Morton Hoffman Honored with Outstanding Professional Achievement Award by Hunter College
Hoffman, a graduate in the class of June 1955 as a chemistry major, will receive the award on May 6. The Hall of Fame recognizes Hunter graduates who have made significant achievements and contributions to society.
A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science (Jan. 1952) before attending Hunter College, Professor Hoffman received his Ph.D. in 1960 from the University of Michigan, spent a postdoctoral year at Sheffield University, England, and joined the faculty at Boston University in 1961. He is the author of almost 200 papers in the chemical literature with his undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral research associates, and visiting scholars in the area of the photochemistry and photophysics of transition metal coordination compounds. Professor Hoffman was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1992. He received the 1994 Metcalf Cup and Prize for excellence in teaching from Boston University, the 1999 Henry A. Hill Award for outstanding service to the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, the 2002 Responsible Care® Catalyst Award from the American Chemistry Council, the 2003 John A. Timm Award for encouraging young people to study chemistry from the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers, and the 2005 James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Teaching from the Northeastern Section. He was chair of the Northeastern Section in 2002 and of the Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society in 2005. He currently serves as a Councilor for the Northeastern Section, a member of the American Chemical Society Committee on Education, a member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Region of the American Chemical Society, Inc., and the U.S. National Representative to the Committee on Chemistry Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. He is also a past-president and a member of the Board of Directors of the Boston University Hillel Foundation.