nancy Goroff, Iwao
Ojima, Daniel Raleigh, Carlos Simmerling and
Peter Tonge) participated in the campus' successful
application for the Beckman
Scholars Program - a prestigious undergraduate research
award program which provides over $19,000/student in support to undergraduate
researchers. Details regarding application/admissions will be posted
soon on the URECA
website.
02/17/2006
02/16/2006
02/08/2006
This year's Service
Awards ceremony recognized the following faculty, staff and other individuals
involved with the Chemistry Department - My, how time flies when you're
having fun!
02/07/2006
- The
department welcomes Mike Teta
as the new building manager.
01/05/2006
- Roy
Lacey has been appointed Associate Dean for Curriculum
in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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