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University of Pennsylvania Provost Vincent Price and Vice Provost for Faculty Lynn Hollen Lees have appointed Professor Marisa Kozlowski to the fourth cohort of the Penn Fellows. The Penn Fellows program, begun in 2009, provides leadership development to select Penn faculty members in mid-career.

A research group led by Penn Chemistry Professor Feng Gai has devised a way to watch proteins fold in "real-time," which could lead to a better understanding of protein folding and misfolding in general. Click the link to read the full story.

Prof. Feng Gai has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. 

The citation, which will be published in the March 2012 issue of APS News, reads as follows: "For his pioneering contributions to the field of protein folding, in particular the innovative use of infrared spectroscopy and the novel development of vibrational probes to elucidate the fundamental folding mechanism."

Joe Subotnik has been named a recipient of the highly competitive ACS HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for 2012. Joe will receive his award at a ceremony at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego next spring. More information on the award can be found by following the link.

Larry Sneddon has been selected to receive the 2011 American Chemical Society Philadelphia Section Award. First given in 1962, this Award recognizes an individual "who, by conspicuous scientific achievement through research, has made important contributions to man's knowledge and thereby aided the public appreciation of the profession." Larry will receive the award in the Department on Thursday, October 20.

Virgil Percec's research on dendrimersomes is featured in the latest issue of Penn Arts & Sciences Magazine. Read the full article on page seven in the link below.

• For more information seehttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/news/sasmagss11.html

Engineering structures on the smallest possible scales -- using molecules and individual atoms as building blocks -- is both physically and conceptually challenging. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has now developed a method of computationally selecting the best of these blocks, drawing inspiration from the similar behavior of proteins in making biological structures.

James Peterson's research on customized amino acids is featured in the most recent SAS Frontiers magazine. Click the link for the full article.

• For more information seehttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/hunting-games.html