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2011Congratulations to Ph.D. student Michael Reddish for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and to Nina Mace and Kevin Yehl for receiving Honorable Mentions. New faculty to join the Department of Chemistry! We are thrilled to welcome Professors Emily Weinert and Christopher Scarborough as new colleagues. Professor Michael Heaven's research featured on cover of Chemical Physics Letters. Congratulations to Prof. Karl Hagen, recipient of the Delores P. Aldridge Faculty Mentor Award by the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services! Professor Myron Kaufman has published "Order and Disorder", a non-mathematical introduction to important ideas in the sciences. Congratulation to Professor David Lynn for being selected 2010 AAAS Fellow in Chemistry. The astrochemistry research by the group of Prof. Susanna Widicus Weaver is covered in the November issue of the Discover Magazine. 2010Professor James Kindt's research featured on cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Congratulation to Professors Dennis Liotta and Al Padwa for being selected 2010 Fellows of the American Chemical Society. Recent publication from the Gallivan group has been featured in the New York Times. Research from the Bowman group featured on cover of Chemical Physics Letters. The research group of Professor Craig Hill published landmark paper on a new carbon-free catalyst for molecular water oxidation in the journal Science. Professor Fred Menger's research featured on cover of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Professor Simon Blakey's research accomplishments featured on cover of Journal of the American Chemical Society. Professor Tracy Morkin has been announced as the recipient of a 2010 Crystal Apple Award, recognizing her outstanding contributions in the classroom and to the Emory Community at large. Chemistry majors Steven Dry and Phillip May have been awarded highly prestigious Robert T. Jones Jr. Scholarships for a year of study at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Professor Dennis Liotta was announced the new Editor-in-Chief of the Amercian Chemical Society's new journal ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. watch the interview ChEmory, the American Chemical Society student chapter at Emory University, has received an honorable mention award for its activities conducted in 2008-2009. Three Emory researchers - Chinar Sanghvi, Qiushi (Ben) Yin, and Mary Radhuber - have won awards at the Herty Medalist Undergraduate Research Symposium! Congratulations to Prof. Craig Hill, the 2009 recipient of the Herty Medal by the Georgia Local section of the ACS. Professor Al Padwa's research accomplishments featured on cover of Journal of Organic Chemistry Congratulations to Prof. Al Padwa for having published his 600th manuscript! Professor Huw Davies has been named one of the inaugural class of ACS Fellows by the Amercian Chemical Society.
2009Study on diberyllium by Dr. Micheal Heaven and coworkers (to appear in Science) featured in C&E and Nature Chemistry. Congratulations to Dr. Tracy Morkin, recipient of the 2009 Emory Williams Award for excellence in teaching. Sheri Lense (4th-year student from the MacBeth lab) has been awarded a 2009 American Crystallographic Association scholarship to attend the ACA summer school. Dr. Dennis Liotta's Drug Discovery Training Program and anti-HIV research featured in C&EN. Shana Topp (5th-year student from the Gallivan lab) is the recipient of a Stanford Biochemistry Founders' Award for Doctoral Excellence. Keith Freel (3rd-year student in the Heaven lab) has been awarded an internship at Hanscom AFB by the Space Scholars Program. Congratulations to Savannah Adams (1st-year student in the Lynn lab) for being invited to the ACS summer school on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy in Golden, CO. Dr. Joel Bowman is presenting the Robert S. Mullikan lecture at the University of Georgia. Congratulations to Erika Milczek (4th-year graduate student in the Edmondson lab) for being invited to the 2009 Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau Germany. Dr. Frank McDonald has received the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching in Chemistry. Dr. Vince Conticello has been named the Emory University Winship
Distinguished Research Chair in Chemistry. Emory University's ACS Student Affiliates chapter has been selected to receive an Honorable Mention Award for their activities conducted during the 07-08 academic year.
2008Dr. Fred Menger's book entitled "The Thin Bone Vault - the origin of human intelligence" will be published in March 2009. Research from the Bowman group is highlighted on the cover of Accounts of Chemical Research. Fall 2007 Semester
Summer 2007 SemesterCongratulations to Dr. MC Lin! A special "Festschrift" issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry has honored the research career of Ming Chang Lin, Robert W. Woodruff Emeritus Professor. Congratulation to Dr. Craig Hill: Wilsmore Fellow, The University of Melbourne An Armenian Forest Preserves the Memory of Emory's Robert Apkarian. A special "Festschrift" issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry will appear shortly Congratulations to Dr. Fred Menger, L.Shi, D. Lundberg and D. G. Musaev whose paper "Annulene Geminis: Structure and Self-Assembly" was given a "VIP" ranking by Angew Chem. Spring 2006 SemesterCongratulation to Dr. Craig Hill whose proposal to the Solar Solicitation issued last year by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Department of Energy has been selected for funding. Congratulations to Dr. Shuming Nie, recipent of The Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award 2007 for Analytical Chemistry and Dr. Alexander A. Makarov with Thermo Electron GmbH in Bremen, Germany. Al Padwa will be the keynote speaker for the 45th Annual MIKI Meeting at The University of Kansas April 13-15, 2007. Congratulation to Dr. Al Padwa for his article “An Efficient Synthesis of (±)-Lycoricidine Featuring a Stille-IMDAF Cycloaddition Cascade” , published in Organic Letters and recognized as a Most Cited Article in 2006. The ACS Publications recognizes these articles as research of immediate interest. Craig Hill has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Emory's Study Abroad programs mentioned in C&E News Fall 2006 SemesterCongratulations to Dr. James Kindt who has been awarded the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. New programs for chemistry majors in Imperial College. The Chemistry Department announces several new programs for chemistry BS majors at one of the top ranked universities in the world including study abroad, BS/MS options and undergraduate research. The Bowman Group has had two publications in Science so far this year. The first one, "Quantum Deconstruction of the Infrared Spectrum of CH5+" Dr. Joel Bowman elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Dr. Lanny Liebeskind is awarded an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award We regret to announce that Dr. Robert Apkarian, who ran the IM & MF Center here, died in an traffic accident on Tuesday, February 28, 2006. The Department of Chemistry extends our deepest condolences to the Apkarian family and all Rob's numerous friends. To honor Rob, the family asks that you consider a donation to the Armenia Tree Project
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