2009
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.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Dr. Simon Blakey the highly prestigious CAREER grant for outstanding young investigators.
Dr. Dale Edmondson has been elected a fellow of the AAAS for his contributions to the field of physical biochemistry.
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.
Dr. Tim Lian has been named the William Henry Emerson Professor 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.
Feature article in Chemical & Engineering News covers Prof. Dennis Liotta's work on the Emory/South Africa program to establish a sustainable biotech industry in Africa
2008
Dr. Fred Menger's book entitled "The Thin Bone Vault - the origin of human intelligence" will be published in March 2009.
The two-volume "Protein Engineering Handbook", edited by Dr. Stefan Lutz, is published by John Wiley.
Research from the Bowman group is highlighted on the cover of Accounts of Chemical Research.
Dr. Huw Davies, Dr. Susanna Widicus Weaver and Dr. Jeremy Weaver are joining the Chemistry Department in Fall 2008.Research from the Gallivan group is highlighted in Nature News.
Dr. Keiji Morokuma was recently awarded the Imperial Prize and the Japan Academy Prize (highest academic awards in Japan).
Dr. Justin Gallivan has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
Dr. Joel Bowman's "Beyond Born-Oppenheimer" has been mentioned in Chemistry World and C & E News.
Click here to watch Dr. David Lynn's recent
lecture on the "Life of the Mind" series presented on November 7th in the Woodruff Library. This video require RealPlayer. Visit RealPlayer for a free download.
Dr. Albert Padwa has been elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow. Election as a Fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. Fellows are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications.
Dr. Lanny Liebeskind Cope Scholar Award Symposium
Thursday, October 25th at SERMACS 2007 in
Greenville, SC.
Dr. Dan Philen has been selected by the ∑N fraternity and The Order of Omega as one of the favorite faculty members of the Greek communty.
Research from the Gallivan group has been highlighted in Angewandte Chemie.
Click here to watch Dr. David Lynn's recent lecture on the "Life of the Mind" series presented on November 7th in the Woodruff Library. This video require RealPlayer. Visit RealPlayer for a free download.
Official 2008 Visitation Weekend for new students will be held on February 22 & 23 2008.
Fall 2007 Semester
Dr. Albert Padwa has been elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow. Election as a Fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. Fellows are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications.
Lanny Liebeskind Cope Scholar Award Symposium:
Thursday, October 25th at SERMACS 2007 in
Greenville, SC.
Congratulations to Dr. Dan Philen! Selected by the ∑N fraternity and The Order of Omega as one of the favorite faculty members of the Greek communty.
Research from the Gallivan group has been highlighted in Angewandte Chemie.
Terminal Gold-Oxo Complexes Debut: A monumental research effort directed by Dr. Craig Hill has yielded unprecedented gold-oxo complexes, those in which one ligand is a single oxygen atom multiply bonded to gold. Congratulations to Dr. Hill!
Summer 2007 Semester
Congratulations 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 who has received the Distinguished Fellow of the Victoria Institute of Chemical Sciences (of Australia).
Congratulation to Dr. Craig Hill: Wilsmore Fellow, The University of Melbourne
An Armenian Forest Preserves the Memory of Emory's Robert Apkarian.
Chemists awarded grant for solar energy research:
Emory researchers recently received a $900,000 grant from the DOE’s Office of Science to develop a more robust and efficient way to convert solar energy into fuel.
A special "Festschrift" issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry will appear shortly
honoring the research career of Ming Chang Lin, Robert W. Woodruff Emeritus Professor.
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 Semester
Congratulation 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. Daphne Norton who was awarded the 2006-2007 CTC Award for Teaching in the Natural Sciences.
The Chemistry Department has lost a faithful friend, advisor and benefactor, Dr. Cherry Logan Emerson. Dr. Cherry Logan Emerson passed away on April 29, 2007 at the age of 90. A memorial service is planned at 3 pm, at Central Congregational Church, on May 26. Arrangements by H. M. Patterson & Son, Spring Hill 1020 Spring St. Atlanta, GA 30309.
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.
An article on Drugs from Academia in the April 16, 2007 issue of Chemical Engineering Online (www.CEN-ONLINE.ORG) features the work of Emory professor Dennis C. Liotta.
Congratulations to Dr. Justin Gallivan, recipient of the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for 2007. The Camille and Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program was founded to support the teaching and research careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences.
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,
 Craig Hill has been elected this summer to Chair the National Science Foundation Workshop in
Inorganic Chemistry for 2007-2009. This is a position with some impact on
the ca 700 investigators and research groups in this area of science.
Emory's Study Abroad programs mentioned in C&E News
Recent work on the "Shrinking hot giant" road mechanism of fullerene formation by Stephan Irle, Guisan Zheng, Zhi Wang and Keiji Morokuma has been featured in materials@nature.com.
Fall 2006 Semester
Congratulations 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.
Dr. Albert Padwa was the 2006 Leroy H. Klemm lecturer in heterocyclic chemistry at the
University of Oregon in April.
The Bowman Group has had two publications in Science so far this year. The first one, "Quantum Deconstruction of the Infrared Spectrum of CH5+"
appeared in the Jan. 6, 2006 issue, and the second one, "Signature of H2CO Photodissociation from Two Electronic States" appeared in
the March 10, 2006 issue.
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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