News items about the department as a whole, e.g., lectureships, new staff, etc.
Annual Pumpkin Drop
The Physics Department is hosting their annual Pumpkin Drop this Friday (October 31, 2025) at 12:30PM. Location of the Pumpkin Drop is in front of the Metcalf Science Center (590 Commonwealth Avenue). The Chemistry Department is welcome to attend this exciting annual event and support the Physics Department.
Undergraduate Registration
The registration season is upon us and now is the time to meet with your advisees! Undergraduate registration dates can be found on the attached flier and under “Upcoming Events.” Instructions for viewing your advisee list can be found here. Students are encouraged to meet with their faculty advisor as well as chemistry’s new professional […]
Federal Programs Supporting Graduate Students: September 2025
This report contains information on federal government research scholarships, fellowships, and traineeship programs that provide support for graduate students: See Here
So Young Bae Receives Invitation and Award to Speak at the American Crystallographic Association in Chicago
PhD student So Young Bae received a Travel Award to present her research at the 2025 American Crystallographic Association (ACA) Annual Meeting, held July 18–23 in Lombard, just outside Chicago, Illinois. Her work was selected for both a 30-minute oral presentation and a poster presentation and marked a notable achievement in the field of structural […]
BU Team Wins Major National Science Foundation Grant to Help PhD Students Attack Climate Change
The Brink details how Malika Jeffries-EL, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences professor of chemistry, along with a team of BU researchers, has been awarded a five-year, $3 million Research Traineeship grant (NRT) from the National Science Foundation to help PhD students collaborate across disciplines to develop new ideas to convert and store […]
Congratulations to Soyoung Bae on American Crystallography Association Early Career Scientist Spotlight
We are thrilled to announce that Soyoung Bae, a PhD graduate student in the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry (MCBB) program, has been featured in the American Crystallographic Association’s (ACA) Early Career Scientist Spotlight for 2024. This Spotlight not only provides insight into Soyoung’s background and experience, but extolls the facilities and instruments at […]
In Memory of John Snyder
In Memory of John Snyder John Snyder, age 72, passed peacefully surrounded by his family and friends at home on November 13, 2023. He lived with Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia for 13 years, becoming quite ill in the last 4 months. John is survived by his devoted wife and companion of 36 years, Julie, and loving daughters, […]
2023 Graduate Award Winners
The Graduate Program Committee has announced the winners of the 2023 Graduate Student Awards. The Lichtin Award, for research excellence in Chemistry goes to Leslie Velasco from the Reinhard Group, who excelled at pushing the boundaries of research, including developing a microscope providing new and improved spectral resolution for the visualization of nanoplasmonic assemblies. The […]
Prof. Mark Grinstaff Receives Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize
Boston University chemist and biomedical engineer Mark Grinstaff has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Centenary Prize in “recognition of brilliance in research and innovation.” A world-renowned researcher and inventor, Grinstaff is the University’s inaugural Distinguished Professor of Translational Research. Read more in BU’s The Brink article here.
Give to Chemistry on Giving Day, April 11
Boston University’s Giving Day on April 11 is a one-day online fundraising drive for Terriers from around the world—alumni, parents, students, faculty and staff, and friends—to give back and to celebrate what they care about at BU. Donors are able to start giving now, but on the official Giving Day, donors’ gifts will go even […]