12/14/2007

• Births galore
  • To Nick Getter and Jess - a daughter, Claire on November 13. Nick works with George Stell
  • To Honjun Zhou and Lu Gan - a son, Lucas on December 11. Hongjun is in Stan Wong's group and Lu is in Steve Koch's group.

12/09/2007

• Stan Wong has been elected as the Chair of the Nanosciences subdivision of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the ACS.
• Steve Koch has been elected as a Councilor of the Inorganic Chemistry Division.
• Barbara Reisner, a former postdoc with John Parise, was elected Chair of the Solid-State and Materials Chemistry subdivision.

12/08/2007

• New Graduate Course: CHE 525 - Theoretical Chemistry

12/03/2007

• A team of high school students who did summer research in Professor Iwao Ojima's laboratory at Stony Brook University, Amanda Marinoff and Janelle Schlossberger, have just been named national winners of the team competition in the prestigious Siemens (formerly Siemens-Westinghouse) Competition in Math, Science, and Technology. The students will share the competiton's top prize of $100,000. The results were announced this morning at a press conference that is viewable at http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/index.htm

  Amanda and Janelle, both students at the Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High Shool presented their project first at the Northeast regional competion, where the were selected as regional winners before going on to the Finals. Their research project was entitled: "FtsZ Inhibitors as Novel Chemotherapeutic Agents for Drug Resistant Tuberculosis",

  In addition to their mentor, Professor Ojima, the students were trained and assisted in their research by a number of others, including graduate student Kunal Kumar, research support specialist Ilaria Zanardi, and Dr. Bela Ruzsicsk, Director of the Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory.

12/2/2007

• Jin Wang's paper entitled “Quantifying Robustness and Dissipation Cost of Yeast Cell Cycle Network: The Funneled Energy Landscape Perspectives’’ appeared on the cover page of Biophysical Journal (Biophys. J., 92, 3755, 2007).

• Iwao Ojima's article, "Guided Molecular Missiles for Tumor-Targeting Chemotherapy—Case Studies Using the Second-Generation Taxoids as Warheads", published in Accounts of Chemical Research, is featured on the ACS Publications website as a Most-Accessed Article for the third-quarter (July-September) of 2007.

11/29/2007

• Trevor Sears has been elected a Fellow of the American Optical Society

11/27/2007

• Some pictures from Research Day - 2007

11/15/2007

• We (belatedly) acknowledge Prof. Ben Chu's receipt of a Gutenberg Lecture Award from the University of Mainz earlier this year. The Johannes Gutenberg-Lecture Award is granted by MAINZ to three outstanding international leaders in the field of polymer research or correlated materials. Ir ia presented annually at the MAINZ Summer School.

11/09/2007

• Chemistry Research Day was a great success. The program and a list of the posters are accessible.

11/05/2007

• Posted instructions on Graduate Student Registration for Spring 2008

11/03/2007

• Added a section listing graduate student fellowship opportunities to the "For Current Graduate Students" web page.

11/01/2007

• Michelle Millar has posted pictures of the departmental Haloween Party held yesterday

10/24/2007

• Posted a preliminary list of poster presenters and titles for Research Day 07

9/29/2007

• Kathlyn Parker will present the Keynote lecture at this year's Chemistry Research Day, on Friday, November 9

9/25/2007

• Michelle Millar has posted a whole lot of pictures taken at this year's departmental welcoming picnic.

9/11/2007

• The memorial symposium for Paul Lauterbur was a major success. A large audience attended the syposium which included a thoroughly entertaining and informative Presidential Lecture by Richard Ernst, Nobel Laureate (notwithstanding some audio/visual deficiencies in the Student Activities Center). In addition to current members of the university community and friends and family of Paul Lauterbur, the occasion brought together many alumni of the Chemistry Department. We hope to post more information about the function when the sources come forth. The HSC media services screening room has proofs of pictures taken during the President's Lecture and the subsequent reception and banquet.

8/24/2007

• The New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) today announced that the State has awarded a NYSTAR Faculty Development Award in the amount $750,000 to Prof. Clare Grey to improve fundamental understanding of chemical reactions and develop a new class of battery materials.

8/22/2007

• Prof. Francis Bonner, founding chair of the Department of Chemistry, has published a memoir: Chemistry at Stony Brook - From SUCOLI to SBU. It describes the history of the early development of the department during Prof. Bonner's tenure as Chair. He has graciously provided an electronic copy of the memoir.

8/19/07

• September 1 will mark the transfer of the Chairmanship of the department from Professor Michael White to Professor Benjamin Hsiao. Prof. White's term as Chair has been characterized by significant faculty expansion both in number and in the areas of research. He was also instrumental in acquiring resources for adressing the enrollment problems that face the department. The department expresses its profound gratitude to Prof. White for his service and looks forward to a productive term under its new leadership.

8/14/2007

• After doing post-doctoral research with Joanna Fowler at Brookhaven, Zachary Katsamanis (Ph.D., 2005, Nancy Goroff) joins the Chemistry Department as Lecturer. The responsibilities of this new position will focus principally on the undergraduate organic chemistry lecture and lab courses.

