News

05.13.2015

Prof. Amos B. Smith, III has been selected the receive the Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Perkin Prize is awarded for sustained originality and achievement in research in the area of organic chemistry.

For more information, please visit the award page.

MCS Program Partners with Blumberg Institute

05.05.2015

An academic and research partnership has been created that enables University of Pennsylvania graduate students in the Master of Chemical Sciences program to apply and complete research within the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, the nation’s leading nonprofit research organization dedicated to hepatitis B and liver cancer, which is based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

04.27.2015

Prof. Andrew Rappe has been selected as keynote speaker for the 2015 Ferroelectrics Conference hosted by the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, UK. The meeting is designed to bring together industrial and academic communities involved with ferroelectric materials to exchange knowledge and expertise on the state of the art. All aspects of ferroelectricity and ferroelectric materials fall within the scope of the conference.

Graduate Student Kim Mullane Honored

04.14.2015

Congratulations to Kim Mullane (Schelter group), who was awarded one of just eight ACS Women Chemists Committee Travel Award, sponsored by Eli Lilly & Company! The grant supported travel to the ACS National Meeting in Denver.

Teaching Awards for Penn Chemistry

04.10.2015

Professor Jeffery Saven is the recipient of the Dean's Award for Innovation in Chemistry.

Jacob Nagy (Winkler group) and Yitao Zhang (Chenoweth group) both have been selected to receive Dean's Awards for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students.

Chemistry Undergraduates Highlighted

04.10.2015

College undergraduates Lily Owei and Keith Keenan don’t have a whole lot in common when it comes to their backgrounds. She was born in Nigeria, where she lived for seven years before moving to Germany, then South Africa, and finally to the U.S. to attend Penn. He grew up in China, where his mother and father taught English and homeschooled him. From these diverse beginnings, however, they have come to share a common interest—and workspace—in Assistant Professor of Chemistry James Petersson’s lab group.

Jeff Saven's Research Featured

04.10.2015

Penn Chemistry and Perelman School of Medicine researchers trying to understand the mechanisms through which anesthetics work to elicit the response that puts millions of Americans to sleep for surgeries each day. A recent study looked at ketamine, an anesthetic discovered in the 1960s and more recently prescribed as an anti-depressant at low doses, and has identified an entirely new class of receptors that ketamine binds in the body, which may underlie its diverse actions. The work is published in this week’s issue of Science Signaling.

David Christianson Named a Radcliffe Fellow

04.07.2015

David Christianson has been named a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. David will be at Harvard next year as a Visiting Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

More information on the Radcliffe Institute can be found here.

03.31.2015

Bren Cole (Schelter group), Vincius Ferreira (Baumgart group), and Dahlia Klein (Murray group) have been awarded fellowships in the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

Nicole Bellonzi (Subotnik group), Tyler Higgins (Winkler group), Alex Kellum (Smith group), and Stan Najmr (Murray group) all received honorable mentions.

Gary Molander to be honored at ACS Meeting

03.17.2015

Gary A. Molander, Hirschmann-Makineni Professor and Chemistry Department Chair, has been selected to receive the 2015 Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods. The Brown award, sponsored by the Purdue Borane Research Fund and the Herbert C. Brown Award Endowment, was established in 1998 to recognize and encourage outstanding and creative contributions to research in synthetic methods.

Gary will be honored at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, in conjunction with the 249th ACS national meeting in Denver.

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