General

So-Jung Park, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, was recently named as a recipient of the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

• For more information seehttp://parkgroup.chem.upenn.edu/index.html

Join us at the Penn Chemistry Distinguished Alumni Award Symposium in honor of Stanley Prusiner, University of California, San Francisco

Program (Rainey Auditorium, University Museum):

Date: Friday, March 18, 2011
Coffee: 8:00 AM
Symposium: 8:30 AM

Join us at the Anaheim ACS meeting for an alumni reception!

The new High Throughput Experimentation laboratory, a University of Pennsylvania and Merck and Co., Inc. collaboration, is featured in a Penn publication. Follow the link to learn about this exciting new facility.

Please join other Penn Chemistry alumni and friends for a happy hour!

Penn Chemistry alum and world-renowned biochemist Britton Chance (C'35, GR'40) passed away on Nov. 16. A memorial service will be held Friday, December 10 at 11:00 AM in the Hall of Flags of Houston Hall.

• For more information see http://www.brittonchance.org/

Virgil Percec was selected as one of inaugural speakers in the Kavli Foundation Innovations in Chemistry Lecture program. Prof. Percec will speak on March 27, 2011 at the spring ACS national meeting in Anaheim, California. His topic will be the bioinspired synthesis of complex molecular systems. Susan Solomon (NOAA) will be the second Kavli Lecturer at the fall ACS national meeting in Denver.