Department of Chemistry

Join us Tuesday, August 18 for the third annual Penn Chemistry Alumni Social and Networking Reception at the ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC. The event will be held at the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences (6th and E Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20001) from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.

Please RSVP to chem-alumni@chem.upenn.edu.

For more information, please contact Chris Jeffrey, cjeffrey@sas.upenn.edu, 215.898.9722.

Gary Molander, Hirschmann-Makineni Professor of Chemistry will be the next Chemistry Department Chair beginning July 1, 2009.

Gary replaces Marsha Lester who served as Chair since 2005.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Joseph Subotnik has joined Penn Chemistry! Joe comes to Penn from Tel Aviv University where he served as a NSF International Research Postdoctoral Fellow. Joe's appointment will begin in July of 2010. Welcome Joe!

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Eric J. Schelter has joined Penn Chemistry! Eric comes to Penn from Los Alamos National Laboratory where he served as the Frederick Reines Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome Eric!