News items about the department as a whole, e.g., lectureships, new staff, etc.
Derosa Lab Publishes ‘Hot Paper’ in ACIE: Electrochemical Azolation of Electron-rich Fluoroarenes: A Controlled Redox Chain Unlocks C─N Bond-forming e-SNAr
Nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) reactions are critical methods for forming C─N bonds in synthetic campaigns, but limitations in electrophile electronics restrict access to a large portion of chemical space. Photochemical oxidation of fluoroarenes has emerged as an attractive strategy to activate fluoroarenes toward nucleophilic addition, but back-electron transfer to solution-phase reduced photocatalysts limit the scope […]
Minjung Son Awarded DOE Early Career Research Award
Recently, Assistant Professor Minjung Son (CHEM) and team received a major grant from the Department of Energy: the Early Career Research Award. The award promises $875,000 over five years, which, in the DOE’s words, allows recipients “to pursue new ideas and harness the resources of the user facilities to increase the potential for breakthrough new discoveries.” With the […]
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.
Allen Group Collaborates with Tolan Group in Biology to publish “Dual Substrate Binding stabilizes the Catalytic State in Ketohexokinase” in The Structural Science Society
Understanding conformational changes in enzymes and associated changes in the active site affecting catalysis has been a long-standing problem in enzymology. One major factor for initiating these conformational changes for many enzymes is substrate binding. Ketohexokinase (KHK) catalyzes the first reaction in fructose metabolism, converting β-D-fructofuranose into fructose 1-phosphate. Recently, the over- ingestion of fructose […]
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, […]