08/09/2007

• Posted the schedule for the 2007 Undergraduate Research Symposium - Aug 10

08/05/2007

• Posted a photo of the Summer, 2007 REU participants

07/18/2007

• Bill and Phil have returned home. Some new pictures are posted at the trip Website

07/13/2007

• Congratulations to Nancy Goroff and Carlos Simmerling who won the First Big Quiz-off on Thursday, July 12 and to all of the other participants in this entertaining and educational event.

06/26/2007

• Posted notice of search for a Lecturer Position

06/25/2007

• Updated undergraduate course FAQs

06/15/2007

• Clare Grey has been designated winner of the 2007 Battery Division Research Award from the Electrochemical Society for outstanding contributions to the science and technology of primary and secondary cells and batteries and fuel cells.

06/14/2007

• Have posted updates and pictures from Bill, Phil and Peter's transatlantic sail

06/07/2007

• Dr. Peter Khalifah (U Mass/Amherst) will be joing the Chemistry Department as an assistant professor this coming Fall. Dr. Khalifah's appointment is the culmination of a national search in materials chemistry and will be joint with the Chemistry Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Khalifah's expertise is in the area of solid state synthesis of metal oxides and his research will focus on developing new materials for solar energy conversion. His research will compliment exisiting faculty research programs in solid state chemistry, polymers and nanomaterials, and take advantage of emerging BNL-DOE programs in solar energy and photocatalysis.

05/30/2007

• Professors Bill Fowler and Phil Johnson will engage in a transatlantic sail in June and July.. We hope to maintain regular contact with them and post their progress on a web page with a map showing their daily location.

05/15/2007

The following graduate students have received awards from Sigma Xi

• Sigma Xi Travel Awards
  • Youn Joo Lee (Sampson group)
  • Xianrui (Ray) Zhao (Ojima group)
  • Yuan Bi (Raleigh group)
  • Meng Jiang (Grey group)
  • Salma Rafi (Simmerling group)

• Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in Research
  • Liang Sun (Ojimal group)
  • Jae-Hyun Cho (Raleigh group)
  • Carl Machutta (Tonge group)
  • Kyunghwan Yoon (Chu group)
  • Lauren Wickstrom (Simmerling group)

05/11/2007

• The Department of Chemistry Graduate Student Award Winners for 2007:
• Maria Tzamarioudaki Memorial Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student: Jin Chen
• Lee Myers Award for Outstanding Doctoral Chemistry Student: Xuming Chen
• Chemistry Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student: Jun Zhang
• Chemistry Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research: Tirandi Hemraj-Benny, Qing (Sunny) Huang, Jae Chul Lee, Tae-Jin Park, Peng Wang
• Chemistry Award for Outstanding Service: Erik Stolarzewicz
• Chemistry Award for Advanced Graduate Student Teaching Assistant: Qiuzhe (Ben) Xie
• Chemistry Award for First-Year Graduate Student Teaching Assistant: Matthew Christiansen and Jonathan Patete

05/10/2007

• The 37th Departmental Commencement will be held at the Wang Center Theater on May 18. The commencement address, "Reminiscences and Wanderings of a Stony Brook Chemist", will be presented by Jerome Ackerman (B.S., 1971), Associate Prof. of Radiology at the Havard Medical School.

04/28/2007

• Posted the program for 2007 Senior Research Symposium

04/26/2007

• Announcing "Lauterbur's Legacy: Looking at Life" - a memorial symposium remembering Paul Lauterbur, Nobel Laureate, colleague and friend.

04/24/2007

• Posted a list of the 2007 URECA Participants whose research was conducted with Chemistry faculty members

04/17/2007

• Carlos Simmerling has been named as a winner of the Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Contest in the category of Humanitarian Impact Innovation. The contest is sponsored by the Itanium Solutions Alliance which is a computing industry organization (includes Intel, HP, Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, SGI, Microsoft, Redhat, Oracle) and is meant to recognize the most important applications of Itanium® 2 processor-based computer systems in three categories, Humanitarian Impact Innovation, Enterprise Business Application and Entrepreneurial Innovation. Prof. Simmerling was awarded the top honor in the Humanitarian Impact Innovation category for his use of "high-end computing to enable advanced HIV and AIDS research." Full Press Release:

04/03/2007

• We welcome Robin Knappe to the department. Robin takes over responsibilities as Technical Support Specialist in the Introductory Chemistry Laboratories. We extend our thanks to Nicholas Bompane who filled that position on a temporary basis since the retirement of Craig Munn.

03/27/2007

• We note with great sadness the passing of our distinguished friend and former colleague, the Nobel Laureate, Paul Lauterbur. Paul spent many productive years as a member of the Chemistry Department, and later as University Professor, at Stony Brook. In 1985, he joined the Univeristy of Illinois and directed the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory. We extend our deep sympathy to his family.

02/12/2007

• This year's Service Awards ceremony recognized Arnold Wishnia's 40 years of service to the Chemistry Department and the university.

02/08/2007

• Paul Lauterbur, whose Nobel-prize winning research leading to his invention of Magnetic Resonance Imaging was conducted in the Stony Brook Chemistry Department, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

01/05/2007

• Posted note for Graduate Students regarding Health Insurance Information for Spring 2007, Deadlines for Spring 2007 and availability of Child Care Services on Current Grad Student Web Page.

01/02/2007

• Prof. John Alexander will retire to a position of Research Professor effective this coming semester. Prof. Alexander joined the Chemistry Department in 1963. He will continue his research program in Nuclear Chemistry which focuses on reactions between complex nuclei.

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