Professor Bjoern Reinhard awarded an NSF-CHE 3 Year grant to Study Plasmon Coupling Correlation Spectroscopy
Prof. Reinhard was recently awarded a 3 Year renewal of her National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry (NSF-CHE) Grant titled: Plasmon Coupling Correlation Spectroscopy. This will help Prof. Reinhard and his research group investigate the unique optical properties and strong field localization properties of plasmonic nanoparticles as they are important components of many chemical sensing […]
Stephanie Beach, of the Doerrer Group, wins prestigious Chateaubriand Fellowship
Stephanie Beach, of the Doerrer Group, recently won a prestigious Chateaubriand Fellowship! The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States. It supports outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who wish to conduct research in France for a period ranging from 4 to 9 months. Chateaubriand fellows are selected […]
Pu-Ting Dong Wins SPIE Photonics West Translational Research Best Paper Award
Research at Boston University’s Photonics Center reporting on a drug-free photonic approach to eliminating methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) earned Pu-Ting Dong (BU Chemistry Student, Dr. Ji-Xen Cheng Group) the SPIE Photonics West 2018 Translational Research Award. Translational Research Symposium Chairs Bruce J. Tromberg of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Center at the University of California, Irvine (USA) […]
Assistant Professor Ksenia Bravaya recently received the Patricia Mclellan Leavitt Research Fund!
Assistant Professor Ksenia Bravaya was recently selected by Boston University to receive the an award from the Patricia Mclellan Leavitt Research Fund. This award is designed “to support research of one or more non-tenured junior faculty members, or graduate students, in chemistry or biology at the College of Arts and Sciences. Preference shall be given to female faculty […]
Dr. Aaron Beeler awarded NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Grant
Dr. Beeler, who has been a tenure track faculty member in Boston University’s Chemistry Department since 2012, was recently awarded a 5-Year early investigator award through the NSF CAREER grant program. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior […]
Grinstaff Receives BU’s First “Innovator of the Year” Award
Professor Mark W. Grinstaff has won the inaugural Innovator of the Year Award from BU’s Office of Technology Development, recognizing a faculty member who translates research into innovations that benefit humankind.
Chemistry Faculty Receive BU Ignition Awards to Develop Promising Cancer & Tuberculosis Drugs
The Ignition Award Program provides funds to evolve BU research to the stage where it can be licensed, form the basis of a new company, or be used to create a new, non-profit social enterprise. In June 2010, two Chemistry faculty, John Porco and John Snyder, received these highly competitive awards for their respective commercially […]
Chemistry Faculty Receive Boston University’s Top Teaching and Advising Awards
Boston University has again recognized Chemistry’s distinction in teaching and advising by conferring a 2010 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching on Professor John Caradonna and the 2009/2010 Templeton Prize for Excellence in Student Advising on Dr. Binyomin Abrams. Student’s have found John Caradonna’s teaching to be the most remarkable and enriching academic experience of […]
Professor John Porco Receives Bristol-Myers Squibb Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor John A. Porco, Jr. has received the distinguished 2003 Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. The grant provides a total of $300,000 of unrestricted research support over a three-year period and is one of only two given by BMS worldwide each year to support the academic research community. The award acknowledges the […]
Professor John Straub Awarded Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) bestows three faculty teaching awards, including the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching. The recipients are selected by a committee comprised of associate deans, faculty, and students. On April 9, CAS Dean, Jeffrey J. Henderson, announced that the recipient of the 2003 Gitner Award is Professor John Straub. This is […]