Department News

May 19, 2006 – Professor Emeritus Michael T. Pope receives the 2006 Career Research Achievement Award. [more]

April 28, 2006 Jingsong Huang was awarded the 2005 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. [more]

April 1, 2006 – Prof. Toshiko Ichiye has been awarded two grants: a four-year, $1,056,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health and a four-year, $639,712 grant from the National Science Foundation. [more]

March 1, 2006 Rhia M. Martin (C’07) was awarded the UNCF-Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship Award. [more]

February 9, 2006 The Chemical Society of Washington awarded Megan Carroll (C’06) and Morgan L. Deacon (C’06) with the College Chemistry Achievement Award. [more]

November 16, 2005 Georgetown University awarded Jennifer Swift the College Dean Award for Excellence in Teaching. [more]

August 28-September 1, 2005 Washington D.C. served as host to the 230 th National Meeting of the American Chemistry Society. At the ACS conference, Georgetown’s Department of Chemistry was represented well with several faculty, nearly 30 graduate students, and three undergraduate researchers presenting talks or posters

August 1, 2005 Effective August 1, 2005, Jennifer Swift and Timothy Warren are officially promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

July 21, 2005 – Jennifer L. Small (C’06) selected as Clare Boothe Luce Scholar. [more]

June 1, 2005 Jennifer Swift is launching a war on crystals that cause gallstones or kidney stones, hoping to slow down their growth and understand what makes them tick. [more]

April 20, 2005 Jennifer L. Small (C ’06), a biochemistry major, was named a Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. [more]

April 19, 2005 The Graduate Student Organization of Chemists hosted Prof. Sam Stupp, Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine and Director of the Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine at Northwestern University, as the inaugural Graduate Student Invited Lecturer. Prof. Stupp’s talk, “Form and Function of Supramolecular Nanostructures,” was enjoyed enthusiastically by all in attendance.

April 7, 2005 Chemistry professors receive NIH-NIAID research grant for their interdisciplinary efforts in developing improved drugs to treat drug resistant malaria. [more]

March 15, 2005 The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected Sarah L. Stoll as a 2005 recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award. [more]

January 26, 2005 Angel C. de Dios was honored during the College Faculty Convocation with the annual Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching. [more]

January 12, 2005 Jennifer Swift has received the 2005 Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award. The annual award recognizes scientists who have made outstanding achievements and shown great potential at early stages of their careers. [more]